One by one, each of the Bears’ eight kickers in attendance for rookie minicamp lined up to attempt a 43-yard field goal at the end of Friday’s practice at Halas Hall. If that distance sounds familiar, it’s because it was intentional.
It’s the distance from which Cody Parkey’s double-doink happened four months ago.
“That was on purpose,” Nagy said. “… They know loud and clear why.”
From the group of Chris Blewitt, Casey Bednarski, Redford Jones, Elliott Fry, Emmit Carpenter, John Baron II, Spencer Evans and Justin Yoon: Two kickers made the attempt. Six missed.
There were issues with snaps/holds on two of the misses, but as Nagy put it: “That’s not good enough.