Post by matsellah on Oct 28, 2024 11:26:02 GMT -6
www.windycitygridiron.com/2024/10/28/24281682/hot-take-monday-because-some-columns-cant-wait-til-tuesday-chicago-bears-matt-eberflus-hail-mary
"...And then Matt Eberflus inserted himself into the [expletive] game.
Let’s start with the second to last play of the game. Do you know what they teach defensive backs when they’re 13 years old in a situation like that? TAKE AWAY THE SIDELINES. Force the ball into the middle of the field, and guess what? It’s an incompletion, or the game is over. IT’S ACTUALLY SIMPLE.
Eberflus not only gives them the sidelines, he doesn’t even defend anything. He gives them a free 15 yards to set up a midfield Hail Mary. And then, this guy has the gall to say that play didn’t matter. Jayden Daniels launched that ball 65 yards, and it was just short of the goal line. What do you think happens if the Commanders are 15 yards further back, Matt? Did you flunk second-grade arithmetic?
I thought this guy was a good defensive coach.
And let’s talk about the last play, and we’ll save Tyrique Stevenson for later. But what are you doing with T.J. Edwards? Why are you spying Jayden Daniels from midfield? What the [expletive] did you think was going to happen? Daniels was going to take off down the field and run for a 52-yard touchdown with 8 defenders to beat and only 3 or 4 wide receivers trying to block for him? Not even Jayden Daniels is working his way through that defense. Come the [expletive] on. You played 10 on 11 on the final play. Maybe you push another defender deep and the play is properly covered. Maybe you rush 4, and Jayden Daniels doesn’t have THIRTEEN seconds to get the ball off. Something. Anything than having Edwards playing hopscotch at the 50-yard line.
Matt Eberflus should be humiliated. There are defensive coaches across the league laughing at what he did on that play. Laughing!..."
Anyone who has played organized football - doesn't have to be DBs or just defenders - everyone learns you don't give up the sideline.
When the play was unfolding in front of my eyes on my tv, inside my house while I held my beer, I doubted reality.
"what are they doing? WHAT ARE THEY DOING ??! HOLY &#!% !!!"
And I still hadn't recovered from the Kramer Goal Line fiasco when this was going on.
And then -wait, wait- as the Hail Mary was coming down, I'm thinking "he's short! It's not going to make it to the end zone!"
Later on, I was down in the basement on the computer when I saw the video of Stevenson.
"What was that noise!! Are you alright??!"
~ Mrs. Matsellah, from the kitchen
