Commanders beat Bears - who gets the deflated ball?

It's essentially a 2 game season right now.  The next 2 games are MUST WINS.  If you can get to 6-3 going into the toughest part of the schedule, you still have a shot at 10 wins.  That's 4-4 over the final 8 games which I think is about the best you can realistically hope to achieve.  The last 8 games are against probably the 5 best teams in the NFC and it is gonna take 10 wins to make the playoffs this year.  [BTW, the fact that Washington now holds a tiebreak over us hurts our chances.]

If you go 0-2, the season is truly over.  If you go 1-1, the season is hanging by a thread and you need a miracle finish.  You're also probably down a tiebreak to Arizona too.  

It's do or die the next 2 weeks.  We all knew the schedule was gonna get brutal starting mid-November.  

As far as Flus goes, his 2025 status is hanging by a thread right now.  IMO, he has to win the next 2 games and go 3-3 minimum in the divisional series to make a real case for giving him a 4th year.  Anything less than that and I think you have to move on.  

I'll give him a complete pass for 2022 and ignore that 3-12 teardown.  Since then, he has only 3 wins vs teams who were above 500, is 2-10 in division, and has had 4 massive Q4 meltdown losses.  He isn't getting better at game and personnel management and is still making awful and basic coaching mistakes.  He doesn't even own his mistakes in public and you can bet the locker room isn't too happy about that right now. [Blaming Tyrique for the loss like he just did is really weak sauce--TS screwed up that one play but Flus utterly f'd up the entire endgame.]

Unless Flus crushes it the next 10 weeks, it is time to give Ben Johnson a call.   Get a real playcaller in here who actually knows how to win and close out games.  I'm sick of these 3rd-rate wannabes who get exposed every time they face a real NFL HC.

Hard to disagree with anything you said.  They aren't going to fire Flus mid-season nor do I think they should but you're right he's shown nothing to indicate that he will ever be a HC who can take teams on deep runs.  Every time he gets a chance to "win a big game", he chokes (esp on the road).  He's an excellent DC who is mediocre at best as a HC.  He's also clearly the least accomplished HC in the division and gets his ass handed to him almost every time he faces a bonafide opposing HC.

As I said to JABF earlier, he either is THE GUY or he isn't.  There's no in-between.  And Flus isn't.  You watch Tomlin last night and see what a REAL HC looks like.  Year after year that guy squeezes blood (wins) out of a stone (less than ideal roster talent).  He's never had a losing season and yes he's had plenty of years where his roster was nothing special.  Even right now, he has Pitt humming along at 6-2 with less talent than the Bears currently have.  His QBs are Justin Fields who's serious limitations we all know well and Russell Wilson who's been over the hill and in decline for several years now. 

So please don't tell me about roster construction and all that.  Tomlin finds ways to win; Flus finds ways to lose.  One car squeezes 40 miles out of a gallon of gas and one only makes it 18. 

Ben Johnson is my early favorite to replace Flus but Mike Vrabel would be an option if you want a vet HC.  Regardless, it is very hard to justify sticking with Flus beyond this season. 

I'm sticking to what I said above:
Flus has to win the next 2 games and go at least 3-3 in division for me to reconsider giving him a 4th year.  

 

The ship has already sailed on Flus-as-a-DC.  He's not gonna accept a demotion to stay on as the DC after being replaced at HC.  He's gonna go somewhere else as a DC and try to land another HC job down the line.  

I do think he's an excellent DC who has done a good job in that capacity.  Gave up a lot of yards Sunday but held a very high powered offense to 0 TDs at home....until the last minute fuckups.  

He's just a very good HC and yeah the roles are different.