49ers history thread

1988 vs Minnesota

1984 vs Minnesota

There was a clip of the 2003 game at Cincinnati in the related videos from the 1997 Minnesota game. That team really did underachieve.

They could have been dangerous if they got into the playoffs.

^^^^boo.....worst loss of Bill Walsh's career. That team was a juggernaut.....at least it responded like champs in '88 & '89.

Originally posted by Niners816:
^^^^boo.....worst loss of Bill Walsh's career. That team was a juggernaut.....at least it responded like champs in '88 & '89.

I know it was a bad game because it started the QB controversy but it is a pretty historic game in 49er history. Just a shame the 49ers couldn't truly get their revenge in 1998 when the Vikings had that great team.

Originally posted by 49erFan816:

Originally posted by Niners816:
^^^^boo.....worst loss of Bill Walsh's career. That team was a juggernaut.....at least it responded like champs in '88 & '89.

I know it was a bad game because it started the QB controversy but it is a pretty historic game in 49er history. Just a shame the 49ers couldn't truly get their revenge in 1998 when the Vikings had that great team.

I try to forget games like this. The only "bad" loss I ever watched again was the 1992 NFC Championship. All of the others, Super Bowl 47, the 1998 Divisional Playoffs, the losses to the Packers, 1993 NFC Championship, 1990 NFC Championship, etc I can't do it.

Interesting history on our boy Ray Rhodes:

"Rhodes was selected by the New York Giants in the tenth round of the 1974 NFL draft, 236th overall. He spent his first three years in the NFL as a wide receiver before switching to defensive back. In 1979, he was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for Tony Dungy, another future head coach. He retired after one season with the 49ers."

"As coach:
San Francisco 49ers (1981–1991)
(1981–1982) (Assistant defensive backs coach)
(1983–1988) (Defensive backs coach)
(1989-1991) (Defensive coordinator)
Green Bay Packers (1992–1993) (Defensive coordinator)
San Francisco 49ers (1994) (Defensive coordinator)
Philadelphia Eagles (1995–1998) (Head coach)
Green Bay Packers (1999) (Head coach)
Washington Redskins (2000) (Defensive coordinator)
Denver Broncos (2001–2002) (Defensive coordinator)
Seattle Seahawks (2003–2007) (Defensive coordinator)
Houston Texans (2008–2010) (Defensive assistant)
Cleveland Browns (2011–2012) (Senior assistant/defense)"

One of a handful of coaches to have been part of all 5 49er Super Bowl teams -- George Seifert was one of the main ones, not sure where the link was that showed the other two.

Cool to know he was in the league as recently as 2012.

Will always consider Ray a true Niner. Look at that resume of DB coach and DC for SF.....like a true spiritual successor to Seifert.

Nice that he was able to rejoin us in '94 for one more ride.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rhodes

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:
Interesting history on our boy Ray Rhodes:

"Rhodes was selected by the New York Giants in the tenth round of the 1974 NFL draft, 236th overall. He spent his first three years in the NFL as a wide receiver before switching to defensive back. In 1979, he was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for Tony Dungy, another future head coach. He retired after one season with the 49ers."

"As coach:
San Francisco 49ers (1981–1991)
(1981–1982) (Assistant defensive backs coach)
(1983–1988) (Defensive backs coach)
(1989-1991) (Defensive coordinator)
Green Bay Packers (1992–1993) (Defensive coordinator)
San Francisco 49ers (1994) (Defensive coordinator)
Philadelphia Eagles (1995–1998) (Head coach)
Green Bay Packers (1999) (Head coach)
Washington Redskins (2000) (Defensive coordinator)
Denver Broncos (2001–2002) (Defensive coordinator)
Seattle Seahawks (2003–2007) (Defensive coordinator)
Houston Texans (2008–2010) (Defensive assistant)
Cleveland Browns (2011–2012) (Senior assistant/defense)"

One of a handful of coaches to have been part of all 5 49er Super Bowl teams -- George Seifert was one of the main ones, not sure where the link was that showed the other two.

Cool to know he was in the league as recently as 2012.

Will always consider Ray a true Niner. Look at that resume of DB coach and DC for SF.....like a true spiritual successor to Seifert.

Nice that he was able to rejoin us in '94 for one more ride.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rhodes

Dennis Green is known for his rant after the Cardinals lost to the Bears some years ago but the guy was the wide receivers coach for the 49ers from 86-88 when Rice had his 22 TD season in 87 and his SB MVP season in 88. Went on later to coach the Vikings with Cris Carter in his prime and later Randy Moss with that pretty explosive passing with Moss and Carter for the Vikings from 98-00. Then went on to the Cardinals to coach Fitzgerald and Boldin.

I figure this is the best place for something like this. Really in no particular order, I plan on profiling some past teams just for the hell of it. They will contain stat breakdowns, tidbits, gifs of big plays and even full games when they are on YouTube. I decided to start with 1991.

'91 was always one of my favorites because of how hot they got after thanksgiving. You figure 1991 had an offseason kinda like we just had in terms of quality of players lost. Basically, we lost the 80's dynasty guys (Joe, Ronnie, Roger, Keena) and had Charles Haley go full retard basically forcing us to deal him. Anyways I thought I profile the team a bit and share it.

