Steve Young believes the San Francisco 49ers aren’t yet a Super Bowl–winning team — or on the same level as the Los Angeles Rams or the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Seattle Seahawks.
He’s not wrong. Despite making the playoffs with a 12–5 record, with key players out at various parts of the season, it’s a testament to the organization that they made the postseason when their backs were well and truly up against the wall.
But while they produced impressive wins against both the Seahawks and the Rams in the first half of the regular season, the second half saw two defeats, one a blowout loss to Los Angeles and the other a close defeat to Seattle, before they were blown apart in the divisional round.
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