Rushed into service last week, place-kicker Cody Parkey went 3-for-6 on field-goal attempts for the Cleveland Browns, with one of the misses coming on the final play of the fourth quarter. The kick could have won the game for Cleveland. Instead, the Browns lost to the Miami Dolphins in overtime.

It wouldn't have been surprising if Cleveland had parted ways with Parkey after the game. But the Browns stuck with Parkey after choosing him to replace Patrick Murray, who suffered a knee injury two days before the game against Miami. Parkey didn't get to practice with Cleveland's long snapper and holder until pregame warmups before facing the Dolphins.

With a week of practice, Parkey made both of his field-goal attempts and both of his extra-point kicks in the Browns' 31-20 loss to the Washington Redskins on Sunday.

Parkey kicked a 51-yard field goal on the final play of the second quarter, allowing Cleveland to go to the locker room tied with Washington at 17-17.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2016/10/auburn_nfl_roundup_cody_parkey_1.html

@the-user-from-cleveland said:

should of just had colquitt kicked the field goals. i'm all about second chances, but if you mess up the first day of a job that bad, you're usually fired. We would all be fired if we did this at a normal job. I bet the kicker won't be released because jimmy doesn't want to lose any money

@hoorta said:

Knowing the system doesn't really have anything to do with kicking. I haven't checked but maybe the long snapper and holder are different from when Coons was there too.

@jiggins7919 said:

So Hue, bringing in a guy off the street was a better option than a guy who knew the system (Coons)? MHO Mr. 3 missises doesn't even get on the plane back to Cleveland. At that level, you ought to be able to kick the ball through the uprights blindfolded.

@wargograw said:

Yours is a sad truth some just cannot handle...

You're a kicker FFS. Not like you need loads of time to gel with the team and understand the playbook, you go and make kicks.

You miss 3 sub-50 yard field goals and cost your team the game in the NFL, you shouldn't keep your job.

207 Jake Elliott K 1 Memphis Sr 5-9 165 6

231 Adam Griffith K 2 Alabama rSr 5-10 191 6-7

314 Conrad Ukropina K 3 Stanford rSr 6-0 192 7-FA

339 Andy Phillips K 4 Utah rSr 5-10 210 7-FA

412 Cameron Van Winkle K 5 Washington Sr 5-10 190 ––

456 Josh Lambert K 6 West Virginia rSr 5-11 203 ––

@flyingfooldoug said:

In football, you are supposed to set the SB as your goal each season. So where or when did you come up with 4 year seasons? And our owner fires the FO every other year, not the fans....too bad he's a dumbass meddler. Remember how he likes to pick lousy QBs? Baseball GM? You seem to know it all so tell me.... What will the 3 digit lottery number be for the mid day drawing in Ohio today? I hope the team wins out so guys that like losing leave.....

I hope we win the SB in 2020 so guys that hate the long term (like you) leave. #logic

@flyingfooldoug said:

Not if he can hide behind analytics and voodoo dolls.

Edit: I'm convinced someone out there has a Browns voodoo doll they keep sticking at key times in our games.

And don't forget our previous kicker probably cost us the Ravens game when he kicked that extra point WAY too low and it got blocked. Right when that block-return happened, I think all of us knew that would bite us in the ass, and it certainly did.

@texasag1969 said:

Well if I ever come out of retirement and make 3 major screwups my first day back on a job I was good at and practiced at home for, I hope my new boss would be just as supportive and let me keep the job as well.

I understand what you're saying here but what about the guy that hired you to begin with? Is he not accountable too?

@texasag1969 said:

I agree with Hue on this (after some time to reflect):

Despite the inaccuracy, Browns coach Hue Jackson said the team does not have any immediate plans to replace Parkey.

''That's a tough job,'' Jackson said Monday. ''I challenge any of us to come in here on a flight late Friday night, wake up and meet the coach for a second and then get on another flight and head to Miami and not know really a lot of your teammates, but some and walk out and kick in pregame and then go kick in a game where you attempt five of these field goals.

''Not two, not one, but five. That's a lot of pressure. And then here's the game-winner sitting you right in the face. So I can't put that on him. That's a tough situation.''

Parkey took full responsibility for the three misses. He didn't get a chance to practice with long snapper Charley Hughlett or holder Britton Colquitt until a few hours before kickoff.

Jackson said it's easy to fault Parkey, but there are numerous variables that go into a kick.

''Well, everybody says, that's the kicker's job,'' Jackson said. ''It is his job, but normally a guy has a job, he's been around him employer a little bit, he's been around his teammates a little bit.

''It was tough circumstances. If he would've made it, we'd be celebrating right now. But he didn't. And I think it's unfair just to dump it all on him.''

@oldbrownsfan said:

Oh please. If you are a kicker out of a job you are practicing for auditions constantly. Only thing you can say is at least his missed kicks were all left of the goal posts. Showed consistency anyway.

If we used the same reasoning for #11 at QB he should have done nothing to help the team when he was in that position.

The source said the Browns chose Parkey because he's younger, is a Pro Bowler and had potential to be part of the team's future.

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2016/09/browns_deny_a_report_they_sign.html

It makes sense the Browns who are going for youth would take Parkey (who was a pro bowler in 2014) and I accept their reasoning for taking Parkey. I was as upset as anyone about the missed field goals but I have to remember the only practice Parkey had prior to coming to Cleveland was in pre game warm ups.

@wargograw said:

And I'm pretty fed up with the "we didn't win in years 1 or 2, fire the guy now!!" line of thinking. Do you see us making the playoffs this year? The answer's no. So in the long term, wins only hurt us.

See you in the 2020 Super Bowl.

See you in the 2020 Super Bowl.

@wargograw said:

Being actually relevant a couple years from now is better than meaningless wins in the short term.

So if we were 2-1 instead of 0-3 that it would be meaningless???? WTF??? You are pretty .....strange? I suppose you have a shelf full of "participation trophys" too. Lemme guess... Co-ed soccer? Stay in Texas please and root for the plow boys, we're pretty fed up with your line of thinking around here.

@wargograw said:

Draft position, idiots. Unless you guys are actually pissy that we're down another game in our AFCN title run.

Heard on MNF - no team that has started 0-3 has ever made the playoffs. 0-69. So you can relax.

If analytics translates "cheap". Depodesta can go back to trading baseball cards.

@flyingfooldoug said:

Ya, talking draft in mid Sept is soooo much better than being relevant. Of course you're the guy that thinks losing is productive.

Being actually relevant a couple years from now is better than meaningless wins in the short term.

@the-gipper said:

I heard that it was simply a matter of money. This guy was cheaper and that is why they took him over Gould.

So when did analytics simply boil down to "taking the cheapest route". The cheap ass bullshit cost a game, pure and simple.

Both punters and kickers might not be glamor positions but you hate to hear wide left or wide right and oh crap we lost another game. In fact the worst team I have the better punters and kickers I want!

@medicineman said:

I know we haven't been to the playoffs in a while but last time I checked playoff teams don't take December off.