If you're a 90s kid and grew up in the Bay Area, you'd watch X-Men and Batman every Saturday morning and then you'd watch Steve and Jerry every Sunday morning. Great time to be a kid! The Lefty QB GOAT is the truth!
X-Men and Batman came on Sundays in the '90s for y'all? because here on the East Coast x-man used to come on Saturday mornings. Batman the animated series used to come on during the weekday after school followed by Superman animated series.
Imagine a world where they couldnt touch him or his receivers... Steve may have averaged 45 TDs passing and another 5 on the ground each season, and would've played several more years too
Born in '91. I caught the tail end of Young but still thought he was amazing. He's in my top 5 of best QBs ever if for nothing else his talent made me fall in love with the game.
Also, I think Young while only being a starter for 8 full seasons still has an NFL record where he led the league in passer rating 6 times. His dominance from 1992 to 1994 is arguably the best three year stretch for a QB in NFL history.
Agreed. And he had to go toe to toe with one of the best dynasties ever in the 90's Cowboys. Imagine if they weren't there for 3 years in a row in the NFC title game. How many more SBs would Young have.. Probably two more, almost assuredly, just based on how great those matchups were against the Cowboys every year. NFC Championship Game WAS the super bowl back then--two best teams in the league, just happened to be in the same conference
@@realdiehlsports4810there’s this line from john madden my Dad would talk about during one of those niners/cowboys championships he said “in two weeks from now we’ll watch the super bowl, then after that the pro bowl, but today we get to watch both.”
Steve Young is the most underappreciateded quarterback of all time. The guy is a top 5 QB of all time and nobody even knows who he is. He is the most efficient quarterback ever by far, nobody led his time with more efficiency than he is. His career avg. stats are misleading because he sat down his half of his career behind Joe Montana. Once he became a full time starter he never looked back. His stats between 1991 - 1998 are off the charts. Just google it. He led the league in passer rating 6 times between that time phrase. And his QB ratings were no joke. 101, 107, 112, 105, 97, 104. it's just insane. imagine he was a starting QB in his 20s. I'm not kidding just go look at his stats between 91 - 98. his Passing yards per attempt are out of this world. THE MOST efficient quarterback ever step on field.
He’s also very humble I won a trip to the pro bowl in 2005 and he was the only person that was approachable and didn’t mind taking a picture. Everyone else was an asshole in the way they said no.
Don't forget, in 99 they were 3-0 (or was it 4-0, I'll have to look up)and Steve was leading the league again in QBR again before A.Williams laid that dirty hit on him and ended his career. He was off to his hottest start yet. He had TO, JJ, Rice- They were unstoppable and I have no doubt they would have won it all that year. Dam shame what A.Williams did. It was a different game back then where QBs were NOT protected and babied like they are today. That 8 year stretch will never be duplicated. Steve was the GOAT and still is in my book
Steve Young was my favorite SF 49ers growing up. Jerry Rice was my dad’s favorite SF 49ers. Dad, I am so glad we were both able to see SF 49ers vs Tampa Bucs in Tampa, FL. Even though Jerry Rice injured his knee and we lost a very close game 13 vs 7, we had an amazing time. You passed shortly there after from cancer. But this is my greatest memory of us. Your face lit up when Young and Rice entered the locker at halftime from our end zone. Even when the dumbass Bucs fan pouring beer on us while we both wore #8 and #80. Love you dad. I still have those jersey. Your grandson wears Jerry Rice jersey now. Love dad. RIP.
Hell of a quarterback, and hell of a man. The book My Life Behind the Spiral gave me a bigger appreciation for Steve Young. The GOAT of lefty QBs. He would absolutely kill the game if he played today. One of my personal favorites of all time
Steve Young was the first truly modern, efficient passer. His quarterback ratings in the early '90's of 98.0+ set the standard that today's quarterbacks are held to. Two MVP's in three years, and arguably should have been more. Brilliant and strangely underrated; even vilified at times.
He threw a nice ball. I copied the way he held it and threw way more spirals (two fingers on the laces, then wrist snap). I did not have his wheels tho 😂
That's what makes his accuracy so unique. He was not a natural downfield passer like Marino or Namath. Those guys were taught great mechanics by their father and brother respectively. They arrived in pro football as polished products. Steve was born a gifted athlete, his natural talents were such that he should have been a halfback or a defensive back rather than a quarterback. If you read his biography, he talks about just how raw of a passer he was throughout his early years and even in college. At BYU, he was buried in the depth chart, and he was moved to defensive back. Despite that, he eventually become one of the most accurate deep ball throwers in the history of pro football. Steve wasn't born to be a quarterback, but that was his dream, through hard work he achieved it.
YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! Thank you for making this week a lot better!!!! Wish we had this guy back in the saddle again. It was a pleasure watching this trigger-master go to work all throughout the 1990's. Steve being a southpaw made it all the more magical. Cheers NFL Throwback. Appreciate you continuing to be the gift that keeps on giving to the OGs!!!!
