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When the Bears’ season abruptly ended four months ago, another season began: the entertaining search for a new kicker. Here’s a look at the key events since that heartbreaking playoff loss to the Eagles at Soldier Field.
Jan. 6
With 5 seconds left in the Bears’ first playoff game since the 2010 season, Cody Parkey’s 43-yard field-goal attempt bounces off the left upright, hits the crossbar and bounces out. “Oh, my goodness,” NBC’s Cris Collinsworth says. “The Bears season’s going to end on a double doink.” (Six of Parkey’s misses last season hit an upright.) The Eagles win 16-15.
• Read more here
Cody Parkey’s would-be game-winning FG hits the crossbar twice sending the Eagles to the Divisional Round. #PHIvsCHI #NFLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/mchSudQfLL
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Jan. 11
Parkey appears on NBC’s “Today” show and in a five-minute interview dissects the missed 43-yarder, the support he has received from teammates and his philosophical approach to the disappointment. “I’ll continue to keep my head held high,” Parkey says. “Because football is what I do. It’s not who I am.”
• Read more here
Jan. 13
In a brilliant marketing move, Goose Island Beer Co. holds a kicking contest, offering anyone who can make a 43-yard attempt a prize of airfare, hotel and tickets to any regular-season NFL game next season. It is snowing on the day of the contest, making the kicking area slick for the event, held outside the Chicago brewery with a makeshift goal post erected in the street. None of the 100-plus contestants makes the kick, though a handful came close.
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Jan. 14
At the Bears’ end-of-season news conference, coach Matt Nagy makes it clear he is not pleased with Parkey’s “Today” show appearance. “We always talk about a ‘we’ and not a ‘me’ thing, and we always talk as a team (that) we win as a team, we lose as a team,” Nagy says. “I didn’t necessarily think that was too much of a ‘we’ thing.”
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Jan. 25
After trying out six kickers at Halas Hall, the Bears sign Redford Jones, who kicked for the University of Tulsa from 2014-17.
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Feb. 22
News breaks that Bears will release Parkey at the start of the league year March 13. Parkey had signed a four-year, $15 million contract in March 2018. He was 26-for-34 on field-goal attempts in the 16 regular-season games and one playoff game.
• Read more here
Feb. 26
The 49ers place the franchise tag on their kicker, Robbie Gould, the leading scorer in Bears history.
• Read more here
March 6
After a group tryout, the Bears sign former University of Pittsburgh kicker Chris Blewitt, a free agent with no NFL experience.
• Read more here
March 13
The Bears officially release Parkey.
April 12
The Bears sign kicker Elliott Fry to a three-year deal. Fry was with the Orlando Apollos of the short-lived Alliance of American Football and kicked in college for South Carolina.
• Read more here
April 23
Gould reportedly asks the 49ers for a trade (to the Bears?), telling the team he will no longer negotiate a multiyear contract and he is not a lock to show up for the start of the regular season. The 49ers, however, say they will not trade him.
• Read more here
May 3
The Bears bring eight kickers — four under contract and four on a tryout basis — to rookie minicamp. The first day’s festivities end with each kicker trying “The Cody Parkey” — a 43-yarder. “That was on purpose,” Nagy said, referring to the distance and what it symbolizes. “They know. … They know loud and clear why.” Six of the eight kickers missed.
• Read more here
May 4
The kicking derby continues at Halas Hall. Six of the eight kickers make a 42-yard field goal in front of the entire team at the end of practice. And to further complicate matters, tryout punter Alex Kjellsten (McNeese State) participates with the kickers and is one of the most accurate.
• Read more here
May 5
By the end of the night, as rookie minicamp ends, only two kickers remain: Fry and Blewitt. “I thought it was awesome,” Fry says of the competition done in front of all the players. “That’s what you’ve got to do. You’ve got to create pressure situations, and obviously you can’t go out to Soldier Field and have 60,000 people there and have pressure on the line. That’s one of the best ways to create pressure, and as kickers that’s kind of what it comes down to.”
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May 6
The Bears acquire 23-year-old kicker Eddy Pineiro in a trade with the Raiders for a conditional 2021 seventh-round draft pick. Pineiro, an undrafted free agent out of the University of Florida in 2018 who was set to be the Raiders’ starter last year before suffering a groin injury, joins the Bears as the third kicker under contract.
• Read more here
Meanwhile May 6
Gould posts on Instagram a video of him practicing on a wet grass field in Lake Zurich.
May 21
The Bears will begin organized team activities at Halas Hall, and the kicking circus will continue.
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Sources: baiduhai reporting and archives
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