Miami Dolphins Sign Sieler to Contract Extension

MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA — The Miami Dolphins announced today that defensive tackle Zach Sieler has signed a contract extension through the 2026 season.

On December 5, 2019, Sieler was claimed off waivers by Miami from Baltimore. He’s played in 53 games with 33 starts since then, collecting 188 tackles (107 solo), 10.0 sacks, nine passes defensed, three forced fumbles, and two

 fumble recoveries. In 2022, he tied for sixth place among all NFL defensive tackles with a career-high 70 tackles (41 solo). He also had career highs in passes defensed (4) and caused fumbles (2), as well as 3.5 sacks. Sieler attended Ferris State and was selected by Baltimore in the seventh round (238th overall) of the 2018 NFL Draft.

New Dolphins OT Terron Armstead confirms he’s coming to Miami in Instagram video

The news that the Miami Dolphins had signed former New Orleans Saints left tackle Terron Armstead to a five-year, $75 million contract with $44 million guaranteed went viral on social media Tuesday night.

Jumping on the bandwagon, Armstead released a video on Instagram of the new Dolphin wearing a Dolphins hat and representing the teal. He even alluded to LeBron’s infamous choice to join the Miami Heat, stating he’s bringing his talents to South Beach.

After hours of waiting while the team’s new tackle deliberated and put the pieces together, everyone can rejoice because the Dolphins secured the top free agent in their most critical position of need.

Follow the Dolphins at Dolphins Wire, and the best local South Florida news, entertainment and culture coverage, subscribe to The Palm Beach Post.

READ  MORE

SAD NEWS:Miami dolphine player was found unresponsive and placed on life……..

Joe Burrow, the Bengals quarterback, took the field not long after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was shoved to the ground with six minutes left in the first half of a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, slamming the back of his head into the turf. Many people had forgotten about the game, which took place on the second-to-last day of September. Everyone viewing the replays had witnessed Tagovailoa’s hands flying up over his face as he rolled onto his back after the impact, his fingers gruesomely splayed—it appeared to be an instinctual reflex believed to signify a significant brain injury. Everyone in the stadium had witnessed paramedics placing him on a stabilizing board and loading him into an ambulance.

A decade ago, concussions seemed like an existential threat to football. Even the N.F.L. has been forced to acknowledge the damage done by the sport to the people who played it, settling for a billion dollars with former players who brought concussion-related lawsuits. Spotters were hired to sit in stadiums during games and watch out for players exhibiting signs of concussions; there are now protocols in place to test whether a player has suffered one, and there is a five-phase process that a player needs to follow if he’s diagnosed with one, before he can return to the field. This year, new guidelines required padded helmets during training camp for some players. The number of reported concussions has declined, and the subject has ceased to dominate conversation around the sport.

The impulse after Tagovailoa’s injury, naturally, was to point fingers: the rules must not have been followed properly; the protocol was flawed, or had broken down. Miami’s coach, Mike McDaniel, had been criticized for putting Tagovailoa back into a game after he hit his head on a similar sack and stumbled as he made his way to the huddle. McDaniel had said that Tagovailoa had been evaluated in the locker room and passed all tests, and was simply suffering from a back injury. He had responded hotly to the suggestion that he had put a player in harm’s way, and was anguished by what had happened. “That is not part of the deal that anyone signs up for,” McDaniel said, after Tagovailoa was stretchered off the field, his voice thick with emotion.

Burrow, the Bengals quarterback, knew better. “You can make all the rules you want to make the game as safe as you possibly can, but there’s an inherent risk and danger with the game of football,” he said last week, on “The Colin Cowherd Podcast.” “You have three-hundred-pound men running twenty miles an hour trying to take your head off while you’re standing still, trying to ignore it and find receivers that are open. You’re running twenty miles an hour and somebody else is running twenty-two miles an hour, you’ve got to try to get the first down. That’s part of the game, I think. Part of what we signed up for.”

Burrow had held his breath with everyone else as Tagovailoa had gone down, he said, and his thoughts were with him as he was taken to the hospital. But injuries, he went on, including head injuries, were part of the game. Three plays after the Bengals blocked a field goal, while three-hundred-pound men tried to take his head off, Burrow stood still, found an open receiver, and calmly launched a long touchdown pass.

Burrow knows the rewards of being a football player as well as anyone—the rush of the fight, the satisfaction of mastery, the sound of a hundred thousand people cheering him on. After winning the national championship with L.S.U., in 2020, he sat in the locker room, smoking a cigar, still wearing his pads—the big man on campus and across the country. A few months later, the Bengals drafted him with the No. 1 pick, and signed a four-year contract for thirty-six million dollars. Three seasons later, he was playing in the Super Bowl.

But he also knows the costs. His rookie season ended when he was hit and the ligaments in his left knee were shredded. The next season, he was sacked a league-leading fifty-one times, then was sacked another nineteen times in the playoffs. That number could have been higher if he hadn’t eluded a number of them in the A.F.C. title game, against the Kansas City Chiefs, spinning and high-stepping through tackles, sweeping off the long limbs of giant men. In the Super Bowl, he was sacked seven times, and limped off the field after the last of them. The Bengals revamped their offensive line in an effort to protect him, but the beatings didn’t stop. In this season’s first week, he was sacked seven times and hit another eleven. In the second, he was sacked six times. In the third, he was dropped twice. None of them have resulted in injuries—reported ones, anyway. But the ground is unyielding.