How Cody Parkey handed Bears final embarrassment of weekend originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
There were so many embarrassing moments in the Bears’ 21-9 loss to the Saints on Sunday that it’s hard to pick one “most embarrassing” moment. Is it Javon Wims letting an easy touchdown slip through his fingers? Or is it Anthony Miller falling victim to C.J. Gardner-Johnson’s irritating tactics, after the team specifically held a meeting telling players to ignore him? Maybe the fact that Mitchell Trubisky won Nickelodeon’s “NVP” award despite throwing for only 199 yards and a garbage time touchdown makes you cringe?
But the single most embarrassing nugget to come out of the Bears’ Wild Card loss didn’t come to fruition until Wild Card weekend was nearly over. For those who stayed up to watch the end of the Browns - Steelers game, Cody Parkey’s final 37-yard field goal may have seemed like an innocuous kick to put the game out of reach. But for masochistic Bears fans that kick ended up meaning a bit more, because that chip shot gave Parkey 12 points scored on the day— a full three points more than the entire Bears offense mustered that afternoon.
Bears fans who hate-watched Parkey in Sunday’s game were probably dismayed to see him go a perfect 8-8 on the day, knocking in all six of his PATs, plus the 37-yarder and a 24-yarder earlier in the fourth quarter.
Or maybe, just maybe, Bears fans have moved past Parkey since the team has seemed to solve its kicking woes with Cairo Santos.
But most likely, people felt like this:
