He had every opportunity to make a change this past season and did not.
This is Poles’s team, from head coach down to long snapper. Poles chose to go into the 2024 season with all these people around.
They win this game ugly when everyone doubts them. Pull off one more win with multiple TDs then look respectable in some of their losses the rest of the way and Eberflus returns.
He gets credit for “keeping the locker room together” and “fighting through adversity”
Poles gets to wait another year to pull the trigger, hires a new guy and they lose more games in 2026 than 2025. Poles gets replaced and that guy gets an opportunity to hire “his guy”
1: things did not fall apart for Lovie Smith. He won 11, 8 and 10 games in years 7/8/9.
2: Eberflus isn’t really soft spoken. If anything he talks too much. He doesn’t say anything meaningful but he uses a lot of words in an energetic manner. It comes off as disingenuous
He started the season as a healthy scratch but has worked his way back into the lineup, working up from 4C to playing on the top line at times. He’s played reasonably well and has a 2 year contract so it’s a pretty good assumption to have him in future plans. Nothing guaranteed (except his money) of course
He cleared waivers and is headed to Rockford.
the athletic ran a “what will the 25/26 roster look like” article and long story short, they project a lot of returning and/or promoted players already in the organization, plus one big external option.
You think Caleb went wrong way or called it wrong? The entire line ran it as a play meant to go into short side with one receiver option. I’m inclined to believe that was the play call.