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

Matt Eberflus was so excited to unveil a 1-yard rush.

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 it would be unsurprising, coming from Eberflus:

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