“We just saw them come into direct contact with him and we’re going to report that as well,” Eberflus said.

After the match, Scott Daly couldn’t be sure what happened.

“They made a good play and that’s what matters, the game is so close and it’s a game of inches,” Daly said.

However, he added that he did not immediately realize what happened on the kick after it left Santos’ foot.

“I was on my butt at that point,” he said.

This is what the rule change was intended to prevent.

The Bears have been accused of using illegal leverage to try to block kicks this year and it’s possible that happened on the play as well.

Whatever the league decides, it won’t overturn the verdict. All the Bears can hope for is an apology from the league and in many cases that wouldn’t even be made public by the league.

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Eberflus’ decision not to close before kicking off on the second try was still under scrutiny Monday. He decided this even though the Bears had one timeout remaining.

The ball ended up at the Green Bay 28 after Keenan Allen caught a pass for first down downfield and Roschon Johnson ran inside for a yard.

After the game, Eberflus discussed the risk of losing a fumble on a play with the “box” full of defenders waiting for a run.

“Yeah, obvious risks – they do delays or whatever and you false start, you back up, you look at all that,” Eberflus said. “You make an outside play, they call holding. You throw a pass, it gets knocked down, whatever it is. You feel good about your decision there, in the wind conditions and in the conditions at that time “There and where you are on the field, and you feel good, you pull it out and you hit it. And we felt good.”

He felt good, he said, even though the Bears knew Santos had never missed a field goal for them from within 40 yards in 70 tries.

“The wind was not a factor here,” Eberflus said. “We felt good about where he was on the field and we were very confident in his ability to get there.”

Looking a bit like Shane Waldron doubling Doug Kramer’s diving play against Washington, Eberflus said he would do it again the same way. Of course, they would block it better in this fantasy world.

“I mean, whatever the conditions were and where we were in the game, I would say, yeah, I would do the same thing,” he said. “Would you like to be closer? Yeah, sure. You’d like it to be on the 15-yard line.

“But that’s where he is and you could have done a bunch of different things there. You could have run a pass. You could have run an outside play. You could have run another play that we ran there on 2 meters from 30 to 28, again, if this thing breaks a few more meters, that’s definitely positive. But that’s where it’s at.

He also highlighted another real danger, at least for his team.

“Yeah, the risks are obvious, they do delays or whatever and you false start, you step back, you look at all that,” Eberflus said.

The Bears are tied with Buffalo for the most false starts with 19, according to NFLpenalties.com.

“You run an outside game, they call hold,” he said. “You throw a pass, it gets knocked down, whatever it is.

“You feel good about your decision there (to kick), and the wind conditions and what the conditions are at that time and where you are on the field, and you feel good and you take it out and you hit it. And we felt good about it.

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