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Marauders · week 16 · 1997

C. Mancini to J.V. Kowalczyk, again

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

J.V. Kowalczyk TE
Marauders

2 more touchdowns from C. Mancini to J.V. Kowalczyk, 69 in total. Target share explains some of it; the rest is the pair of them. They have played 6 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

He has 6,580 yards from scrimmage in twelve seasons, and sixty-nine touchdowns. His best was 889. This is not that, yet.

Phoenix, Arizona is where he is from. He is thirty-three. Around the building he is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. Nobody planned any of it. He was a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior.

The club is 8-7. Newt Kowalczyk is in year three of it. There is one year left on the deal.

One more thing: he never takes his helmet off between series.

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