How are you feeling about the Bears team at this point?

I am keeping all the koolaid on the shelf unti I see first round of games against Lions, Packers, Vikings…

3-0 = chug the whole pitcher
2-1 = drink 64 oz cup
1-2 = nervously wait for second round of games
0-3 = try to avoid panic and recite JABF’s learning curve admonishment on Williams & Co.

Still believe keeping Eberflus will haunt us. Now that Fields is gone staff should have been reset to timeline with new QB. I can deal with Fields gone and resetting folinancial clock, just typical we screwed the pooch with Flus staying.

I'm reverse of that.

3-0 I don't need no steenking kool-aid
2-1 I'll take a few sips
1-2 the full 64 oz
0-3 I add in a significant amount of Bears color #3 - white - tho it's really clear - vodka.  Then I laugh and giggle and the world spins around and fall down and nothing bothers me anymore. And if I puke I can blame it on either too much Kool aid, too much vodka mixed in, or on Angelo et al.

I feel like Eberflus may be a solid head coach for us.  Constant turnover of coaches results in constant failure.  That is what I have seen in the NFL.  The Bears hired Eberflus as a 1st time head coach.  If a team does that, then there is a learning curve that is associated with hiring a rookie head coach.  But I "get it" that fans want instant gratification.  I do get that.  Fans are impatient by nature, and unrealistic.  

Think about this.

Eberflus has been here 2 seasons and the first was a tank year where they off-loaded some of his best players.  They had him keep Fields.  He had an OC who's offense really did not work with a QB like Fields (that was doomed to fail before the first season even began).  Then the second season (last year) they gave Eberflus 30 new players - mostly very young players. 

Let THAT one sink in. 

Yet, Eberflus showed incredible coaching skills (head coaching skills) in that he significantly improved the wins in spite of that situation - and he held together the locker room in a situation where the majority of young coaches would have lost it.  I was very very very impressed with his coaching last year.

Yet (some) fans want him fired... fired after he is about to get his first franchise QB1 (that he has input in bringing in here) and a veteran OC who has been successful at the NFL level.  How on earth would you even CONSIDER firing him right now? 

What has he "done" to deserve being fired?

I just don't get that.  The Bears have invested 2 years in this rookie HC.  Let's see what return we can get on that investment.  If the team does better then we have our HC for the next decade or more (very possibly more).  LOL, why fire the guy now?  Just so we can continue the cycle of failure here?  I just don't get that attitude at all.  I don't.  This team is poised to become one of the better teams in the NFL.  Finally.  Finally things are looking bright for our future.  We have an entire team being crafted that is full of young & ascending players.  We have a quarterback coming here who could very well be the best QB we have had here since the Bears drafted Sid Luckman in the 1939 draft, eighty-five YEARS ago.  We have an offensive coordinator who has a proven track record of coaching up quarterbacks (did a miracle with Geno Smith) - so we have the coaching in place now on offense.  I'm personally very excited about having Shane Waldron here now.  

We have a top-5 defense in the NFL as of the last half of the season - 100% attributed to Matt Eberflus our HC.  What he did with that unit was masterful, and a complete 1-year turnaround.  Textbook great coaching.

I won't go on and on about the many "positives" regarding this head coach and this Bears team (and they are many).  I just don't understand the negativity right now.  I feel like asking "what is wrong here?" - are we a fanbase that is incapable of seeing "good stuff" now?  It sure looks like it to me.  Anyway, until Eberflus does something that merits firing, hey, I'm wanting him to stay here and be successful here - so we finally HAVE a good team with sustained winning.  JMO.