I'm Packers fan since 1996, I was nine years old, when my dad let me stay up and watch the Superbowl against the Patriots, but man, Steve Young was my absolute favorite QB during that era. He was then what many players are now at that position. He wasn't just a dual threat QB, he was a great scrambler, too, and he was gutsy and sticked it out instead of demanding a trade. He was great, not just as a lefty, he was all-time great.
Same here since 96 I remember the great 95,96,97 and 1998 playoff games and the 49ers can have 1998 I'll take three straight nfc championships and 2 super bowls in a row and one title after the 49ers dominance In late 80s and 90s
Oh man, Favre was a thorn in our ass back in the day. Weirdly enough we owned Rodgers. Young was my favorite QB of all time. I was a lefty QB scrambler, and Young was my hero. I believe he's also a nice dude to talk to, you'll get your autograph and your selfie with Steve.
Dude that was like my first game I watched too! Remember my dad asking me the night before if I wanted to watch the SB with him. I think it planted that seed to be into sports.
He was a tremendous passer that really threw a pretty ball. His fearlessness is summed up in the play against the Bears where he runs for the TD, takes a big hit well after crossing the plane, then bounced right back up and spiked the ball in the defenders face. He was the only one to beat the Cowboys in that era in the playoffs.
Eventually Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson will take that crown. Allen has as many 30 Pass and 5 Rush TD seasons as Young. Lamar has the most 100 yard games and 1,000 yard rushing seasons for a QB and as of right now he currently leads the league in Pass TDs.
@@BigBossCQCLegend 1. Tim Tebow 2. Ryan Leaf 3. Joey Harrington 4. Michael Vick 5. Johnny Manziel 6. Troy Aikman 7. Aaron Rodgers 8. Jimmy G 9. Tom Brady 10. Baker Mayfield
Steve’s 49ers ran into the cowboys dynasty and then those great Packers team. But as someone who didn’t see much of his career live, you an see the ability in the highlights. Would be more of a beast today
There's something really special about how accurate his throws are and the touch he puts on the ball. The way it just floats into the receivers' hands is incredible.
Thanks a ton for posting this Steve Young career highlight reel As an east coast '49er fan who became a Niner fan when I was a kid back in the '80s with the rise of Joe Montana, I'd forgotten not just how good, but how great, a quarterback that Young actually was and just how lucky the Niners franchise were to have had two consecutive H.o.F.-level starting QBs on their roster. Their decade and a half of dominance from the early '80s thru to the mid '90s would not have been possible were it not for that stroke of luck. Watching this video convinced me that he would've had three or four of his own Super Bowl titles had he not played a significant stretch of his overalm career as Montana's backup. Something not mentioned in the video during the segment focusing on the early-mid '90s rivalry between the Niners and the then-ascendant Cowboys was the fact that, in the season in which the Niners finally defeated the Cowboys in the NFC Championship game, those two franchises also faced-off twice in the regular season (a scheduling quirk that doesn't happen in the NFL for franchises not in the same division) -- with SF besting Dallas in both meetings.
@@dre32pitt: Walsh was, indeed, a great head coach -- one of the all-time greatest (with only Lombardi or Belichik ahead of him). His successor, Seifert, wasn't too shabby a coach, either.
Wow, I almost forgot just how insanely awesome Steve Young was, idk why he's not mentioned more as being one of the greatest qb's ever to play football, he totally is the lefty qb GOAT. My team is the Giants and I remember watching the 90 championship game when Lennard Marshall hit Montana so hard that when he woke up he was traded and on a different team!!! He got knocked out as a 9er and woke up a Cheif!! Anywho, when Steve came in I thought it was gonna be easy, haa! It was a nail bitter and if LT don't cause that fumble bc they were trying to run out the clock and we recovered the ball we would of never won that game. But we did and won the SB!!!
@cyccomiko Wrong Ignoramus. Montana was ready to go the next year as the starter but he sustained and elbow injury that kept him out of the season . It had nothing to do with the Giant hit
@@Boman751 What u mean. Brady won 3 Superbowls in 01, 03-04. The 2000s era was just as physical. Things started to change in 2010 with the helmet to helmet hits.
I started watching the NFL in 1965 with my dad in Boston, dad was a player and a coach so I learned everything about football from dad very young, I watched Brady come here and win like no QB in history, I watched, Bradshaw, Marino, Tarkington, Staubach, Elway, manning, but Steve young was the most exciting QB to watch, bar none, you never knew what he'd come up with, he had to follow Montana so we figured no way he's going to be able to fill those shoes, he didn't, he had his own shoes, and man he could run in them.
I grew up in the bay and went 2 many games at the stick. Young's toughness and never give up attitude, is what I remember most. All time great! Awesome memories
When Steve was given the reigns to start full time in ‘91, albeit Montana getting hurt in preseason, He never looked back, definitely the best Dual-Threat QB ever.
It wasn't easy for Young at the beginning because he even though he was productive winning MVP's & passing titles!! He still was in the shadows of Montana when it came to winning the big game. Winning the '95 NFC championship against the Cowboys & eventually against an inferior opponent in the Chargers elevated to a credible top QB.
Monday I was thinking who's the greatest left handed QB and I searched to see if this channel had a Steve Young highlight. Now it's here. Amazing. Thank you.
