Photos and video level to a transparent penalty at the Packers’ game-deciding blocked area target on Sunday, Chicago Bears head trainer Matt Eberflus mentioned the day after Inexperienced Bay escaped with a 20-19 win.
Eberflus mentioned the Bears are sending a record and video of Chicago’s field-goal take a look at as time expired to the NFL to copy the grievance he shared with officers in actual time on Karl Brooks’ block of Cairo Santos take a look at for a game-winning 46-yarder.
“(The Packers) had been on our longsnapper,” Eberflus mentioned Monday, a contravention of the NFL rule that defenses should go away the snapper “exposed” on placement kicks.
The results of the play was once Inexperienced Bay keeping on for a 20-19 victory extending the Packers’ streak of wins over the Bears to 11 beneath head trainer Matt LaFleur. Eberflus is 0-5 in opposition to the Packers and the Bears are 4-6 after beginning the season 4-2.
Brooks mentioned he simplest were given his center finger at the ball and was once involved upon touch that he did not sluggish the ball down sufficient. The play was once the point of interest of particular groups trainer Wealthy Bisaccia in ultimate week’s practices in line with LaFleur. LaFleur mentioned Bisaccia informed the staff he “would not perceive” if they did not pop out of the Week 11 sport at Soldier Box with a blocked kick on account of Santos’ penchant for decrease, line-drive angles on longer kicks.
“We had been going to dam it,” Inexperienced Bay defensive lineman Kenny Clark mentioned of what the Packers mentioned at the ultimate play. “We mentioned TJ (Slaton) or KB (Brooks) blockading the kick all week. They have were given holes of their area target coverage and a few them they were given shut. So now we have been speaking about that every one week. It was once an issue, so, trainer Wealthy has been telling all of them week and we ended up getting one.”
Eberflus repeated Monday that he did not remorseful about now not operating every other play to shorten the period of the sector target take a look at on 2d down. Santos hasn’t ever overlooked a area target from 40 yards or nearer, making all 71 of his tries from that distance with the Bears.
“We did not need to chance a fumble or a keeping penalty. We felt just right about the place we had been at at the area to kick the sector target,” Eberflus mentioned Monday.
–Box Stage Media
