BOURBONNAIS — When Panthers backup Joey Slye made a 55-yard field goal against the Bears on Thursday night, Eddy Pineiro wondered whether his coach had a wandering eye.
Pineiro knows that he and Elliott Fry are competing with each other — but also with every other potential free agent and trade target — for the Bears’ starting kicker job. But still, to see it in person at Soldier Field?
“That kinda sucks,” he said after the final training camp practice at Olivet Nazarene University on Sunday. “You sit there and go, ‘Damn, he just banged a 55-yarder.