Top 10 Toughest Acts to Follow

It's always sad for the guy who comes after the legend. Well, when you replace an insolent group, I mean, you're held to a certain standard. Yeah, a lot of times these guys replace legends and then you realize you might be better off without the legend. Work Gala For as long as there have been iconic NFL players and coaches, there have been poor souls who have had to

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a legend, a guy who won a Super Bowl, people will always compare you. to Bill Parcells to Vince Lombardi certainly not everyone can be better than their predecessor, but the pressures are immense, the fans love these guys, there's an idiot here if you don't deliver and I'm not saying he wins, he has a winning champion at his side. compile our In the list we consider the experience of the legend as well as his replacement success in filling his shoes, it's how good the guy feels, I think that's what you have to judge him by, that's when we think in terms of oh boy, look what he had to follow and look how well he did, we begin our countdown with a big star, a big city and the kid from Alabama miscast as a senior in the Big Apple in Todd, we trust, yeah, right, Richard Todd is almost a punchline, I think for anyone who's a Jets fan, he has There has never been a quarterback in football history who found the wideout linebacker better than Richard in 1977.

Richard Todd had the misfortune to replace Joe Namath, the hero of an entire generation and the undisputed sports icon of New York. This is the guy who possibly won. the biggest game in NFL history and you're the guy who has to replace that guy who's finally stepped out of the big shadow cast by Joe Namath. Fan is establishing himself as a top-tier quarterback in the near future, so they were looking to replace Joe Namath. I think the Jets went overboard trying to find the Joe Namath clone. At the same college, he replaced Joe Namath at Bama, which was impossible, and then he replaced him on the Jets, and then, good luck, they tried. to convince themselves that they had another name, but what they had, Richard Todd, was the answer to the question: what would happen if you took Joe Namath and took away his personality?

Yes, they are not only big shoes to fill on the football field but also in the media. In the city, in the nightclubs and with women, Richard Todd didn't stand a chance and he was just trying to get along, yeah, it's just kind of a throwback, look at that shot. Joe Namath was the man. Richard Todd, the good player was Richard Todd. Richard Todd was in a bad mood. Richard Todd was surly. Taro Todd was a difficult guy to deal with and, most damning, Richard Todd wasn't very good. By the 1980s, our No. 10 replacement had developed into a solid quarterback who led the Jets to back-to-back playoff appearances.

Richard Tati was a respectable quarterback who never really got his due, Richard had a little bit of arrogance, you know, Richard, he wasn't a Broadway Joe, but he wasn't a Wallflower, to say the least, they had some very productive years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in 1982, Todd had the opportunity to create his own legacy when the Jets advanced to the AFC title game against Miami. Finally, Richard Todd takes them to the championship game, although of course he has the terrible championship. you're AJ, you know, intercept 12 or 15 of his bastard work in nothing, he whitewashed them miles of transportation if they had a better quarterback than him, they had enough on that team to get to a Super Bowl, it's not for the The quarterback is good enough to play decently, but in New York, at that time, you must be that you have to win everything, even to this day, the Jets are still looking for Broadway, which coach found the glory of Super Bowl on the way to number 9. our list without even knowing who is in front I think 9 is too low when you are succeeding someone who is successful it is hard enough when you are succeeding someone who is successful in a personality it is doubly difficult replacing a big boss can be fraught with difficulties Jack Pardee didn't make anyone forget George Allen Washington, but he had the best '70s hairstyle in all of the professional sports the charismatic tenant plays hard for.

The tough debate party wasn't pretty, but few can match the horror of the Ray Handley debacle in New York. York is in no way a replacement for Bill Parcells, there is no better performance in football. Replacing Bill Parcells proved as difficult as replacing Vince Lombardi. Phil Bankston has to follow my heart, gentlemen, let me now introduce you to the Greens' new head coach. Bay Packers Mr. Phil Bankston really none of Lombardi's assistants succeeded as head coach at Arrow ow, unlike Bankston, our replacement No. 9 took his franchise to new heights. Number 9, I don't need to see the list, I mean, I think without even knowing who's in front, I think. 9 is too low, yes I need flats, it should be higher if one of our criteria is how well it filled the shoes.

Flores filled them in extremely well to the point where he ended up winning more Super Bowls than the legend who preceded him, not just John Madden. sport, the highest winning percentage of any coach in NFL history is also unforgettable on the sidelines, he was a maniac. Wow, well one guy fills a room and the other you don't even know he's in the room. We know what it has to be. done and we know how to do it, you are succeeding someone who is successful it is difficult enough when you are succeeding someone who has success and a personality, it is doubly difficult if you talk to a lot of people today and ask them who the coach of the team is.

