The Chicago Bears have fired head coach Matt Eberflus following their Thanksgiving Day defeat to the Detroit Lions on Thursday night.
Eberflus and the Bears squandered the opportunity to take the Lions to overtime by neglecting to call a timeout while trailing 23-20 and seeking to get into field goal range in the final seconds of the game.
It resulted in Chicago suffering their sixth straight defeat as they fell to 4-8 on the year at the bottom of the NFC North.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport confirmed the dismissal of Eberflus, who becomes the first head coach in the franchise’s 100-plus year history to be fired in the middle of a season.
Thomas Brown will now take over as interim coach, having been promoted to offensive coordinator following the firing of Shane Waldron earlier in the campaign.
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