I saw that too and thought, wow, imagine if you could get your players to play like that? Probably win some extra games but I see my teams guys walking and being divas because they didn't get the ball or getting up from flopping everywhere.
If the dolphins faced the bears in the sb, I bet you Dolphins would've won. The bears only loss was to Miami and they exposed 46 personal by quick screen passes and Max protect deep balls.
Coochielixer22 Well the 72 dolphins wouldn’t have able to execute those quick passes and deep balls they were ground and pound and that was all they knew because no one stopped it all year
The 89 and 84 49ers are #1 and #2 and #3 85 Bears. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2019/08/05/nfl-best-teams-history-all-time-patriots-bears-dolphins/1886459001/ NFL Films Top 10 Greatest Teams in NFL History #1 1989 49ers ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NBzQHW3wEHo.html Never be happy with anything less than #1 which rightfully belongs to the 89 and 84 49ers.
@@thegoat164 You're clearly a biased 49er fan so your opinion doesn't really mean much, Steelers, Bears, Dolphins all had better teams buddy. This list got it right,try paying more attention to football besides just the 49ers and you'll see.
@@567BubbaGump Those links I left were not my "opinion" and the list is not correct as the 89 and 84 Niners would beat the 72 Dolphins, 85 Bears and 78 Steelers. This list is East Coast bias nonsense.
@@LordDefekator Marino beat the 85 Bears, but he couldn't beat the 85 Patriots in the Championship game. Its a shame. Had Miami played them in the SB, Marino would of exposed all their weaknesses again and rendered the 85 irrelevant
@@MIKECNW She's a famous, deaf, actress that can make a joke because it applies to her. Hard to be insensitive to something when it something she has to deal with everyday. Maybe you should make a support group for all the people offended by her sign language jokes about being deaf.
@@defaultname9674 that's a really good point. I don't have a problem with them being the number one team here at all, they went undefeated and won the Super Bowl, then repeated as champions. But I would also say the undefeated team only won the Super Bowl 14-7, it would've been 17-0 if not for the Dolphins shooting themselves in the foot with a bad snap that lead to the Redskins scoring but it still happened and so it was 14-7. I think that mistake with the "they didn't play anybody" narrative and the no name defense identity they had hurts how ppl view them, whether that's fair or not Idk but I do think it's fair to question whether they could beat some of the other really great teams like the 84 or 89 49ers or the 85 Bears, or even the 07 undefeated regular season Patriots that lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl. And I really don't know if they could beat any one of those teams, not in my opinion anyway but that's my opinion. But either way, I do believe they should have the #1 spot on this list bc they played in 3 straight Super Bowls, going 2-1, going undefeated in the second season while winning the Super Bowl, then winning the Super Bowl again the following season.
@@defaultname9674 I meant to respond awhile back, Idk why I didn't but a like brought me back to the post now. Anyway, I agree 100% about the 73 Dolphins, they had the great 72 season and repeated likely getting everybodys best in 73 and beat up a Bud Grant coached Vikings team 24-7, that also went to multiple Super Bowls with a bunch of HOF's on both sides of the ball. The 71 team lost to a returning Cowboys team that had lost the 70 Super Bowl and that counts for something too, it certainly would seem to give Dallas an edge. One on one I'd take 73 over 72, but the undefeated season makes that team look better imo and the 73 team losing 2 games makes them look worse but I'd still take 73, while still giving 72 the top spot here. And I think the early 70s Dolphins despite getting the top spot are still one of the most underrated teams ever, maybe second only to those early 90s Bills teams who get no respect bc they never won the SB, which isn't fair bc they went to four in a row losing to the Giants and Redskins who already were SB championship teams then twice to an eventual three time championship Cowboys dynasty. Idk exact three year streaks that would match that Dolphins team, not with SB wins to go with it. I think if Montana doesn't go down against the Giants the 49ers may have won three straight, but that's only a what if and the first of that streak was a six loss team beating the Bengals in the SB. Another what if for me is if the Giants didn't lose to the Patriots in the final game of the undefeated season, if they don't play in the regular season, I don't believe the Giants win that SB.
The 89 Niners (Unstoppable Force) vs 85 Bears (Immovable Object). Here are their three playoff scores: 85 Bears (21-0, 24-0, 46-10) 89 Niners (41-13, 30-3, 55-10) No other teams have been that dominant in the playoffs. All TDs against came in garbage time late in 4th quarter.
