The Chicago Bears have some large choices to make this offseason, and the way forward for head coach Matt Eberflus shall be excessive on that checklist. Regardless that there was hypothesis on his future, Bears crew president Kevin Warren was not ready to take a position when requested about it on Friday.
That kind of reply tends to talk volumes, and if the Bears had been dedicated to bringing him again they in all probability would have come out and stated as a lot. That type of non-answer tends to precede some type of change that the crew merely doesn’t wish to announce earlier than the season formally ends. It’s not a given, after all, however the lack of dedication is a little bit eye-opening.
That is Eberflus’ second 12 months because the Bears head coach and they’re headed for a second shedding report it doesn’t matter what they do towards the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Sunday. They did, nevertheless, enhance considerably from final 12 months’s three-win season and have proven severe enchancment down the stretch, particularly after buying defensive lineman Montez Sweat in a commerce deadline take care of the Washington Commanders.
Going into Sunday the Bears are 5-2 of their previous seven video games and have an opportunity to play the position of spoiler towards a Packers crew that wants a win to make the playoffs.
If Chicago wins and will get to eight wins that will be a five-game enchancment from 12 months one to 12 months two underneath Eberflus.
Together with the top teaching resolution, the Bears will even have to resolve what to do with quarterback Justin Fields and whether or not or to not commerce the No. 1 general choose (which they’ll obtain from the Carolina Panthers as a part of final 12 months’s commerce for the Bears’ No. 1 general choose). The choice on the choose will finally come right down to what they do with Fields.
In the event that they resolve to stay with Fields, it makes buying and selling the choose appear extra probably. In the event that they resolve that Fields is just not the reply, it could appear to be a provided that they’d preserve the choose and choose a quarterback. All of these choices will make for an additional fascinating offseason in Chicago.
