It was too much to expect the Chicago Bears to beat the Detroit Lions. One team is the hottest in the NFL. The other has suffered a series of devastating defeats over the last two months. In fact, the Bears’ lopsided loss in Detroit was predictable for one reason: the rift between the head coaches. It has become clear over the last three years that Dan Campbell is a master of motivation and personnel development for the Lions. He has assembled two excellent assistants, Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn. Matt Eberflus watched three coordinators leave because they were terrible.

More than anything, it was a sign that the Bears head coach had no concept of situational awareness. He was once again wasting time off unnecessarily on pointless challenges. The defense failed to get off the field on third down in the first half. On offense, they failed to get the ball alive, which once again put Caleb Williams in a difficult situation.

Best of all? More stupid mistakes cost them the chance at an epic comeback, including the inexplicable refusal to call his final timeout to secure a game-winning field goal. At this point, it’s a familiar story. The inferiority was crystal clear. What else do the Bears need to see at this point? Eberflus doesn’t need or deserve any more games to review.

Matt Eberflus will go down as one of the worst players in Bears history.

People will use the excuse that the team embarked on a rebuild in his first year in Chicago, leading him to go 3-14 in that first season. Here’s the thing. John Fox won five games, although Ryan Pace did the same in 2015. Eberflus has received a much better roster than Fox, especially at quarterback with Justin Fields and now Caleb Williams. The fact that he has the longest losing streak in Bears history (14 games) and is two more shy of the second-longest (8 games) shows how out of his depth he is for the job.

The McCaskeys won’t release him in the middle of the season. They have never done that since taking over the franchise in 1983. If Marc Trestman didn’t make it out after the dumpster fire in 2014, Matt Eberflus won’t either. That means fans will have to endure five more games of this nonsense. Despite a difficult first half, Thomas Brown remains a candidate for the position. In the second moment he got things together, but it was too late. Eberflus couldn’t stop his defense when needed, which should negate any remaining arguments for keeping him.