When someone asks who is the greatest player, not just wide receiver, of all time is please show them this game. With one play Jerry Rice shifted the competitive balance from an 8-1 team to a 5-4 team. The end
Cowboys 49ers rivalry of the 90's was the best. This was a big upset, Dallas was a 14 point favorite because the 49ers had so many injuries. Lol duck walk.
People would like to say Dallas owned the Niners in the 90s, I don't think that was the case! Considering The Niners were 5-4-0 against Dallas during that stretch including 4-1-0 after '93!
The difference was Dallas got their three and San Francisco got just one. The 49ers of 1992-1993 and 1995-1998 were damn good, but it was this or that that kept them from getting back.
If it weren't for a shocking 28-27 loss to the Falcons later on, this upset win over Dallas would have given the Niners homefield advantage in the playoffs.
That or if the Boys had lost a should be, though ended up being anything but a late season gimmie game against a shit Giants squad, which they needed a last second field goal to win. San Francisco would have had a far easier path to the NFC title game if they had drawn the good, but hardly stellar Eagles squad in round #2, and would have been very tough for Dallas to take down on the road in the third round, when they began to have the Cowboys number at the time too.
John McCartney And in a way was still hungover in a way after that schoolyard ads whipping in Texas Stadium, They lost to Norv Turner and the Skins and can't forget the " 4th Down and Dumb game in Philadelphia , lol.
And that was when T.O. went to dance upon the Cowboys star logo at midfield after getting another touchdown, and got decked by George Teague the second time he did so too! 🤣
The Niners had already fallen apart and been put back together as a lesser version led by Garcia and Owens. They were better than the aged Cowboys but the league had passed them both up by then.
Scored on Deion basically, who should've broken with any coach that told him to get away from Rice. Where was this legendary chase-down speed from Prime?
Eventually The San Francisco 49ers would end up feeling just like The Dallas Cowboys following their Deflating Issues Of Having been dethroned by the Green Bay Packers following their devastating loss to The Green Bay Packers during that Following January of 1996 during that NFC Championship at Candlestick Park !!!!! 😉😉😉😉😉🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈!!!!!
This game showed what a terrible coach Switzer was. You sign Deion to big money contract and you have a lb cover Jerry RIce. Deion should of followed Rice all over the field
It still wouldn’t have worked. Deion was one of those guys who survived (Thrived really) on natural talent instead of true preparation where Rice outworked people
This was one of a handful of games when you could slowly but surely begin to see the cracks start to form in the then Cowboys mighty armor that season, when they got totally socked at home by a very good, but also injury wracked 49ers team, without Steve Young for that matter too. They may have regrouped, and managed to win their third Super Bowl title in four years, but ended up being the last hurrah of the dominant force they had at the time, and (despite having a few good teams here and there since) have yet to truly get back the once proud franchise's mojo.
They have made no conference championship games since 1995; though to be fair, in 2014 they may have been screwed by a no call in the second round. But yeah, very underwhelming for as front and center as their team is since the mid 90’s.
6-4? With the “#1 defense in the league”?! What was going on with the 49ers that year? Was the decision to trade Ricky Watters that much of a back breaker? I think so
They ultimately had a defense that had five all pros, allowed the fewest yards per carry and lowest passer rating (only them, tge 91 Eagles and 71 Colts have done that since the merger), and was second only to Kansas City by points. And while the offense ranked first by points, the offensive line was getting older, Derek Loville was a clear downgrade as a runner from Watters, and Steve Young got hurt and they had to start Elvis Grbac for five games. Overall a really good team that finished 11-5, but could’ve gone 13-3 with fewer injuries.
At 0:48 The banner in the background when Merton Hanks is in the endzone is his (and my) high school alma mater "Lake Highlands High School". I wonder if he noticed it there while he was celebrating his famous "pigeon dance" TD celebration. lol
Mark271792 and when Jerry Rice scored the opening touchdown in the 1st quarter, they showed Aresnio Hall on the sidelines, if anybody remember watching this beatdown lol Good memories for me.😁😁🏈
Today with the main lesson with two America's Team of the 49ers and Cowboys on FOX/Sunday Ticket doubleheaderin Jerry Rice's case : " Don't call it A Comeback, I been here for years!!! " 😁 . I gonna mix it with old school hip hop. Earlier in the week, Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin were being Kool Moe Dee all in one dissing the 49ers saying they couldn't cover Primetime, take Kool Moe Dee off the 1987 cover of " How You Like Me Now" and replace it Irvin and Deion with Rice #80 Jersey underneath the Jeep in place of LL Cool J kangol, they fought they won the battle already before Sunday. Well, Jerry Rice, Merton Hanks Derek Loville and Elvis Grbac starting still while Young giving him class notes destroyed the Cowboys like LL Cool J destroyed Moe Dee career with knockout punches in the beginning with the Rice TD, and the D said " Mama Said Knock You Out" to Troy Aikman as he left the game and Jason Garrett came in but the damage had been done as Texas Stadium Jerry Jones Barry and the Cowboys are left Shell Shocked, and lot of people don't know, the Cowboys were favorites to Win this matchup. The 2nd lesson is: Excuses! Excuses! If anybody remember this when it was aired, everybody from Dallas Deion saying they had a full game plan, while Barry Swizter went off " I LOST THE DAMN GAME! JUST GIVE IT TO ME, GET IT OUT YOURE SYSTEM,AND GET YOU'RE ASSES READY FOR OAKLAND!!!" 😁. End of lesson
Could’ve gotten another playoff game between these two had San Francisco not of lost to the Atlanta Falcons by a point to close out the 1995 season. Once Dallas was gifted the home field by that 49ers loss, it changed all the dynamics. Not a chance choker Favre was ever winning a big game in big D. This season was the Cowboys last hurrah and the 49ers while competitive too were never good enough to get back to the Super Bowl in the 90’s.
You’ll notice Steve Young not starting and Steve missed many games after the 1994 season, even taking one last hard hit that ended his career in Arizona. Then you’ll notice Troy Aikman getting hurt in this very game. That was old school hard hitting NFL defenses that were allowed to blitz without any hesitation, allowed to hit hard and low and DBs were allowed to defend. The novice thinks that smug kid in Kansas City is great, and that kid has never saw the likes of what I mentioned. What a watered down sh1t show the NFL is now.
If you’re referring to Patrick Mahomes, I’d say he’s a pretty darn good quarterback. He doesn’t put up the same raw totals in an earlier generation of the rules (such as this one), and 2023 shouldn’t go down as one of his better years, but at the end of the day I think we’ll look back and say he was one of the best at the position in the early 2020’s. As for Steve Young, he was excellent, and one of the best in his generation. In 1995 specifically, if he is able to play all 16 games than San Francisco is probably the one seed (after all, they lost two close games to the Saints and Panthers with Elvis Grbac starting), and possibly repeats as champions (assuming Green Bay still loses to Dallas, Dallas loses to San Francisco, and San Fran beats Pittsburgh). If that was the case, then the label of “team of the 90’s” becomes a debate because Dallas, San Francisco, and Denver would each have two Super Bowl wins in the decade.
