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Panthers coach Ron Rivera wasn’t trying to be a jerk to his old team. He was trying to do them a favor.Rivera took the unusual step of calling a timeout to ice the Bears kicker at the end of the first half Curtis Samuel Color Rush Jersey , but Elliott Fry nailed the 43-yarder anyway.“You know what is funny, I did that to help the Bears because they are in a kicking contest,” Rivera said, via Jeff Dickerson of ESPN.com.Bears coach Matt Nagy denied that it was planned between them, yet added: “but I’m kind of glad he did it.”The Bears have been trying every gimmick they can think of in their search for a kicker to replace Cody Parkey Daeshon Hall Jersey , from having eight kickers (and also a punter) try field goals in minicamp, to their “Augusta silence” routine of having everything stop during practice while these poor bastards do their jobs.To his credit, Fry hit the 43-yard field goal into the north end zone, the same length and place as Parkey’s famous double-doink playoff miss.“You could feel it,” Nagy said. “You could sense it Trai Turner Color Rush Jersey , from all the fans, and I looked over and I said — after the completion down the middle, and then they spotted it, and I’m so used to seeing — like my math is really good right now. I can figure out real quick how far a field goal kick is from the spot of the ball, so I realized it was 43. Am I right? Yeah Taylor Moton Jersey , then coach Rivera pops a timeout, too.”Fry’s competition at the moment, Eddy Pineiro, missed wide left on a 48-yard field goal attempt but hit a 23-yarder. Panthers quarterback Cam Newton said a lot of the same things after his latest loss.But it’s the question he didn’t answer that may speak the loudest.After losing to the Browns to drop to 6-7 — their fifth straight loss — Newton was asked if it would benefit his obviously ailing right shoulder to sit the last three weeks. He brushed it off with a simple “Next question,” which left it clear that he had no interest in any such rest.“It’s extremely frustrating coming up short each and every week with similar settings and not pushing through. I wish I had the words to say Wes Horton Color Rush Jersey , but I don’t,” Newton said, via Joe Person of . “In this league, that’s what it always comes down to — finding ways to keep the game close, to win late in the game. We just haven’t found that way to win in those situations.”The Panthers still have some mathematical chance to make the playoffs Stephen Curry Jersey , so they’re likely to keep trotting Newton out there as long as they do. In 2016, he played three meaningless games late in the year, before having surgery on his right shoulder the following March. Recent results suggest he needs more work this offseason, but he’s tried to avoid that talk (since that will clearly make it go away).For the second time in as many weeks, they brought in backup quarterback Taylor Heinicke to throw a Hail Mary. Newton’s completion percentage is a career-best 68.8 percent Shaq Thompson Color Rush Jersey , but whether by design or necessity, he’s throwing more short passes to achieve that efficiency. The vertical element (long one of his strengths) is practically gone from the playbook, leaving him to get their yards in shorter bursts, and relying on the yards after catch skills of Christian McCaffrey and D.J. Moore and Curtis Samuel.