re: Cody Parkey's career

It seems that at that level, you have to be hitting at a really high clip or you are at risk of being shown the door. I think it is because teams don't carry active backups (unless you count a punter who might be able to hit a chip shot now and then).

You have guys like Matt Bryant who was on 4 teams in 7 seasons before landing with the Falcons. He was then in Atl for 10 seasons hitting on about 88 or 89%.

He gets cut after 2018, then brought back because the replacements sucked in preseason. He gets axed after 7 games because he was only in the 60% range in those games.