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The first group to win 5 Super Bowls, the 49ers can reclaim their place atop the NFL’s postseason meals chain over the following three weeks.
If they’ll defeat the Eagles in Sunday’s NFC title recreation, the 49ers will match the Patriots for probably the most postseason wins in NFL historical past. New England at the moment leads with 37 victories, with San Francisco, Green Bay, Pittsburgh and Dallas all one behind. No different franchise has greater than 30 playoff wins.
If the 49ers win the Super Bowl, they will stand alone because the league chief in postseason victories.
San Francisco received a number of playoff video games throughout its Nineteen Eighties dynasty. The 49ers received 4 Super Bowls in the course of the decade that included back-to-back titles to shut out the last decade. Jerry Rice was among the many group’s greatest stars on the 49ers’ back-to-back title groups, however San Francisco’s greatest group throughout that period did not embody arguably the best receiver in league historical past. The 49ers’ 1984 group, which received the group’s second title of the last decade, went 15-1 in the course of the common season earlier than dominating the Bears and Giants — the 2 groups that will win the following two Super Bowls — within the playoffs.
The ’84 49ers capped off their historic season by dismantling Dan Marino’s Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX. In among the best performances in Super Bowl historical past, Joe Montana took residence MVP honors after amassing 400 whole yards and 4 touchdowns.
San Francisco received its fifth title after avenging its earlier two NFC title recreation losses to the Cowboys. The 49ers defeated the Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX behind the sensible play of quarterback Steve Young, who threw a still-standing Super Bowl report six landing passes.
The 49ers, regardless of reaching the Super Bowl in 2012 and in 2019, are nonetheless sitting on 5 Super Bowl wins. Should they win the Super Bowl this season, the 49ers will accomplish that by defeating a group they’ve beforehand confronted within the Super Bowl. The 49ers defeated the Bengals in Super Bowls XVI and XXIII. They fell to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV regardless of main by 10 factors late within the fourth quarter.
Kyle Shanahan, who coached the 49ers to their final Super Bowl berth, has continued to have success this season regardless of accidents to quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance. Shanahan has benefitted from the play of the 49ers’ formidable protection that on Sunday will look to include Jalen Hurts and the Eagles’ third-ranked scoring offense.
