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    Never enough. We make our own
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    I miss hoity toity chicago pizza. Out here the best you can get is Zekes, and its average
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    I remember that. Pure tomfoolery
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    Bears go from no SNF home games since like 1987 to 2 in 4 weeks. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk Same think happened in 2001 and 2006
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    While at the UC last week I noticed they now have Giordanos, by far the worst of the deep dish Chicago chains They have also invaded downtown Denver. like a fungus. a gloriously cheesy fungus
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    who? anyway, i remember that pretty vividly. i also remember being quite drunk and watching this with my family. i also remembered the reggie bush showboating thing that pissed off the defense (that storyline was funny given that they were playing for a berth in the horsefeathering superbowl but whatever). i remembered the wale forced fumble on brees and the safety too...forgot that it was on intentional grounding tho. Burnerd Barryon Bernard Berrian
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    Classy tribute to Da Bum. da Bum: our Culinary muse
  8. minnesotacubsfan
    the snow! and Lovie looked so young
  9. minnesotacubsfan
    I had a Westside bbq chicken Saturday night with my daughter and wife. Its delicious take-out pizza and easier to acquire then Papa Johns. Also, a side of cheesy breadsticks.
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    Oh comon, the Jets are clearly in full rebuild mode. Give us your best coach already
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    It is, I just hope he doesn’t cost us a playoff game on a poorly aimed 35 yrd’r. As it stands, I’d have enough concerns with his potential that going for it on a 4th and 6 from the 35 yrd line instead of the “sure thing FG” would seem like a viable option. I just want him to be slightly better then league average. He’s not close to that right now. That would be a 52 yard FG. It's always a viable option. And history shows he will likely wind up slightly better than league average. 4th and 6 is never a sure thing, in fact, its probably less likely to achieve a 1st down on a 4th and 6 then connecting on a 52 yard field goal which I feel is something every NFL kicker should be trusted with. Sure its a long one. Its also not 62 yards long. And at that spot you're only other viable option is a 30 yrd punt. In a close playoff game, I'm not sure leaving those 3 points on the field because your kicker can't horsefeathering aim correctly is an acceptable thing. And that's the thing about Parkey, he has the leg, he just aims his kicks very very poorly at times. That seems correctable except he hasn't corrected it. Someone else (might have been you) mentions that special teams have sucked across the board. Is this a coaching issue?
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    It is, I just hope he doesn’t cost us a playoff game on a poorly aimed 35 yrd’r. As it stands, I’d have enough concerns with his potential that going for it on a 4th and 6 from the 35 yrd line instead of the “sure thing FG” would seem like a viable option. I just want him to be slightly better then league average. He’s not close to that right now.
  13. minnesotacubsfan
    I love this
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    Well there are likely replacements who could hit higher than 72%, maybe even as well as league average (~84% on FG and 95% on PAT). You know who else probably will? Cody Parkey (84% and 95.8% career averages). Great. He SHOULD be league average. Instead, he’s currently well below it. I look forward to him hitting his next 15 in a row.
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    4 times. honestly, it kind of reminds me of Goulds first year where he was missing (and missing a lot). That time, it was def the wind causing most of his misses. But if it isn't the wind or ball placement or a slick turf causing Parkey issues, then he just sucks. You can't tell me there isn't a viable replacement out there who can reliably hit xp's and higher than 72% on FG's w/o the field being the cause. You can't tell me that you saw the kicking between Gould and Parkey and still believer there is a viable replacement. Like Jersey said, he hit the uprights 4 times. Literally missing by inches (you can hit the upright and still make a kick, so this is literal). He was fine before yesterday (not good, but fine). He was bad yesterday, but not that bad. He'll likely be more like before yesterday than he was yesterday. The goal posts are 18’-6” wide. Wth is he aiming at?
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    considering the unique relationship wind can have for this players performance (kicker), I would disagree. i would think of all the players, the kicker and punter have to be able to understand how the wind works in their home stadiums the most. And if it isn't that big of a deal, then he just plain sucks at his position. This might make sense if the wind was pushing his kicks way off the mark. But he was hitting uprights. 4 times. honestly, it kind of reminds me of Goulds first year where he was missing (and missing a lot). That time, it was def the wind causing most of his misses. But if it isn't the wind or ball placement or a slick turf causing Parkey issues, then he just sucks. You can't tell me there isn't a viable replacement out there who can reliably hit xp's and higher than 72% on FG's w/o the field being the cause.
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    Honestly, those numbers are better than I thought. But he's missed 5 out of 18 FG's now, missing 2 XP's notwithstanding. That just isn't acceptable especially when it appears he doesn't want to get to know his home field because of "traffic". He will now, obviously. And none of my criticism had anything to do with his "manliness". It can be entirely unacceptable and also our best option at this point. That could be true. and it would suck. He isn't having a huge effect on the games when we score 4-5 td's and lead by 17 at half, but in a close playoff game do you trust him to hit even a 45 yarder?
  18. minnesotacubsfan
    considering the unique relationship wind can have for this players performance (kicker), I would disagree. i would think of all the players, the kicker and punter have to be able to understand how the wind works in their home stadiums the most. And if it isn't that big of a deal, then he just plain sucks at his position.
  19. minnesotacubsfan
    Honestly, those numbers are better than I thought. But he's missed 5 out of 18 FG's now, missing 2 XP's notwithstanding. That just isn't acceptable especially when it appears he doesn't want to get to know his home field because of "traffic". He will now, obviously. And none of my criticism had anything to do with his "manliness".
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    based off of twitter, it seems a lot of chicago sports radio talk is saying parkey didn't want to spend the extra time driving into soldier field to practice a couple times a week. In earnest? I don't get the concern. Regardless of the traffic, he plays for the Bears. I would guess the fine people at Soldier Field would allow him to practice whenever and for how long he needed or wanted to. So to me, the traffic argument seems lazy on his part. Sure, it might take him 1.5 hrs to get there, they aren't going to make him rush through his workout or turn him away.
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    Parkeys had a bad SEASON. its not one game like Crosby. And Crosby is about the worse kicker out of all of the cold climate open-air stadiums across the NFL, so not a great example. I'd love to see him turn it around, but when I hear he doesn't want to practice at Soldier Field (a place he HAS to be able to kick in) and he has every opportunity to do so, he just doesn't inspire optimism in me. It looks like the Bears are going to make him do that so we will see how it affects him.
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    I'm going to guess Parkey is willing to put in work. Well he HAS to now
  23. minnesotacubsfan
    smart plan. hopefully, he doesn't get stuck in the traffic and miss his appointments.
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    where's the list? There has to be at least one worth looking at I think it was Hub yesterday mentioned a band of kickers traveling the league looking for work like it was a circus. He said there is a reason that they are out of work and none of them will be better than Parkey. I don't think I'd put much trust in what Hub says, but I get the idea that the best options are already employed. That being said, why cant we get a guy who will practice at Soldier so he understands that field? I remember Gould having a hell of time his first year there and having to learn the field and the winds that wreak havoc there. There has to be someone willing to put in the work.
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    Let's not pretend this was the first time he's had issues. I'm not. He's not very good. But they've been cycling through kickers for a while now because a lot of them are not very good, especially guys that are currently available. where's the list? There has to be at least one worth looking at
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