Word: quarterbacks
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...49ers head into Candlestick with their eyes on Threepeat, the name Niners fans have given to the team's goal: an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl victory in January. That victory would give them a record five Super Bowl wins in as many tries and confirm the 49ers under quarterback Joe Montana as perhaps the greatest football team of all time. But this year the Niners are scrambling their way to the top. In half of their games they have had to come from behind to win. The good news, says inside linebacker Matt Millen, is that "this team never...
Mostly that solution boils down to Montana, 34, who leads the N.F.C. in passing yards. He may be the best quarterback ever to play the game. In 12 years he has led the 49ers to comeback wins in the fourth quarter an amazing 25 times. Montana is the acknowledged master of the two-minute drill to race the clock to the end zone. In the Nov. 4 game against the Green Bay Packers, with only 38 sec. remaining in the first half and his team down 10-0, Montana took the 49ers 59 yds. in 27 sec. to jump-start...
With their ground offense faltering, the Niners are leaning more than ever on their quarterback, who tossed 22 touchdown passes in his first 10 games this season. "The key to our offense," says Montana modestly, "is getting the ball off quickly to our backs and wide receivers. We have to take what they give us and look for an opening...
...Giants also pack a big offensive punch. Veteran quarterback Phil Simms, 35, is having the best year of his 11-year career, leading all quarterbacks, Montana included, in pass efficiency (a calculation based on completions, yards gained and numbers of touchdowns and interceptions). Simms presides over a varied offense that sets up his passing game with ball control on the ground. Defenders face bruising off-tackle smashes by 12-year veteran running back Ottis Anderson (who seeks to become the first N.F.L. player to gain 1,000 yds. in each of three decades) and sweeps and quick openers by jackrabbit...
...Harvard's second play from scrimmage, quarterback Tom Priore bumped into the ample frame of 300-lb. tackle Doug Rosenberry on a slow-developing option play. Rather than take a sack, Priore pitched out to nobody. Oft-injured Elis Captain Chris Gaughan pounced on the pigskin at the Harvard 21 to put the Crimson D right back onto the field...