This is my dad's era of the niners and I was 9 during the harbough era. I can't believe the amount of great players that have played for this team. Although I wasn't around during this time, I feel much apart of it as my dad. 9er football is different and I think Its a mixture of the history and this great city. 👏🏾
WOW, this is the one of best runs i've seen from from any player in football. 8:19 Its incredible that Steve Young didnt really start to build his HOF career until he was in his 30's, after his prime years.
What a blessing as a 49er fan to have watched two hall of fame quarterbacks in succession. Greatness on display. Hopefully a sixth Lombardi on the way. Go 49ers!
Steve Young is the reason why I'm a huge 49ers fan. Born in '84, and watching 49ers football at 7,8,9,10 years old was the best. And at just a day short of my 11th birthday he won the Super Bowl for us!! He is my all time fav 49ers and my goat
As Packers fan so many memories in 95 and good thing he was mostly hurt 1996 even though they wouldn't have won with seifert and 1997 was classic battle and 1998 still hurts I wonder if holmgren would still be coaching the Packers lol
It's crazy to see how FAST he was!! And Steve will always undersell just how dang special of an athlete he was. He was Aaron Rodgers with Lamar Jackson mobility at his peak. Jesus Christ, he'd absolutely light it UP in the modern game
I can't remember who it was, but there was some former player who said that one of his coaches told him something to effect, "If you knock Montana out of the game, I'm cutting your ass on Monday, because I do not want to deal with Steve Young". Not the direct quote, but something like that. I didn't start watching football until well after Steve Young had retired, but he's one of my all-time favorite qbs. Still a little disappointed he never got that run-back against Joe Montana.
Steve has been the most exciting QB that has ever played the game. There will never be another than can come close. I would take the team I coached to watch the 49ers practice in Rocklin Ca. When the practice was over some players would sign autographs etc. Every practice Steve would take time to sign when most wouldn’t. Steve was an incredible inspiration to the kids I coached. I will never forget!
Man did you see that clip at 15:40? Young ran it in, then he got hit late. Young threw it at the guy that hit him, and Rice came in IMMEDIATELY at the guy. Might actually be the only time I saw Rice ready to actually fight a guy there. So much respect for both of them, I love them both, especially as a lefty myself. Steve showed me how to do it when I was a kid, wanted to be him, and I had no problem learning to catch like Jerry. I miss those guys, but Deebo and Aiyuk, and Kittle are pretty cool too.
He's such a hard worker, I'd feel obligated to catch every pass he threw my way, if I were his teammates. He could have kept it and ran, he likely just dodged a blitz and got hit throwing the ball..... So, I'd be thinking "Man, I better not drop this and make Steve go through all that for nothing!" It would motivate the hell outta me!
Yeah when he runs 4 SB’s, 3 SB MVP, 2 Comeback Players of the Year 3 NFL MVPs, you let me know. Steve wasn’t nearly 1/4 the competitor Joe was. Heck Joe beat Steve head to head when he was let go by the Niners. Keep it best left handed QB. He was NOT better than Joe.
24:13 - #33 next to Steve is Lawrence Phillips, the man who later that same season missed a block on Aeneas Williams that led to Young's career ending concussion/ hit.
Tks, Steve. Video shows us how the NFL changed in the 90's. In 1991, Young could run crazy. There we collisions, and everybody moved on. By the end of the decade, players were 3x faster and 4x larger. Every hit a potential ACL, concussion, cracked ribs - out for the season. 1999 was too much for him. Today you have to call penalties otherwise careers will be over every Sunday. The cult of "freaky" bodies spoiled a lot of the fun. Fortunately, Young could play when his best could be appreciated.
Watching this highlight video and one of the main thoughts that comes to mind - just how good Jerry Rice was. Some of the catches in this video I haven't seen before and just wow. No disrespect to Young - a great Qb who would have been great even if he had no mobility. But still, Rice is just something else.
Steve Young was a childhood idol of mine. Highly energetic, yet calm. Fierce competitor yet class act. Highly accurate, super smart, great mobility, a blueprint for future QBs. And, he's just a good dude overall IRL. Icon. Top 5 QBs of all time, and all of which are arguably the best.
Agree with what everybody is saying Favorite team. Favorite player of all time But NFL throwback I need to know: How are you converting all of this game video to HD like this? This looks awesome! I have every Niner game (except 2)from ‘81-‘98 on DVD but I am guessing this would take some professional equipment that I would do anything to have!
Yes Saturday morning cartoons on fox 90's bay area kid growing up waking up every weekend looking forward to the weekend. Steve young to Jerry rice on sunday.49ers faithful since 1989
I think Young gets overlooked as far as all time QB rankings because he got off to a late start. If you look at his stats from 1992-98, it was arguably the best 7 yr run of any QB in history. In an era where every QB had a low passer ratings, he had 100+ 6 of the 8 yrs. He won a SB MVP, 2 time league MVP, pro bowl every yr, 1st team all pro 3 times, 5 time completion % leader. He's top ever no question
I played against Steve in high school He played for Greenwich high in Connecticut I knew he was gonna be a special player even then . When you look at his career numbers they're very good but not eye popping but remember he put up these numbers in basically 9 seasons as a starter so yes they're very impressive and he's a winner with heart
SYoung era cómo el niño travieso, que hacía lo que quería con el balón y los contrarios.Tenía una audiencia garantizada por sus increíbles faenas en el campo.Único!
