Casey Bednarski was one of many stones the Bears didn’t leave unturned in their circuslike exorcising of jettisoned kicker Cody Parkey and the double-doinking demons he conjured with his 43-yard miss in the closing seconds of last year’s playoff loss to the Eagles.
So you’ll have to pardon the awkward silence that followed when a Twin Cities reporter asked Bears coach Matt Nagy this week how the “kid from Mankato” looked during his three-day rookie minicamp tryout four months ago.
To jog Nagy’s memory, the question was rephrased to accentuate Bednarski’s place in a flurry of offseason moves that saw the Bears work out roughly 20 or so kickers, sign four and trade for their current kicker, Eddy Pineiro.