Matt Eberflus' latest excuse may actually be the weirdest one of the Bears' season

I think we've all collectively kinda jumped the shark on Matt Eberflus. Yes, he's not a good coach, and yeah, he's (probably?!) not going to be employed by the Chicago Bears much longer. But we've reached a point where every single thing he says goes viral on Twitter for all the wrong reasons, and a lot of these quotes are pretty ... normal? He's an easy person to be mad at, and when your favorite football team is 4-7, it's easy to be mad.

[Hard pivot] With that being said, we've got another doozy of an Eberflus excuse on our hands. During the Bears' Week 12 loss to Minnesota, Eberflus challenged a long, 70-yard pass play to Jordan Addison. After the catch, it looked like Addison stepped out of bounds, but the refs didn't call it. The Bears challenged the play and would have won, except for the fact that they league isn't allowed to use the sideline camera – the angle that clearly showed him out of bounds – for in-game challenges apparently? Very normal stuff from the NFL.

"First of all, I threw the challenge flag because it was an explosive [play]," he said. "It's 69 yards, and our defense did a wonderful job of stopping them there for a field goal. I was really pleased with that part of it. But again, when it's an explosive, we want to make sure that we want to throw that flag. And again, I understand sideline, cameras, all that. They've done a good job of replay assisting, coming in and working with that. But I think it's always warranted to challenge when you've got that big of a gain. If it was six yards, no one would care. If it was 15 yards, I don't think you would care. But 70 yards? It's worth it, even if we don't have the best look we want to have."

Soooooo you only challenged it because it was a big play? And not because you thought he was definitely out of bounds? Am I reading that right? And you would have just let a play, one you were confident was called incorrectly, stand if it was *only* 15 yards? Yikes, man. Yikes.

I don't mind the decision to challenge the play, even if they didn't have the absolute best angle they could have to review it. It's just the fact that there's apparently an arbitrary number in his mind that has the final say about challenges, which feels extremely not how an NFL coach should operate. But who knows, maybe every coach is like this. I said maybe.