There's a breakfast restaurant in Missoula with a football play of the grizzly's painted on the inside wall. Is that a play from the great comeback Mariani was a part of? I ate there once and kinda put two and two together about a week or so ago.
The Packers high is really getting to some of you. He did make 3 catches last night but come on. Saying he has been a "decent WR all year" or that he "played great as a WR" is ridiculous. He has 7-87yrds on the season. Somehow, after being removed from KR duties he still managed to almost cause a disaster on a KR with a fumble. Deonte Thompson made a heads up play by downing the muffed KR after Mariani tried to catch a KO that was over his head. I have no doubt that Mariani would have retrieved his own muff and brought it out to the 2 if he was given the opportunity. That and Thompsons one and only return, 1 yard shy of Mariani's seasons best, is clear evidence he should not be near the field on KO's.
It's also 0.64 receptions per game, so decent or great are adjectives I would not use to describe his season. Adequate WR for 1 game while still being a return specialist nightmare is more accurate.
