7 Reasons the Chicago Bears won’t win the Super Bowl in 2019

Kicking troubles

The relationship between Bears fans and kickers is not exactly what one would refer to as “great” at this point in time. After Chicago’s championship hopes were shattered by a missed kick in their first-round playoff matchup last season, the team has been on a mission to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again in 2019.

During the first months of the most recent NFL offseason, the Bears brought in roughly 76 kickers to try out for their team. Chicago eventually settled with Elliott Fry and Chris Blewitt as the two guys who would compete for the role in the spring.

Then in May, the Bears went out and traded a 2021 seventh-round draft pick to the Oakland Raiders for kicker Eddy Pineiro. It wasn’t too long until Chicago let go of Blewitt and the team rolled into training camp with Fry and Pineiro fighting to be the Bears’ kicker in 2019.

Recently, Fry was waived by Chicago and now Pineiro seems to have won the job. During the 2019 preseason, Pineiro has made five of his six field goal attempts.

So there’s a chance that the Bears might have found a solution to their kicking troubles. But there’s also really no way to tell if Pineiro will be good or not in 2019.

He’s never appeared in a regular season game and he’s also coming off a groin injury that forced him to miss his entire rookie campaign with the Raiders in 2018.

Chicago is hoping that Pineiro will help them forget about the end last season’s playoff loss. But it could end up just being more of the same for the Bears and their kicking situation in 2019.