Dallas Cowboys Cut Nick Folk; Sign Kicker Cut For Familiar Reason

If ever there was a hilarious irony of ironies, it is this one. Honestly when I first found out about this threw a tweet of Mort's, I thought he was kidding, joking, and/or being sarcastic. But apparently not. The Dallas have cut Nick Folk, after missing what would have been a definite game-clinching kick against the New Orleans Saints. To replace him, the Dallas Cowboys have signed Shaun Suisham, the Redskins kikcer who was cut after missing a definite game-clinching kick against the New Orleans Saints. From Dallas News

The club signed Shaun Suisham, who kicked in six games with the Cowboys from 2005-06, according to a source, on Monday not long after he finished an audition at Valley Ranch with four other kickers.

To make room for Suisham on the 53-man roster, the Cowboys cut Nick Folk.

Folk had made just 18 of 28 field goal attempts this year and had a miss in his last six games, including a 24-yarder Saturday at New Orleans.

Suisham's time in Washington came to a close two weeks ago after a missed 23-yard attempt against the Saints. He made 18-of-21 kicks on the season, however is three misses cost the Redskins' two wins.

And now he gets to return to FedEx Field Sunday with the Cowboys able to inch closer to a playoff spot with a victory against the Redskins.

The Cowboys worked out five kickers Monday, including Suisham and Steven Hauschka, at Valley Ranch, but Folk and David Buehler did not take part in the competition.

Oh. My. Gosh.

This is a joke, right? Please tell me it is. And if it's not, well, it certainly has me on the ground laughing my fat ass off. The Plastic Fucker cuts a horrible kicker who misses clutch field goals and in return signs a horrible kicker who misses clutch field goals. Incredible idiocy. And to think that another kicker they worked out, Hauschka, was also cut for the same reason, although he just did not have the opportunity to shank one against the New Orleans Saints. Damn the fact the Ravens never played them.

I think at this rate, the Cowboys would be better off just giving the job to David Buehler. He may be as bad or even worse than Folk and Suisham, but hey, he has the best name ever for a kicker, and when you are as bad as most Dallas Cowboys kickers have been this decade, that is honestly the most redeeming quality the Cowboys have had in a kicker in quite some time.