9:15 How smart of a play is this.. Tells his receiver to go deep to take the lone defender on that side of the field out of the picture so he could run for a huge chunk of yardage.
Absolutely 💯 beast. Wasn't "run happy". Always looked over his reads before he ran (unless he had a blitzer that wasn't picked up). He was a throw first and run only if he had to QB that would gut a defense throwing or running. All time class act on and off the field.
Just image if he was in the league today. With the pass happy league we have today that favors the offense, especially QB's, he would TEAR it up! Perfect balance of throwing and running skills with the toughness and speed of an RB.
If you're a 90s kid and grew up in the Bay Area, you'd watch X-Men and Batman every Saturday morning and then you'd watch Steve and Jerry every Sunday morning. Great time to be a kid! The Lefty QB GOAT is the truth!
That was me!
And remember boomer and Tom Jackson on nfl primetime on Sundays on old school espn after the games and this was wayyy before rpos
Not a 90s kid but that sounds awesome
I met Steve Young After the Chargers Super Bowl and damn the 49ers. Cursed his team won’t win again
X-Men and Batman came on Sundays in the '90s for y'all? because here on the East Coast x-man used to come on Saturday mornings. Batman the animated series used to come on during the weekday after school followed by Superman animated series.
Steve Young was 20 years ahead of his time with his skill set. He was incredible back then, he'd be even better now.
Imagine a world where they couldnt touch him or his receivers... Steve may have averaged 45 TDs passing and another 5 on the ground each season, and would've played several more years too
what i hope justin fields can be
Me too but Fields can't drop those dimes into double coverage.
Cunningham was good too
@@duypham76 Hell yeah. He also would thrive today.
Born in 1984, I was too young to watch and appreciate Montana. Young is who made me a fan.
You were young also.
Same for my brother
'86 for me.
Me too bro born 83 Steve Young's the best player of all time
Born in '91. I caught the tail end of Young but still thought he was amazing. He's in my top 5 of best QBs ever if for nothing else his talent made me fall in love with the game.
Also, I think Young while only being a starter for 8 full seasons still has an NFL record where he led the league in passer rating 6 times. His dominance from 1992 to 1994 is arguably the best three year stretch for a QB in NFL history.
Agreed. And he had to go toe to toe with one of the best dynasties ever in the 90's Cowboys. Imagine if they weren't there for 3 years in a row in the NFC title game. How many more SBs would Young have.. Probably two more, almost assuredly, just based on how great those matchups were against the Cowboys every year. NFC Championship Game WAS the super bowl back then--two best teams in the league, just happened to be in the same conference
@@realdiehlsports4810there’s this line from john madden my Dad would talk about during one of those niners/cowboys championships he said “in two weeks from now we’ll watch the super bowl, then after that the pro bowl, but today we get to watch both.”
Plus he would have been a starter on almost any other team but had to sit second stream cause of you know, Joe Montana.
Steve Young is the most underappreciateded quarterback of all time. The guy is a top 5 QB of all time and nobody even knows who he is. He is the most efficient quarterback ever by far, nobody led his time with more efficiency than he is. His career avg. stats are misleading because he sat down his half of his career behind Joe Montana. Once he became a full time starter he never looked back. His stats between 1991 - 1998 are off the charts. Just google it. He led the league in passer rating 6 times between that time phrase. And his QB ratings were no joke. 101, 107, 112, 105, 97, 104. it's just insane. imagine he was a starting QB in his 20s. I'm not kidding just go look at his stats between 91 - 98. his Passing yards per attempt are out of this world. THE MOST efficient quarterback ever step on field.
Amen brother!
Joe is Joe
He’s also very humble I won a trip to the pro bowl in 2005 and he was the only person that was approachable and didn’t mind taking a picture. Everyone else was an asshole in the way they said no.
Don't forget, in 99 they were 3-0 (or was it 4-0, I'll have to look up)and Steve was leading the league again in QBR again before A.Williams laid that dirty hit on him and ended his career. He was off to his hottest start yet. He had TO, JJ, Rice- They were unstoppable and I have no doubt they would have won it all that year. Dam shame what A.Williams did. It was a different game back then where QBs were NOT protected and babied like they are today. That 8 year stretch will never be duplicated. Steve was the GOAT and still is in my book
@@slabbyfatback2272 i totally respect that. to me it’s Peyton but can’t go wrong with Steve too
Steve Young was my favorite SF 49ers growing up. Jerry Rice was my dad’s favorite SF 49ers. Dad, I am so glad we were both able to see SF 49ers vs Tampa Bucs in Tampa, FL. Even though Jerry Rice injured his knee and we lost a very close game 13 vs 7, we had an amazing time. You passed shortly there after from cancer. But this is my greatest memory of us. Your face lit up when Young and Rice entered the locker at halftime from our end zone. Even when the dumbass Bucs fan pouring beer on us while we both wore #8 and #80. Love you dad. I still have those jersey. Your grandson wears Jerry Rice jersey now. Love dad. RIP.
