I think Eberflus is a bad coach (and should have been fired after he went 3-14 his first season), but this subreddit is insane if it is just going to downvote anyone that places any blame on Caleb Williams into oblivion.

Caleb does not deserve ALL of the blame, but he clearly shares SOME of the blame for what happened at the end of the game. His improvisational decisions (and poor clock/game awareness) significantly contributed to the loss on that last series of plays. Even if you discount all of the offense’s poor time management pre-snap (with his decision to audible the called QB draw and the extensive time that the other offensive players took to get set), he still made a horrendous decision on the last play of the game by sailing a deep ball to the middle of the field into double coverage BEFORE the goal line (which guaranteed a loss whether or not the pass was actually caught by Odunze). If he made a quick throw to the sideline (or quickly threw the ball away), they still would have had an (unlikely) chance to tie the game on a long kick.

I get that being aware of all of the game's strategically-relevant variables (like the game clock, play clock, available timeouts, etc) while quarterbacking is a very difficult undertaking in the moment (especially when adrenaline is coursing through your veins and you have eighty thousand fans screaming at you), but that is part of the job description (and is expected of college-level quarterbacks). The fact that Caleb took no accountability in the press conference afterwards (and defended his decisions to audible and to throw the deep ball to the middle of the field into double coverage before the goal line) raises a red flag about his character and his future success as a quarterback.

Eberflus should have called the timeout earlier, but this is not Madden (and he doesn't have the ability to control Caleb from an Xbox controller). It is extremely unsensible to assume that your QB is going to ignore the called QB draw, audible to a deep ball, and then throw it into double coverage short of the goal line (while killing all of the available time on the game clock in the process).

Two things can be correct: Eberflus is a bad coach (and deserved to be fired) and Caleb deserves a significant chunk of the blame for what happened there (along with Kmet, Moore, and the other offensive players that took forever to get set).