Greatest Single Season NFL Team's

[filial_piety]

If you're comparing the distance between the 90's Cowboys and their competition, that may be a greater gap than the great teams today have over their competition, but the teams today would beat thoese 80's 49er's and 90's Cowboys teams. I know many will disagree, but the players for the most part are bigger and faster today, and you're average second string player in better as well.

I couldn't disagree more and I watched them in the late 80s and all throughout the 90s. The marginal difference in the average speed and size is incremental and not enough to give them an advantage.

If you were talking about players from the 50s and 60s, I'd agree. But the talent pool after the 80s is pretty much the same. I think they're interchangeable.

But simply based on talent, strategy, coaching and discipline, those great teams of those times would destroy alot of the teams today--including the best ones.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

@mastermind the '94 49ers beat the dynasty Cowboys in the NFC title game. Another stacked team. They weren't out here playing nobodies.

 

[wire28]

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Dominated in regular season despite losing all pro LT, starting MLB, dynamic running back, starting kicker and MVP candidate QB :happywentz:amongst others.

Beat defending NFC champs in first game, crushed best defense in NFL in second game and defeated the cheatriots with a back up journeyman QB

And in their spare time did mad community work and protested civil injustice, had trump/MAGAset mad and had one of the most lit super bowl celebrations with a GOAT level speech :kelceLII:

ByrdGang 2017, top 1 team of all time :eaglesmyman::SBnickfoles::eaglesflipbird:

Spoiler

:sadcowboys:

 

[mastermind]

@mastermind the '94 49ers beat the dynasty Cowboys in the NFC title game. Another stacked team. They weren't out here playing nobodies.

That's awesome.

The Slurs didn't lose 40-8 at home to an under .500 team.

During the 1991 season, they beat six teams that won 10 or more games and their margin of victory was 4 points more than the 49ers and the 49ers played in one of the weakest divisions in the NFL.

The Slurs were better. A lot of lists are starting to realize that and ranking them accordingly.

 

[DStyles]

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2011 Giants

 

[Street Knowledge]

I couldn't disagree more and I watched them in the late 80s and all throughout the 90s. The marginal difference in the average speed and size is incremental and not enough to give them an advantage.

If you were talking about players from the 50s and 60s, I'd agree. But the talent pool after the 80s is pretty much the same. I think they're interchangeable.

But simply based on talent, strategy, coaching and discipline, those great teams of those times would destroy alot of the teams today--including the best ones.

The average offensive lineman in the 80’s was the size of rob gronkowski.

 

[filial_piety]

The average offensive lineman in the 80’s was the size of rob gronkowski.

So, who would you go with?

The 1992 Cowboys or the 2018 Cowboys??

 

[Ohene]

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Dominated in regular season despite losing all pro LT, starting MLB, dynamic running back, starting kicker and MVP candidate QB :happywentz:amongst others.

Beat defending NFC champs in first game, crushed best defense in NFL in second game and defeated the cheatriots with a back up journeyman QB

And in their spare time did mad community work and protested civil injustice, had trump/MAGAset mad and had one of the most lit super bowl celebrations with a GOAT level speech :kelceLII:

ByrdGang 2017, top 1 team of all time :eaglesmyman::SBnickfoles::eaglesflipbird:

Spoiler

:sadcowboys:

that breakdown though

 

[AceMan]

2015 Carolina Panthers

I’ll never forget the Year of the Dab

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Not even gonna read the thread, just gonna say the 1994 Niners and walk away victoriously.

Not counting a Week 17 match that they threw to rest their guys, ended the season winning 13 consecutive games (don't care about those first couple games when the new players were still figuring each other out).

Won their three playoff games by an average score of 43-23. Beat the defending Super Bowl champ Cowboys by double-digits.