@Harry Engel Its a toss up. The 85 patriots had a slightly better overall offense but committed more penalties and the broncos had a better defense yardage wise. Both teams are actually pretty equal, i'd say its a toss up, the patriots were more prone to make mistakes but their defense was much better at getting turnovers. In their playoff run they got 18(!!!) turnovers over 4 games, while the broncos got 5 over 3 games (none in the sb).
They would’ve destroyed the NFL for years. The biggest weakness of that team was lack of a speedster, game breaking WR. With Rice, opposing defenses don’t learn to crowd the box and cut off the medium length passing lanes because Montana to Rice would’ve eaten them alive.
@@Tootswilligers Are you saying it's BS to think Payton couldn't have followed Perry's block or is it BS to think Payton didn't earn the chance to try? By the way, if you care to look up the interview, you'll a person who agrees with me, Mike Ditka.
Mike Barksdale Being Black is a benefit in America? When did this monumental metamorphosis take place? Please provide me with salient data points, for I completely missed the upward mobility of black people from deprived to privileged. No need for a War and Peace synopsis, just a datum or two will do. I'll wait patiently for what I know will be your profound response.
Growing up in Australia it was those 49er teams of the 80's that made me fall in love with NFL. We had to wait a week for the highlights but I loved every minute. Still a 49ers fan to this day.
@Moishie Oh that season where the Dolphins played TWO whole teams with a winning record in a 14 game season? Yeah, real impressed, so impressed I would bet serious money that any of the REAL top ten teams use miami as a doormat on the way to a win by 2 touchdowns or more. Shula is still mad that his male nurse didn't change his diapers, because the nurse knows the miami playoff history from 1983 and knows Shula "likes it muddy".
Psalmist the Steelers that won super bowl 13 needed jackie smith to butter up his hands to win also they lost 2 games. The bears didn’t have a better offense than the Niners. The dolphins played two less games then the 9ers did.
And thats why they call them the whiners there is always an excuse Pittsburgh ended that undefeated season my fam all niner fans bowed down to that steeler win. The only steeler fan surrounded by niner fans gave up props for the only team to beat the niners that year and we beat your whiners so get over it. You werent going undefeated and didnt
if the 9ers win that game, they either lose again at some point or don't end up winning the super bowl. losses like those are what catapult teams to super bowl victories.
The list is not about who had the best record. The list is about the greatest team of all time. Steelers 78 and 49ers 89 would destroy Dolphins, who beat big bench of crap teams throughout the season.
The 1984 49ers played primarily a 3-4 defense. That D-Line depth was NINE DEEP. 8 of those 9 actually played. That's pressure ALL DAY on opposing O-Lines on both passing AND running. Combine that with an PRO BOWL SECONDARY. It's over. That was Marino's only real shot at a ring. But they just happen to run into the team of the decade at their very peak.
I was happy when George Seifert took over as Head Coach for the San Francisco 49ers in 1989 after Bill Walsh retired, but I wished that Walsh would of stayed on as Coach for a couple more seasons.
Best team I ever saw was the 89 49ers. Joe Montana, Roger Craig, Tom Rathman, Jerry Rice, John Taylor, and Brent Jones on offense and Charles Haley, Bill Romanowski, Matt Millen, and Ronnie Lott on defense. The 84 Niners were great too but the 89 team was the best one I saw
If memory suits me correct both super bowl teams on either side of the 85 bears did the same thing and yet were never considered as great as the 85 bears. Those teams being the 84 49ers, and a team that gets forgotten about with a 14and 2 record, a team that steam rolled everyone in the playoffs, the 1986 New York Giants!
You can live with that? I can't because the 1989 49ers deserve #1 because they had the most dominating playoff run in NFL History. The 1984 49ers deserve #2 because they were one BS penalty away from a perfect season, losing one reg season game to the Steelers by 3 pts on a controversial penalty. 1989 49ers #5 1984 49ers #4 I don't think so! USA Today Top 100 Greatest Teams of All Time has the 1984 49ers #2 and I can live with that. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2019/08/05/nfl-best-teams-history-all-time-patriots-bears-dolphins/1886459001/ NFL Films Top 10 Greatest Teams of All Time #1 1989 49ers ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NBzQHW3wEHo.html Yeah, I think were done here.
