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Bears kicker Cairo Santos made a 57-yard field goal to end the first half. Had Sunday been a regular season game, the kick would have been the longest of his career.
“I was joking with him, we probably didn’t need that many yards,” coach Ben Johnson said. “We could have kicked it from backed up, the way he nailed that thing.”
Kicking in hot weather — the RealFeel temperature at kickoff was 100 degrees — helped. So did the work he put in during the offseason.
Santos worked on distance kicks by happenstance — he and other kickers found a practice field in Jacksonville that didn’t have sufficient fencing behind either end zone.