However, I am going to say this. Mariucci inherited a team that the MANAGEMENT fucked up with. Rice, Owens, Hearst when he was good, Garcia, ALL on the same team, and they DONT OFFER RICE A CONTRACT. Mariucci never got to the Super Bowl because he never had the talent on both sides of the ball like the past great teams of the Niners dynasties. However, his performance in TB was disheartening to me as a fan and to anyone else watching that game. If that game was the game that decided his job (which none of us are really sure of), than he certainly did more to warrant his firing.