An uncomfortable fact still hovering over the entire kicking situation is that the Bears are not better as a team without Cody Parkey.
Dispatching Parkey may have lowered blood pressures within the locker room and fan base. But kicker cannot be counted along with running back, wide receiver and the secondary as Bears position areas that got better over the past month. David Montgomery projects as a versatile upgrade from Jordan Howard. Riley Ridley likely makes everyone forget Kevin White (kidding, really) Josh Bellamy (more kidding).
Kicker? Not so much, for some simple and obvious reasons:
Even with his nightmarish 2018, Parkey has a better career field-goal success rate (83.