The Inexperienced Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears 20-19 on Sunday by blocking a 46-yard discipline objective as time expired, however ought to the block have counted? The bears say no.
Chicago head coach Matt Eberflus says he ought to have had an opportunity to get well the kick, citing a penalty dedicated by Inexperienced Bay late within the sport.
Eberflus stated he’ll flip the blocked objective over to the league workplace as a result of he believes the Packers “had been on our lengthy snapper.” No flag was known as on the sphere.
Right here's a have a look at the piece Eberflus discovered issues with:
Bear Patrick Scales seems to be introduced down on the line of scrimmage by Packers' Karl Brooks and TJ Slaton. It’s unlawful to make contact with an extended robin when its head is down, as they’re thought of defenseless. Gamers are additionally not allowed to make use of an offensive participant as leverage whereas blocking.
Had a penalty been awarded, the Bears would have moved up and kicker Cairo Santos would have had one other probability to win the sport for his facet. Via 10 video games, Santos is 14-of-17 on discipline objectives made and 16-of-17 on further factors made. He’s 2 of Four on discipline objectives between 40 and 49 yards.
Chicago's last drive took 7 performs for 42 yards to arrange the sphere objective try.
With the loss, the Bears now sit at Four-6 and are on a four-game shedding streak. The win put the Packers at 7-Three and in third place in a really aggressive NFC North.