But many teams pay the place-kicker on the roster roughly the league minimum salary, which is often less than $1 million annually. Try telling that to the Minnesota Vikings or the Cleveland Browns. On Sunday, each team surely wished it had loosened the purse strings to pay for a veteran established kicker instead of the young low-cost versions they put in uniform. The failures of the Minnesota and Cleveland kickers on Sunday were a flabbergasting cavalcade of end-over-end footballs spinning wide left and right of the goal posts. In a cost-cutting move, Bailey, the second most accurate kicker in N.F.L.

Source: New York Times September 17, 2018 11:15 UTC