Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss the Lions 34-17 win over the Bears and why Chicago might not be a coach’s dream job next season. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
The Lions take down the Bears 34-17.
Uh, this was an interesting game to me because in the first half, there was over 500 yards of combined offense.
Neither team could slow either team down when it came to big plays.
Uh, and this was one of those moments where even though the margin of victory, like Detroit was never really threatened in this game, Chicago sucks.
But I do sit there and say, man, And all the concern that we have about the injuries mounting and can the Lions’ defense hold up?
I was real cause this, this was not a great showing on the defensive side of the ball for them.
I, I, I’ll disagree with you.
I thought the Lions were fine on defense when the game counted, like, did they let up a little bit like, yeah, you kind of realized mid-2 quarter that like the Lions ain’t gonna be challenged here.
The Bears are just so, so bad that It just doesn’t matter.
So I thought a lot of the, I thought there were a lot of empty calories for the Bears in this game.
If I’m Ben Johnson, I’m the offensive coordinator of the Lions, and I got to study the Bears all week, obviously and game prep, and then you face the Bears.
And there was a report this morning that Ben Johnson’s interested in that job.
I didn’t, I don’t know by the end of Saturday Sunday afternoon if you’re not like, uh, maybe not.
Like this, this Bears team, we oversold them so hard this offseason.
Oh.
What a situation Kaleb Williams steps into.
Part of that was true.
He does have some good receivers.
I’ll give him that.
Terrible offensive line.
A defense that, oh my goodness, do we overrate that defense because of of eight game stretch after they traded for Montez Sweat.
That’s a bad defense.
And just organizationally, they’re terrible.
Like, what did we talk about a couple of weeks ago?
The one thing they had going for them was you switched offensive coordinators, Thomas Brown up in the booth was calling pretty good games for Caleb Williams.
And then you fire Matt Eberfli, which I had to do after that Thanksgiving debacle, and what do you do?
Instead of just picking somebody on the staff to basically run your meetings and call timeouts on Sunday.
You picked Thomas Brown.
So now he can’t even really be your, your offensive coordinator you want him to be, like, this is the Chicago Bears.
They’re a terrible organization.
There’s a reason they haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1985.
There’s a reason since 2010 they’ve only made the playoffs twice and they haven’t won a playoff game.
They’ve only won the division one since 2010.
This is a bad organization.
We talk about bad organizations in the NFL when we talk about the Jets or the Jaguars or whatever.
of the NFL you want to talk about, the Bears are right there.
And if I’m a candidate like Ben Johnson or any other candidate, I’m looking at that Bears team saying, yeah, I get to work with Caleb.
He’s no sure thing either, by the way, like he has been the 3rd or 4th best rookie quarterback this year, and he has had moments of, what are you doing, Caleb?
Like, I get the upsides here.
I understand the talents there, but I don’t know that that’s a sure thing.
It’s not like going to work with Jayden Daniels, OK?
Like, it’s no sure thing.
And that Bear Bears organization is so bad that if I’m a a highly coveted coaching candidate this cycle, I don’t know that the Bears are at the top of my list.
