Bears CB Jaylon Johnson says of post-game confrontation with Matt Eberflus, 'Enough is enough'

Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson didn't care that word of his confrontation with former coach Matt Eberflus got out after the team lost to the Lions. Johnson felt it needed to be said.

"I don't really give a damn about too much of it," he said Monday on 670 The Score's Spiegel and Holmes Show. "At some point, enough is enough as far as expressing frustrations... It's not my first go-around with firing. It's a business. Guys get fired all the time.

"I was not some major part of him getting fired. That's not on me. But there was frustration and words from myself that I expressed just from losing. I've been losing for five years. A high-level player like myself, after a certain point — Somebody has to express something. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing and it went the way it went."

Johnson was mad about Eberflus mishandling the end of the game, but lost it when Eberflus delivered a post-game speech that the coach recounted as something along the lines of, "I know it's hard. I know it's difficult. We have a lot to be thankful for."

That was too much for Johnson, who said his emotions were running so high that he couldn't remember everything he said to Eberflus in front of the team.

"Hearing certain things and seeing the way things went these past few weeks... You could say last few weeks, but for me it's the last five years of my career," Johnson said. "I'm used to winning, and I haven't done that since I've been in a Bears uniform."

The loss to the Lions was the final blow to Eberflus, who mismanaged the clock at the end of the game as the Bears lost 23-20 and ended the game on an incomplete pass in Lions territory with a timeout still in hand.

Johnson joined the Bears under the previous administration. He was drafted in the second round by former general manager Ryan Pace and began his career playing for ex-coach Matt Nagy. The Bears have gone 28-51 during his time with them.