I believe I wrote kicking is more psychological than anything. Once you’re fucked mentally, it’s hard to overcome that. There are tons of examples of this. Signing Parkey to $9m guaranteed, regardless of how accurate he was, was plain stupid. I wrote that year in and year out, some of the best kickers are the least paid. There’s a reason why kickers aren’t usually drafted, and if they are, they’re drafted late. It’s one thing to keep Parkey after missing the game winning kick at Miami. It’s inexcusable to keep him after missing 2 FG’s and 2 XP’s against Detroit.
If you don’t think it’s psychological, then you don’t understand kicking. Case in point. Back in 2016 the weekend after the Vikings released long time kicker Blair Walsh, after his 4th XP missed of the season, NFL kickers missed 12 XP’s that following weekend. Coincidence? Maybe. Personally I think kickers were thinking too much that weekend. They didn’t want to be the next guy cut.
No one here is saying kicking is not psychological (although I am not sure I would say "more psychological than anything" as a kicker can have perfect mechanics and still hit the FG even if his confidence/psyche is "low" at that moment proving that physical mechanics may yet still and always trump psychology).
The points made by Rory initially which I feel obligated to help elucidate to you because I thanked is:
1) its tricky to kick at Soldier Field (Gould 85% FG with Chicago, 96% with SF/NYG), and
2) the Bears can't attract good kickers (Barf, Santos, Parkey)
You have been very confusing in your replies to him regarding these statements. You cite opposing kickers FG percentage in Soldier Field but are unaware of the timeframe, distances, opposing wind direction vs. Bears wind direction during same "x" timeframe, and other factors that might be completely unrelated and therefore unusable in defense of Soldier Field as an amenable stadium for placekicking.
That you then also move the goalposts on what counts as "good kickers" to include Parkey in that category so you can dismiss the claim that Chicago maybe has a hard time attracting good kickers is astonishing, and I believe you may also know that deep down as evidenced by your mysterious turn in defining the EXTRA psychological factor in kicking showing a pattern that is really just seeking a debate "win" here while losing focus of the main topic in question.
But I may be wrong. Maybe I just don't "get it"? Whatever that even means? After all, posting may be more psychological than anything else.