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While re-watching this season and its inevitable conclusion, do not miss the first and most painful point.
Don't leave a long kick on your kicker to bail you out. If I could get philosophical for a moment...isn't the Bears circus kicking competition in a way sweet justice? They went 2 of 8 the first day. I mean...of course they should be better, but if watching that doesn't make you sick as a player and realize it wasn't about Parkey...they left it on Parkey and look at these fucking kickers...you want them deciding the game?
So don't leave it on them. Win the game. Put away the game. If it comes to that...then you squeeze every meter, every foot that you can. The offense could have gotten a few more yards...they could have squeezed in one more play. They could have made it 37...or 33....or 27...and every yard matters. And they didn't have that urgency. They didn't run those plays and take a chance on a big gain.
Every second matters. Do your job and do it better and yeah...we will find a better kicker. But you all need to find one more yard in you too. Focus on what you can do. We will fix the kicks. Lets go!!
That is the thorny thesis of the Bears 2018-19 campaign.
I see what you are saying, but I disagree that they didn't already know that by the Eagles game. I distinctly remember at least one shot to the endzone trying to hit a TD before having to resort to Parkey's leg. Unless your thesis includes taking the shot and forgoing the kicker forever (which I would disagree) it seems Nagy and smarter fans were already in that zone; just that unfortunately, Mitch made a horrible readon the TD shotor Nagy called a terrible play (I am not sure which) but after that they simply had to rely on Parkey for the win mathematically, he makes more kicks than Mitch makes hail marys just a fact.