“I still don’t get why we released Robbie.”
In all the Bears conversations I’ve had this season, that sentence — or some variation of it — is the one I’ve heard the most. Robbie Gould was the team’s longest tenured Bear. The team’s all-time leading scorer. A face of the franchise. Until one day he wasn’t.
And nobody knows why.
Okay that’s not true. We know exactly why. After making his first 17 field goals of 2015, Gould missed six of his next 15 including game-changing kicks in consecutive losses. He missed one this preseason too — not a good look for a kicker who’s brand is accuracy and dependability.