Cody Parkey

Cody Parkey missed what would have been a game-winning kick on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.

(John Kuntz, cleveland.com)

MIAMI, Fla. -- Cody Parkey was about 75 miles north of where the Browns were scheduled to play on Sunday afternoon when he got the call that they wanted him to kick for them.

"I was in Jupiter, Florida," he said after the Browns' 30-24 loss at Hard Rock Stadium. "I just got done kicking actually. So I was basically around here."

Following the game, he probably wished he could have been seven thousand miles away.

"They brought me in to make some kicks and unfortunately I couldn't make all of them today," he said. "It really hits me hard and I wish I could've made them."

Parkey's day started with a missed 41-yard field goal in the first quarter and ended with a miss from 46 yards as time expired that could have won the game for the Browns. In between, he hit from 46 yards, hit from 48 yards, knocked a 42-yard attempt off the left upright and made a 38-yard kick to tie the game at 24.

Sunday was the first day the Browns saw Parkey kick, head coach Hue Jackson said after the game. He flew to Berea but the Browns couldn't kick him before getting on the plane and flying to Florida. Jackson said Parkey kicked for them before the game and Parkey estimated that he got 20 to 25 kicks pregame, which he called "enough."

Still, lining up for a game-winning kick the day after signing with a new team is a big ask.

"It's tough, but that's what I signed up to do," Parkey said. "So I can't make an excuse. I can't do anything about that. I've just got to go man up and make the kick."

"It's a tough deal for him," Jackson said. "But again, he didn't lose the game. I'll say that again, anybody wants to say who lost the game, just look right at me. This had nothing to do with the players and them. This is on me and I take full responsibility for it all."

"I can't have them back," Parkey said. "I can't do anything about it now. It's over. So I've just got to move on."

Tough day on the right side: It was a difficult day for right tackle Austin Pasztor, too. The fourth-year offensive lineman who won the job out of camp was flagged for five penalties on Sunday -- three holds and two false starts. That included one of each on a second quarter drive that saw the Browns with the ball first-and-10 at the Dolphins 20-yard line.

The two penalties turned a promising drive into a third-and-25 from Miami's 35-yard line and ended in a Parkey field goal.

"I was really trying to get off the snap count to get in front of (defensive end Cameron) Wake," Pasztor said of the false start. "He has great jump-off, so that was something that I saw on film and I've played him before and I knew that, so I'm trying to get the best jump I can and I guess I left early on that one."

Pasztor said on the hold he needed to do a better job of getting in front of the defender and he left himself with the choice to either hold or give up a sack.

Back to Wake. Despite a quiet start to 2016, he has 70 career sacks, including 18.5 in 2014 and 2015 combined. Miami's coaching staff has been working to keep his snaps down in order to keep the 34-year-old fresh.

"I think he's the best pass rusher I've played against," Pasztor said. "(Indianapolis' Robert) Mathis is another one that I've played that I think is a very good pass rusher, but Wake is definitely up there."

"Hey, that's the NFL," Wake said after the game. "You got to go against the best on both sides of the ball. Every time I step on the field, that's my job. Whoever I'm going against is hopefully having a bad day. I just hope that continues."

Pasztor seemed to understand that reality after the game.

"Obviously it's a difficult challenge, but that's what you want as a professional athlete, right? You want to play against the best," Pasztor said. "You want to be put in the toughest situation and, ultimately, come out on top and today I didn't do that."

Pasztor said that, in the end, he has to get into better position so that it doesn't come down to making the decision between getting a penalty or getting his quarterback hit.

"For me, I'm focused on getting better," he said, "getting to the position where I'm winning the pass block and it's not between a hold or a sack."

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