@thesportsontap: On the 6th of October in 2019, Cairo Santos tried four field goals for Tennessee and missed all four. They released him the next morning. Last night, seven years later, he put a 58 yarder through to seal the game against the team that coach runs now. Here is what the seven years in between looked like. Tennessee had him for 33 days, and they were the sixth team in three years to let him go. Kansas City put him on injured reserve and waived him off it four days later. The Jets signed him in March of 2018 and released him in August, before a game had been played. The Rams signed him on the 2nd of October and released him on the 16th. Fourteen days. Tampa Bay let him go the summer after that, and he was out of work for four days before Tennessee called. Then the Bears released him too. On the 5th of September in 2020, Chicago cut him. Eleven days later they put him back on the roster. He has not left since. That first season in Chicago he made 27 field goals in a row, which is still the franchise record. The streak reached 40 straight across two seasons before it stopped on a 65 yard attempt against Pittsburgh. Sixty five yards. That is what it took. He is at 266 field goals now and Chicago has him signed through 2027. Now the part that complicates it. Mike Vrabel did not miss those kicks and he was not wrong to make a change. Tennessee lost 14 to 7 in a game where three points would have mattered four times over. And Santos has missed plenty since. But here is the arithmetic that stays with me. Tennessee kept him 33 days. Chicago has kept him seven years. #nfl #nflnews #bears #chicagobears #football

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