Bears coach Matt Eberflus on Wednesday announced that offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko, receivers coach Tyke Tolbert, running backs coach Omar Young and assistant tight ends coach Tim Zetts have been relieved of their duties.
The Bears will hold a press conference this afternoon in the PNC Center at Halas Hall at 3 p.m. (CT).
General manager Ryan Poles and head coach Matt Eberflus will speak, followed by President & CEO Kevin Warren.
The press conference will be streamed live on ChicagoBears.
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Justin Fields connected on 11 of 16 passes for 148 yards and a 97.9 passer rating.
The Bears rushing attack mustered 75 yards on 25 carries.
With the loss, the Bears finished in fourth place in the NFC North with a 7-10 record.
They’ve now dropped 10 straight games to the Packers, last winning in 2018, and eight consecutive games at Lambeau Field, last winning in 2015.
“To summarize what I told the players in the locker room, there are two sides to this,” said coach Matt Eberflus.
“There’s disappointment in the loss that we just had … but then the other side of it is it’s the end of our season.
“I credited the players for the development that they had of this football team, and not only that but of themselves, and I really credit those guys for hanging in there after the 0-4 start and the leadership that those guys had to be able to do that, to be able to finish the season off 5-3.
It’s really a testament to all those guys in the room; the coaches, the support staff and everybody in there to be able to accomplish that.”
With Sunday’s win, the Packers (9-8) earned a wild card berth in the NFC playoffs.
With the Buccaneers beating the Panthers and the Saints defeating the Falcons in Sunday’s early games, Green Bay kicked off against the Bears knowing it needed a victory to reach the playoffs.
Sunday’s contest was an unusual one in that the two teams combined for just 13 possessions.
The Bears alternated punts and field goals on their six drives, while the Packers compiled 432 yards on seven drives and did not punt in the game.
The big difference was on third down; the Bears converted just 3-of-11 opportunities (27.3%) while the Packers were successful on 7-of-10 chances (70.0%).
“If you look at the third downs on both sides of the ball,” Eberflus said, “they were able to sustain drives because of those conversions and they stopped us because of our inability to convert. It’s always going to come down to that.”
Another telling statistic was that the Bears produced one sack of Love and allowed five sacks of Fields.
“I felt their pass rush, but I didn’t feel ours,” Eberflus said.
“We’ve just got to do a good job of seeing what that is.
We did pressure some, we did some of those things, but I’ll go back and look at it.
“My hat’s off to the defensive guys.
They did a really good job of coming together, played some really good solid football during the course of this last eight weeks and we didn’t play our best today.”
