The Chicago Bears moved on from Matt Eberflus as head coach, but it didn't come before a tense locker room moment following yet another head-scratching loss for the group.

The Bears’ firing of Matt Eberflus was as painful internally as it looked from the outside. In a scathing ESPN report detailing the moments following the embarrassing ending sequence in the Bears’ Thanksgiving Day loss to the Lions, the now-fired coach only consoled his team for “seconds” before chaos broke out.

The Chicago Bears fired head coach Matt Eberflus following an embarrassing Thanksgiving loss to the Detroit Lions that extended a brutal six-game losing streak that was the defining moment of his abysmal three-year tenure.

The Chicago Bears didn’t find a new, wacky way to lose late in Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, as they had in four of their previous six games. They faltered early and often at Levi’s Stadium,

In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X, we wanted to know if Bears fans’ enthusiasm about the team has changed with Eberflus out. Suffice it to say, almost no one who voted was disappointed.

Former Bears' head coach Matt Eberflus issued a statement on Saturday, one day after it was announced that the team was relieving him from his position. In a statement obtained by CBS Sports, Eberflus expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to work with the team: "I want to thank the McCaskey family and Ryan Poles for the opportunity to be the head coach of the Chicago Bears.

The wicked witch of the East might be gone, but the Bears’ inability to win a game sure isn’t. Despite the optimism surrounding sweeping changes made on Black Friday, Chicago proved that their lost season is exactly that.