Matt Eberflus on Last Play and Job Status.mp4

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Bears coach Matt Eberflus comments on the last disastrous sequence of plays on Thanksgiving against Detroit and answers a question about his job status.

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00:00You know, so we're at 36 seconds right there, and our hope was, because it was third going

00:08into fourth, that we would re-rack that play at 18 seconds, throw it inbounds, get it into

00:15the field goal range, and then call the timeout.

00:17And that's where it was, and that was our decision-making process on that.

00:20Again, we were outside the field goal range, you know, so we needed to get a few more yards

00:24in there, as close as we can get, and then we were going to call a timeout, and that's

00:28why we held that last timeout.

00:30Yeah, I like what we did there.

00:32Again, once it's under seven, you know, you're going to call a timeout there, or actually

00:37under 12, and then really you don't have an option, you know, because it's third to fourth,

00:42you've got to throw it into the end zone then.

00:44So to me, I think we handled it the right way.

00:47I do believe that, you know, you just re-rack the play, get it inbounds, and call a timeout,

00:52and that's why we held it, and it didn't work out the way we wanted it to.

00:56It was a play that was going inside, and then, because we had the timeout, and we would have

00:59been in field goal range then.

01:00We would have been all set.

01:01We just got to get it, we just got to do a better job together.

01:05We just got to do a better job together to re-rack that play, get it off, and then call

01:09a timeout.

01:10Well, I'm the head football coach, you know, so I'm taking the blame, of course, you know,

01:14that's what you do.

01:15So we didn't get it done, it starts at the top, and it starts right here.

01:20This is the NFL, you know, and I know where it is, and I'm just going to put my best foot

01:23forward, and, you know, I'm going to get to work, and keep grinding.

01:28So that's what we do.

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