Raiders on all those Super Bowl teams, there are some people from the state who argue little with you, everyone was mad, no it wasn't, it was a guy named Tom Flores at the time, it was like, who is this guy but Tom Flores ? he could be a Hall of Fame coach Tom Flores, you talk about qualifications, give me a break, our nine replacements went from rakers quarterback to assistant coach under Madden before taking the top job in 1979. There's a excellent example of what you want it to represent. in his own way, his own style, there was no other John Madden, he was able to implement the things he learned as an assistant coach on a Mac, like how to keep water in the NFL rehab center, you talk about bad guys and athletes that you had.

Ted Hendricks is without a doubt the best crazy player in the world to make that work and in the head coach of him despite the success of him, why is a two-time Super Bowl champion head coach ranked alone in our list? I think we all know the answer to that question. a man named Al Davis, they didn't create NFL Network, Al Davis to refer to him, he is the owner of the team and yes, the dominant personality and dominant ownership style make it difficult for any Raiders coach to prosper on his own, Maybe it's also the height of the man he replaced and who was only coach for ten seasons.

I consider Don Shula Elijah. I don't consider John Madden a legend. Don shield replaces a tree. Blue bag. Now that replaces a legend. Tom's blasts fail. No, he trained pretty well. He had a good team every time you come in and replace someone he's been successful and he's done it this way and you go out and do it your way and you still win. I think it's great that you should be on that list than anyone else. Bears football was personified by Walter Payton. Over the course of 13 seasons, Payton rose to iconic status in the hearts of the Chicago faithful with his physical style and never-say-die attitude.

If you have to follow someone like hall of famer Walter Payton, you can only hope to make your own tracks on this app. He walked away from football after the 1987 season, when Walter retired, we were sure here in Chicago that there would be nothing like it when Neal Anderson was asked to replace Walter Payton. He did an extraordinary job. Neil Anderson quickly showed that he was up to the task. the challenge I tell you that guy is faster than I thought, no Darryl Greene I can't catch him, remember he was the number one pick and they thought they wouldn't lose a step when I came in, I was playing behind the best. of all time, so I was able to jump into the first round to do it and start right away.

I had to wait my turn. We hadn't really heard much about him. This guy from Florida came in. I was faster in the comparisons between Payton and our number eight. replacement was inevitable Anderson did not seek to replicate a legacy but to create a new one. I think what he tried to do is be himself and if you look at his personality, it feels very different from the golfer, all I can do is go out and be Anderson man and do what I can do we never compare it to see a week we weren't like that we knew he wasn't going to fully fill the shoes Anderson surpassed a thousand rushing yards in his first three seasons as a starter, you had to play against L Anderson, he was the most underrated superstar of all time, four-time Pro Bowler , that's a one-time typo deal for NFL running back, it's incredible the physical price of being a top running back that caught up with Anderson and possibly cost him a higher ranking in all of these injuries shortened his career, so really We never had a full appreciation of how far and how good it could have been.

The comparison with Walter could no longer be made because Walter Payton never found out, but despite rushing. for over six thousand yards and 51 touchdowns, not everyone is impressed. I do not remember anything. Fight for Neal Anderson. Be honest with you, just a good solid NFL player that you know he certainly wasn't, he was never one of the great running backs in the game. If you can handle that pressure of following a great player and producing like Neal Anderson did after following Walter Payton, I think it's great to know which offensive star faced an uphill battle and was given a job that simply can't be done.

I thought he was terrible the way fans treat him in the media, time to score double. Many quarterbacks have had to replace legendary passers, not all of them have had enough success to crack a crazy roster. Denver's Brian Griese made the Pro Bowl in 2000, but family and franchise pressure got to him. I think Brian Griese had enough trouble trying to follow in his father's footsteps, much less John Elway's footsteps, after Ken Stabler was sent to Houston. Jim Plunkett won two Super Bowls with the Raiders, so why can't he do it? our roster Dan Pastorini was stable as a collision replacement before he broke his leg, so in other words, this roster has nothing to do with winning and replacing guys who were winners and coming in and maintaining this has nothing to do with That, while Plunkett collected Lombardi trophies, our next man never got his historic franchise in the Big Dance during the 1970s, there was no greater Western legend than Captain Comeback himself, Roger Staubach, Roger was my all-time hero, he was the hero of every young Kitt in the state of Texas, they built the Mount Rushmore of sports figures in this city, he will be head and shoulders above the rest of them, but even the monumental heroes eventually retire, he has been successful in this system.

