NFL Power Rankings: 30 most dominant teams all-time
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1994 San Francisco 49ers
No Montana? No problem. If anything, 1994 helped Steve Young establish himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in Niners history, along with getting some big monkey off of his back.
San Francisco’s blowout 49-26 blowout win against San Diego in Super Bowl XXIX was just one of many highlights for the ’94 Niners.
They went 13-3 in the regular season with the league’s highest-scoring offense led by Young, Jerry Rice, John Taylor, Brent Jones and Ricky Watters.
Young had a career-year in ’94, throwing for 3,969 yards with 35 touchdowns (one shy of his career-most 36 in 1998) with a career-best 70.3 completion percentage and an NFL record 112.8 passer rating. Rice was the recipient of a many of those passes, catching 112 balls for 1,499 yards with 13 touchdowns.
Everyone knew that San Francisco was going to win it all from the very first game, blowing out the Raiders 44-14. It was the first of seven times that season San Francisco scored 40 points or more.
That offense was so dominant that even their opponents knew the Niners were going to win.
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