Eberflus was the 1 who sold Caleb on coming to the Bears.

I'm not, the man's record speaks for himself. He's not a really good HC. His offense was horrible, he lost staff because of HR problems. So I question his judgement. 

This is a prove it year for him imo. 

I was upset with Ryan Poles and Eberflus too.  And you are right their record speaks for itself.  Many of the fans wanted them both fired before the end of last season.  But I do believe it is reasonable to keep an open mind on these two.  For that matter I feel the same way with CEO/President Kevin Warren (he's made mistakes too already).  I do agree with you that Eberflus needs to prove himself this season.  The tank year I look back on and understand the situation for what it was - a losing season to get the draft picks (ultimately getting D.J. Moore, Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze and some of the other young ascending players.  Last season sucked the first half of the year.  But then we began to see some better stuff.

He may not have proven to be a really good HC yet.  But he could prove it this season.  LOL, that's my view on it.  I'm in a "wait and see mode" now.  But I do like a lot of what I see in him as a leader of men.  That is one critically important attribute... not the only one, but an important one that we have not had in some of our head coaches in the past.

I don't want to get into the discussion on Eberflus.  Not that I don't have an opinion on it, just that we need to see how the 2024 season plays out.

But what I always do with an Erik Lambert article is to go to  the original source for the story and see what the folks who did the real heavy lifting on the story actually said.  Too many  times, I have seen Lambert grab another author's work and actually twist it to support his personal opinion (and where the original story never said anything like what Lambert was trying to say).

The source story was from SI's MMQB stuff.  It is very long and really covers how the Bears went through the evaluation process on deciding to trade Fields and all the effort that went into the recruiting of Williams.  I haven't been a fan of Eberflus but if this is all true, he deserves some respect for how he handled this.


www.si.com/nfl/2024/05/06/inside-bears-scouting-process-caleb-williams-draft-mmqb

His 2022 record sure. That was a tank year. 2023 should be held against him. He choked multiple games away. His 4th Quarter is one of the worst. We can only scape goat Fields so much. If Williams struggles in a similar way then its on Flus. He had one of the worst offenses. 

He only started looking decent when we were playing bottom tier teams.