This was lovely, long live your dad!
Imagine him running the kind of offenses that Mahomes or Lamar are running right now. Steve Young would absolutely eat in this current era
With all these new rules to protect the QB, heck yes!!!
In general the older backs, Montana would shred the league, Young would be running everywhere, Marino would be breaking passing records back and forth
@@potatoavacadonion1025 don't forget, Steve lead the League multiple times in PASSER RATING
Yeah, he had that. He had Taylor Solomon and Rice, later Owens
He had that on offense and a spectacular defense as well.
Hell of a quarterback, and hell of a man. The book My Life Behind the Spiral gave me a bigger appreciation for Steve Young. The GOAT of lefty QBs. He would absolutely kill the game if he played today. One of my personal favorites of all time
Steve Young was the first truly modern, efficient passer. His quarterback ratings in the early '90's of 98.0+ set the standard that today's quarterbacks are held to. Two MVP's in three years, and arguably should have been more. Brilliant and strangely underrated; even vilified at times.
Legend has it that he’s still running all over the Vikings defense. Red and gold til I’m dead and cold!
Steve Young made me a 49ers fan. He was so fun to watch and will always be my favorite QB of all time.
The greatest lefty QB I’ve ever seen play this game, in addition to his agility when the pressure gets to him
Number balls. Everyone of them are number balls. Catch and run
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While Young's passing accuracy was top notch, it was his absolute fearlessness at running that always amazed me.
He threw a nice ball. I copied the way he held it and threw way more spirals (two fingers on the laces, then wrist snap). I did not have his wheels tho 😂
Especially back then, defenders tried to put QB s in the hospital if they tried to run
The play where he hurdles about 5 falcons is nuts . Some Josh Allen or cam newton shit
@@KTF0 you can tell he was a baseball player the way he threw the ball, like an infielder with a nice touch
That's what makes his accuracy so unique. He was not a natural downfield passer like Marino or Namath. Those guys were taught great mechanics by their father and brother respectively. They arrived in pro football as polished products. Steve was born a gifted athlete, his natural talents were such that he should have been a halfback or a defensive back rather than a quarterback. If you read his biography, he talks about just how raw of a passer he was throughout his early years and even in college. At BYU, he was buried in the depth chart, and he was moved to defensive back. Despite that, he eventually become one of the most accurate deep ball throwers in the history of pro football. Steve wasn't born to be a quarterback, but that was his dream, through hard work he achieved it.
YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! Thank you for making this week a lot better!!!! Wish we had this guy back in the saddle again. It was a pleasure watching this trigger-master go to work all throughout the 1990's. Steve being a southpaw made it all the more magical. Cheers NFL Throwback. Appreciate you continuing to be the gift that keeps on giving to the OGs!!!!
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Greatest left handed quarterback of all time
*Best player of all time!
I'm Packers fan since 1996, I was nine years old, when my dad let me stay up and watch the Superbowl against the Patriots, but man, Steve Young was my absolute favorite QB during that era. He was then what many players are now at that position. He wasn't just a dual threat QB, he was a great scrambler, too, and he was gutsy and sticked it out instead of demanding a trade. He was great, not just as a lefty, he was all-time great.
Same here since 96 I remember the great 95,96,97 and 1998 playoff games and the 49ers can have 1998 I'll take three straight nfc championships and 2 super bowls in a row and one title after the 49ers dominance In late 80s and 90s
Oh man, Favre was a thorn in our ass back in the day. Weirdly enough we owned Rodgers. Young was my favorite QB of all time. I was a lefty QB scrambler, and Young was my hero. I believe he's also a nice dude to talk to, you'll get your autograph and your selfie with Steve.
Dude that was like my first game I watched too! Remember my dad asking me the night before if I wanted to watch the SB with him. I think it planted that seed to be into sports.
I would put him top ten all time
He was a tremendous passer that really threw a pretty ball. His fearlessness is summed up in the play against the Bears where he runs for the TD, takes a big hit well after crossing the plane, then bounced right back up and spiked the ball in the defenders face. He was the only one to beat the Cowboys in that era in the playoffs.
Young had some of the best passer ratings ever given the era he played in
Best dual-threat QB ever
Elway then Young
@@seanjohnson9772 not even that’s like saying rivers over rodgers
Most UNDERRATED dual threat qb
I wouldn’t say ever. Players like elway and Wilson were better than him
Eventually Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson will take that crown.
Allen has as many 30 Pass and 5 Rush TD seasons as Young.
Lamar has the most 100 yard games and 1,000 yard rushing seasons for a QB and as of right now he currently leads the league in Pass TDs.
Steve Young is a top 10 quarterback of all time. I don't care what anyone says
I agree
Who’s in your top 10 qb list
@@BigBossCQCLegend 1. Tim Tebow
2. Ryan Leaf
3. Joey Harrington
4. Michael Vick
5. Johnny Manziel
6. Troy Aikman
7. Aaron Rodgers
8. Jimmy G
9. Tom Brady
10. Baker Mayfield
*Top 3!! By any measure. #1 in my not so humble opinion.
