It is still not time to panic over kicker Cody Parkey, Chip Kelly said Tuesday, and corner Byron Maxwell’s problems in the season-opening Atlanta loss boiled down to inconsistent technique.
It might be a little hard to take either declaration totally at face value.
Parkey, last season’s Pro Bowl rookie sensation, missed a 44-yard go-ahead field goal Monday night, with two minutes and 32 seconds remaining in regulation. He missed two of seven field goal attempts in the preseason, along with an extra point from the new 33-yard distance, before sitting down with a groin injury that Parkey says is healed.