Jimmy Johnson trashes Bears and Matt Eberflus for Thanksgiving timeout fiasco

The Thanksgiving timeout fiasco with quarterback Caleb Williams isn’t ending anytime soon. Fox analyst Jimmy Johnson ripped the Chicago Bears and head coach Matt Eberflus for mishandling the situation.

The Bears were already somewhat of a mess before Thursday’s disastrous clock management sequence against the Lions. And Matt Eberflus’ defense of the whole thing doesn’t sit well with Jimmy Johnson.

Shortly after the game, Johnson trashed Eberflus and the Bears organization as he dissected what went wrong. He was utterly baffled by what was happening with Chicago. Here’s what he told his Fox colleagues:

“[In] seventy years of coaching at all three levels, I’ve never seen dysfunction that costs a team the opportunity to win the game. Obviously, he’s got a rookie quarterback…but when Eberflus saw they were off track and there was dysfunction, he should have called timeout.”

“He says he wanted to communicate to the rookie quarterback to throw an out route, stop the clock, then call the timeout. That was never communicated.”

Jimmy Johnson says in 70 years of being around coaching, he’s never seen the level of dysfunction that the Bears have right now. pic.twitter.com/f8rMIBx6XW

— Harrison Graham (@HGrahamNFL) November 28, 2024