Bears coach Matt Eberflus likely hyped up a boring Tush Push play with awkward halftime interview

In terms of putting feet in one’s mouth, Matt Eberflus has had a banner season for the last-place Chicago Bears. Earlier this year, the coach fielded nearly 20 consecutive questions about Chase Claypool. Then, with Justin Fields’ health weirdly in question but also not in question (?), Eberflus delivered us some incredible word salad about the quarterback’s status.

As the Bears took on the Carolina Panthers in a Thursday night snoozer (hey, Jason Kelce!), Eberflus changed things up. He said the Bears have something “up our sleeves” in a halftime interview. With the giddiest smile on his face, one could only imagine what Eberflus was referring to.

The imagination runs wild!

Unless we’re missing something, it was probably referring to a (checks notes) one-yard “Tush Push” with starting tight end Cole Kmet as the ball carrier. (Note: the Bears went three-and-out on the possession just before.)

Boring, but not unsurprising, coming from Eberflus:

pic.twitter.com/gZdIT8hKeo

— ✶???????????????????? ✶ (@_MarcusD3_) November 10, 2023

Cole Kmet and the #Bears convert on the tush push pic.twitter.com/zZOXX5msTU

— Pro Football Network (@PFN365) November 10, 2023

Uh, what did Eberflus think this play would be? Even on a successful conversion, I’m not sure this really warranted mention to the national audience at home. It wasn’t remotely exciting, but Eberflus highlighting a minute detail like that is par for the course based on his job coaching the woeful Bears.