Former Bears coach Matt Eberflus has been fired again

It feels like a lifetime ago that Matt Eberflus was the head coach of the Chicago Bears.

And it’s a lifetime that no Bears fan wants to revisit.

The Dallas Cowboys are the latest franchise to feel the wrath of Eberflus’ coaching incompetence, and they’re the latest club to cut him loose, too.

After a horrendous first season as Big D’s defensive coordinator, Eberflus has been fired.

“For the first time in franchise history, the Cowboys allowed more than 30 points per game (30.1), giving up a team-record 511 points,” ESPN’s Todd Archer wrote. “This was the seventh time since Jerry Jones became the owner and general manager in 1989 that a Cowboys defense allowed 400 or more points and after each occasion there has been a coordinator change or radical scheme change.”

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Eberflus served as the Bears’ head coach for three seasons (2022-2024) and finished with an embarrassing 14-32 record. His mismanagement of Caleb Williams in 2024 was his undoing in Chicago, and there’s a chance his career in a prominent role on a coaching staff is now over.

Indeed, Eberflus will resurface as a defensive position coach somewhere. But after failing with the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys — two high-profile gigs — it’s highly unlikely he’ll be trusted with any serious level of control again.

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