Just-In: Jake Bailey is resigned by the Miami Dolphins to a two-year contract

March 8, 2024 Sports Gist NFL, Other Sports 0

Jake Bailey is resigned by the Miami Dolphins to a two-year contract

In what many consider to be a surprising move, the Miami Dolphins are bringing back punter Jake Bailey to the team. Bailey, who signed with the team last offseason after spending time with the New England Patriots, has inked a lucrative two-year contract with the Dolphins worth $4.2 million.

In the 2023 NFL season, Bailey recorded 53 punts with an average of 45.7 yards per punt (29th), including a 66-yarder as his longest (25th). Additionally, he managed 20 punts inside the 20-yard line, 26th-most in the league.

As previously eluded to, many consider this to be a surprising move. Bailey struggled in key moments last season, and didn’t exactly impress with this leg. According to Spotrac, the average salary for an NFL punter in 2024 is roughly $1.5 million, so rewarding Bailey with a two-year contract and pay rise well above average is a questionable decision at best. Special teams coordinator Danny Crossman is also returning to the team, so the organization clearly has belief in their special teams unit, which was very poor last season.

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Amputation advised for frostbitten football fans who attended Dolphins vs. Chiefs game

In January, dozens of football fans suffered frostbite while enduring below-freezing temperatures at an NFL playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri.

Now, about two months after the game that featured a wind chill of -27 degrees at kickoff, some of those frostbitten fans are now being advised to schedule amputations.

“The patients who had their frostbite injuries along with the Chiefs game, they are just getting to the point now we are starting to discuss their amputations that might be necessary,” Dr. Megan Garcia, director of the Grossman Burn Medical Center in Kansas City, told FOX 4 KC.

Garcia said she has seen dozens of frostbite patients since January, and estimates 70% of those patients may now be required to undergo amputation.

The temperature at kickoff of the Dolphins-Chiefs game was -4 degrees Fahrenheit, marking the fourth-coldest NFL game ever played. The record for coldest temperature for an NFL game is -13 degrees for the 1967 NFL Championship – commonly known as “The Ice Bowl” – between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in Wisconsin. The wind chill that day reached as cold as -48 degrees.

While the NFL would delay, postpone or relocate a game due to extreme weather events, the league confirmed in January there is no threshold minimum temperature it requires for a game to be played.

The Chiefs defeated the Dolphins, 26-7, en route to a playoff run that ended with the team winning Super Bowl LVIII over the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22.

“It was cold, I’m not going to lie. It was cold,” Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes said after defeating the Dolphins. “At the end of the day, you have to be mentally tough enough that if something doesn’t work, I’m going to come back and keep firing.”

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