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Back then everyone assumed that either Dallas or San Fran were locks for the Super Bowl. The mentality we have now that we have been in the salary cap age for sometime hadn't kicked in yet at that time so it's not surprising that they had the '9ers favored by so much. I think the biggest issue with ...

If I were Ditka in 1986, I would have gone with a Woodstrock system like Shula did in Miami in the early 80's, making Flutie the starter and bringing in McMahon if either Flutie was ineffective or they were down and needed a quick TD or some motivation. McMahon in 1985 was above average but not gre...

Watching the documentaries that have been done about the '85 Bears in recent years there sure is a lot of blaming that goes on. Lots of times when you see documentaries about past great teams in the pros and college they stick up for eachother and if there is any blame to be made they often blame ou...

I think Ditka had the right personality for that Bears team at that time so in essence he was a good coach for that group of players in the '84 and '85 seasons. However the mismanagement of the team in the following years I think largely falls on his shoulders. The QB position was handled poorly, se...

It is true that it is still the case that the most consistent teams tend to be the ones with the best qb's (same as it was in the '70's and '80's and '90's). However I think the difference comes in in the fact that it is much more difficult for those teams with the star qb's to put the total package...

Not going to both with listing them because I don't think many of these teams were really that great anyways. But the high increase in the number of 13-3 teams in this century as opposed to the previous one shows that the teams with good/great records now tend to not be quite as good as the teams wi...

1. 96 Packers 2. 99 Rams 3. 94 49ers 4. 92 Cowboys 5. 90 Bills 6. 97 Chiefs 7. 97 Packers 8. 90 Giants 9. 95 Chiefs 10. 84 Broncos 11. 96 Broncos 12. 81 49ers 13. 99 Colts 14. 97 49ers 15. 91 Bills 16. 99 Titans I was thinking that the '97 Chiefs were the ones that were part of that no punt game. B...

1. '92 Cowboys
2. '94 49ers
3. '96 Packers
4. '99 Rams
5. '90 Giants
6. '81 49ers
7. ''90 Bills
8. ' 99 Titans
9. '97 Packers
10. '91 Bills
11. ''96 Broncos
12. '97 49ers
13 '84 Broncos
14. '95 Chiefs
15.'97 Chiefs
16. '99 Colts

I have heard the talk of Dallas making a push for Elway and Elway wanting to go there (no doubt it would have happened if both sides got what they wanted). However looking back on it I think Elway going to Dallas back then would have been one of the worst possible things for the Dallas franchise as ...

I've also heard that they had other players stay over at his house that night to make sure he would be ok. Rather or not it was the coaches that reccomended they did that or the players did that on their own I'm not really sure but I did hear that they did do that. Of course maybe that wasn't the be...