Seven hundred sixty days.
That’s how long Nick Folk had to wait between his final game as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer in October 2017 and his first as a New England Patriot in November 2019.
Then, he had to wait some more, going unsigned from mid-March until New England brought him back in late August.
That patience has paid off.
In one of the more improbable success stories of this upside-down Patriots season, Folk, who less than two years ago was kicking for the Arizona Hotshots in the short-lived Alliance of American Football, now is performing better than ever at age 36.