Matt Eberflus on Injuries and Firing Shane Waldron.mp4

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Bears coach Matt Eberflus comments on why he fired Shane Waldron and named Thomas Brown the replacement offensive coordinator, and also on team injury situation for Week 11.

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00:00Good to see everybody.

00:07Injury update for today.

00:09Jaquan Brisker will still be out for this week.

00:13He's still going through the concussion protocol there and working through with the trainers.

00:18We'll see where that goes in terms of week to week.

00:21Tevin Jenkins will be out today for practice.

00:24We'll see where that goes with the ankle.

00:26Timor is in concussion protocol, working through there.

00:29We'll see where that goes as well.

00:31And then Tez will be out with an ankle for practice today.

00:34But as you guys saw, we released Nate Davis today,

00:39and we just felt it was best for him and for the organization, for the team right now to do that.

00:45Jake Curhan moved to the active roster,

00:48but I thought it was best for the Bears and for our team at this point to move on from that.

00:54Shane as the play caller and then working into Thomas.

00:58Met with him yesterday and very excited about him being the play caller and the offensive coordinator,

01:04our leader of our offense going forward for the rest of the season,

01:08and brings passion, energy, tenacity, toughness, collaboration.

01:14You could certainly see that yesterday during the game planning phase of using all the minds and everybody there.

01:19I thought that was excellent to see with those guys working together to get to the best answers for our first

01:25and second down game plan and our third down working into it.

01:28To me, it's about what's happening right now.

01:32And again, obviously, when you're there, you're saying you're making a great decision there,

01:35and it's what's happening right now.

01:37You know, we have really struggled the last three weeks,

01:40and I just thought for the best thing right now for the Bears, for our football team,

01:45where we are in the season, was to make that adjustment.

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