The Turbines threw it forty-eight times through Jonah Wexler in the divisional round, gained 346 yards to the Marauders' 276, turned it over four times to none, and lost 27-17. A week ago this beat wrote that they would throw it to Demarcus Vinatieri ten times again, because a chart does not change the shape. They threw it to him thirteen, and he caught seven for sixty-three yards.
The shape did not change either. Both touchdown passes went to the two men who caught them in the wild card — one to Beau Adeyemi II, listed above him, and one to Grant Klump, the tight end standing in for Klaus Bombardo's knee. Klump was thrown to fifteen times, more than anybody in the game and more than his whole regular season, which ran to eight targets across six appearances. Vinatieri finishes the year at 199 targets, the most in the league, and no postseason touchdown.
He is thirty, on $4.5 million for one year, and the club does not play again until next season, by which time the argument will be the market's.