Check out our Reacts survey results this week.
We’ve been here far too often as a fanbase. The Chicago Bears have seven games left, but they seem to be on their way to another losing season. It’s inevitable at this point. There isn’t a team with a losing record left to play, and when looking over the remaining games on their schedule, it’s difficult to convince myself there’s a single W among them.
The 2025 season will be the thirteenth since the Bears fired Lovie Smith after he led them to a 10-6 record. If there’s a new head coach, which seems likely with the Bears limping along on a four-game losing streak, that coach will be the fifth since Lovie. The Bears have had one winning season since Lovie.
Matt Eberflus should have been gone after the 2023 season. Not solely because of his record, but because the logical thing to do with the franchise getting the number one overall pick was to… say it with me now… LINE IT ALL UP.
Starting fresh with a head coach, quarterback, and offensive scheme made sense because the last thing you’d want with a rookie number one overall draft pick would be to stunt or delay his development by changing things in year two.
But that’s where we are.
This time (fingers crossed), the Bears will make a change.
Only 10% of our fans feel there’s a realistic scenario where Matt Eberflus keeps his job.
It’s happening, and fans will need to hope the new guy is better than the last four and can bring out the best in Caleb Williams.
Maybe Caleb will buck the trend and still succeed despite a change in leadership, but this could have been avoided if the Bears operated like a big-boy franchise and not a mom-and-pop general store.
Speaking of the franchise, only a quarter of us have confidence that it’s on the right track.
There is a game on Sunday, and most NFL fans believe the Bears are talking the L. The below graphic shows the results of the emailed survey questions that went to fans of all 32 teams via our weekly SB Nation Reacts that you can sign up for here.
Of friends at FanDuel Sportsbook still have the home Bears (+3.5) as the underdog against the Minnesota Vikings, and while they did hang with Green Bay last week, expecting that again might be too big of an ask.
