The aftermath of the Chicago Bears firing former head coach Matt Eberflus has been almost as eventful as the days leading up to the event.
Since the news broke, we've heard plenty about the moments leading up to the decision, including the locker room scene on Thanksgiving Day, the meeting just prior to Eberflus' fate and the morning press conference fiasco.
What's abundantly clear, through this process, is the fact that Chicago continues to handle things the wrong way. They not only fired Eberflus a few weeks too late, but they couldn't even fire him correctly. Allowing him to meet the media just two hours before getting fired was a sure sign of organizational incompetence.
On the latest episode of the Scoop City podcast, senior NFL insider Dianna Russini of The Athletic shared even more insight on the Eberflus firing.
Russini said she was told by one Bears player:
"I have never been in a locker room like this ... I have never seen or heard the anger and emotion...
"The players were looking at one another like, 'are you kidding me right now?'" she revealed.
She didn't name names, but it isn't hard to figure out that Jaylon Johnson seemed to speak for a vast majority of his teammates after the fact.
As for the firing, itself, Russini pointed out one specific detail that was quite alarming.
"And, I can tell you, they didn't want to do this. This was a conversation that went on for hours because there was some resistance," Russini said
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The fact that this conversation went on for hours, and the notion that even Poles admitted to the decision not having been made just two hours before it happened, are equally unacceptable and frightening.
""They didn't want to do this (fire Matt Eberflus).""
- Dianna Russini, Senior NFL Insider
This is the same group of people in charge of hiring the next head coach. This is a group of people who have been unable to get things right, to this point, and fans are supposed to believe they're finally going to get it right this time?
Whether we're talking Poles or the McCaskeys, the bottom line is this: Bears fans should be wary, at best, when it comes to this next head coaching hire until they see it happen. Not only that, they should continue being wary and cautious until they see results on the field.
The front office has done absolutely nothing to instill faith into the fan base. There are very few reasons for Bears fans to be genuinely excited or hopeful, because to this point, the organization has always found a way to mess things up. And, even after they mess things up, they cannot even right their wrongs in the correct manner.
Until we see actual results, the name of this game will continue to be "unstable."
