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There’s a big difference between the negligible lies NFL coaches tell in the name of secrecy about injuries and scheme and the football gaslighting and accountability avoidance that have become a Bears tradition.
The last seven seasons were exhausting as Matt Nagy and Matt Eberflus routinely stepped to the microphone and told everyone that the miserable game they’d just watched wasn’t as bad as it looked. Eberflus seldom took responsibility for a mistake and defended his final one as Bears coach on a Zoom call while management met down the hall and decided to fire him.