With music taking part in amid the standard chatter of the Bears locker room on Friday, you’d by no means know this was a group on a six-game dropping streak that simply had its head coach fired after a contentious post-game assembly with Matt Eberflus following the 23-20 loss to the Lions on Thanksgiving Day at Ford Subject.
The Bears are over it, and prepared for the 49ers.
“You hear it? It’s like a brighter day in right here,” broad receiver DJ Moore mentioned. “We’ve nonetheless received time to place some wins on the market and stack ‘em. That’s what everyone’s wanting ahead to.”
Moore is amongst a number of gamers who tacitly if circuitously welcomed the teaching change, with offensive coordinator Thomas Brown replacing Eberflus. It’s the primary in-season change within the Bears’ 105-year historical past.
“The temper is nice. You would see it all through apply. You may positively really feel it within the locker room,” Moore mentioned. “No one needs to see change. However change could be for the higher and I really feel like it is a good transfer, and we’re gonna go on the market and placed on a present.”
Nonetheless, security Kevin Byard was slightly extra cautious about embracing the notion that the teaching change has been a breath of recent air at Halas Corridor.
“Sure, the vibe has been up, however nonetheless need to gou there and win,” Byard mentioned. “As a result of if we don’t win, individuals are nonetheless going ot be upset. There’s nonetheless going to be a locker room with pissed off individuals.
“So I don’t wish to that the entire sudden, simply because we’ve received Thomas Brown, it’s a breath of recent air. We’ve all loved him. Everyone likes this man, the best way he instructions the room. That’s been refreshing. However we nonetheless need to exit and win.”
Harm report
Moore (quad) and operating again D’Andre Swift (quad) have been restricted in apply Friday and are questionable for Sunday’s sport at Levi’s Stadium.
Huge receiver Keenan Allen (ankle), proper deal with Darnell Wright (knee), Byard (shoulder) and middle Coleman Shelton (knee) had full participation and are anticipated to play.
Security Elijah Hicks (ankle), ,guard/middle Ryan Bates (concussion) and operating again Roschon Johnson (concussion) are out.
With Johnson out, Travis Homer will “take an even bigger function,” Brown mentioned. Homer has three carries for 16 yards this season — none since Week 2.
Lynch: Shanahan not on commerce block
Chatter that the 49ers might half with coach Kyle Shanahan — and even commerce him to the Bears or another person — has all the time appeared far-fetched. Niners GM John Lynch laughed off the notion in a radio interview Friday with KNBR in San Francisco.
“I sit again, and I attempt to be centered, however I’ve discovered the entire dialogue on Kyle and a few of the stuff quite comical,” he mentioned. “We’ve got received 4 of the final 5 division championships. We’ve been in two Tremendous Bowls.
“Look, the usual right here is to win championships, and we’ve fallen wanting that. I perceive. However we have now a wonderful head coach. And the actual fact individuals are speaking about stuff like that, I do discover it comical.”
Taking cost
Cornerback Jaylon Johnson mentioned he felt he was representing his teammates when he reduce off Eberflus’ post-game discuss with an emotional outburst that was a part of a testy locker room scene.
“All of us form of had the identical emotions. It was form of a matter of who’s going to be the one to say it,” Johnson mentioned. “And I really feel like I usually discover myself being that particular person to say it. So [I was] talking for myself, but additionally talking for the locker room, talking to these frustrations. It was the whole lot that everyone agreed with.”
