Bears HC gets real after loss to Eagles
Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus isn’t into silver linings. So, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise to hear his disappointment after Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, even if his Bears gave the NFL’s top dog a run for its money. “Yeah, we don’t look at it that way,” Eberflus said. “We really […]
Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus isn’t into silver linings. So, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise to hear his disappointment after Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, even if his Bears gave the NFL’s top dog a run for its money.
“Yeah, we don’t look at it that way,” Eberflus said. “We really don’t. We focus on one game at a time, preparing to play our opponent and beat our opponent. We didn’t get that done. It’s more about us. It’s always going to be about us, how we do things.”
The Bears fell to the one-loss Eagles by the score of 25-20. The defeat marks Chicago’s seventh loss of the season by one score or less. It’s a young team struggling to figure out how to win in this league.
The Next Step
Throw the records out of the window, the ultimate equalizer in the NFL is turnovers. The Bears’ defense did well to force three turnovers against Philadelphia, who boasts the best turnover differential in football.
Extra possessions are meant to give an edge to the team that forces its opponents into mistakes. However, that only works if the turnovers are cashed in for points. On Sunday, the Bears were only able to score seven points off the Eagles’ miscues, which was clearly not enough to pull one of the biggest upsets of the season.
“Our execution in the critical moments needs to be better. Like I said, third down, in the red area. When we get takeaways, the one thing we need to do better on offense is when we do get takeaways in a short field, we got to punch it in,” Eberflus noted.
The little things make a big difference in a league with as much parity as the NFL has. The first part of correcting poor play is to identify the mistakes. Eberflus and his staff know what to fix, now it’s up to the players to go out and execute in these high-leverage situations.
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