Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson “didn’t actually give a rattling” in regards to the consideration his postgame confrontation with Matt Eberflus had gotten after Chicago misplaced to the Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
Throughout an look on 670 The Rating on Monday, Johnson stated he came upon about the firing of Eberflus on ESPN and that the postgame encounter got here as a result of “sufficient is sufficient.”
“On the finish of the day, there was frustration. There have been phrases from myself that I expressed simply from my frustration of dropping,” he stated. “A part of what I stated after the sport is I’ve been dropping for 5 years. So, I imply, I really feel like a high-level participant like myself, after a sure level, dropping video games how we’ve been dropping video games, somebody has to precise one thing. It was a kind of conditions the place it simply bought to that time the place you don’t bear in mind all the things that was stated.”
Poor time administration late within the recreation finally price Eberflus his job because the Bears dropped their sixth straight recreation.
4 of the six losses got here right down to the ultimate play, seemingly resulting in the frustration being felt contained in the Bears locker room.
“It was simply primarily based round frustrations of dropping,” Johnson stated. “That’s what triggered it. Just a few sure issues and seeing the way in which issues had went these previous couple of weeks. From the skin trying in, you’ll be able to say it’s the previous couple of weeks. For me, it’s the final 5 years of my rattling profession.”
Eberflus was let go final Friday after he did a name with the native media and he had expressed confidence that he’d be teaching the crew’s subsequent recreation in opposition to the 49ers.
“I’m assured that I’ll be engaged on San Francisco and preparing for that recreation,” Eberflus stated throughout a Zoom name with reporters hours earlier than he was fired.
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