Cole Kmet clarifies what happened during recent Bears team meeting

The proverbial sky always begins to fall whenever an NFL team loses two games in a row — and that’s for a normal organization. When it comes to the Chicago Bears, a two-game losing streak under Matt Eberflus’s barely watchful eye has the sky looking more like the Mind Flayer from Stranger Things.

Naturally, when those ominous clouds roll in, team meetings are called. The Bears held one this week, but according to tight end Cole Kmet, things remain somewhat calm and reasonable inside Halas Hall.

“That was our normal team meeting,” Kmet said during a recent episode of his podcast, “The 85.” ‘I wouldn’t say it was a full air-out session by any means. It was more kind of addressing where we’re at right now, and where we’re at as a football team, and where we’re at is a 4-4 football team. That’s not where we should be, and we all know that, but that’s where we’re at. It’s how do we progress forward and how we get things changed moving forward.”

Man, you gotta love Kmet. He seems like a guy who’s cut from the future-coach cloth. It wouldn’t surprise me if, 15 years from now, Kmet is a hot name in coaching circles. He certainly has the coach-speak thing down pat.

He’s also a hell of a tight end who has every right to voice frustration with how he’s been used this season. Instead, he’s following marching orders and keeping his and the team’s grievances in-house.

The Chicago Bears have a get-right game on tap against the New England Patriots in Week 10. At least, it better be a get-right game. If Caleb Williams loses to Drake Maye and the 2-7 Pats, there’s no telling what could happen next. The Bears aren’t a team that traditionally fires its head coach midseason, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any fan or analyst who wouldn’t think Matt Eberflus” termination isn’t justified in that scenario.