When John Fox was requested which NFL workforce had the worst offseason Monday, he pointed to his former employer.
“I think when you’re going to play defense, you’re going to lean on takeaways to help a young offense, and you don’t have a kicker, a reliable kicker, that you’re going to need those points from after some of those turnovers,” Fox mentioned on ESPN’s “NFL Live,” the place he serves as an analyst. “I think the kicking question is really big right now in Chicago. And I think that might be a problem for them in the season.”
Fox, in fact, was the Bears’ head coach after they lower their all-time main scorer, Robbie Gould. In Fox’s remaining season with the workforce, the Bears employed three kickers through the course of the season: Connor Barth, Cairo Santos and Mike Nugent.
The workforce at present has two kickers competing to interchange the departed Cody Parkey: Eddy Piñeiro and Elliott Fry.
On the identical ESPN present, former participant Damien Woody additionally singled out the Bears for having the worst offseason.
“Losing [defensive coordinator] Vic Fangio … I think is huge,” Woody mentioned. “That Chicago Bears defense, it literally fueled their offense. It’s the identity of the Bears. And when you lose a talented defensive coordinator like that, I think there’s going to be some slippage there.”