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[Joemailman]

Report Houston looking to trade Jadeveon Clowney for offensive tackle. https://www.profootballrumors.com/20...-clowney-trade

Damn. Gutey should have hung on to Spriggs.

Clowney has not signed his franchise tender.

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Report Houston looking to trade Jadeveon Clowney for offensive tackle. https://www.profootballrumors.com/20...-clowney-trade

Damn. Gutey should have hung on to Spriggs.

Clowney has not signed his franchise tender.

I said keeping Spriggs would pay off eventually.

Oh well.

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Someone needs to get to a Bears message board and rattle their cages about the kicker search. Even more weirdness from a now haunted franchise.

Double Doink!

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/08/21/chicago-bears-kicker-competition-obsession-cody-parkey-miss-matt-nagy-eddy-pineiro?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=themmqb&utm_medium=social

Positively Schottenheimerian:

The Bears released Parkey in March; they will pay more to have him off the roster ($3.5 million) than if he played this year. Thus, they’re looking for a kicker who is good and cheap. But the size of the group they initially brought in suggested less a kicker competition and more the formation of a K-pop band: nine kickers in all, six rookies and three veteran free agents. (And zero NFL games among them.)

Its always good to bring in a promising but little understood system that you have never used into camp when you are trying to decide about how to move on from a missed FG. I give you TrackMan™.

In second place, CASEY BEDNARSKI, 15 [points], BALL TRAJECTORY IS A MAJOR CONCERN.

[mraynrand]

You see where this script is going. The kicker the Packers cut will be the one to make the game-winning attempt next Thursday. And the kicker the Packers keep (probs Crosby) will have missed a gimme FG earlier in the game....

[hoosier]

Someone needs to get to a Bears message board and rattle their cages about the kicker search. Even more weirdness from a now haunted franchise.

Double Doink!

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/08/21/chicago-bears-kicker-competition-obsession-cody-parkey-miss-matt-nagy-eddy-pineiro?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=themmqb&utm_medium=social

Positively Schottenheimerian:



Its always good to bring in a promising but little understood system that you have never used into camp when you are trying to decide about how to move on from a missed FG. I give you TrackMan™.

I wonder if Houston would take eight of them for Clowney.

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I wonder if Houston would take eight of them for Clowney.

I think most are available at the local Stuckey's.

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Its just managing run amok. The FGs are posted as scores, the kickoffs are posted as a ranking.

"lock into operation". Good, specific instruction.

Outside of using the data to establish coaching points with each kicker, Chicago did not share the TrackMan measurements with any of the competitors. Increasing the miles per hour or the rotational speed of a kick is an obscure request already; without data to gauge progress, it proved even more difficult.

WE HAVE THE MOST ADVANCED KICKING TRACKING SYSTEM KNOWN TO MAN AND WE ARE SURE IT WILL IMPROVE RESULTS ONCE WE LEARN HOW IT WORKS AND HOW TO COMMUNICATE ITS DATA TO OUR PLAYERS IN A MEANINGFUL WAY. WE ANTICIPATE THIS HAPPENING BEFORE WE ARE ON OUR SECOND JOB AFTER THE BEARS.

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When asked during training camp what the range of velocity is for a good kicker, Tabor told reporters, “Oh, it varies by kicker.”

I wonder how much the Bears are paying for this legendary insight.

[Fritz]

All non-Bears fans are rooting like crazy for Chris Blewitt to win that kicking job.

However, I think AynRand's analysis is probably the more likely scenario.

[pbmax]

Should have had Kohl file a financial disclosure form with the identities of his donors (kicking camp paid attendees)

The public scoring reminded many of the participants of Kohl’s Kicking Camps. Kohl kicked at Iowa State from 1996-98 and appeared in three preseason games with the Seahawks before he turned to molding kickers. His national rankings, which include only those who have attended one of his clinics or camps, have become almost a prerequisite tool for any kid seeking a college scholarship. Because most NCAA coaches don’t know how to evaluate kickers, they lean on Kohl's rankings for recruiting. Kohl will remain on Chicago’s staff throughout the season.

Several kickers at rookie camp either had never worked with him or had only done so sparingly. They expressed concern that Kohl’s evaluation process was biased because of his prior relationships.

“All of Jamie’s guys, they could have shanked the kick, and it was like, Oh, you have really good rotation, your foot is wrapping around the ball,” says one kicker who was cut after rookie camp. "I don’t think this situation will be solved or will be what the team needs to be until Jamie Kohl is gone. The way he very much tries to control a room, tries to be the alpha.” (Kohl originally agreed to an interview for this story, but hours later said, after discussing the request with the Bears, he would defer to Nagy and Tabor for all comments regarding the kicker search. During a general press availability at veteran minicamp, Nagy admitted, in regards to kicking, “I just know you either make it, or you miss it. That’s what I work off of.” The Bears declined multiple interview requests for Nagy and Tabor. They responded only partially to an emailed list of questions and did not address criticisms of Kohl and the process of the competition.)

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Of course.

While many assume Parkey’s appearance on the Today show one week later sealed his fate, Chicago’s front office knew immediately after the double-doink that they would have to cut him. (What if he beat out competition this summer, then missed another big kick in January?) But several sources active in the kicking community say Parkey is clearly better than anyone the Bears brought in this offseason. Parkey is living with his wife, Colleen, in Jupiter, Fla., playing golf and staying in shape. He did not respond to calls or texts, and through his agent, Glenn Schwartzman, declined an interview request. Schwartzman also declined to comment.

We don't want the best kicker. We want the kicker we will be blamed the least for.

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This team is toast. First sign of kicking bad luck and they will fold like week old newspaper.

Nagy continued to show the double-doink during team meetings in OTAs and veteran mini camp. Bears linebacker Aaron Lynch says seeing it again and again has given him a new appreciation for kickers. “That’s why everybody gasps every time we get a kick [in camp],” he says. “That’s why we support our kickers every day. Now when they make a kick, it’s like, Damn! Thank you!”

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University of Maryland, 1949 Media Guide. What a time to be a writer (see last paragraph).

[RashanGary]

University of Maryland, 1949 Media Guide. What a time to be a writer (see last paragraph).

The good ol days