Just when you thought you’d heard it all when it comes to the Chicago Bears and the infamous Double Doink playoff game, another sad nugget gets revealed that brings back all of the pain and misery from that night. This time, it was from former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson, who revealed the key for kicker Cody Parkey’s miss at the end of the wildcard game in January of 2019.

Pederson joined Friday’s Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast and was asked if he thought Parkey would hit the kick in the moment it happened. Pederson shared the scouting report on Parkey that resulted in the infamous miss. “You know what’s interesting, and I can reveal this now,” said Pederson, who is currently out of the league. “During the week, my special teams coordinator Dave Fipp came to me, and I’ll always remember this. Cody at the time was hitting 92-93% of his field goals. He was in the low 90s in field goal makes that season. But anytime a coach burned a timeout, it literally cut in half. [Fipp] came to me with this interesting nugget of information.”

Pederson then reflected on the moment itself and couldn’t believe that scenario was set to play out. “We’re getting to the end, and Mitch Trubisky was looking brilliant; he’s like throwing darts out there on a two-minute drive and gets them down to field goal range. I’m going, “There is no way. I got one timeout left, and this is coming down to a kick. I’m going to test the theory.’ I’m replaying this whole thing in my head, and obviously, it’s history now.”

The theory, of course, played out as planned. The Eagles burned their final timeout to ice Parkey, who nailed the first kick and then missed the second one. Who knows if Pederson would have pulled that move had he not heard about Parkey’s issue from his former special teams coordinator? Philadelphia would have still had a few seconds on the clock and could have opted to keep their last timeout to attempt one last scoring drive.

While the Double Doink game was almost seven years ago, it seems we’re still learning new things about that infamous moment that derailed such a promising season. Hopefully, this iteration of the Bears will find playoff success sooner rather than later so we can stop focusing on such a dreadful memory. Until then, though, it seems we’ll learn something new about that game for years to come.