Help Wanted

Imagine this. Yesterday, the Bears were down by one point against the Packers, with 35 seconds left in the game and the home team on the opposition’s 30-yard line. They ran the ball for two yards, let the clock run down to three seconds and attempted a field goal. What would Tom Brady have done with those 35 seconds? I ask because Brady was part of the broadcast team. I’m pretty sure he said there was time for still another play after the run, but I really would’ve like to see was the look on his face and his body language as the Munsters decided to let the clock run down for a 46-yard field goal attempt by Cairo Santos. Guess who missed? Guess who lost, 20-19? Forget Brady. What would any good team have done? Do you think Joe Burrow or Josh Allen would’ve handed the ball off? Matt Stafford or Jared Goff? No, but the Munsters did because, as soon-to-be ex-coach Mickey Eberflus put it in the postgame press conference, something bad could’ve happened if they had run another play. Play not to lose, and odds are you’ll lose. Which brings me to one of my favorite quotes, that the Bourbons of France learned nothing in exile and forgot nothing when restored to the throne. Same goes for Eberflus and the people who hired him.