dll2000 Posted May 14 Author Share Posted May 14 22 minutes ago, beardown3231 said: A field goal percentage of 75% is terrible Nevertheless it was a combination of a lot of things, but in typical Bears fashion, the defense played well enough to win. The offense played crappy but did have them in position to win at the end. The bible thumping loser kicker blew it. Hilariously (or not) I called for them to cut Parkey all year. He missed in Miami. He missed in the rain vs NYJ. IIRC he missed in Arizona. He missed all of those kicks vs Detroit when it was windy. If you can't kick indoors, in the heat, in the rain and in the wind, where can you kick? Neptune? The guy was a head case all year, and while he was paid a lot as a kicker, it wouldn't have effected much if they cut him and told him to beat it Which brings me to the point I was making on Taylor. Specialists, specifically kickers (so yes I know it doesn't apply), are very fragile and streaky. Gould stunk in his final year here so the Bears cut him and he went on to have a great remainder of his career. Pineiro was good here, lost his way and now is having a solid career in Carolina. I believe Chris Boswell was on 2-3 teams before the Steelers and now he's great. I just hope Taylor stays head strong and punts the piss out of it otherwise that was a waste of a pick It was pretty impressive he doinked a tipped field goal. That was 43 yards. Did you know this is officially in books as a blocked field goal? Not going to argue if kick was too low or not. I don't really know. I don't blame that loss on Parkey and I don't blame missed Cubs world series on Bartman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dll2000 Posted May 14 Author Share Posted May 14 You know what I remember? Day we signed Parkey a Philly fan posted in that thread something like, "Just so you know. He sucks." Die hard fans of previous team are usually dead on when it comes to free agents I have found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 Yeah he sucked all year and then tipped the scales in a pivotal moment. I have a lot of room for forgiveness and consideration in my heart but don't ask me to accept that Cody Parrakeet didn't ******* suck. He sucked in hilarious ways all year and then in a bad way in the playoffs. And DLL I usually give you a ton of rope but there is no chance I'm giving Corbin Pinkley ******* EXTRA CREDIT for double doinking a kick that may have been blocked. No. No sir. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZBearsFan Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 9 hours ago, dll2000 said: It was pretty impressive he doinked a tipped field goal. That was 43 yards. Did you know this is officially in books as a blocked field goal? Not going to argue if kick was too low or not. I don't really know. I don't blame that loss on Parkey and I don't blame missed Cubs world series on Bartman. Parkey is a convenient scapegoat but he was far from the only reason we didn’t win that game. The offense on the whole didn’t do anything basically the entire game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dll2000 Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 12 hours ago, BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW said: Yeah he sucked all year and then tipped the scales in a pivotal moment. I have a lot of room for forgiveness and consideration in my heart but don't ask me to accept that Cody Parrakeet didn't ******* suck. He sucked in hilarious ways all year and then in a bad way in the playoffs. And DLL I usually give you a ton of rope but there is no chance I'm giving Corbin Pinkley ******* EXTRA CREDIT for double doinking a kick that may have been blocked. No. No sir. He was a bad kicker. I think video and photo evidence clearly shows that guy got a hand on ball. Why don’t you think it is true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dll2000 Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 4 minutes ago, dll2000 said: He was a bad kicker. I think video and photo evidence clearly shows that guy got a hand on ball. Why don’t you think it is true? https://www.mcall.com/2019/01/10/treyvon-hester-explains-how-he-missed-cody-parkeys-double-doink/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dll2000 Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 “I didn’t even see it bounce off,” Hester said Thursday. “I was so frustrated I thought I didn’t get enough.” Hester said the ball “grazed” his fingertips. “It felt good,” he said, “but to be honest I felt like I didn’t get enough of it because when I looked back it looked like it was still on the right path, so when I looked back I’m like, ‘Oh man, I didn’t get enough.’ ” Moments later, he realized he did. “When I turned back around, I just heard the reaction of the crowd and the team just running out there,” he said. “It was just a surprise, like a wow — I couldn’t believe that it really happened.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ty21 Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 2 hours ago, dll2000 said: “I didn’t even see it bounce off,” Hester said Thursday. “I was so frustrated I thought I didn’t get enough.” Hester said the ball “grazed” his fingertips. “It felt good,” he said, “but to be honest I felt like I didn’t get enough of it because when I looked back it looked like it was still on the right path, so when I looked back I’m like, ‘Oh man, I didn’t get enough.’ ” Moments later, he realized he did. “When I turned back around, I just heard the reaction of the crowd and the team just running out there,” he said. “It was just a surprise, like a wow — I couldn’t believe that it really happened.” reading on night mode 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 5 hours ago, dll2000 said: He was a bad kicker. I think video and photo evidence clearly shows that guy got a hand on ball. Why don’t you think it is true? Probably true? Honestly didn't watch it again but when that came out I recall feeling uncertain about the evidence. Even if it was true, doesn't the kicker have some responsibility for where it's placed? I blamed FIelds for getting a weird number of passes batted by DL, I can blame Parkey for the kick. You guys pointing out the rest of the game kinda reminded how pretty much that entire game I was just waiting for the Bears to do...something...on offense. The last couple seconds Trubisky to Robinson did more to convince me that Tru was going to be OK than it really should have. Wonder what Cody Parkey is up to these days. Didn't he go on TV and make some very unrecommended public statements about the kick? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 1 minute ago, BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW said: Probably true? Honestly didn't watch it again but when that came out I recall feeling uncertain about the evidence. Even if it was true, doesn't the kicker have some responsibility for where it's placed? I blamed FIelds for getting a weird number of passes batted by DL, I can blame Parkey for the kick. You guys pointing out the rest of the game kinda reminded how pretty much that entire game I was just waiting for the Bears to do...something...on offense. The last couple seconds Trubisky to Robinson did more to convince me that Tru was going to be OK than it really should have. Wonder what Cody Parkey is up to these days. Didn't he go on TV and make some very unrecommended public statements about the kick? Woah. Looks like he IR'd off the Browns and that was it. His last post on instagram is when the Bears clinched the NFC North. Comments wisely turned off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dll2000 Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 2 minutes ago, BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW said: Probably true? Honestly didn't watch it again but when that came out I recall feeling uncertain about the evidence. Even if it was true, doesn't the kicker have some responsibility for where it's placed? I blamed FIelds for getting a weird number of passes batted by DL, I can blame Parkey for the kick. You guys pointing out the rest of the game kinda reminded how pretty much that entire game I was just waiting for the Bears to do...something...on offense. The last couple seconds Trubisky to Robinson did more to convince me that Tru was going to be OK than it really should have. Wonder what Cody Parkey is up to these days. Didn't he go on TV and make some very unrecommended public statements about the kick? Yeah, like I said it might have been too low. OL is supposed to time punch too so guys have trouble getting hands up or jumping. A FG block can be many peoples fault. Parkey doesn't get benefit of doubt because he was so inconsistent that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 4 minutes ago, dll2000 said: Yeah, like I said it might have been too low. OL is supposed to time punch too so guys have trouble getting hands up or jumping. A FG block can be many peoples fault. Parkey doesn't get benefit of doubt because he was so inconsistent that year. If nothing else, that really gave a lot of fans an appreciation of specialists. I always liked Robbie Gould, but never paid much attention to kicking until 2019 for obvious reasons. Maybe the new convict punter is going to get people into punting? I actually ifnd punting pretty interesting, especially when placement, hang time and backspin make it look like a video game glitch where it stops on the 4yd line or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dll2000 Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 11 minutes ago, BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW said: If nothing else, that really gave a lot of fans an appreciation of specialists. I always liked Robbie Gould, but never paid much attention to kicking until 2019 for obvious reasons. Maybe the new convict punter is going to get people into punting? I actually ifnd punting pretty interesting, especially when placement, hang time and backspin make it look like a video game glitch where it stops on the 4yd line or something. Settling for field goals too much will often lose you games as 7 is more than double 3, but it still helps to make them. Not making your field goals and extra points is huge. It's like a turnover. Punting is important. One reason college and HS tends to be higher scoring than NFL is punters in NFL are so much better at flipping field than HS and college punters. If you don't have a good punter you should go for it on 4th a lot more. In little league hardly anybody punts, because A) you don't have time to teach punting and lack good punters and B) you don't want to kick it to fastest kid on field and give him space to run. Easy way to give up a quick 6. Better to just try to get the first or turn it over on downs than to gain maybe 20 yards field position net or give up an easy 6. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dll2000 Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 In our league kicked extra points were worth 2 pts. So it was worth it to spend time working on kicking extra points. Those 2 pts. vs. 1 were huge. Against teams that couldn't do it, you could usually put them away with just 3 scores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulman Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 On 5/15/2024 at 11:25 AM, BEAR FACE DOWN ARROW said: Wonder what Cody Parkey is up to these days. Didn't he go on TV and make some very unrecommended public statements about the kick? Oh yeah. He claimed the miss didn't define who he was. Unfortunately the Bears and Bears fans decided differently. Buh bye Cody! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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