Beating the Chicago Bears with a blocked field goal was satisfying enough, but Matt Eberflus made it even funnier by complaining about it and saying he would send the film to the league office.
The Bears are unhappy over a potential penalty on the blocked kick, with Eberflus noting that the Green Bay Packers "were on our long snapper." He failed to mention the other poor officiating decisions that helped his team—maybe he can send them to the league office, too.
Instead of blaming himself for a conservative game plan with a don't-lose mentality, Eberflus put it all on the Packers.
Well, Eberflus now looks even worse.
Packers' Karl Brooks named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week
The play was apparently so bad that Eberflus plans to send the video to the league office. But the NFL seemingly had no problem with it, as they named Karl Brooks the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for blocking the kick.
That's pretty hilarious.
League tells the Bears to kick rocks lol https://t.co/YSxjo88SjT
— Aaron Nagler (@AaronNagler) November 20, 2024
Eberflus, you may complain about it all you want, but we must now request that you refer to the play as the "award-winning blocked field goal." Let's stick to the facts here, please.
Joking aside, does Eberflus have a point?
He might, but it's hard to say definitively. Teams are not allowed to line up over the long snapper, which the Packers didn't, so they're fine there. They also can't contact the long snapper within one second while his head is down. There is clear contact, but not immediately. Was it within a second? It's close.
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Matt LaFleur said it best: "I've seen a lot of plays where I thought a penalty should've been called, and it didn't happen ... I thought there were multiple plays in that game. That's why you don't want to leave it in the hands of the officials."
Eberflus and the Bears had plenty of opportunities to not let it come down to a 46-yard attempt.
Chicago's head coach is under pressure, so it makes sense to shift blame in an attempt to make his seat slightly less scorching hot than it already is. But what will it actually achieve? It's a borderline penalty. If the Bears were so sure that the Packers were going to be "all over" their long snapper, why not inform the officials to watch closely before the most important kick of the game?
The timing of Brooks winning the award is perfection. The Bears will never change.