I was 5 and yes it was the first game I REALLY remember. I can still see the tv set and feel the static of the screen cuz I was an inch from it... Bears fan ever since, no matter what. Best team ever.
@@pmonk1177 Gave him a "Woooooooooo Hit" and changed the momentum of Super Bowl 23. That man would have been one of the 300 Spartans if he lived during that time and place.
85' Bears! Superbowl 20! Being 11 years old and the hype in Chicago at that time was the best feeling a kid could have. To top it off the Superbowl was the day before my 12th birthday. BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER!!
This picture of Joe Namath and Curt Gowdy chilling on a pristine Laguna Beach giving the interview at 16:49 really really REALLY makes me envious and nostalgic at the same time
The 2020 Jets may be joining them. They are 0-10 and have six games remaining: five against teams over .500 and one against the Patriots (who might be over .500 by week 17 when the game happens).
The '91 Redskins belonged in this group, not #15. They had a bigger margin of victory than ANY other SB winner, beating 5 playoff teams from that season in the process. Literally the only way they could have been more dominant is go undefeated.
in terms of BEST teams, it would go 07 pats, 85 bears, 91 redskins. greatest teams, the 91 redskins i would put at 5 all-time, behind the 72 dolphins, 85 bears, 89 49ers, maybe 66 packers.
I've always considered Earl Morrall an HoF worthy player. His stats exceed already inducted HoF QBs & his game is evident, especially integral contributions among Championship & SB teams including the #1 Miami Dolphins.
What I like most about watching 49ers offensive highlights from the late 80s is if Jerry Rice isn't the one making the highlights, then he's the one on screen making the key blocks for the ones making the highlights
Rice wasn't even in the NFL for thier first 2 SB wins in 81 and 84 seasons. You must have only watched hilites of the last 2. Montana was in all 4. 4-0. Perfection.
Before watching the top 5: Da Bears number one, by a mile and then some more... The team was crazy, special, entertaining, cool QB (who delivered each week, including that famous MIN game, before the defense started to click from somewhere around week 4 on), Da Coach, blow-outs, the Fridge, the SB shuffle... You cant make that stuff up. Unforgettable. Its like it happened yesterday. No one in Hollywood could have come up with something like this. Da 1985 Bears the best ever. Not only in Football, but all sports.
NPC #64928066795432009 you sound bout as dumb as your name Joe Montana himself proclaims Brady the best he won a mvp in year 17 or 16 unheard of nine super bowl appearances multiple MVPs SB MVPs passing yards completions the ability to stay healthy all theses years man stop it and if you switch them Tom in Walsh system destroys everything Montana not going to nine chips he couldn’t even stay on his team they sent him to the chiefs and put in Steve Young dude stop 🛑
For anyone confused, the reason McDaniels threw the projector after Buddy said they were his heroes, is because Buddy was being traded and the team found out before the game. They took out their anger on New England for that Super Bowl
The list is supposedly "greatest" teams, not "most talented." So the '72 Dolphins are the only possible choice for #1 and that's not even arguable. But most talented is very much open for debate.
jasunn dakidd 07 patriots had talent but only had like 5 elite players and a bunch of above average while ravens, bears, Steelers, 49ers had like 10 elite players when they won Super Bowls 07 patriots also lost only game that mattered against the giants who had 4 elite defensive linemen who destroyed the o-line
The ‘72 Dolphins also played the weakest roster of teams on any of the Top 5 : the Chiefs and Colts on the decline, the Cardinals and Patriots who couldn’t get anything right, the Jets with a horrible defense, the Steelers, Oilers, and Bills before their successful 70s teams and the Vikings in the one season they didn’t make the playoffs in a span of 15 years. And for some inane reason they managed to avoid the Raiders, who practically owned them. So no, I wouldn’t put this team at number one by any stretch. They were more lucky than good, as the old saying goes. That honor should go to the 1989 49ers or the 1978 Steelers.
Pierangelo Espinocilla sake argument is made about patriots they play in afc East so how does that affect them in playoffs home field advantage omg that’s why they win games in playoffs obviously 🙄
Elway sucked in the 3 SB he lost in the 80s. Back then, before he finally won one at the end of his career, he was in the Fran Tarkenton category, 0-3. He got completely schooled by Montana. When he won later, it was because they were primarily a running team. Ball control and defense.
