Eberflus Vs Pederson
Please disregard and laugh at me if Pederson is fired on Friday morning by the time you read this. As of now, he remains employed. With the Bears history, it’s unlikely he is fired anytime before Black Monday. I’d give the same disclaimer about Doug Pederson but if he survived the bye week I don’t see how he doesn’t keep hanging on.
Both of these guys should not be employed. Eberflus shouldn’t have even entered the season with his job intact. The Bears keep making this mistake and it keeps costing them. The Bears have been let down multiple times this year because of poor coaching. The Commies hail mary loss was because the players did not properly perform their defense and dicked around. They lost the Packers game because they didn’t even try to gain some extra yardage with plenty of time left for their kicker, who kicks low from distance. On Thanksgiving, we had possibly the worst example yet. The Bears had 38 seconds with one timeout in field goal range, behind by 3. A tie game set for overtime felt inevitable. Thanks to a sack, it was 3rd and long, but it was still manageable. For some unknown reason the Bears let that entire 38 seconds just…vanish. They snapped the ball with about 6 seconds left, necessitating a desperation heave to the endzone that flopped. It was, quite possibly, the worst time management I have ever seen at the NFL level. If Eberflus remains employed when you read this, it is an atrocity. The Bears are comfortable with those, however, so I won’t even be shocked if he’s fine for now. I made a whole comic banking on their incompetence to not instantly outdate me.
Doug Pederson was supposed to be fired last week. Everyone saw it coming. I saw it coming. I wrote a whole thing about how I would be stunned if Doug was employed entering the bye week after the Lions loss. HE’S STILL THERE. That was it! The bye week was THE TIME to fire the guy! You have enough time to sort out the new interim structure! Doug doesn’t even look like he wants to be there anymore! He looks lost and sad! It baffles me. I have to wonder if they looked at his staff and went “actually, nobody deserves the interim job, so lets ride it out”. It might be best of the Jaguars do just ride out the failure because that will give Trent Baalke a higher chance of getting let go, and the Jaguars absolutely need that to happen.
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Okay, moving on. DISCORD NEWS:
I have set up a small, barebones discord. Since I am but one man, doing all of this as a hobby, I do not plan on simply opening it up to everyone as I will have to moderate mostly by myself (unless I get a volunteer for help). I would, especially in this early test stage, like to keep things small and controlled. My hope is that it effectively functions like my comment section down below, with the same general attitude and chill vibe. I know my comment section is a little archaic and clunky and want an opportunity to make it more fun for those interested and to have a place where those of us who want can casually chat about ball, random topics, comic ideas, and other stuff. Mostly during games, when I will definitely be at my computer working anyway. As long-time readers will probably expect, it will be a more lefty-friendly space. I’d prefer to keep political talk not related to football out of it all-together to begin with because those subjects tend to result in angry users, but I will absolutely have very little tolerance for right-wing bullshit. I want a nice little chill group of folks I can chat with during games, if you can’t play nice you are out. If this gets out of hand, I’ll shut the whole thing down very quickly.
In the interest of keeping it small and controlled for the time being, I will be rotating the invite codes pretty frequently and I am going to ask you to personally send me a message so I can vet everyone at least a tiny bit. Here is where you can contact me:
Discord itself: DrawPlayDave
Email – drawplay574@gmail.com
Bluesky DMs – Profile here
Instagram DMs – Profile here
Let me know who you are on Discord, if you have a social account I can verify, or your name as a commenter here so I can quickly double-check. I’ll send you an invite once I think you’re cool.Also let me know if you have experience running a discord so I can pick your brain for help.
I will likely not send out invites until Sunday morning, as Saturdays are my days off from screens and I’m probably busy today. Keep an eye on your emails/DMs and such, and message me back if your link expired before you got in. I should be there all day Sunday.
I’m not a big Discord user, so I’m pretty new to this, so if it’s a bit of a mess at first, I apologize. I just want to try it out.
Good morning Dave, hope your microwave is ready to go.
I tried emailing you but Gmail said your email address wasn’t available to receive mail, so I sent you a request on Discord as Raeror
Same, sent one as Emeraldegg
If they don’t, then they probably looked at the ridiculing of the Jets firing Saleh as a sign that they should wait until the end of the season.
The jets coach is probably pretty happy to be paid to Not coach the jets. Sorry about the overused joke o had to say it.
Spot on.
My wife and I both said “is Eberflus TRYING to get fired???” after that mess (which had me reflexively screaming WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??? HURRY UP!!! at the TV even though I was actually rooting for the Lions…)
Worse yet was Keenan Allen saying post-game that “the *players* did enough to win”. Owwy.
I honestly think the press conference was the final nail, if Eberflus had just had one second of reflection and took responsibility and went “my bad” he’d probably still be there until the end of the season. Instead he throws his rookie QB under the bus and acts like it was just the fates not going his way. Fucking oblivious dumbass.
Also Keenan Allen is notorious for that shit, Dave did a comic about it: https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/keenan-allen-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-broncos/
Breaking News: Eberflus Wins Something – This Bet
I was going to post the news, but that was way funnier….
Can we laugh if Eberflus gets fired?
I guess you could say he’s now……Eberfucked.
Is this a record for teams ruining (or confirming) Dave’s joke?
not sure if discord DMs are working without mutual friends or servers.
Between the bears forgetting about a timeout and the Raiders clocking the football too early, I’m both dreading what Sunday will bring in clock mismanagement and hoping for a good comic about it.
TBH I like this comment section and how it’s a throwback to the old Internet
Hi Dave.
RPGArcher (possibly RPGArcher#9600) on Discord.
I have a lot of experience on discord, but mostly running stuff for friend activities with 5 active users (D&D, board games, group video games, parties, etc)
I’m a football casual 49ers fan who is in it because I’m a math/stats nerd as much as a sports fan.
I tried DMing you on discord, but I’m not sure I did it right (DMing people not on my friends list is not how I use discord)
I’m more-or-less a stay-at-home dad, so I’m often available, and could be willing to help moderate if we ended up at a place that that made sense to both of us
If you pick an entirely week’s slate of games correctly, what do you draw, if anything?
I wish I had made it in time for Discord! I’m definitely a lurker who hasn’t posted here before I don’t think… but I have been reading forever. I love your stuff Dave!