Offensive skill positions were sick: Steve Young was the best QB in the NFL, Jerry Rice was the best WR, Ricky Watters was an All-Pro RB and Brent Jones was an All-Pro TE

They had four All-Pro quality offensive linemen in front of them (Oates and Sapolu were All-Pro that year and Barton/Wallace were just coming off All-Pro seasons).

The D-line was sick - Dana Stubblefield was maybe the best tackle in the game and Bryant Young next to him was a stud too, plus Richard Dent was a HOF end. Ken Norton Jr. backed them up as one of the best middle linebackers in the game, and Ricky Jackson, Tim Harris, Charles Mann were all former Pro Bowlers.

And then the secondary might have been the best ever. Deion Sanders was the best CB in football, Merton Hanks was arguably the best free safety, and Tim McDonald was an All-Pro SS. Hell, Eric Davis might have been the "weakest link" in the secondary and he went All-Pro the next three seasons.


And they made it all work together like a damn machine. That team was so fun to watch. They could have won that Super Bowl by 40.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Not even gonna read the thread, just gonna say the 1994 Niners and walk away victoriously.

Not counting a Week 17 match that they threw to rest their guys, ended the season winning 13 consecutive games (don't care about those first couple games when the new players were still figuring each other out).

Won their three playoff games by an average score of 43-23. Beat the defending Super Bowl champ Cowboys by double-digits.

Offensive skill positions were sick: Steve Young was the best QB in the NFL, Jerry Rice was the best WR, Ricky Watters was an All-Pro RB and Brent Jones was an All-Pro TE

They had four All-Pro quality offensive linemen in front of them (Oates and Sapolu were All-Pro that year and Barton/Wallace were just coming off All-Pro seasons).

The D-line was sick - Dana Stubblefield was maybe the best tackle in the game and Bryant Young next to him was a stud too, plus Richard Dent was a HOF end. Ken Norton Jr. backed them up as one of the best middle linebackers in the game, and Ricky Jackson, Tim Harris, Charles Mann were all former Pro Bowlers.

And then the secondary might have been the best ever. Deion Sanders was the best CB in football, Merton Hanks was arguably the best free safety, and Tim McDonald was an All-Pro SS. Hell, Eric Davis might have been the "weakest link" in the secondary and he went All-Pro the next three seasons.


And they made it all work together like a damn machine. That team was so fun to watch. They could have won that Super Bowl by 40.

+rep. None of these other teams being mentioned wanna see the '94 49ers at all

 

[GoAggieGo.]

@AceMan I was going through some of my old shyt, and found a shirt that had Cam, Olsen, TD, and Kueckly from that 2015 season, and the shirt said Believe. Picked it up at a Charlotte vendor right before the NFC Championship game. That season was so fun.

I just wish we could’ve finished it off with a Super Bowl dub.

 

[backbreaker65]

A lot of you are much younger than me so I forgive you for not knowing this. The 76 Pitt Steelers lost to Oakland in the Conf finals going for a 3 peat superbowls. But the story of that season was early in the season they lost 3 games in a row because of bad QB Play and complaceny on Def. So the Defense made it their mission to not allow any touchdowns because the offense was playing with a backup because Bradshaw got hurt. This is the greatest display of Defense in modern NFL history. Experts forget this display of Defense because they didn't win the superbowl, but what they did do was announce that we the Defense has to win these games and they did. 9 games in a row only giving up 28 points 5 shutouts and 2 3 point games. People talk about the 85 bears or the 2000 Ravens. They don't have shyt on the 76 Steelers Defense. And to think they did this for a decade.

 

[Street Knowledge]

So, who would you go with?

The 1992 Cowboys or the 2018 Cowboys??

What does that have to do with your claim of being no difference athletically or size with teams from the 80’s till now?

The average team back then would get killed by the average team today in the trenches. Imagine Gronk size tackles trying to block JJ watt for an entire game

 

[Street Knowledge]

Oh I mean they lost 40-8 at home to an under .500 team.

That’s a blemish no matter how people try to slice it