It didn’t seem like things were quite together on Wednesday.

After it was revealed that Stevenson had not focused on his role at the start of the Hail Mary and had given the pass to Noah Brown instead of covering Brown, captains and leadership council meetings occurred and some players also made critical comments on the WSCR. and elsewhere about the decisions Eberflus made at the end of the 18-15 loss.

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Jaylon Johnson thought they could have used a timeout to better organize themselves for the Hail Mary, while Moore ridiculed backup center Doug Kramer’s use of carrying the ball on a goal-line play, which resulted in a lost fumble. .

At the obvious risk of appearing defiant, both essentially stood by their comments when they spoke Wednesday at Halas Hall.

“I mean we all talk about it,” Moore said. “Flus and I talked about it with the captains. And next time we have to stay home.

“I mean, I’m not going to say ‘sorry for what I said,’ but at the same time he should have stayed home. But I said what I said.”

Eberflus will not disclose whether Stevenson is losing his starting job or playing time as a result of his mistakes.

“Like I said, I’m not going to talk about Tyrique in terms of starter, non-starter, all those things, but I will say this: Tyrique has made a lot of plays for this group and for our defense and for our football team over the last few years and he will continue to do so. doing it,” Eberflus said. “We’re behind Tyrique, and we’re with him every step of the way, and again, we’ll work on this as we move forward.”

Comments on talk radio questioning the training seem to go against the team’s singular purpose. However, they are counting on the leadership council and captains to express the players’ feelings to Eberflus behind the scenes.

Johnson still believes the timeout would have been the way to go before the Hail Mary.

“Yeah, I mean, really calm the moment down. The biggest thing was, I’m sure if we’re in the final, we’ll have one more shot or one more possession that, in a sense, you’ll call a timeout to do.” Make sure the work is written correctly.

“‘We want to set this election this way. I mean get your guys in the best position to be successful. I mean, at the end of the day, that doesn’t necessarily change the outcome, but it does change, I would say, your mentality going in. that play, so I don’t want to say it’s any different for us, going in, getting a timeout, calming down and making sure we’re reminded of what we’re doing.”

Johnson said he doesn’t lose confidence in his head coach as a result of the decisions.

When asked if he still supports Eberflus, Johnson said, “Yes, he’s our head coach.”

This didn’t seem like much of a vote of confidence and brought Johnson back to last year when he was asked if he was behind former Bears quarterback Justin Fields.

“How can we continue to believe in him? I mean, I feel like that’s, honestly, part of the job,” Johnson said. “You would think, I mean (expletive), as long as someone is your head coach, I mean the same thing, in a sense with the quarterback situation when everyone was asking, ‘Are you behind Justin?’

“He’s our quarterback. He’s who we’re going to go with. But I mean, whoever’s at that position, whoever’s in our locker room, whoever our coaches are, that’s who we believe in. That’s who we trust to make it happen.” guide us to a championship.”

Another example of a player questioning what was going on at Halas Hall was Cole Kmet telling the media on Monday that some players were kidding themselves with the way they worked in practice.

“I talked to Cole about it, but it’s really about connecting every play, and that’s really every week,” Eberflus said. “Again, you’ll have to ask him exactly what he meant.

“I don’t know exactly what it was, but we had a general conversation about it. It’s about connecting, doing the cycle, doing our job and being where you’re supposed to be when you’re supposed to be.” there.”

Stevenson wasn’t where he was supposed to be, but Kmet had said he wasn’t necessarily referring to Stevenson and that play.

Either way, Eberflus’ idea is to avoid talking about the grief Stevenson faces, if there is any.

“Like I said, I’m not going to talk about Tyrique in terms of starter, non-starter, all those things,” Eberflus said. “But I will say this. Tyrique has made a lot of plays for this group and for our defense and for our football team over the last few years, and he will continue to do so.

“We’re behind Tyrique, and we’re with him every step of the way, and again, we’ll work on this as we move forward.”

It doesn’t sound like the harsh HITS principle that was talked about so much when Eberflus became coach, if Stevenson goes unpunished.

Eberflus doesn’t care how it sounds. You want information about sanctions or fines that remain “internal.”

He’s also not concerned that he’s lost the respect of his players in any way because of the decisions or how this has been handled.

“I’m going to be the man that I’ve been and the leader that I’ve been and I’m going to be stable throughout the process,” Eberflus said. “We are a team that is growing, we are a team that is improving and we will work through this adversity.”

Moore summed up the company line in a way that made it seem like everyone had left it in the past, even if they still talk about it long past the end of the “universal 24-hour rule.”

“This will just move on to the next one,” Moore said. “We’re not under .500. The sky isn’t falling, so let’s move on to the next opponent, it’s the Cardinals and we just have to find a way to be 1-0 next week.”

They would then be 5-3 on the season, and some of the pressure might have been off the coaching staff at that point, but the loss was definitely a missed opportunity to be even better.

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