The 49ers were the dynasty of the '90s -- who knew?

[wick]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/09/24/chff/index.html

We looked at each of the signature dynasties and greatest teams since the advent of the T formation, and found one constant: dominant teams dominate with great pass offenses and/or great pass defenses. Their ability to run the ball is almost irrelevant.

Apparently these are the "signature dynasties and greatest teams since the advent of the T formation":

The 1940s Bears
The 1950s Browns
The 1960s Packers
The 1972 Dolphins
The 1970s Steelers
The 1980-90s 49ers
The 21st-century Patriots

 

[DallasEast]

Cold Hard Football Facts should reconsider dropping the "Hard Football Facts" part and stick with just "Cold". The exclusion of the 70's and 90's Cowboys and the inclusion of the 21st century Patriots is a blatant insult. I don't really have a problem with them mentioning the 49ers as being a dynasty of the 80's and 90's as long as readers also understand that San Francisco's dynasty was chugging to an end in the early 90's.

 

[CowboyMark]

The niner dynasty runs from 81 to 98. Team of the 80's. Even though they are not the team of the 90's their dynasty doesn't end till the late 90's. Just like the cowboys weren't the team of the 60's, 70's, or 80's but the Landry dynasty runs from 66 till 85.

 

[dadymat]

I would think the Bills had a better Dynasty than the Niners in the 90's......but the Cowboys were clearly the best

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Companies should hold writers responsible for articles like this and shouldn't allow them to write things like this.

 

[percyhoward]

It's an interesting article, in that it totally ignores total yards, in favor of yards per attempt. Some of the teams he mentioned (Packers, Miami, Pitt) were only average passing teams, but great running teams--if you're talking total yards.

If yards per attempt is the new measuring stick for passing attacks, Romo's on his way to the HOF. (He may be anyway.) Romo trails only Otto Graham in career yards per attempt.

 

[cowboys#1]

its just another guys opinion.

i think the detroit lions are the greatest team in sports history.

see i can do it too.

 

[vta]

That's lame.
It ignores the most important stat: Super Bowl wins, the main reason why these teams play the game. 3 Bowl wins in a decade, more than any other team of it's time, and the Cowboys are not the dynasty of -90's?

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

This is best passing offenses of each era, please read the article before posting misleading thread titles.

 

[wick]

This is best passing offenses of each era, please read the article before posting misleading thread titles.

Did you even read the article? You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Not including Dallas is especially odd considering the Cowboys finished 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st in the NFL in yards per passing attempt from 1992-1995, so it would have bolstered the author's argument.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

The Cowboys were a bad quarter away from sweeping THREE straight NFC title games from the 49ers. They won 3 of 4 SB's in spite of that bad quarter. Very close to 4 straight maybe 5.

So even though they lost that one NFC title game to 49ers and didnt win 4 straight THEY are still team of 90's.

Its quite obviously they were left out to bring attention to the article. The only putting the 49ers of the 90's over the Cowboys of the 90's are 49er fans and Cowboys haters.

Dunski!

 

[sonnyboy]

It's an interesting article, in that it totally ignores total yards, in favor of yards per attempt. Some of the teams he mentioned (Packers, Miami, Pitt) were only average passing teams, but great running teams--if you're talking total yards.

If yards per attempt is the new measuring stick for passing attacks, Romo's on his way to the HOF. (He may be anyway.) Romo trails only Otto Graham in career yards per attempt.

I agree 100%. Loved the article even though it snubbed our 90's Cowboys. I agree completely with its 2 main themes.

1) That teams win passing and defending the pass. I've always believed that.

2) That the be all end all stat of efficiency is YPA.


Turnovers are also important. Creating them on D and avoiding them on offense. But YPA is the real measuring stick.


With all that said, it is the one key stat that continually reinforces for me the idea that Romo is truely a special QB.

 

[Thomas82]

its just another guys opinion.

i think the detroit lions are the greatest team in sports history.

see i can do it too.

Yeah, 1 playoff win in 51 years earns them that distinction.

 

[Royal Laegotti]

The niner dynasty runs from 81 to 98. Team of the 80's. Even though they are not the team of the 90's their dynasty doesn't end till the late 90's. Just like the cowboys weren't the team of the 60's, 70's, or 80's but the Landry dynasty runs from 66 till 85.

Yeah and they didn't even mention them!

 

[CowboyMark]

Yeah and they didn't even mention them!

Yeah I know they mentioned the 72 dolphins. And they say theres no cowboy bias.

 

[Ender]

I dont think they included the Cowboys because, if you read the article, there theory does fit what the cowboys of the 90's where. The article is about passing attack and we were not a passing team, we ran the ball. So including us would have missed up the point of the article. With that said its bull crap. No way do you mention Dynasties without mentioning the Cowboys.

 

[AKATheRake]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/09/24/chff/index.html

We looked at each of the signature dynasties and greatest teams since the advent of the T formation, and found one constant: dominant teams dominate with great pass offenses and/or great pass defenses. Their ability to run the ball is almost irrelevant.

Apparently these are the "signature dynasties and greatest teams since the advent of the T formation":

The 1940s Bears
The 1950s Browns
The 1960s Packers
The 1972 Dolphins
The 1970s Steelers
The 1980-90s 49ers
The 21st-century Patriots

This is a huge joke. The Bills were a greater dynasty in the 90's than the 9ers. 92 and 93 we won the SB, 94 we went to the NFC finals, should have won the SB, Irvin was interfered by Neon and it got called the other way, 95 we won the SB.

92 = SB
93 = SB
94 = Conference Finals
95 = SB

No one was even close to us in the 90's. Heck, even the 2 SB champs before us were in our division. Give me a break about the 9ers in the 90's. They were definitely competitive in the 90's no doubt, but we beat on them to get to the SB many a times that decade. The 90's dynasty is arguably the most dominating dynasty of all time and they don't even include it? The only dynasty that rivals ours is the Steelers, that's all. Just punch drunk writing and more Cowboys hate. That site should stick to their math and not their opinions. Don't tell me the Bears, Dolphins and Steelers didn't run the ball those years and that's why they were good. If they want to explain why those teams were good then, it was cause they had a balanced attack with ferocious defenses, especially the Steeler's and Bears. Yah the way to become a dynasty is to be great at the pass, that's the formula according to these guys, wow! :bang2:
I have been watching us take our lumps the last 12 years and never made us out to be the best during that period, but when we were and are, you have to give us that credit. We were the best in the 90's. To boot, we won 2 SB's in the 70's and went to the SB at least a few times that decade, is that not better than the 9ers of the 90's and the Dolphins of the 70's? Just Cowboy hate, that's all.

 

[Rudy]

It's not too late for us to be the team of the 2000-10's!!

 

[wick]

I dont think they included the Cowboys because, if you read the article, there theory does fit what the cowboys of the 90's where. The article is about passing attack and we were not a passing team, we ran the ball. So including us would have missed up the point of the article. With that said its bull crap. No way do you mention Dynasties without mentioning the Cowboys.

The theory applies quite well to the Cowboys, who finished 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st in net yards per pass from 1992-1995. The Patriots, on the other hand, finished 15th, 15th, and 7th in their title seasons.

 

[AKATheRake]

It's not too late for us to be the team of the 2000-10's!!

2000's will be NE's no matter if we even win this year and next. We'd need 3 in a row to take it away from them, they really took this decade. But 2009 - 2015 don't be surprised if we are the next dynasty. We are built for a very good 5 year run at least. Romo stays healthy, Owen's wants to go down with the greatest WR stats of all time and he will make a run at them. If these 2 things continue with all the other pieces we have you can count on us dominating for a while.