AUBURN
After having their hearts broken Sunday, Chicago Bears fans are taking out their frustrations on former Auburn K Cody Parkey.
The Chicago Bears’ playoff lives depended on Parkey. Chicago was down 16-15 to Philadelphia with 10 seconds left in the 4th quarter. Parkey, who played at Auburn from 2010-13, suffered a dreaded “double doink,” hitting an upright and the crossbar. The ball bounced out and landed in the end zone.
The R. Kelly documentary came out this week and Cody Parkey still the most hated man in Chicago pic.twitter.com/ErICOWELyf
— (@SGK_Crimson) January 7, 2019
Bears fans booed as Parkey left the field after the game:
Cody Parkey left the field to this 🔊 (via @diannaESPN)pic.twitter.com/GKlNPEjLsY
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) January 7, 2019
Tough break for Parkey. This isn’t going to add any Auburn fans to the Bears bandwagon.
Devastating. Tough way to go out.
Shouldn’t have come down to a kicker. Bears defense should have stopped the Eagles last drive especially on 4th and goal to seal the game. Can’t blame the kicker.
Yes, yes you can.
You absolutely can blame him when his only job is to kick field goals. The one aspect of the game that he is solely responsible for and he didn’t do it. If a QB throws an interception to end the game, he gets blamed. Yes, it is a team game, but a kicker is a special circumstance because his job as part of the team is to make those kicks. The team put him in a position to succeed, got him in position, blocked the defenders and gave him time to kick. He missed.
Parkey missed a lot of kicks this year and probably won’t be back. I wish the “ice the kicker” time out would be done away with. He was perfect on the first kick and of course shanked the one after the time out.
So, strategically using your time outs should be banned?? Geez… I’m sure glad you don’t make the rules of football…
He has missed a lot of field goal kicks in his college and NFL careers. He was pretty good on extra points though.
No reason the “ice the kicker” time out shouldn’t be allowed. Perfectly acceptable way to use a timeout. Next you’ll be saying it can’t be used on two-point conversions then can’t be used in the red zone.
By shank you mean “tipped at the line of scrimmage right”?
I don’t think there is anything wrong with the current rule, but I wouldn’t mind seeing them limit it to one timeout. There was a game not long ago that saw two or three timeouts on the same attempt and that was pretty ridiculous considering he made all of them.
They are showing replays now that his kick actually got tipped by Hester on the eagles. Just enough to change the directory and the spin. All these people harassing him online and wishing Lou Gehrig disease and stuff need to grow TF up. It’s a game not like it’s personal for them Geeze
It was bad off the foot too.
The Chiefs had only had two field goal kickers in their history up through. Nick Lowry who was one of the more accurate kickers in his career, at that time was asked how so few of his kicks were blocked. He said he would set up one yard farther back from the line of scrimmage.
Bears fans have zero class to boo their kicker off the field.
A kicker comes out for 3 fgs and goes 1-2. If the 1 made is at the end of the game he is a hero. If I of the 2 misses comes at the end he is a goat. Neither is fair but that’s reality.
Doesn’t really matter that the defense couldn’t stop Philly and the offense struggled. Fans will only remember the doink. Parkey just earned Stever Bartman status with Chicago fans – he should leave town NOW. Seriously
He needs to stick to the state of Florida. Doesn’t seem to kick well in the cold.