Bears’ Jaylon Johnson opens up about confronting ex-coach Matt Eberflus
Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson “didn’t really give a damn” about the attention his postgame confrontation with Matt Eberflus had gotten after Chicago lost to the Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
During an appearance on 670 The Score on Monday, Johnson said he found out about the firing of Eberflus on ESPN and that the postgame encounter came because “enough is enough.”
“At the end of the day, there was frustration. There were words from myself that I expressed just from my frustration of losing,” he said. “Part of what I said after the game is I’ve been losing for five years. So, I mean, I feel like a high-level player like myself, after a certain point, losing games how we’ve been losing games, someone has to express something. It was one of those situations where it just got to that point where you don’t remember everything that was said.”
Poor time management late in the game ultimately cost Eberflus his job as the Bears dropped their sixth straight game.
Four of the six losses came down to the final play, likely leading to the frustration being felt inside the Bears locker room.
“It was just based around frustrations of losing,” Johnson said. “That’s what triggered it. Just some certain things and seeing the way things had went these last few weeks. From the outside looking in, you can say it’s the last few weeks. For me, it’s the last five years of my damn career.”
Eberflus was let go last Friday after he did a call with the local media and he had expressed confidence that he’d be coaching the team’s next game against the 49ers.
“I’m confident that I’ll be working on San Francisco and getting ready for that game,” Eberflus said during a Zoom call with reporters hours before he was fired.
