Fresh off his eight-catch, 125 receiving yards performance at frosty Lambeau field, San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh is trumpeting wideout Michael Crabtree as the "greatest catcher of all time."
The Niners knocked off the host and rival Packers 23-20 in the opening round of the NFL playoffs on Sunday, and it was the recently activated Crabtree who made all the difference.
"People talked about cold weather and it would be a tough-to-catch ball, but the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything," Harbaugh told ESPN. "It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands down to the tropics and sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Wherever they throw a football, he'll be catching it."
Against Green Bay, it was in five degree temperatures with a wind chill of minus-10. Playing in just his sixth game since returning from a torn Achilles, Crabtree made the play of the day on the game's winning drive when he hauled in a 17-yard catch on a third-and-10 pass from quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
"People talked about cold weather and it would be a tough-to-catch ball, but the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything," Harbaugh told reporters.
"If my life depended on it and someone had to catch a ball, I'd enlist Michael Crabtree to do it," Harbaugh later told ESPN.
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