@@stebbi2019 😂😂😂
Steve’s 49ers ran into the cowboys dynasty and then those great Packers team. But as someone who didn’t see much of his career live, you an see the ability in the highlights. Would be more of a beast today
There's something really special about how accurate his throws are and the touch he puts on the ball. The way it just floats into the receivers' hands is incredible.
He was the best running quarterback of all time.
Better than Vick, just asking btw
@@stebbi2019 In terms of pure running ability, no. However, of all the great running quarterbacks Steve is by far the best passer.
The best dual threat QB
His ball sails until the exact perfect moment for it to come down. So crazyyyyy!
Crazy passer rating!! He would dominate today.
His accuracy was insane
Steve is one of the greatest downfield passers in football history.
This guy proved to everyone that he was a good qb who wasn't living under Montana's shadow.
Thanks a ton for posting this Steve Young career highlight reel As an east coast '49er fan who became a Niner fan when I was a kid back in the '80s with the rise of Joe Montana, I'd forgotten not just how good, but how great, a quarterback that Young actually was and just how lucky the Niners franchise were to have had two consecutive H.o.F.-level starting QBs on their roster. Their decade and a half of dominance from the early '80s thru to the mid '90s would not have been possible were it not for that stroke of luck. Watching this video convinced me that he would've had three or four of his own Super Bowl titles had he not played a significant stretch of his overalm career as Montana's backup.
Something not mentioned in the video during the segment focusing on the early-mid '90s rivalry between the Niners and the then-ascendant Cowboys was the fact that, in the season in which the Niners finally defeated the Cowboys in the NFC Championship game, those two franchises also faced-off twice in the regular season (a scheduling quirk that doesn't happen in the NFL for franchises not in the same division) -- with SF besting Dallas in both meetings.
I wouldn't call it luck necessarily.. Walsh was absolutely great at spotting talent and what types of people would work best in his system..
@@dre32pitt: Walsh was, indeed, a great head coach -- one of the all-time greatest (with only Lombardi or Belichik ahead of him). His successor, Seifert, wasn't too shabby a coach, either.
Young's combination of accuracy and mobility is the best in the history of the game.
Very very very under rated... put him in today's era... sheesh he would be deadly.. he is my favorite Qb ever....
On todays niners. He would be a dynasty king! Total domination.
@@sonofthebigguyenemyofcornp4403 facts....
John Taylor has to be one of the most underrated, least talked about wide receiver ever.
I say the same thing kinda forgotten he was like Reggie Wayne a borderline hall of Famer
Wow, I almost forgot just how insanely awesome Steve Young was, idk why he's not mentioned more as being one of the greatest qb's ever to play football, he totally is the lefty qb GOAT. My team is the Giants and I remember watching the 90 championship game when Lennard Marshall hit Montana so hard that when he woke up he was traded and on a different team!!! He got knocked out as a 9er and woke up a Cheif!! Anywho, when Steve came in I thought it was gonna be easy, haa! It was a nail bitter and if LT don't cause that fumble bc they were trying to run out the clock and we recovered the ball we would of never won that game. But we did and won the SB!!!
He's underrated because his prime was very short. He only gave us about 7 years of relevancy, 1991-1998.
@cyccomiko Wrong Ignoramus. Montana was ready to go the next year as the starter but he sustained and elbow injury that kept him out of the season . It had nothing to do with the Giant hit
he turned his biggest weaknesses, inaccuracy, into his biggest strength. Then he became the most accurate QB in NFL history
his deep ball is insane
Thanks NFL throwback I needed this tonight
Back when football was tough for a QB
Indeed. If Brady, Rodgers, or Brees played in the 80’s or 90’s, they wouldn’t have even won a single Super Bowl. I guarantee it.
@@Boman751 What u mean. Brady won 3 Superbowls in 01, 03-04. The 2000s era was just as physical. Things started to change in 2010 with the helmet to helmet hits.
@@Rlucas198823 helmet to helmet hits should be a rule, you want players getting concussions.
I started watching the NFL in 1965 with my dad in Boston, dad was a player and a coach so I learned everything about football from dad very young, I watched Brady come here and win like no QB in history, I watched, Bradshaw, Marino, Tarkington, Staubach, Elway, manning, but Steve young was the most exciting QB to watch, bar none, you never knew what he'd come up with, he had to follow Montana so we figured no way he's going to be able to fill those shoes, he didn't, he had his own shoes, and man he could run in them.
Both Elway & Young idolized Staubach growing up!! The way they played with their daring style was reminiscent of Staubach.
I grew up in the bay and went 2 many games at the stick. Young's toughness and never give up attitude, is what I remember most. All time great! Awesome memories
When Steve was given the reigns to start full time in ‘91, albeit Montana getting hurt in preseason, He never looked back, definitely the best Dual-Threat QB ever.
It wasn't easy for Young at the beginning because he even though he was productive winning MVP's & passing titles!! He still was in the shadows of Montana when it came to winning the big game. Winning the '95 NFC championship against the Cowboys & eventually against an inferior opponent in the Chargers elevated to a credible top QB.
