Matt Eberflus’ Explanation For Latest Challenge Fiasco Can’t Possibly Be Real

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Matt Eberflus this season, it’s that he has zero concept of how to handle situations on the field. He spends timeouts when unnecessary and holds onto them when they are necessary. Yet perhaps his greatest Achilles heel is the challenge flag. Following Sunday’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings, he is now 2-8 when throwing the red flag. His latest attempt might’ve been the worst. It came after a 69-yard completion to open the second half from Sam Darnold to Jordan Addison. Eberflus challenged that the catch was made inbounds.

Many were baffled by the decision, considering the evidence was pretty conclusive that Addison got both feet down. The Bears head coach was asked about it on Monday. His explanation was nowhere close to what anybody expected to come out of his mouth.

Matt Eberflus removed any doubt of his competence with this.

That’s it? His entire reasoning for throwing a challenge flag and wasting a precious timeout was because the play was explosive. Never mind the amount of evidence of whether it was a completion. Matt Eberflus threw the flag out of pure desperation, praying that maybe it wasn’t completed. That kind of ignorant waste is unfathomable for an NFL head coach. It is yet another reminder the man has no understanding of resource management or situational awareness. Multiple times this season, he has wasted challenges and timeouts on plays that were never really in question. When people talk about a coach actively sabotaging his own team, they present moments like this as evidence. Unbelievable.

There was already plenty of evidence to prove Eberflus wasn’t equipped to handle this job. The fact he didn’t realize how dumb he sounded when answering that question tells you everything you need to know. If he were coaching for any other franchise right now, he’d have been fired already.