The Chicago Bears have some massive choices to make this offseason, and the way forward for head coach Matt Eberflus will likely be excessive on that checklist. Despite the fact 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 most likely 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 need to announce earlier than the season formally ends. It’s not a given, in fact, however the lack of dedication is a bit of eye-opening.
That is Eberflus’ second yr because the Bears head coach and they’re headed for a second dropping file it doesn’t matter what they do in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Sunday. They did, nonetheless, enhance considerably from final yr’s three-win season and have proven severe enchancment down the stretch, particularly after buying defensive lineman Montez Sweat in a commerce deadline cope with 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 in opposition to 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 yr one to yr two below Eberflus.
Together with the top teaching determination, the Bears can even must resolve what to do with quarterback Justin Fields and whether or not or to not commerce the No. 1 total choose (which they are going to obtain from the Carolina Panthers as a part of final yr’s commerce for the Bears’ No. 1 total choose). The choice on the choose will in the end come all the way 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 doubtless. In the event that they resolve that Fields isn’t the reply, it could appear to be a provided that they’d hold the choose and choose a quarterback. All of these choices will make for one more fascinating offseason in Chicago.
