Bears coach Matt Eberflus on Monday said he plans to turn in the blocked kick to the league for a review on rules for hitting long snapper Scott Daly directly, and explains why he kicked when he did.
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00:00Yeah, we had to be firmer inside.
00:07Yeah, we had to be firmer inside for sure.
00:10And again, we'll turn the play in,
00:12because obviously they were on our long snapper.
00:15So we'll turn it in and see what the league says from there.
00:19But again, we just got to be firmer in the execution.
00:21Yeah, we just saw them making direct contact with them
00:25right away, and we'll turn that in as well.
00:28Yeah, but again, we felt good where it was.
00:31The wind was not a factor there.
00:33We felt good where he was on the field,
00:34and we felt very confident in his ability to get that done.
00:38Yeah, I mean, the obvious risks are they stem or whatever,
00:41you false start, you go backwards,
00:44you look at all that, and you run an outside play,
00:47and they call holding, you throw a pass,
00:52and it gets tipped, whatever it is.
00:53If you feel good about your decision
00:57and the wind conditions and what the conditions are
01:00at that point and where you are in the field,
01:03and you feel good about it, you take it down.
01:05The conditions were and where we were in the game,
01:07I would say, yeah, I would do the same.
01:10I mean, would you like to be closer?
01:12Yeah, sure, you'd like it to be at the 15-yard line,
01:15but it is where it is.
01:18And you could have done a bunch of different things there.
01:21You could have ran a pass.
01:22You could have ran a play, outside play.
01:25You could have ran another play that we punched it there,
01:28forward for two yards, from the 30 to the 28.
01:31So again, if that thing breaks for a couple more yards,
01:34it's definitely a positive.
01:36But yeah, that's where it is.