Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said, “The best thing in the world would be for us to play well, win this game and give Matt Eberflus the game ball.“ That’d be Johnson’s nightmare.
The first lesson of being a Bears head coach is that it can always get worse. Never assume you’ve hit rock bottom. If that’s not written in the company handbook, it should be.
The pressure is rising on Ben Johnson just two games into his tenure after a pair of discouraging losses and his recent venting about the Bears’ poor effort against the Lions and subpar practice habits. And next, he’s facing not just the Cowboys on Sunday at Soldier Field, but his predecessor.
Matt Eberflus, whose firing last November started the Bears on a path to hire Johnson, resurfaced as the Cowboys’ defensive coordinator. Since Johnson is the Bears’ offensive play caller, they’ll be going head-to-head.
Imagine throwing a home loss to Eberflus on the pile of problems.
Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer already has.
“The best thing in the world would be for us to play well, win this game,” he said, “and give Matt Eberflus the game ball.”
That’d be Johnson’s nightmare.
It won’t be the first matchup between him and Eberflus, and while Eberflus became a punchline locally after going 14-32 with a string of embarrassing errors in games and as a public face of the team, Johnson isn’t laughing at him.
