Wow - Bears pulled a Stoops at the end of their game today vs Lions

[gamecockcat]

Lions were all over the Bears, leading 16-0 at half. Bears come back and are within 3 points with a little over 3:00 to play and the ball deep in their own territory. They make some plays, get to DET 25 with 46 secs to go and ONE timeout remaining. Good shape for at least a fairly easy opportunity to take the game into OT, right? Well, hold the phone, Cawood.

Incomplete on 1st, holding on 2nd down. Now, it's 2nd and 20 at DET 35 with 36 secs to go. Williams gets sacked at the DET 41 with right at 31 secs showing. The Bears run up to the line, a couple of guys shift, Williams is motioning the play, they snap the ball with 6 secs to go (25 secs elapsed). Williams doesn't go short over the middle or to the sideline to pick up some yards and get back into FG range. He lofts a deep ball to the end zone that falls incomplete and ends the game. STILL HAD ONE TIMEOUT REMAINING!!!! Did not call TO after the sack to get organized, did not get set very quickly allowing 25 precious seconds to tick away, did not call two plays in the huddle so that they could get one more play off to get back into FG range. I mean, it was very Stoopian. Even my wife, who rarely watches football and is only marginally familiar with the game, asked me, 'Shouldn't they have called a timeout instead of wasting all that time?'. Uh, yeah.

Unbelievable someone at the top of their profession can be so inept in a critical situation.

 

[ManitouDan]

Def Stoopian . Nice word

 

[rick64]

Eberflus: Final seconds handled 'the right way'

Bears coach Matt Eberflus said he didn't call Chicago's last timeout in the final seconds of Thursday's game because he was conserving it to set up a field goal attempt.

www.espn.com

 

[Bluegrass79]

The Bears suck for now. Williams might be better sooner than later. Something tells me he will be good eventually.

 

[gamecockcat]

Eberflus: Final seconds handled 'the right way'

Bears coach Matt Eberflus said he didn't call Chicago's last timeout in the final seconds of Thursday's game because he was conserving it to set up a field goal attempt.

www.espn.com

I figured that would be the 'official' excuse. But, not calling two plays in the huddle for just this situation is inexcusable. Taking 25 seconds to line up and get a play run in this situation is, again, inexcusable. Would it have been better to call timeout with 31 seconds to get organized, have a couple of plays called in the huddle, remind everyone to get out of bounds, line up quickly, etc? You can't just fiddle around and let 25 seconds run off in that situation.

I'm sorry. The coach did NOT handle the clock the correct way in any universe. Why throw deep with 6 seconds? Why not 8 yard out pattern to have maybe a 52 yard FG attempt? Lots of ways that those last few plays could have gone and the way the Bears played it was quite possibly the worst, imo.

 

[CGblue]

More like a Brohm really.

 

[Glenn's take]

Les Miles manages the clock by pretending it doesn't exist.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Coach was fired today. That's the difference between a program or franchise with expectations vs one with little to no expectations.

 

[dvillecatfan]

Watched in disbelief. Eberflus is bad.

 

[dvillecatfan]

That's the difference between a program or franchise with expectations vs one with little to no expectations.

That's funny....guy is Josh McDaniels level bad and they gave him 46 games.

 

[CondorCat]

Sources: Bears fire Eberflus after falling to 4-8

A day after the Bears suffered their sixth straight loss, Chicago has fired coach Matt Eberflus, sources tell ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[UKWildcats1987]

That's funny....guy is Josh McDaniels level bad and they gave him 46 games.

Barely 2.5 years is moving pretty quickly. Granted, some move way quicker.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Watched in disbelief. Eberflus is bad.

He Gone

 

[Hjack]

Too 24 hours for him to be fired. Are we looking at 24 years?

 

[1war]

I figured that would be the 'official' excuse. But, not calling two plays in the huddle for just this situation is inexcusable. Taking 25 seconds to line up and get a play run in this situation is, again, inexcusable. Would it have been better to call timeout with 31 seconds to get organized, have a couple of plays called in the huddle, remind everyone to get out of bounds, line up quickly, etc? You can't just fiddle around and let 25 seconds run off in that situation.

I'm sorry. The coach did NOT handle the clock the correct way in any universe. Why throw deep with 6 seconds? Why not 8 yard out pattern to have maybe a 52 yard FG attempt? Lots of ways that those last few plays could have gone and the way the Bears played it was quite possibly the worst, imo.

Nah, this is on Caleb, he admitted that he changed the play and with this quote,” "I made an adjustment because I saw the clock running down, knowing that if we complete a ball inbounds or anything like that, we won't have time to kick a field goal or anything like that," Williams said , basically admitted that he didn’t know they had a timeout. You can easily take a snap with ten seconds throw it quick across the middle, which the Lions were giving, got down and called a timeout. The problem with calling a timeout after the sack and calling multiple plays is that it was 3rd and 26 and the Lions are guarding the sidelines so unless you get the first down which is unrealistic, you can’t spike the ball on 4th down and don’t have time to get the field goal unit set up. Caleb should have run the play that was called.