1991

10-6, 3rd place in NFC west

OFFENSE - 3rd overall in NFL
Total yards - 366.1 per game
Pass - 249.8 per game
Rush - 116.3 per game
Pass/rush ratio - 55.4%/44.6%
Reception distribution
-WR1 (24.6%)
-WR2 (19.7%)
-FB1 (10.5%)
-HB1 (9.2%)
-TE1 (8.3%)
-WR3 (7.4%)
-HB2 (7.1%)

DEFENSE - 6th overall in NFL
Total yards - 284.6 per game
Pass - 190.1 per game
Rush - 94.5 per game
Sacks - 30
Ints - 12

Misc. season notes
- Steve young averages 9.0 yards per pass attempt.
- rushed for 1861 yards as a team, but the leading rusher was Keith Henderson with 561 yards.
- Cofer was 14/28 on FGs....how this guy hung around for 2 more years is beyond me.
- didn't get over .500 til December 1st
- our 6 loss were by 2, 3, 6, 5, 7 and 3 points.
- beat a 10 win KC playoff team 28-10
- beat a 11 win NO playoff team 38-24
- beat a 11 win CHI playoff team 52-14 (harbaugh was bears starter)
- beat a 12 win DET playoff team that reached the NFC title game and throttled the precursor to the cowboy dynasty team 38-7, by a score of 35-3.

Final thoughts - 12 year old 816 absolutely loved this team. I live in the Midwest and that ass kicking of the Bears was tasty and happened during Christmas break making it even better I would have given anything for this team to have gotten a crack in the playoffs. Washington and Buffalo got extremely lucky not having to face this team firing on all cylinders.

1991 Firestorm game vs Det

Steve's stats right after the above play.

Don't think these games had been posted before. The 1994 Atlanta game was Deion's return to Atlanta, fight with Rison and 90 yard pick six.

1988 was the finesse a** 49ers opening a can on the Bears at Soldier field.

That first half in 1994 was ridiculous. Steve was something crazy like 15-16 with 4 TDs.

1995 at Dallas

Easily my favorite game of the last 20 years (1998 Wildcard game vs GB is a close second and about 3 games from 2011 are up there really high). Coming off back to back home losses to NO and expansion Carolina, niners limped into this game at 5-4. Dallas was 8-1 and talking a whole lot of s**t the week leading up to this game. Steve was out again and the thought was Dallas was gonna end our season. Anyways we kicked the s**t out of them and my favorite quote after the game was from Eddie when he said something to the effect of "I want to thank Dallas for not running the score on us". 1995 was just a weird year at its worst they were losing home games to expansion teams and at their best they dominated the eventual champ with a backup QB at their place.

Originally posted by 49erFan816:

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:

Interesting history on our boy Ray Rhodes:

"Rhodes was selected by the New York Giants in the tenth round of the 1974 NFL draft, 236th overall. He spent his first three years in the NFL as a wide receiver before switching to defensive back. In 1979, he was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for Tony Dungy, another future head coach. He retired after one season with the 49ers."

"As coach:
San Francisco 49ers (1981–1991)
(1981–1982) (Assistant defensive backs coach)
(1983–1988) (Defensive backs coach)
(1989-1991) (Defensive coordinator)
Green Bay Packers (1992–1993) (Defensive coordinator)
San Francisco 49ers (1994) (Defensive coordinator)
Philadelphia Eagles (1995–1998) (Head coach)
Green Bay Packers (1999) (Head coach)
Washington Redskins (2000) (Defensive coordinator)
Denver Broncos (2001–2002) (Defensive coordinator)
Seattle Seahawks (2003–2007) (Defensive coordinator)
Houston Texans (2008–2010) (Defensive assistant)
Cleveland Browns (2011–2012) (Senior assistant/defense)"

One of a handful of coaches to have been part of all 5 49er Super Bowl teams -- George Seifert was one of the main ones, not sure where the link was that showed the other two.

Cool to know he was in the league as recently as 2012.

Will always consider Ray a true Niner. Look at that resume of DB coach and DC for SF.....like a true spiritual successor to Seifert.

Nice that he was able to rejoin us in '94 for one more ride.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rhodes

Dennis Green is known for his rant after the Cardinals lost to the Bears some years ago but the guy was the wide receivers coach for the 49ers from 86-88 when Rice had his 22 TD season in 87 and his SB MVP season in 88. Went on later to coach the Vikings with Cris Carter in his prime and later Randy Moss with that pretty explosive passing with Moss and Carter for the Vikings from 98-00. Then went on to the Cardinals to coach Fitzgerald and Boldin.

Brian Billick, Green's coordinator in Minnesota and won a Superbowl as Ravens head coach, was a 11th round pick of the 49ers in 1977. He was cut but would return to the 49ers as assistant public relations director from 79-80.

Originally posted by Niners816:
That first half in 1994 was ridiculous. Steve was something crazy like 15-16 with 4 TDs.

our second game against KC was hard to watch , our O-Line was depleted and couldn't slow down their pass rush ....Steve didn't have the protection to duel it out with Joe