Matt Eberflus' latest bizarre excuse might be his most tone-deaf moment of the season

The best thing about Matt Eberflus is that he is, among all else, predictable. And Bears fans could argue that it's actually quite literally the worst thing about him, but as someone who's employed to write about him, I love how often he plays the hits.

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In every heartbreaking loss, no matter how it happened, Eberflus comes to the mic afterwards and talks about how much he actually liked what the Bears did. May we all be as confident in our insecurities as Matt Eberflus is in his situational awareness.

But his latest answer may make even the most emotionally-numb Bears fans feel something again. After Eberflus did a whole lot of nothing while the last 30 seconds of a 3-point game slowly wasted away, he came to the podium and said, actually, what he did was smart. Not only that, but he kinda threw his rookie QB under the bus in the process. No wonder he's such a beloved figure in Chicago.

Matt Eberflus' explanation for late-game decisions will make Bears fans want to scream

"Right there, we liked the play that we had," Eberflus said after the game. "We were hoping that [Caleb Williams] was going to call it, get the ball snapped. And then we would have called timeout right there. Once it's under 7 [seconds] there, you call a timeout there, you're basically throwing the ball into the end zone. Once it's uner 12, you can't throw it inside with no timeouts ... It was third down, going into fourth, and that's why we wanted to preserve the timeout ... I liked what we did there."

I mean, I guess it's nice that he liked what they did there? Being proud of your work is such an important step in self-care. I personally don't understand how anyone could watch the clock waste away during a 3-point game while sitting in field goal range (ish) and be happy with doing absolutely nothing about it, but I'm also not a football coach so what do I know?

In a way, everyone on the Bears now knows exactly what not to do in the final seconds of a football game, so maybe imparting that wisdom on them is what he means when he says that he likes what they did there. The Bears learned their 3rd straight lesson about situational football, and really, isn't that more valuable than "actually" "winning"?