Montana, Young, and San Francisco’s untold secret to success. We saw in Part 2 of the Case for Ken Anderson that he was a pioneer of the “West Coast offense.” Yet clearly, he did not win as often as the players most often associated with the style of play: Joe Montana and Steve Young. Sure, Montana and Young are both bona-fide first-ballot Hall of Famers. You could argue Montana is the greatest quarterback of all time. He’s certainly the greatest Super Bowl quarterback of all time. And Young, for his part, as noted in Part 1 above, retired as the most efficient quarterback in the history of football. But both Montana and Young enjoyed incredible advantages on the field that Anderson simply did not have. Namely, both enjoyed the benefits of playing alongside the longest-lasting defensive dynasty in the history of football. Bill Walsh’s genius in San Francisco was not that he changed football with the West Coast offense, after first proving its merits with Anderson in Cincinnati. Walsh’s genius in San Francisco is that he changed football with the West Coast offense while putting in place a defensive system that consistently produced, under three different coaches, the league’s stingiest defenses. San Francisco’s record streak of nearly two decades of defensive dominance is the great untold story of Walsh’s genius and the San Francisco dynasty – which we discussed in great detail here a couple years ago. In the 17 seasons from 1981 to 1997 – basically, the length and breadth of the entire 49ers dynasty – San Francisco never surrendered more than 300 points in a season. It’s an unbelievable streak of defensive success that spanned three coaches (Walsh, George Seifert, Steve Mariucci). The 49ers dynasty: Fielded a Top 8 scoring defense in 15 of those 17 seasons. Fielded a Top 3 scoring defense in 10 of those 17 seasons. Basically, Montana and Young won with near record proficiency because their Hall of Fame passing skills were consistently paired with one of the league’s stingiest defenses. Anderson enjoyed NO such benefit in Cincinnati, where fans in Bengals x Bluey Night Fan Football Hoodie had to watch their team struggle defensively year after year. In fact, he won despite his consistently porous defenses in Cincinnati. The Bengals: Fielded a Top 8 scoring defense in 4 of Anderson’s 13 seasons as the No. 1 QB Have NEVER fielded a defense that ranked in the Top 3 in scoring – let alone 10 times in 17 years like the dynastic 49ers. Anderson’s best defense ranked No. 5 in scoring – and that came in 1972, his first year as a full time starter.

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Bengals x Bluey Night Fan Football Hoodie, V-neck, Sweater Hoodie and Long Sleeve tee

We saw in Part 1 of The Case for Ken Anderson that he clearly put up Hall of Fame-caliber numbers by any statistical measure. So clearly, the argument against Anderson hinges on the hardware. He simply did not win a Super Bowl ring, let alone several. But he did win MVP honors once while wearing Bengals x Bluey Night Fan Football Hoodie – in his AFC championship season of 1981. And it might have been more than one MVP if voters had given him a second look on three other occasions. Let’s compare Anderson to a few guys who earned MVP honors ahead of him.

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Hall of Fame contemporary Fouts did not become the statistical machine we remember until the rule changes of 1978 spawned the Live Ball Era. Anderson, for his part, was putting up Live Ball Era-style passer ratings and TD-INT ratios while competing in Bengals x Bluey Night Fan Football Hoodie during the depths of the Dead Ball Era. The critic of Anderson’s Hall of Fame credentials will argue that he must have been a dreaded “system quarterback” if his numbers were so comparable in so many ways to those of famed West Coast conductors Montana and Young.

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