Is Dan Bailey okay?

Such is the ominous question looming over the head of one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history, after the Dallas Cowboys ended the season by witnessing a feat never before seen from the All-Pro. After having never missed a point after attempt in his seven-year career, he's now missed two in the last four outings in which he's been tasked with attempting one.

Bailey also boasted 100% accuracy on field goal attempts before being sidelined with a groin injury in Week 6, but was never the same in his return weeks later. The Cowboys' most dangerous weapon would finish his final five games with an accuracy rate of only 61.5% -- enough to make it clear he never truly recovered from the injury that sat him down in the first half of the year.

And for his part, he stops just short of proclaiming to still be injured but isn't shying away from the reality that it derailed his season.

"I started the year great, probably the best I've been hitting the ball," Bailey said, via The Dallas Morning News. "And then I had that injury, ever since then I can't get back in my normal groove. If I had an answer for it specifically, I definitely would've addressed it already. A lot to evaluate obviously going into the offseason.

"This is all new territory for me, really going back to the injury. Ever since then it's uncharted territory, so, obviously largely disappointing on a lot of levels. I've got to take my medicine on it and learn from it. I'm not going to be happy about it.

"You want to be you out there every time you go out there."

The great news is this is easily remedied by an exceedingly long offseason that'll give Bailey time to rest and fully heal so the version of himself that steps onto the field in 2018 will be the same one tailoring a future gold jacket. Some have begun to worry if he's losing his mojo, even going as far as comparing him to former Cowboys' kicker Nick Folk -- who started off hot before rapidly declining on his way out of Dallas.

To be clear on that point, it took Folk only three years to fall off of a cliff aided by a torn labrum in his hip which resulted in surgery. Contrarily, Bailey has been deathly accurate with his boot for nearly a decade now and the groin issue that has ailed him is easily resolved with rest -- of which he'll now receive a lot of.

Of all the Cowboys' concerns heading into the offseason and beyond, Bailey is the least of them.

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