After the kicker Zane Gonzalez missed a potential game-tying kick on Sunday and a potential game-winning kick the week before, the Cleveland Browns have decided to release him and sign the rookie Greg Joseph.

There may be teams in the NFL who will be patient enough and keep their inexperienced kickers after a couple of bad games, the Cleveland Browns are definitely not part of them. Not when they’ve been waiting for more than 630 days to win a game and the only thing that has stopped them to reach the victory is a second-year kicker.

On Sunday during the Browns' 21-18 loss to the Saints, Gonzalez missed two extra points attempts and two field goals, including the kick that would’ve taken the game to overtime with eight seconds to play. Last week after the Browns took the game to overtime against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Cleveland, the 2017 seventh-round pick kicker missed the game-winner field-goal with 13 seconds remaining, although, in his defense, the kick was blocked, so the whole special teams should be blamed for that loss.

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On Monday morning, the Browns released the 23-year-old Zane Gonzalez and invited a group of free-agent kickers to a workout—including the veterans Blair Walsh and Cairo Santos—looking forward to finding Gonzalez’s replacement. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Browns signed the former Florida Atlantic University kicker Greg Joseph, who spent the preseason with the Miami Dolphins before getting cut.

This preseason, Greg Joseph lost the battle for the kicker position against Jason Sanders, even though he made all three of his field goal attempts, including one from 54 yards. The 24-year-old kicker finished 15 of 21 in his last year in FAU. So, he might be what the Browns are missing to bring an end to the win drought.

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On the other hand, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Zane Gonzalez had been playing with a groin injury, which could explain his terrible performances.

After Sunday’s loss Gonzalez accepted full responsibility for his miscues.

"I was cussing myself out in my head," Gonzalez said. "I was really upset about it, but like I said, it is on me 100 percent, and I can't be too mad at myself and I can't blame it on anyone else. It sucks because we were so close to that win and it has been so long, and I just let everybody down."

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