Last Sunday the Chicago Bears shit the bed in their visit to the Bay Area to face a depleted 49ers team. Many of the players on the Bears were fed up with their old head coach Matt Eberflus. The Bears front office fired Eberflus finally after that debacle in Detroit. Not using a time out in a crucial situation in the last 30 seconds of the game when the offense was hovering around field goal range looking to tie the game versus the Lions. That was not the first blunder by Eberflus in his short coaching tenure with the Bears. The Bears front office finally showed some balls firing a guy that needed the pink slip last year with games still left on the 2024 schedule. In the past the Bears would wait on firing a head coach after the season concluded or letting their contract simply run out and move on. The Bears promoted Thomas Brown to the interim head coach, a guy who was just promoted weeks ago as the team’s new offensive coordinator. The players pretty much sang “Ding dong the witch is dead,” all week rejoicing that Eberflus had left the building. On Sunday in the debut of Brown as the Bears head coach, the Bears players shit the bed as the 49ers romped Chicago 38-13.
Who is Thomas Brown? Brown was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons back in 2008 in the sixth round of the NFL draft. He was a running back out of the University of Georgia. He suited up for the Falcons and Browns and really had a sip of coffee in the NFL. Brown is only 38 years of age and went into coaching after his playing career was non-existent. Brown had multiple coaching jobs in the college game. His position was running backs coach. In 2020 he got his first pro job with the LA Rams and worked for master mind Sean McVay as running backs coach. In 2022 he was still with the Rams as McVay switched Brown to tight ends coach. In 2023 Brown would find a better gig with the Carolina Panthers as the offensive coordinator. That did not work out well as the Panthers were a disaster in 2023. The Bears hired Brown as passing game coordinator this season. The Bears’ first scapegoat for their season gone bad was their new offensive coordinator they just hired in the off-season, Shane Waldron. The Bears promoted Brown to the offensive coordinator and Caleb Williams and the offense started to play better. That was enough then for the Bears front office to promote Brown again to interim head coach where he is way over his head and not even close to being qualified for this job in the NFL.
Thomas Brown changed some things around like any other guy would do when he was promoted. He said the Bears would play the game violently. On Sunday it looked violently ill. Brown’s style of football would be physical which he would bring to the opposing team. Usually when the interim coach takes over at least in the first game or two, the players respond. Many teams usually dumb down the play book. They get a loose free spirit environment for that week ridding the old tensions out of the locker room. Not these Bears as their shit stunk up the bay as the 49ers steam rolled them with back up personnel playing for back ups to the starters in some positions. The Bears were shut out 24-0 in the first half and the offense gained 4 stinking yards with 5 punts compared to the 319 yards of offense the 49ers had.
The Bears on defense were aggressive as they came after Brock Purdy with multiple blitzes. The 49ers encountered with running plays and screen passes that baffled this Bears defense that regressed after Matt Eberflus was shown the door. Maybe the Bears should have kept Eberflus to work the defense. Do you remember defensive end Montez Sweat who the Bears acquired at the trade deadline from the Commanders? Where has he been most of this year? MIA. Then Jaylon Johnson a talented Bears defensive back running his mouth all week on Eberflus being fired was also a no show against this 49ers offense that let Purdy finish the day with a 145.4 quarterback rating. George Kittle seemed wide open the entire game as linebackers Tremaine Edmunds and Jack Sanborn may have not read the scouting reports on one of the better tight ends in the league that may need some attention. Kittle finished with 6 grabs for 156 receiving yards.
The new interim head coach Thomas Brown is still calling all the offensive plays. Under his watch as the O-Coordinator, the Bears have not scored in the first half . It seems like he abandons the running game and the Bears looked like the walking dead going through the motions. Every game it seems like Caleb Williams finds his groove in the second half when most of the time it’s too late. In the second half the running game was installed on the play sheets and Bears mustered up 13 points. This offense still has all the same problems that no one on this coaching staff can fix. Once again Williams was sacked 7 times. Which now tallies up to 56 for the year as he closes in on David Carr’s rookie record as he was sacked the most all-time in NFL history. Williams’ knock is he holds on to the ball way too long. Which is true. The offensive line the Bears have assembled is horrific. Braxton Jones and Coleman Shelton became a turning style for the 49er defense. This was defense without their star defensive end Nick Bosa. The Bears O-line was losing one on one battles. It’s not like 49ers defense brought everything at Williams including the kitchen sink.
The Chicago Bears had many of us fooled this off-season with their moves including taking Caleb Williams with the number one pick. They say fools always rush in. We were admiring all the new shiny weapons the Bears had assembled on offense in flashy colored wrapping paper with bows on them. It felt like Christmas as the upcoming season was going for change be jolly and the playoffs. Bears fans had dancing sugar plums inside their head thinking about their team in the post-season. The return of a solid defense and an offense that were going to light up the score board every week. Now the bottom has dropped out of the house of cards that Bears general manager Ryan Poles built. He probably thought this Chicago job was going to be easy. I’m not sure if Williams is the right quarterback as all the others drafted in April’s NFL draft look much better than Caleb. The Bears have not had a franchise QB since the 1940’s. This franchise needs to hand the keys over to somebody that knows about the NFL and football. This team needs to nail down a new head coach. Someone who can discipline the players and rid this team of guys who play hard when they want to. They need a head coach that knows what an offensive line looks like. This head coach, either offensive or defensive, needs a guy on his staff that can develop Williams. Enough of giving assistants around the NFL their first head coach job. This Bears franchise better pull out the check book and get themselves a name. They need a guy that has been there done this. My short list would be Jon Gruden & Mike Vrabel to start. I may even give full control to Bill Belichick because he would do better getting the right players and they would play hard or else find themselves elsewhere. This has gone on long enough. The Bears have been shitting the bed since the late 80’s. I know the Bears made the Superbowl in 2006, but had Rex Grossman as their starting quarterback. Enough with shitting in the wood or the Bay, it’s time to use the bathroom like every other NFL franchise in the league.
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