I remember, although Roger retired, we have Danny White, we will be good for more. For more than a decade, Starbuck was an extension of the coach in the huddle, now along came a man more accustomed to carrying a clipboard than leading the team. If there's anyone I'd like to copy next, it would probably be Roger, but I'm not going to try. Do it if it turns out that way, fine, but I'll do the things Danny White does best and I'll do them the way I do them best. They gave him a job that simply can't be done.

Danny White could have won three Super Bowls. In his first three seasons and he was never going to be as popular as Roger Staubach, our replacement number seven kept the Cowboys winning. In 1980, his first year as a starter, he staged an epic comeback in the playoffs against Atlanta. Danny's first three years went to the NFC Championship. game lost every year the three years lost in the shadow of the catch was White's last-minute recount Danny White was one play away from making his own legacy you've still changed and they rushed back to the field Eric writes for the scholars saved the touchdown White's fumble later in the game doomed Dallas forever if Eric Wright doesn't grab Pearson's jersey at midfield, maybe we'll look at White a little differently.

Danny's not a guy you looked at and walked away. Danny was a solid technical quarterback, he ran the place that sent him, he ran them. Well, but would Danny ever make a rabbit out of a hat? He plays like Starbuck, no, not usually, and for a guy going to the third championship game in a row, you would have thought he was terrible the way the guys treated him.fans, the media doubts Rogers. legend Daniel will never be like that wall at the end of the decisive moment I just don't think Roger Staubach is a great quarterback and I miss him, our replacement number seven actually threw four more touchdowns in his career than the man he replaced any target . 62 and thirty record in the starting quarterback how many quarterbacks in history have won more than double the games they lost in other places there could have been other

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Danny White could have won a Super Bowl. I think he would rank with Roger Staubach in history, but he didn't in those three championship game losses that defined him. I don't think he was at his best in the days when he had to be so better that that's what Staubach was, he was a tough act to follow. I mean, Sonny had big shoes on because they had won a fabulous championship, the Dutch Van Brocklin standard. Earning the league's Most Valuable Player award for his role in leading the Eagles to victory, the Eagles won the NFL championship in 1960, and although Norm Pham Braunfels spent only three seasons with the team he joined converted and Philadelphia legend Van Brocklin really perfected the city.

In 1960, after winning a championship, the bad, rotten boy Mize Philadelphia, was a great passer. 1960 was Philadelphia's last chance to see Van Brocklin. He retired at 34 years old. The beautiful fake dutchman. ADA won and lost. This is a tough act to follow, like you could never imagine. Jurgensen has the unenviable task of filling Brocklin's long ban queue after four years spent primarily on the bench. Jorgenson became a smoker in 1961. The Deagles didn't miss a beat when they moved on from Van. Brocklin for Sonny Jurgensen jurgis was phenomenal 9-16 and threw 32 touchdown passes and a 14 game regular season which was a team record that still stands.

Sonny Jurgensen was a night quarterback of the 1990s, the 1960s are in many ways when everyone qualifies. of take advantage of the quintessential quarterback, he always had this kind of smile on his face, he threw passes behind his back, scaly eye, sunny, like a little at the party and I don't think heels were like that, so he played harder off the field. He did and I think he was afraid to follow them in 1964. Jergensen was not read biased thanks for the movement. Lily fans can only describe as the Eagles. The Eagles pretended the rules needed. Sunday was a short time and Philly, but it was a big one.

Brockton and Jorgenson each spent only three years as an equal story, so Jergensen has some reason to appear on our list. Sonny Jurgensen belongs on the list because they replaced the quarterback who just won a championship. People remember that something is wrong. Lee, they remember him as such, so I can't put these other guys like him at number five, because he came from behind eight future hall of famers and picked up right where he left off every time I have to replace a legend, is always superior, there is no more legendary quarterback in Eagles history than then comes Norm Van Brocklin, which of these men found surprisingly quick success after the replacement?

