Post by bearsinhouston on Sept 20, 2024 9:20:24 GMT -6
This is what I have been saying. Although what happens historically is that some games get won and that allows the mediocrity to continue. I still have not made up my mind definitively on Flus, but I can say he has not impressed me to date. This article called him tone deaf. some would say stubborn. I am still not convinced Poles would let him go. But they will win a few games in the near future. That probably means we get to keep him another season. I still haven't made up my mind if that is good or bad. Depends on how the rest of the season goes, but I am starting to wonder if the season goes well, how much is going to be FLus
Hate to say it, but I don't think Flus is in danger unless this season goes really, really bad. The Bears changed HCs 1 year into both Mitch's and Justin's time here and that was a mess. It's generally not a good idea to have a lot of turnover when you're trying to develop a new QB.
This is why they should have wiped the coaching staff clean last January and started fresh so that everyone was aligned. Then you give the coaching staff 3 years (min) to get your young QB off the ground.
Harbaugh was available. One of football's best offensive coaches who knows QBing. Just sayin.....you had better options than Flus.
Instead it feels like we are reinventing the wheel yet again on offense.
Hate to say it, but I don't think Flus is in danger unless this season goes really, really bad. The Bears changed HCs 1 year into both Mitch's and Justin's time here and that was a mess. It's generally not a good idea to have a lot of turnover when you're trying to develop a new QB.
This is why they should have wiped the coaching staff clean last January and started fresh so that everyone was aligned. Then you give the coaching staff 3 years (min) to get your young QB off the ground.
Harbaugh was available. One of football's best offensive coaches who knows QBing. Just sayin.....you had better options than Flus.
Instead it feels like we are reinventing the wheel yet again on offense.
Flus is a defensive coordinator and he has put together a solid defense. Poles hired Waldron to run the offense and Morgan to coach this offensive line. So let’s not lay this all on Flus, but he will be the target if it all goes South.
Hate to say it, but I don't think Flus is in danger unless this season goes really, really bad. The Bears changed HCs 1 year into both Mitch's and Justin's time here and that was a mess. It's generally not a good idea to have a lot of turnover when you're trying to develop a new QB.
This is why they should have wiped the coaching staff clean last January and started fresh so that everyone was aligned. Then you give the coaching staff 3 years (min) to get your young QB off the ground.
Harbaugh was available. One of football's best offensive coaches who knows QBing. Just sayin.....you had better options than Flus.
Instead it feels like we are reinventing the wheel yet again on offense.
So close, should have just stopped after the 2nd sentence.
1 this team was going to have 0 to do w/Harbaugh. The Mc's don't want a dude like that, and all the reports from the big 10 is that he and Poles didn't get alone b/c of how Covid went down. So Harbaugh was never an option even if they wipe the slate clean. Which they were never even thinking about doing.
But the first 2 sentences are dead on. Flus is in no real danger unless it all goes tits up, which nothing in the first 2 games suggests it will. First game was vs a legit Def and the 2nd was one of the best teams in the AFC w/a really good pass rush. That's a nasty way to start for a new QB and OC. Team should still find a way to win 9-10 games, which is what it was expected to do.
IF the O is still in the starting blocks by week 10-12 he's on the hot seat though. You cannot have an O struggling to run and throw 2/3rds into the season; but I don't think that is going to be the case, my guess is it starts to look acceptable in the next 2-3 weeks.
We will see what happens after the next 15 games are in the book. It could end up either way, with Eberflus - he could be fired or he could end up looking good. We don't know at this point. Firing or keeping Eberflus is fine with me as long as it makes sense based on the 2024 season's production - or lack of it.
The Bears are 1-1 and two games into a season with a lot of new players, coaches, a new playbook and OC and a rookie QB1 two games into his career. LOL, about talking mid-season firing of people at this point. Maybe we should cut Caleb Williams too, right? I'm going to watch how the season plays out and then make up my mind as far as keeping or firing people. On a side note, ChiCitySports is a bottom-of-the-barrel sports writing source. There are a LOT of great sources for Bears info. Better than the crap ChiCitySports spews out. I get better commentary here on our own messageboard from our posters here than CCS puts out. JMO.
Hate to say it, but I don't think Flus is in danger unless this season goes really, really bad. The Bears changed HCs 1 year into both Mitch's and Justin's time here and that was a mess. It's generally not a good idea to have a lot of turnover when you're trying to develop a new QB.
This is why they should have wiped the coaching staff clean last January and started fresh so that everyone was aligned. Then you give the coaching staff 3 years (min) to get your young QB off the ground.
Harbaugh was available. One of football's best offensive coaches who knows QBing. Just sayin.....you had better options than Flus.
Instead it feels like we are reinventing the wheel yet again on offense.
The time to fire Eberflus was when Harbaugh was available.
The problem now is that after this season, who do you hire? Another coordinator happy to have his first HC job?
That's the Bears SOP. But I think we're sticking with Flus for the foreseeable future. He's getting another contract unless something drastically bad happens.
The time to fire Eberflus was when Harbaugh was available.
The problem now is that after this season, who do you hire? Another coordinator happy to have his first HC job?
That's the Bears SOP. But I think we're sticking with Flus for the foreseeable future. He's getting another contract unless something drastically bad happens.
My gut feeling is that it could go either way, depending upon how the team performs this season. He doesn't need to do great things this year, but at least show significant progress towards being the best team in the division - and one that can make a serious playoff run sooner rather than later. If he looks like he just doesn't have the right stuff to do that, then Poles will bring in someone else. Poles may like Eberflus. Nothing wrong with liking those you work with. But Poles understands HIS job is on the line if he doesn't turn this franchise around. I don't think he would have any problem whatsoever telling Eberflus he didn't perform up to what is needed here as HC. That's the gig for an NFL GM. Poles knows that.
Eberflus is in a prove-it year. His 4th here. He knows he needs to get it done or he's gone. I don't see a year-5 if he doesn't show some significant progress this year.
That's the Bears SOP. But I think we're sticking with Flus for the foreseeable future. He's getting another contract unless something drastically bad happens.
My gut feeling is that it could go either way, depending upon how the team performs this season. He doesn't need to do great things this year, but at least show significant progress towards being the best team in the division - and one that can make a serious playoff run sooner rather than later. If he looks like he just doesn't have the right stuff to do that, then Poles will bring in someone else. Poles may like Eberflus. Nothing wrong with liking those you work with. But Poles understands HIS job is on the line if he doesn't turn this franchise around. I don't think he would have any problem whatsoever telling Eberflus he didn't perform up to what is needed here as HC. That's the gig for an NFL GM. Poles knows that.
Eberflus is in a prove-it year. His 4th here. He knows he needs to get it done or he's gone. I don't see a year-5 if he doesn't show some significant progress this year.
I agree with all that. Including sending Flus packing if he fails. I just think he still gets the benefit of the doubt from the brass. Like the last two years when Poles said "Well, he didn't have any talent to work with because we stripped the team to the bones." This year, Poles can tell himself, "I haven't give him an O-Line to work with yet. The plan is to fix that next year, and Flus has done well with what we have given him so we're giving him another contract. " That's what I'm afraid will happen, unless we get a Trestman-level meltdown.