{"id":1545838,"date":"2023-01-13T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1545838"},"modified":"2023-01-13T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:24:02","slug":"steve-young-was-legit-ready-fight-his-head-coach-after-getting-benched-year-he-won-nfl-mvp-led-49ers-super-bowl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/steve-young-was-legit-ready-fight-his-head-coach-after-getting-benched-year-he-won-nfl-mvp-led-49ers-super-bowl-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Young Was Legit Ready to Fight His Head Coach After Getting Benched the Year He Won NFL MVP and Led the 49ers to a Super Bowl Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Of all the sensational seasons Steve Young had with the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, his 1994 campaign stands out above all others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In leading the Niners to a 13-3 regular-season record, the Utah native completed a career-high 70.3% of his passes, which ultimately became the best mark of the entire decade, and threw for 3,969 yards and a then-franchise record 35 touchdowns. He also added 293 yards and seven scores on the ground en route to winning his second NFL MVP<\/a> award in three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young also set what was then the single-season record for passer rating (112.8), surpassing the mark set by his predecessor, Joe Montana<\/a>, five years earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More importantly, however, Young got out from underneath Montana's towering shadow for good by leading the 49ers to a Super Bowl victory. While he'd won a pair of rings as Montana's backup, this one was obviously much different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for good measure, the BYU product broke Montana's record for touchdown passes in a single Super Bowl by tossing six in a 49-26 beatdown of the San Diego Chargers, earning him Super Bowl MVP honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Months before that record-breaking performance, however, the Niners' season was on the rocks and was nearly derailed during a lopsided loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, a game during which Young was benched and was ready to legitimately fight his head coach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Young was benched during a blowout loss to the Eagles during the 49ers' 1994 season<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young circa 1994 | Kirby Lee\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was a lot of pressure on the Niners coming into the 1994 season. While they'd been to the NFC title game in each of the previous two seasons, they'd lost both to the Dallas Cowboys. And after Montana set such a high bar in the 1980s, folks were getting anxious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it goes in the NFL, the vast majority of the pressure fell on the head coach, George Seifert, and the starting quarterback, Steve Young. And it certainly didn't help when San Francisco lost to Montana's Kansas City Chiefs in Week 2, a game in which Young threw two picks. Montana, meanwhile, threw a pair of touchdowns and no picks in a 24-17 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 49ers bounced back with victories the next two weeks over the Saints and Rams to get to 3-1, but Week 5 didn't go quite as well, at least not initially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facing an Eagles team that ultimately finished the 1994 season with a 7-9 record, the 49ers got rocked and took a 40-8 loss, the second-worst loss by an eventual Super Bowl champion<\/a> in history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The low point came during the third quarter when Seifert yanked Young out of the game and inserted backup Elvis Grbac. And Young certainly wasn't pleased. He and Seifert hadn't always had the greatest relationship, and he'd clearly reached his boiling point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young was legit ready to fight George Seifert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Steve Young & George Seifert. #tbt<\/a> #49ersClassic<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qGxWjDiTKr<\/a><\/p>— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) April 11, 2013<\/a><\/blockquote>