Klaus Bombardo caught two touchdowns in the Turbines' 17-13 win at the Dredgers, and they were the only touchdowns the club scored all afternoon. He finished with five catches for fifteen yards, which is three a catch, and both of the ones that counted came from close enough in that distance was never the question.
Demarcus Vinatieri was targeted twenty-one times in the same game and gained 135. Halfway Hollister threw it forty times for 174. The Turbines got where they were going in small pieces and then handed the last yard to the tight end, five weeks running.
He is paid $0.7 million, which is twenty-ninth among the thirty-two men who start at his position, and the contract ends in the spring. The club took him in the third round of season 46 with a ceiling projected between 61 and 72. He is twenty-six, and the ceiling now reads 61.
Twelve of his 18.5 points on Sunday came from the two scores. One and a half came from the yards.
Thackeray was asked afterward what had changed near the goal line. He said nothing had changed, and that Bombardo had been open all year.