Matt Eberflus Makes Embarrassing Admission After Week 12 Loss

Many fans have questioned Matt Eberflus's decision-making on challenging plays throughout the season. This first showed up in Week 2 when Eberflus challenged a clear Stefon Diggs competition.

As seen in the video, Diggs clearly kicks up the turf, which typically signals a clear catch was made. The fact that Eberflus and his staff didn't see this was worrying. Yet, people hoped they would all learn from this and not challenge obvious plays going forward.

Unfortunately, Eberflus and the staff's challenge logic hasn't improved. This season, the Bears have lost all four challenges Eberflus has thrown.

The latest head-scratching challenge happened this past Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. The play in question was a 69-yard completion by Vikings receiver Jordan Addison up the sideline. Addison had to tightrope the sideline, but he clearly never stepped out.

Eberflus was asked about his decision to challenge the play during his Monday press conference. He stood by his call, saying, " I threw the challenge flag because it was an explosive. It was 69 yards. When it's explosive there, we want to throw that flag. I think it always warrants a challenge when it's that big of a gain. If it was six yards, no one would care."

Eberflus's reasoning for challenging this play is flawed. While trying to take away an explosive play on the sideline makes sense, there needs to be clear and obvious evidence that the player stepped out.

In this case, there was no clear evidence of Addison stepping out of bounds when watching the replay. In fact, he wasn't even that close to stepping out, making Eberflus's challenge even worse.

While that alone makes his explanation bad, what makes it worse is his saying that if the play only went for six yards, throwing a challenge on a close call wouldn't matter. That's completely wrong; even if a play isn't explosive, if there's clear evidence the call should be reversed, it needs to be challenged.

Eberflus continues to dig deeper and deeper into the whole he created or himself with every press conference. While this latest explanation is one of his worst, it wouldn't be surprising if he has one even worse before the season ends.

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