THE QB'S AND RECEIVERS HAVE SUCH AN ADVANTAGE IN THE 2000'S i was watching cowbys v eagles staubach gets sacked and with quite a delay gets pounded into the ground. it was pure violence back then no flags... great now its a video game
I think the 92 Cowboys are completely overlooked for some reason and should be in the top 5 teams of all time. Future HOF at QB, RB, WR, DE. Troy, Emmitt, Irvin, Novacek, Moose Johnson, all in their prime. One of the most dominate OL in the history of the NFL. The number one defense in the NFL that year they were super deep and it was the youngest team in the NFL meaning they were fast and athletic and in their primes. That team was a Leon Lett drop ball on the 1 yard line away from the Super Bowl scoring record. That team was unstoppable.
FOR MY MONEY I STILL SAY THAT 1989 49ERS TEAM WAS THE BEST TEAM FOR A SEASON IN ALL ASPECTS OF FOOTBALL THAT I'VE EVER SEEN...MAYBE EVEN A TIE WITH THE 85 BEARS BUT DAMN THEY WERE JUST A PERFECT TEAM
One of the best teams I have ever seen was that Baltimore team of 2000 or whatever year they won the Super Bowl. Ray Lewis was just a different type of killer.
89 Niners were awesome, talk about road warriors, lost two games by 5 points all year both at Candlestick. Then destroyed the leagues best teams in the playoffs.
@Dicky Jones LOL NO WAY. That 85 Bears Defense would have shut them out and that 89 Niner team would have made their defense look silly. Forget about that defense that would have also shut them out LOL.
@@AndresGrimace What does that have to do with anything/ That 85 Dolphin team had one of the greatest QB's to ever play the game hahaha. Those 72 Dolphins were good but do you really believe they would have been able to run against that Bears team or keep up with that 89 Niner team?
@@byronsmith3152 The 1972 are the best team ever not because they could beat a team from another or any era. It's because of what they did and how they did it and no other team has been able to do. Dominate the teams they had to play against and winning the SB undefeated.
@@AndresGrimace This is about greatest TEAM not greatest season. Their season was great no doubt, but the teams they had to beat were subpar at best. If you are going to say greatest team ever, then you have to look at the team, talent, competition, performance, and how they would potentially match up with other great teams. Yes that is my opinion.
Times sure have changed even though the history hasn't - there was a time when saying that '72 was the greatest of all time would've been like saying Emmitt Smith was the greatest RB all time.
’72 Dolphins faced a strength of schedule of below .350. Nowadays it’s pretty much impossible to be assigned one below .450. Their schedule was three times farther from .500 than is even possible to get nowadays. They also won six games by less than a TD. Really good team, far from the best ever.
you can always make the theory the giants were better than the pats in 2007, the dolphins were better than the bears in 1985, but you can't say anything about any team who played the dolphins in 1972. best team ever if they played today? 07 pats. most dominant team of all-time? '85 bears, '89 49ers, or the '86 giants.
2015 Broncos are criminally underrated at 58 they should be top 20, literally only had decent run game & D. Not to mention they still held a team averaging 31.25 points a game to 10 points
I'm a Giants fan Daniel...so let me start I have no love for those Cowboys. But I think the 92 Cowboys would have beaten the 49ers. They were the number 1 ranked defense and their Oline was impossible to stop.It would have been a tough game...but on a neutral field I take those Cowboys.
If the Chargers had not given up on Drew Brees they would have drafted Larry Fitzgerald in 2004, and maybe San Diego wins the 2007 AFC conference championship.
I don’t know man. Those type of hypothetical scenarios can never keep all variables the same, with not only those 2 teams but the whole league. New England could have certainly won either of those years but it’s certainly not a given. Whose to say the Chargers with Manning could have somehow changed the playoff matchups and advantages with Manning. Maybe New England beats or loses to another NFC team. Or Maybe Rivers and the Giants are the favorites. Either way I think both of those QBs are Hall of Famers. It will be a close vote though.
