On the day after yet another jaw-dropping loss — this time with one of the more humiliating finishes in franchise history playing out in front of an extra-large and astonished holiday audience — the Chicago Bears leaned into their most straightforward path toward resolution.

You can’t come back from this embarrassment. You just can't. With a little more than a month left, the Bears need to salvage some dignity.

Eberflus was fired on Friday, one day after the Bears embarrassingly botched an end of-game drive to against the Lions on Thanksgiving.