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Browns give kicker the boot

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns kicked aside their kicker after one game.

Cleveland waived Austin Seibert on Monday after he missed an extra point and field goal in the first half of Sunday’s season-opening loss at Baltimore. He’s being replaced by Cody Parkey, who kicked for the Browns in 2016 and is best known for missing a late field goal for the Chicago Bears in the 2018 playoffs.

Parkey will handle kicking duties when the Browns host the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night.

Seibert’s fate was sealed when he clanged his extra point off the left upright and then pushed a 41-yard field-goal try to the right late in the first half as the Browns were routed 38-6 by the Ravens.

Even if Seibert had made those kicks, they probably wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the game, but first-year coach Kevin Stefanski felt he had seen enough.

“I expect him to make those kicks,” Stefanski said after Sunday’s game. “I hold him to the same standard that we hold every other player on this team. He has to make those kicks.”

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