Welcome into the Under Center podcast. I'm Lawrence Holmes here with Jim Miller and Alex Brown. The Bears lose 27 to 24.

Mitchell Trubisky drives them down there in a two-minute drill. Looks like there's an opportunity to tie the game with a 46-yard field goal, but Connor

Barth misses it.

You all's reaction to it was pretty strong in our postgame, and I completely understand why,

but for those who are downloading the podcast listening to it, what bothers you the most,

Alex, about him missing the kick?

That's his job. That's his job. I need him to do his job. The pressure of the situation. I mean, he didn't just become a

kicker yesterday. He's been used to this. I mean, he did in high school, did in college.

You get here, he, in his own words, he's had a good career. So as far as in the NFL,

so make the kick. It's not a, it's not a 60-yard field goal. It's not a 45-yard field goal

in the pouring rain or in the snow. Like make the kick. I mean, these guys, the offensive linemen, the defensive

linemen, the ds, the receivers, the quarterback, everybody's doing everything they can to simply

put you in position to do your job. For kicker, that is all you want. You look for that moment,

and you see the kickers always warming up when

two minute drill is going you see them off to the side and they're warming up

they're hoping for that chance and that's when you need to come in and do your job

if you can't do that we need somebody else to do it you got to get somebody else in to do it

that's i don't think it's that complicated.

What's frustrating is because obviously the last couple of years haven't gone well,

you know, in terms of bears having an opportunity to win games,

and you've got a defense that has been rebuilt and an offense that you hope to,

that you're constantly trying to build, and now you've got an area that you don't think you should worry about on your team.

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