Matt Eberflus on Blocked Kick Strategy.mp4

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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.

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