He supposedly handled it better than anyone who could have followed what he did, maybe ever will be. done again in sports in any NFL there are some

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no one wants to follow before we get back to business here is a summary of our list so far there has never been a court that has found the open line better than Richard Whiteley succeeded Matt us. you know what to do there's no race then you get out sweet sweetness can fill his shoes you can only hope to make your own footprints in sand number seven anyway you can't dodge the legacy of rogers i think roger starbucks is a great quarterback and the strange thing Sonny Jurgensen Joseph Billy was going to try his hardest Mack and continue imagining that replacing a legend like Tom Landry is almost impossible, except for Jimmie Johnson.

Tom Landry became the first coach of the Dallas Cowboys in 1960 and held the position for 29 seasons. the way he cast a big shadow by stringing together an NFL record 20 consecutive winning seasons Landry was more than just a football coach Aaron Landry was a giant in this town, he was just what everyone thought a coach should be In professional football, Landry's Cowboys claimed their first NFL title with a victory in the Super Bowl six six years later, Dallas won a second Super Bowl, but not even Tom Landry was irreplaceable. Landry suffered three consecutive losing seasons from 1986 to 1988 and the writing was on the wall as bad as the landings have been. last year he was three and 13, so there was probably already a group of people unhappy with Landry.

I respect how Landry was, but I think last game he got a little absorbed. This will be heresy to say, but it was time for Bob to shine the undeserved. sales that yeah, I just got a little spin from the Arkansas truck Jerry Jones Jerry Jones just left Tom Landry on the street and fired him immediately when you were trying to clean them up, new guy and replaced the man in the hat. man with the drink, you know, Jimmie Johnson, there could have been better circumstances when it came to me getting into this position, it just seemed wrong to say Jimmie Johnson, Cowboys head coach, here comes Jimmy, he abolished the polar opposite. of Tom Landry's human being that you could possibly get.

Tom Landry was stoic and calm and never showed his best I'm out of line Wyeth what Jimmy went through was the complete opposite because he always showed emotion Johnson's first season in Dallas was a disaster and only made fans yearn for the glory years even more so when the Cowboys finished 1 for 15 the next year. I don't think there's anyone around here who thought they'd win Super Bowls. I'm Jimmy Johnson and I think Jimmy felt that pressure that first year, especially, I have no doubt. that Fedora cut a huge, really black shadow, the sun for Jimmy Johnson, but not for long, Jimmy restored a cowboy's pride, while it took Tom Landry 18 seasons to win two Super Bowls, Johnson took much worse , here's Landry, it was still an honor, but the talk of the town was man, what about those Cowboys?

It was perhaps the biggest organizational change in sports history, so why is Jimmie Johnson only number five on our list to begin with? His attempt to replace Don Shula in Miami, who never produced more than one playoff win at any time. of his four seasons and in Dallas one day he had hair on his tool oh I don't know who is in front of him but what he did in five years may never be done again in sports yes Tom Landry was legendary he won a Super Bowl but as far as him being a tough guy to follow when he left, I really don't think he was, it's the Cowboys and it's a new owner and it's Tom Landry.

This is going to be much higher on the list. He handled it better than anyone. could have infuriated Tom Landry with anyone every time you compare him to anyone with Jim Brown, you're comparing talent to the greatest talent to ever play the game, the greatest running back of all time, faster than a speeding bullet, a locomotive capable of jumping tall buildings in one go. linked the pro game on the page PAS had several superstars but only one Superman and he was Jim Brown, he just has an aura about him, he has such a presence and you know he can be almost intimidating to be around because he is almost larger than life, you would think there was no way anyone other than Jim Brown could play running back for the Browns after Jim Brown left. for Cleveland he was returning kicks then Jim Brown retired Leroy took his place and became a star then Jim Brown leaves to work on a Dirty Dozen and Leroy Kelly comes in there you talk about a no-win situation look at his numbers after replacing Jim Brown after taking over as Cleveland's standout player in 1966, Kelly led the NFL in rushing twice and retired with more than 12,000 career all-purpose yards.

Leroy Kelly was a very, very versatile bag, he was a great runner, a kick returner, we were not the same. Powerful runner but I could put my foot around and cut you off, eventually you get close to him as he comes back, he had great balance and the sloppier the conditions the better player he was, not only was he successful but he was a popular player. but I wasn't a popular player because of his personality, so here comes Lee Lauren Kelly and all of a sudden the fans embraced him, the rest of the National Football League like them, the rest of the fans like them, they don't have to play because Jim.

