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Haha ... I thought I liked stirring the pot! CS might have me beat ... bad opponents or not, the Niners were the first team to win 15 games in a regular season and still won it all, shutting out Da Bears and making Marino run for his life. If any 15-1 team is overrated it's the 2011 Packers, who fe...

The 1984 49ers IMHO are the most overrated team in NFL history People talk about the 72 Dolphins easy schedule. Look at the 84 49ers and THEIR schedule. I mean, half of their wins came against teams with .500 or worse records. Awful AFC Central, worst Saints/Falcons pairing of that era, mediocre Eag...

sheajets wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 3:25 pm The Ditka era in N.O....seems like every year they were shuffling through 5-6 atrocious quarterbacks just trying to find someone who could throw a football. Shuler, Danny Wuerffel, Billy Joe Hobert, Billy Joe Tolliver...

And somehow they never had the worst record despite said QB’s

I saw them as an unlucky playoff team that was left out in the cold and better than their record indicated The last 6 games of the season they were second only to the Redskins as the best team in football They were not unlucky- they got what they deserved. they had a lot of red flags that get overs...

What if the Bears don’t win 1977’s Slush Bowl and miss the playoffs? Washington instead would have played LA in the Mud Bowl I actually can see the Redskins pulling off the upset that year in LA before falling in Dallas. I don’t. LA’s Viking jinx was real and they had already beaten Washington in t...

1988

What if the Bills got the #1 seed instead of Cincinnati?

How differently could a defense driven pre-no Huddle Bills fare in SB 23 against a SF team that at one point started 6-5?

We all know about perhaps the best draft class ever- 1974 Steelers getting Swann/Stallworth/Lambert/Webster.

But what were opposites? Teams that basically had a draft class that was anything but the stuff of greatness.

1989

They played a much tougher schedule in a more rugged NFC.

The 84 49ers basically only faced 2 decent QB's, Theismann and Simms, until SB 19.

What if the Bears don’t win 1977’s Slush Bowl and miss the playoffs?

Washington instead would have played LA in the Mud Bowl

I don't think the 49ers were as good as their record in 91, but that was true in several other 90's seasons as well, like 1990, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, and 98. Those teams have more flaws than people give them credit for because people were brainwashed by the 9er-loving media that their players were th...