@cabymont I respect that argument, but that's the same for all these teams. The 84 team outscored their opponents by 248 points in the regular season compared to the 89 team who outscored their opponents by 189 and the almighty 85 Bears who outscored their opponents by 258. And that 84 defense shutout their playoff opponents in 9 outta 12 quarters. But the 89 team was all time dominant in the playoffs as defending SB champs, so I get the argument. Either way, they're both over the 78 Steelers IMO who feasted on a weak schedule. And Im a Cowboy fan, so Im not caping for either of these teams...lol
With all due respect to the 1972 Dolphins, the 1989 49ers are the greatest, most talented, most utterly DOMINANT football team ever assembled. When you score almost 28 pts/game, allow less than 16 per game, go 15-1, then enter the playoffs by rattling off victories of 41-13, 30-3, before ANNIHILATING the #1 defense in football that year (Broncos allowed 14.1 pts/game in the regular season) 55-10...………………..…….. I'm sorry, but you are officially the greatest team we've ever seen
Agree. The 70's Steelers and Cowboys are close, but the dominance and longevity of the 80's/early 90's 49ers, and the 2000's-2010's Patriots are still the standards that everybody else aspires to
@you're right The 70's Steelers and 80's Niners would pound the snot out of any of those Pats SB teams! The Pats may have won ONE more SB than the Niners but those Niner SB Teams leave the Pats SB teams in the REAR VIEW MIRROR. The Top 100 Greatest Teams shows that.
@@RDSports5 It goes even further back with the cowboys from 1965 to 1985 the cowboys only missed the playoffs twice the patriots of the 2000s finally passed that. In the era of the 60s to the 80s the only team that had that type of longevity was the Oakland raiders. And they never met in the superbowl!
@@michaelweizer7794 No doubt. Although I'm a Niners fan, I am also a historian of the game, and actually have Raider fan friends (never understood all the hate). John Madden was a great coach well before he became a video game icon, and his 70's Raider teams were LOADED with HOF talent, same with some of those Tom Flores teams of the early 80's. It was a very different game back then, but assuming rules were the same and those player's had access to modern methods of training, I COMPLETELY agree that any of those Raider teams, Steel Curtain, and probably the Cowboys would beat the Patriots of the past 20 years. The Patriots deserve credit for being a PROLIFIC winning franchise in the last 20 years, but if not for several fortuitous bounces, they would not have won as many championships. Tuck Rule was one that we can all agree (even Patriots fans) that was a fumble, then you have 3 out of the other 5 decided by 3 points (also know as Adam Vinatieri's right foot); what if they just had a mediocre kicker, definitely changes things... So in sum, I respect the Patriots for winning a lot in the last 20 years, but as far as a DOMINANT Super Bowl team, you can't get more dominant than the 49ers of the 80's/94', Steelers, Cowboys, and Raiders of the 70's/early 80's
@@RDSports5 a couple of thoughts, one, did anyone ever think what would have happend if the 1990s buffalo Bill's would have won at least won at least two of the four superbowls they were involved in,second everyone says that the packers were the team of the 60s the steelers the 70s the 49ers the 80s the cowboys the 90s and the Patriots of the 2000s,Did it ever occur to anyone that there. was always another team that was right behind all those teams that dominated through the decades . Think on it, in the 60s right behind the packers was the up and coming cowboys in the 70s with the steelers anytime they had to play the Raiders it was a war, But I would still say that the team that was the contender for the team of that decade was indeed the cowboys as a cowboys fan I would still say that the three superbowls those two teams played were amongst the best super bowl s ever and I'm not forgetting about all the great raiders teams or for that matter all the great Minnesota Vikings teams ever. Then we get to the 80s and me, being a cowboys fan has to give the devils due because right behind the 49ers was the Redskins!. When it came to the 90s no team ever went to the superbowl four straight times like the Buffalo Bills did. I know they lost all four and then the 49ers got into three NFC championships with the cowboys and ask anyone who played in those games it was more like a war! and even when it comes to the Patroits in the AFC if it wasn't the Patriots it was the colts, er Broncos, Peyton manning . If it wasn't those two it was the steelers, if it wasn't the steelers it was the Raven's anyone of those teams would have been there when the Patroits weren't. And although the Patroits lost three superbowls to NFC east teams there hasn't been an NFC team that's been as dominant. The Packers of Aaron Rodgers come close and in some years the cowboys look like they might be coming back( what a big disappointment that usually is!) . But in the 2000s it's the Patroits