Brown and Kelly become a Hall of Fame player. I don't know how much better an act could be followed, so why is Kelly only number four on our list? Well, there are some issues to consider. Leroy Kelly didn't really replace Jim Brown Jim. Brown was a fullback, she had Kelly's habit, running automatically was good once you started because she still had Jim Brown, offensive minded from Cleveland, he was a power to her, she learned underground so she just jumped on the scene if you wanted to create an Arguably a scenario to replace the greatest player to ever play the game and it was Leroy Kelly.

I don't think he could have done a better job than what he did, so if you're replacing Jim Brown, then he should be number one, right? No, I do not think so. I think that's good. I think a guy who followed Jim Brown and now sits next to him. I'm in Canton Ohio, that's filling the shoes pretty well. The next legendary coach set the bar extraordinarily high for his replacement, which could be such a big pair of shoes. like footballs ever seen, who can question that an incredible advertising coach replacing a Super Bowl-winning coach with another hasn't happened often?

George Seifert squeezed two more titles out of the 49ers after replacing Bill Walsh, but Seifert didn't make our lettuce nor did my Tomlin, who won a Lombardi Trophy in just his second season with the Steelers and adopted it back to the Super Bowl two seasons Afterwards, it has been remarkable and Mike has done it in his own way. I'd say Mike is certainly on Baldy's top 10 no sale list. countless, but the man that he replaced, I think he was probably the perfect guy to replace Chuck Noll. I mean, that might be a pair of shoes as big as soccer balls ever seen.

Chuck Noll was the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for 23 seasons and earned an unprecedented amount. four Super Bowls, but the time Chuck didn't he was the undisputed gold standard not only for the Steelers but for football as well. The thing you have to remember about Chuck Noll and what a great coach he was is that the Steelers were the worst franchise in football before him. When they came in they had never won a playoff game, when you have a coach that takes a franchise that hasn't really done anything for 40 years and all of a sudden turns that franchise into the best franchise on the planet, you've probably set the bar higher. . than should be established, it's my pleasure to introduce you to coach Bill Cowher at the beginning, it was Bill, I mean, this guy didn't really have a track record, you like this look, the great judge, ah, the way he was visibly excited on the sidelines, heck visibly. emotional almost all the time they were groped in the town like I did, that's every second, Steelers fans may have had a soft spot for certain chins, but what they really wanted from Cour was wins, there wasn't enough time. for Steelers fans to say, hey, we miss Chuck, no, because the Steelers got good right away, the number three guy on our list led Pittsburgh to playoff appearances in his first six seasons every year.

Bill Cowher had that team prepared to go to the playoffs, who may question his success, an incredible head coach, well, there was one annoying condition. Bill Cowher lost a lot of important playoff games. He can't win the big game that starts hanging around your neck. The Patriots have criticized the Pittsburgh Steelers. The criticism was. It's true that he lost in the AFC championship games, not to mention Super Bowl 30 against Dallas, when it came to big games he was crowd and his teams were shit and the record shows that of course everything he changed in o5 now it was the cowardly Erie sealers. became the first team to win a Super Bowl after winning three playoff games on the road.

I think he changed his old legs. All of his playoff flaws disappeared. He got a free pass whether he deserved one or not. Yes, the number three coach on our list is without a doubt. prestigious, but does he deserve it? Hayek first would be a better place. Bill Khan replaced and retired the gold standard for coaching in the NFL. I do not think thatit was Tufts because it took them fifteen years. What a Super Bowl if you compare it to Jimmie Johnson replacing Tom Landry is similar, but Jimmy didn't do it instantly. No one has done what Chuck Noll did in the Super Bowls in six years.

You're going to replace that guy, yeah, I mean, he could be taller, he certainly couldn't be shorter in the future. It wasn't exactly the smoothest transition from one quarterback to another, he didn't want to mentor him, that's not what he was paid and he sure had a little pillow step to get all the anger out. NFL history is littered with franchises that have struggled to replace like two different quarterbacks Hall of Famer Len Dawson led the Chiefs to a fourth Super Bowl victory Jim Kelly led Buffalo to four Super Bowls consecutive in the 90s and Dan Marino said numerous records during his Hall of Fame career with the Dolphins in In each case there were no obvious heirs and none of them found it a very difficult thing to do because the standard was already set, but one team replaced their big cheese with a real genius.

