(670 The Score) It doesn’t seem like the Bears are about to have any sort of surge, however brief, late in a lost season.
After the Bears’ 38-13 loss to the 49ers on Sunday, cornerback Jaylon Johnson detailed the precarious situation the team is in having fired head coach Matt Eberflus on Nov. 29. The Bears have lost seven straight games to drop to 4-9.
“It’s just trying to get foundation things set in place, in the direction you’re going, getting a new staff and then kind of going from there,” Johnson said on the Spiegel & Holmes Show on Monday evening. “It’s hard to say what we can do to be better, to change what’s going on. I mean, we changed the OC, we changed the head coach. We’re in the midst of a lot of change right now. Quite honestly, it’s just us trying to make plays. I feel like top to bottom, players got to make plays, coaches are trying to put guys in position to make plays.
“We’re just really trying to establish culture within the building. That’s something that doesn’t change no matter who comes in – coaches, players, whatever it may be. We’re in a sticky situation as far as trying to figure out ways to get on track considering change is coming, change has been happening for weeks now, months. So I mean, it’s not an easy situation. I feel like it’s one of those things where people ask is it effort? Is it this? Is it coaching? This game is not something you can put a finger on until it’s already too late.
“At the end of the day, god damn, you’ve got to keep fighting. That’s what happens in life sometimes. You can’t put your finger on why your life is falling apart, why you got let off the job, why you get this, why your parents or family or somebody passes away. You got to keep going. It’s no different. At the end of the day, adversity is adversity. Nobody wants to be in it. But the strong keep pushing through. The strong survive. At the end of the day, that’s the only thing I’m focused on – remaining strong, keeping those around me strong, everybody keep building and stepping in the right direction.”
Johnson also acknowledged it’s also exhausting for the Bears to have so much coaching turnover in past years.
“We’ve had a lot of instability throughout this building in the past five years that I’ve been here,” Johnson said. “We’re on two GMs, three head coaches, I can’t count how many offensive coordinators, how many defensive coordinators. So it’s hard.”