Toast88
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Pineiro said it best when he had said he and Fry were paying for the sins of the Bears' past kicking woes. I think his exact quote was something like, "Kickers' past misses have already put us on thin ice." You probably don't want your kicker thinking like that. But everything the Bears did over the offseason only fueled that mindset.
I do think the Bears overthought themselves and psyched themselves out throughtout the process, but hey, maybe it'll work out. Maybe they're right.
So I suppose if getting rid of Fry and telling Pineiro, "O.K., you're the guy, at least for now. Show us what you can do," somehow helps Pineiro psychologically, I'm all for it. But I also am skeptical that such things are actually true and show real results. If Pineiro suddenly becomes a lights-out kicker from here on out, I doubt it's because they got rid of Fry on Aug. 18.
The entire offseason kicking process was placing immense pressure on the candidates whenever possible, from the "Augusta silence" to the make-it-or-run kicks, to the icing of the kicks in preseason. That was by design. Suddenly now, that mindset isn't good enough? Suddenly now, they're changing it to, "Well, we need to send a message to this guy that he's our guy for now, even though he largely hasn't earned it through performance."
Count me skeptical that anything will change performance-wise. But hey, maybe it'll work out. I hope so.
I do think the Bears overthought themselves and psyched themselves out throughtout the process, but hey, maybe it'll work out. Maybe they're right.
So I suppose if getting rid of Fry and telling Pineiro, "O.K., you're the guy, at least for now. Show us what you can do," somehow helps Pineiro psychologically, I'm all for it. But I also am skeptical that such things are actually true and show real results. If Pineiro suddenly becomes a lights-out kicker from here on out, I doubt it's because they got rid of Fry on Aug. 18.
The entire offseason kicking process was placing immense pressure on the candidates whenever possible, from the "Augusta silence" to the make-it-or-run kicks, to the icing of the kicks in preseason. That was by design. Suddenly now, that mindset isn't good enough? Suddenly now, they're changing it to, "Well, we need to send a message to this guy that he's our guy for now, even though he largely hasn't earned it through performance."
Count me skeptical that anything will change performance-wise. But hey, maybe it'll work out. I hope so.
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