(670 The Score) Note to future mutineers: Once you have successfully knocked your captain off the plank with the tip of a cutlass, you should do something other than immediately push the ship onto the rocks and sink it.

This is in no way intended to argue that the bumbling and out of his depth Matt Eberflus deserves to keep his job as the Bears’ head coach, but simply to point out that some fundamental flaws in this team clearly run much deeper. That much was made painfully clear in the Bears’ 38-13 loss to the 49ers on Sunday in Santa Clara, a game that was over after two quarters of complete football incompetence that tested both our memory and our patience.

The Bears have now suffered their seventh defeat in a row. The reshuffling of various coaching positions not only failed to bring the expected immediate benefits of new overall performance and supposedly valuable good vibes, but it actually made things look worse.

What is the opposite of a new coaching push? A speed bump? A stumble? A hole in the ground?

Whatever the case, it seems silly to deliver a completely limp performance after arguing that all these talented and motivated players simply needed a new leader so they could vent their untapped anger.

From Thomas Brown to new offensive coordinator Chris Beatty to new defensive lineman Eric Washington, everything looked and sounded good enough all week until it was time for the players themselves to give more than just a verbal positive response.

What the Bears did was they gained four yards in the entire first half while allowing the 49ers to gain 319 yards of their own on all sorts of explosive plays. In fact, it was one of the most lopsided halves of NFL football in recent history, and it should be a stark reminder that this team is much better at talking about itself than actually playing.

It’s also good to remember that a lack of stupidity does not equate to smartness, and that fixing the Bears’ problems may require more time and resources than anyone even knows.

The players were right that Eberflus did a bad job. Damn, we were all right. Because it was objectively and painfully obvious.

But it’s time for the Bears to figure out why, after getting exactly what they wanted – the franchise responded in a way it hasn’t in its entire existence – this moment with such a collective and embarrassing disintegration experienced.

Ryan Poles will go through that too, with careful consideration of his roster decisions now more of a focus, especially after his team was just dismantled by an opponent that was missing its top two running backs, best pass rusher and three starting offensive linemen .

It didn’t help at a recent press conference that Poles looked like Kevin Warren’s misbehaving son at a parent-teacher meeting, and now he has one last chance to find a coach and savior – oh, wait… “Leader of the Men” or “Program Managers” — while also navigating Warren’s bloated vanity amidst all the cobweb-like weirdness of the old McCaskey house.

Simple basic skills like blocking, tackling and not dropping passes would be helpful. You know, the very basic standards that players are held to. Everything would be better if the Bears worked as hard as they could, trying every possession and showing proper awareness of every situation.

If only there was an easy way for them to remember things like this. Some kind of mnemonic might be helpful, such as an acronym.

Dan Bernstein is co-host of The Bernstein & Harris Show at noon from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 670 The Score. You can follow him on Twitter @Dan_Bernstein.