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Bears' Santos redeems 'annoying' miss with game-sealing FG

Santos finished with twelve points, and his 58-yarder beat his previous career-high by three yards; the coach called the kick himself.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBears kicker Cairo Santos missed in the fourth quarter Thursday, then hit a 58-yard field goal with one thirty-nine left, and Chicago beat New England thirty to twenty-four.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYahoo Sports says Coach Ben Johnson called for the long one. Kenji, your take.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentJohnson sent a guy out for fifty-eight yards right after he missed.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentJohnson sent him out for fifty-eight yards right after a miss, and the miss was the audition.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHOT. He had a worse day than the rest of us and still got the call.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSantos told ClutchPoints, quote, the misses annoy me, but like I can clear it so quick. Mine is hotter: Johnson planned the miss.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA leader who cannot be surprised is a leader who scheduled it.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe did not plan the miss. NOT.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSay it again, Hank, flatter. That would do numbers.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNo. My final take: Rome Odunze smothered the onside kick, and that was in the script too.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd call it cold, but Santos already cleared it.

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