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...49ers, Walsh's best offense is a good defense...
These days O.J. Simpson, who grew up and grew old with the San Francisco 49ers (unfortunately, U.S.C. and the Buffalo Bills came in for all the good stuff in between), is sounding like the boy who cheered the 49ers in the '50s, not the man who left the ruins of his team for retirement two years ago. "I don't know about depth," says O.J., "but the 49ers have championship-quality front-line players. I mean it. I'm saying the first 25,26 guys are the best in football. Can you believe it? My team...
...both sides of the bay, San Francisco is "my team" again, and nobody around the National Football League can believe it. After winning six games and losing ten last season (two and 14 for the two years before that), the 49ers suddenly are running away with the Western Division of the National Conference. Rather, they are passing, and defending against the pass...
...winning as a pro (Joe Montana)? Or a play in which the quarterback dashes off the field at the last instant and leaves the wide receiver to take the snap from center? Montana and Freddie Solomon pulled that one. Solomon rolled out for seven yards, and the 49ers rolled on to a 17-14 victory over the Atlanta Falcons, the seventh straight 49ers victory, pushing their division lead to three games with only a third of the season left...
...going to get harder on us, but we're going to get better," Walsh says. The thought of teams gunning for the 49ers still seems a bit strange, but it does not worry Walsh. How far does he think they can go this year? Walsh smiles and offers the most unlikely answer. "I haven't allowed myself to think." -By Tom Callahan