I don't know if anyone would have expected Aaron Rodgers to do that. In addition to doing so, he replaced Brett Favre when Brett Favre started putting up statistics in Green Bay in 1992. Aaron Rodgers was eight years old for 13 seasons. We're talking about the living legend of the game that mom Brett Favre has broken. every record you can break bread to make flour if Brett Farve is playing, people stayed and watched just because of the things he could do, the way he could improvise, the way he made a game exciting in 2005, Green Bay drafted a quarterback in the first round No. 2 on our list and was No. 2 on the depth chart for three years.

I realized early on what kind of relationship it was going to be and that I needed to absorb everything I could. You didn't want to be his mentor. that's not what he was paid for, why do you have to be so annoying about the whole thing? I think Brett Favre one day would say "hi Erin" and the next day Aaron Rodgers would walk up to a Breton representative, five would walk right by. him yeah sure you had some kind of pillow with a partially straight stem getting the whole end you're out obviously I think the transition could have been made a little easier but that's how it was I think a lot of people just thought . because he wasn't on the field he wasn't good he wasn't good enough to finally displace him after all these years Rogers becomes the quarterback he has been an incredible replacement for Favre in many ways he has taken down Danny since he was a baby right there his first three years he eats better Brett Favre was the Rodgers past in history for over 12,000 yards and 87 touchdowns in those three seasons and in 2010 he led the Packers to a Super Bowl title, what a jewel in the crown of one season in a performance he had, if he was still in the shadow of Brett Favre, he certainly isn't anymore. two on your list, he deserves to be number two on the list, a very short number, but he was there forever Aaron Rodgers for the far side number one, he should be number one Roger comes to a town where football is the only thing on on everyone's radar, truly one of the great follow-up acts in league history and guess what else there is to come that he hasn't done.

I'm coming, someone had to try to follow him. Oh, act number one, what can you do to finally fill those shoes? It's like a guitarist trying to replace Jimi Hendrix these two loose I'm already reeling in these we've got guys trying to fill some big shoes however they can and as long as they can before we continue let's take a look at the list so far Dannan fit in well no 10 , the chassis produces the same Broadway Joe cut in Todd, we trust here, John, man, replace him, he's waiting: Obama is anywhere when Neil Anderson was asked to replace Walter Payton, he did an extraordinary job, he was given a job that simply can't be from the eagles.

I didn't miss a beat when they went from Van Brocklin to Sonny Jurgensen the returning doll number four Leeroy Jelly makes the impossible replacement Ichiro Kelly becomes a Hall of Fame player made much better than after number three the great power does not have problems an incredible replacement for Favre, in many ways the problem with that whole scenario has been solved, for anyone who isn't Joe Montana, you can't replace Joe Montana, it's just not possible, what can you do? Absolutely, ultimately, filling those shoes is like a guitarist. In trying to replace Jimi Hendrix, no one did so with the ease and ease of a Jomon village.

Steve Young was traded to San Francisco in 1987, which turned Joe Cool into Joe Stiff from the moment he walks in the door, you know he's archenemy number one. Joe Montana I think that's their secret, there was no love lost between those two guys Steve Young lost what Joe Montana already has and Joe didn't like that I think there was some genuine old school Dirty Harry animosity there I have things that I have never gotten current things. It took four years of being sidelined for Steve Young to finally get his chance to play for the 49ers and he didn't disappoint at all.

An injury to Montana sidelined him and then a trade sent him to Kansas City, allowing Young a chance to flourish once that start came and school ended because the youngster was ready for that position a promotion to the number one on the 49ers depth chart only intensified the challenges for the number one in the crop, it would be obvious that he did not mesh well with fans within whose fault it was in the quarterback school, he was winning passing championships, not throwing , you know, he's winning MVP awards, all that, but he couldn't win the championship. I constantly have that happening, but that's par for the course.

In 1994, Young had his best season individually, but before he could reach the top of the settlers he had to lead the 49ers to the top of the NFL and he thought: will he get that monkey off his back? Stun, recover Mike Evans. He didn't let the 49ers get to Super Bowl 29 and his six touchdown passes broke the previous record of five held by Joe Montana when he finally overcame that hurdle and beat the Chargers to six touchdown passes. That's when he was accepted by 49ers fans. just the garsons, that's all that's being thrown around and it could have been taking that jelly, it was all said and done.

Steve Young is like yeah, take Montana lovers. I just want one Super Bowl, so Steve Young replacing Joe Montana deserved the top spot on our list. This is the absolutely obvious question: Stephen had the hardest act to follow, that's number one, number one for a million different reasons, so he took a situation that was almost impossible to handle and then it turned into a great one. legend, it's the best story.