Bears coaching staff can't let heartbreaking loss to Commanders linger

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00:00So the Bears' loss of credibility in Matt Iberflues as a result, Mike, has precipitated

00:05a national conversation about his job status.

00:08What do you think the future holds for Matt Iberflues?

00:11Think about what the calendar tells us.

00:13We've got October going into November, and we know that once the regular season ends,

00:18teams will be firing coaches.

00:20It happens every year, six, seven, eight different vacancies every year.

00:24There were eight last year.

00:25A full 25% of the entire league turning over in one offseason.

00:29Now, those decisions don't just get spontaneously made the day after the last game.

00:35They are planted, watered, considered in the weeks before the season ends.

00:42So when you get into November and December, that's when you get closer and closer to the

00:46point where owners start to make those decisions about what the team is going to be doing as

00:50soon as the season ends.

00:52And if you're Matt Iberflues, you don't need November to be starting with a failure of

00:58you to have your team properly disciplined, properly coached, properly ready.

01:04You can see the 13 yards that made the Hail Mary possible.

01:08And then on the Hail Mary play, you don't have whoever the deepest guy was supposed

01:12to be.

01:13Some have said it was supposed to be Kevin Bayard.

01:14I don't care who it was supposed to be.

01:15It's on the coaching staff that no one was deeper than the deepest guy on the commanders.

01:19It's on the coaching staff that Tyreke Stevenson was taunting commanders fans and really not

01:25paying attention.

01:26And then when he realized the play had started, it wasn't like he really busted his ass to

01:29get over there.

01:30He was just like, oh, well, something's going on here.

01:32I better check this out.

01:34So it's all on Iberflues.

01:36And it puts a lot of pressure on him in the coming weeks.

01:40And this is the challenge.

01:41When you have a loss like what happened on Sunday, it's on the coaching staff to make

01:45sure one loss doesn't become two.

01:47They go to Arizona to play an unexpectedly strong Cardinals team.

01:53If one loss becomes two because they can't get over that moment, then you've got to start

01:57thinking, all right, what are the Bears going to do for next year and to Cliff Kingsbury

02:03with his performance as the commander's offensive coordinator this year, position himself to

02:07get together with Caleb Williams in Chicago next year.