Montana got hurt in the 1990 NFC championship Game not the preseason.
@@pp3k3jamail Got you, thanks for the clarification.
He is a absolute legend and these videos are awesome
The great Bill Walsh made Joe Montana and Steve Young the greato QBS of all time.
He was my favorite player as a kid; loved watching him play
As a packers fan who was raised one and grew up watching us play in 95 96 97 and 98 and all of them were good memories even though 98 is bittersweet
Dude was running wild like this during the most ruthless hitting 😂😂😂😂, no helmet to helmet calls QBs weren't protected dude was a gladiator.
Back when throwing for 4000 yards was unheard of
Fun fact the 49ers from 1992-1995 had the best scoring offense 4 years in a row making them the last team to accomplish that feat
Great stat. Off the top of my head, the Rams did it 3 years in a row(99-01) and the Patriots from 2010-2012, I think.
Great memories....😊
First time watching Steve Young most definitely top 10 QB all time the accuracy he had was the best I have ever seen 🙌
I think this is what 49ers fans expected when we got Trey Lance, instead of RGIII. Time will tell, get well Trey. And Steve, thanks for the memories!
Never panned out man
Steve Young at QB + Mike Shanahan calling the plays = magic (1992 - 1994)
So many 49ers assistants got hired because of Montana and young lol like Sean Mcvay coaching tree
Great Vid! John Taylor continues to be an unsung hero too.
Monday I was thinking who's the greatest left handed QB and I searched to see if this channel had a Steve Young highlight. Now it's here. Amazing. Thank you.
This is my dad's era of the niners and I was 9 during the harbough era. I can't believe the amount of great players that have played for this team. Although I wasn't around during this time, I feel much apart of it as my dad. 9er football is different and I think Its a mixture of the history and this great city. 👏🏾
WOW, this is the one of best runs i've seen from from any player in football. 8:19
Its incredible that Steve Young didnt really start to build his HOF career until he was in his 30's, after his prime years.
What a blessing as a 49er fan to have watched two hall of fame quarterbacks in succession. Greatness on display. Hopefully a sixth Lombardi on the way. Go 49ers!
Unbelievable. He's the reason why I'm a 49er fan for life.
Steve Young is my favorite NFL player of all time 🏈 #8
OMG YOU GUYS DID IT I BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS THANK YOU
Steve has always been my favorite QB and I don't understand why he's not in the GOAT conversation.
Born in 87 but I grew up watching this goat. Dam he has an arm
Finally! My all-time favorite 49ER from the past! Thank you NFL THROWBACK 🔴🟡
My favorite player of all time. The GOAT
Steve Young is the reason why I'm a huge 49ers fan. Born in '84, and watching 49ers football at 7,8,9,10 years old was the best. And at just a day short of my 11th birthday he won the Super Bowl for us!! He is my all time fav 49ers and my goat
As Packers fan so many memories in 95 and good thing he was mostly hurt 1996 even though they wouldn't have won with seifert and 1997 was classic battle and 1998 still hurts I wonder if holmgren would still be coaching the Packers lol
It's crazy to see how FAST he was!! And Steve will always undersell just how dang special of an athlete he was. He was Aaron Rodgers with Lamar Jackson mobility at his peak. Jesus Christ, he'd absolutely light it UP in the modern game
He came in after a legend and carried the team as a legend. A great time to be a Niner fan.
Glory days of smash mouth football
I can't remember who it was, but there was some former player who said that one of his coaches told him something to effect, "If you knock Montana out of the game, I'm cutting your ass on Monday, because I do not want to deal with Steve Young". Not the direct quote, but something like that. I didn't start watching football until well after Steve Young had retired, but he's one of my all-time favorite qbs. Still a little disappointed he never got that run-back against Joe Montana.
Watching this you forget how strong he was.
Young's accuracy was unreal!
Steve has been the most exciting QB that has ever played the game. There will never be another than can come close. I would take the team I coached to watch the 49ers practice in Rocklin Ca. When the practice was over some players would sign autographs etc. Every practice Steve would take time to sign when most wouldn’t. Steve was an incredible inspiration to the kids I coached. I will never forget!
If your not for the Packers and the cowboys he would have more rings 2 90s dynastys that ruined his run
Steve young would be Josh Allen/Lamar Jackson if he was playing in todays game.
Steve is better
Man did you see that clip at 15:40? Young ran it in, then he got hit late. Young threw it at the guy that hit him, and Rice came in IMMEDIATELY at the guy. Might actually be the only time I saw Rice ready to actually fight a guy there. So much respect for both of them, I love them both, especially as a lefty myself. Steve showed me how to do it when I was a kid, wanted to be him, and I had no problem learning to catch like Jerry. I miss those guys, but Deebo and Aiyuk, and Kittle are pretty cool too.
Steve young is my favorite player of all time 😊. 💯
He's such a hard worker, I'd feel obligated to catch every pass he threw my way, if I were his teammates. He could have kept it and ran, he likely just dodged a blitz and got hit throwing the ball..... So, I'd be thinking "Man, I better not drop this and make Steve go through all that for nothing!"
It would motivate the hell outta me!
