{"id":37269,"date":"2025-05-09T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37269\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:31:14","slug":"former-patriots-captain-super-bowl-champ-signs-with-miami-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37269\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Patriots captain, Super Bowl champ signs with Miami Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Cardona<\/a> is staying in the division. <\/p>\n

Cut by the Patriots<\/a> last month, Cardona has signed with the Miami Dolphins<\/a>, where he\u2019ll be reunited with former New England punter Jake Bailey. Cardona was released by the Patriots shortly after they picked Julian Ashby in the seventh round. Ashby was the first long-snapper to be drafted since 2021. <\/p>\n

Cardona spent a decade in New England, snapping in a pair of Super Bowl wins. On Friday, coach Mike Vrabel said the decision came down to just really liking what they have in Ashby. <\/p>\n

\u201cAny time that you have to move on from players that have been at a place and that have been a part of successful football teams, it just comes down to our ability to acquire a player that we believe in strongly, and we just felt like that was the best decision to go with Julian,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have two young kickers that we\u2019re going to be trying out, and after working Julian out, I think it became evident that that was probably what was in the best interest of the team. I have a lot of respect for Joe and what he\u2019s done here. We tried to do that in the most respectful way possible and give him an opportunity to go and catch on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Cardona is staying in the division. Cut by the Patriots last month, Cardona has signed with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2087,6,13927,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-37269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-miamidolphins","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-2024","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114479778244281193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}