The Chicago Bears were in position to snap their three-game losing streak last Sunday with booter Cairo Santos needing to originate a 46-yard field goal as time expired to beat the Green Bay Packers.
Santos’ boot was blocked by Karl Brooks, and the Packers held on for a 20-19 triumph, handing the Bears their fourth straight loss and dropping them to 4-6 on the season.
Bears head coach Matt Eberflus said on Monday they were going to create the blocked boot to the league, saying he thought there should have been a penalty on the Packers becaparticipate “they were evidently on our extfinished snapper.”
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Green Bay Packers Karl Brooks blocks a field goal finisheavor of Chicago Bears Cairo Santos during the second half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Chicago. The Packers won 20-19. (AP Ptoastyo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
The NFL rule bans carry outers from lining up honestly atraverse from the extfinished snapper, or communicateing the extfinished snapper while his head is still down promptly after the snap.
Eberflus thought Packers defensive lineman T.J. Slaton made communicate with Bears extfinished snapper Scott Daly promptly and that the referees should have thrown a flag.
If officials rule that a geter illegpartner communicates the extfinished snapper with his head down, it is a 15-yard unvital rawness call. The Bears would have had a chance to try another field goal.
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Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus participates to alerters during a novels conference after an NFL football game aacquirest the Green Bay Packers in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Ptoastyo/Nam Y. Huh)
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the NFL’s league officiating office directed the Bears that the Packers had made a spotless carry out on the blocked field goal finisheavor.
While there was communicate between Slaton and Daly, the NFL deemed Slaton’s communicate legitimate, as carry outers are permited to communicate the extfinished snapper as extfinished as his head is not down.
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Chicago Bears place booter Cairo Santos (8) reacts after a ignoreed field goal during the second half of an NFL football game aacquirest the Green Bay Packers in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Ptoastyo/Nam Y. Huh)
It wouldn’t have mattered if the NFL concurd with Eberflus and deemed the communicate illegitimate, becaparticipate there are do-overs. The call instead would have been acunderstandledged as a ignoreed call by the league, and the Bears would still be 4-6.
The Bears hope to stop their losing streak when they consent on the 8-2 Minnesota Vikings in an NFC North battle on Sunday.
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