Best Niners QB and one of the most accurate passers ever
seriously saying he was better than Montana
Joe Montana would disagree with you.
Joe Montana : *Exists*
What is you saying the disrespect on Montana
Yeah when he runs 4 SB’s, 3 SB MVP, 2 Comeback Players of the Year 3 NFL MVPs, you let me know.
Steve wasn’t nearly 1/4 the competitor Joe was. Heck Joe beat Steve head to head when he was let go by the Niners.
Keep it best left handed QB. He was NOT better than Joe.
24:13 - #33 next to Steve is Lawrence Phillips, the man who later that same season missed a block on Aeneas Williams that led to Young's career ending concussion/ hit.
💥💥 Steve Young would be absolutely unstoppable in today's NFL what a beast.
No doubt
The most underrated player in the history of the game
Tks, Steve. Video shows us how the NFL changed in the 90's. In 1991, Young could run crazy. There we collisions, and everybody moved on. By the end of the decade, players were 3x faster and 4x larger. Every hit a potential ACL, concussion, cracked ribs - out for the season. 1999 was too much for him.
Today you have to call penalties otherwise careers will be over every Sunday. The cult of "freaky" bodies spoiled a lot of the fun. Fortunately, Young could play when his best could be appreciated.
Steve Young the man who made his critics eat their words.
I was not alive to watch this but Steve is my favriote NFL Player of all time
My favorite player when knead a kid/teen.
Had a chance to meet him about 4 years ago and he was a cool guy.
Watching this highlight video and one of the main thoughts that comes to mind - just how good Jerry Rice was. Some of the catches in this video I haven't seen before and just wow. No disrespect to Young - a great Qb who would have been great even if he had no mobility. But still, Rice is just something else.
Steve Young was a childhood idol of mine. Highly energetic, yet calm. Fierce competitor yet class act. Highly accurate, super smart, great mobility, a blueprint for future QBs. And, he's just a good dude overall IRL. Icon. Top 5 QBs of all time, and all of which are arguably the best.
I was born to late to appreciate Montana or Young, I hope one day to see my niners lift the Lombardi with my own eyes.
Same here my faithful brethren same here. Was born in 1995 just missed their golden years
@@TexasDragon At least you got UA-cam to be able to check out the highlights!!
What?
Born too late to appreciate Montana or Young but you’re glad to see the Niners raise the Lombardi Trophy?
I've enjoyed watching him since his BYU days!!! Thanks for the memories.
Agree with what everybody is saying
Favorite team. Favorite player of all time
But NFL throwback I need to know:
How are you converting all of this game video to HD like this? This looks awesome!
I have every Niner game (except 2)from ‘81-‘98 on DVD but I am guessing this would take some professional equipment that I would do anything to have!
Yes Saturday morning cartoons on fox 90's bay area kid growing up waking up every weekend looking forward to the weekend. Steve young to Jerry rice on sunday.49ers faithful since 1989
I think Young gets overlooked as far as all time QB rankings because he got off to a late start. If you look at his stats from 1992-98, it was arguably the best 7 yr run of any QB in history. In an era where every QB had a low passer ratings, he had 100+ 6 of the 8 yrs. He won a SB MVP, 2 time league MVP, pro bowl every yr, 1st team all pro 3 times, 5 time completion % leader. He's top ever no question
I highly recommend everyone read the book he wrote. It's an excellent read about believing in yourself and a good behind the scenes at his life.
I played against Steve in high school
He played for Greenwich high in Connecticut
I knew he was gonna be a special player even then . When you look at his career numbers they're very good but not eye popping but remember he put up these numbers in basically 9 seasons as a starter so yes they're very impressive and he's a winner with heart
SYoung era cómo el niño travieso, que hacía lo que quería con el balón y los contrarios.Tenía una audiencia garantizada por sus increíbles faenas en el campo.Único!
9:15 How smart of a play is this.. Tells his receiver to go deep to take the lone defender on that side of the field out of the picture so he could run for a huge chunk of yardage.
Pretty crazy that he was a direct descendant of Brigham Young and became the star QB of Brigham Young University.
Steve young was a great qb and is a top 10 quarterback for me anyways.He dominated the 90s look at his stats man crazy
Steve Young one of if not the greatest lefty Quarterback and best Dual Threat QB ever
Michael Vick:: I wanna be Steve Young"! LEGEND
Absolutely 💯 beast. Wasn't "run happy". Always looked over his reads before he ran (unless he had a blitzer that wasn't picked up). He was a throw first and run only if he had to QB that would gut a defense throwing or running. All time class act on and off the field.
Not always.
He was always a 1- read and run when he got to SF.
That delivery is a thing of beauty
This guy had some truly incredible highlights. Def the best lefty QB ever.
Tuff as nails! Total respect for Mr. Young.
Just image if he was in the league today. With the pass happy league we have today that favors the offense, especially QB's, he would TEAR it up! Perfect balance of throwing and running skills with the toughness and speed of an RB.
Steve young#8 forever 🫶🏻🏈
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Steve Young the best lefty QB in history and his ability to run out of the pocket was incredible..he was like the white Michael Vick .
The last great 49er qb. Unbelievable toughness.