{"id":80708,"date":"2025-11-17T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/commanders-cut-matt-gay-after-crucial-errors-vs-dolphins\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:28:22","slug":"commanders-cut-matt-gay-after-crucial-errors-vs-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/commanders-cut-matt-gay-after-crucial-errors-vs-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders Cut Matt Gay After Crucial Errors vs. Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"ASHBURN, Va. \u2013 The Washington Commanders have made the decision to release kicker Matt Gay this Monday, a day after his performance in the game against the Miami Dolphins.\n\nGay missed two crucial attempts during the game, including an attempt that could have meant victory for his team. The defeat against the Dolphins was finalized in overtime, with a final score of 16-13.\n\nThe kicker joined the Commanders in April on a one-year contract that included $4.25 million guaranteed, this being the largest amount secured for a kicker on a single-year contract.\n\nIn the game, Gay missed a 56-yard field goal attempt with 15 seconds left in regulation, which would have given Washington a 16-13 lead. Previously, he also missed a 51-yard attempt.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I feel 100% responsible for the defeat.<\/p><cite>Matt Gay<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIn the 11 games he played with the team, Gay made 13 of 19 field goal attempts. However, his performance from distances greater than 50 yards was 4 of 9. In the previous season, while playing for the Indianapolis Colts, he missed six of nine attempts from the same distance.\n\nThroughout his seven-year career, Gay has maintained an 84% field goal percentage.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN, Va. \u2013 The Washington Commanders have made the decision to release kicker Matt Gay this Monday, a day after his performance in the game against the Miami Dolphins. Gay missed two crucial attempts during the game, including an attempt that could have meant victory for his team. The defeat against the Dolphins was finalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1412,62,60,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-80708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-kicker","10":"tag-matt-gay","11":"tag-release"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}