“Matt Eberflus HASN’T DONE MUCH As A Head Coach!” Says Bears Beat Writer Mark Potash

Sports Talk Chicago

Football, Sports, Baseball

5.0 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On today’s show, host Jon Zaghloul talks with Mark Potash, Bears Beat Writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, about Matt Eberflus, the Bears’ 2024 season outlook, and more.

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0:00.0	Sports Talk, Chicago.
0:01.2	Here for Johns and Gluo, John Meadows, directing and producing.
0:03.4	Great to be on all of our great TV and radio affiliates.
0:06.0	98.3 of the live, WK-A-N-155, the ticket, ACTB, J-TB, J-T-B-W-J-O-B, and Ciddy.
0:13.9	We had a lot of Bears talk in Segment 1, and we're going to have more here in segment two. We have our guests joining us for another segment. Mark Potash, he's the Bears beat rider for the Chicago Sun-Times.
0:23.5	And he's covered Chicago media for Chicago sports for 30-plus years.
0:28.2	And Mark, it's great to have you back here for the second segment.
0:30.9	We were just talking about Hall and what the Bears have done in 2023.
0:35.7	And maybe you can answer this question for me.
0:38.0	Based on everything that we saw throughout this season,
0:40.6	there were so much chaos.
0:41.8	There were things going on off the field,
0:43.2	things that didn't really go amazingly well on the field,
0:46.1	like the three blown leads inside the fourth quarter,
0:48.2	the things that were historic for the Bears in terms of losing.
0:51.4	Why did they decide to bring Matt Eber pluce back?
0:55.1	Well, I just, well, I guess because that's Ryan Poles' guy.
1:00.2	And I don't think Ryan Poles, after year two, wanted to kind of, wasn't ready to admit a
1:05.6	mistake or acknowledge it or say it was a mistake.
1:08.9	And I think he was looking for reasons to keep his guy.
1:14.4	The comparison I use is the 2012 when Phil Emery was in his first year and had Lovie Smith.
1:21.5	Lovie Smith wasn't his guy. And the Bears went 10 and 6 and he fired it. Well,
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