 So much fun, you know, did all the craziest things, but you still won games. Yeah, you still dominated teams. And one of the things that we want to look at now is how you dominated the state of California, beating the 49ers twice. Whoa! California State Champions! Let's take a look at that. California State Champions! Don't be scared! 1991 line of Falcons, California State Champions. We had beaten every single team on the West Coast. We beat San Francisco and San Francisco, and the Falcons had never beat the Rams in LA. Beating them twice, beating the 49ers, I sure hope so, man. That'd be great. That'd be great. I don't know how long it's been since I've done that around here. There goes Tolliver, along, high pass, down in the corner, batted. They fight. That's down! That was the catch. That was the first time. That was the first time, man. I love you, man. You made it successful. What was the locker room like after that? Oh, man, you know, we had beaten the 49ers, who had been dominating us for years, and we beat them twice in the same season. And, I mean, that pretty much springed us into the playoffs, because we won that game, we had to edge over them. So we both finished 10-6 that year, but we beat them twice. So we had to edge, so that springed us into the playoffs. Kicked them out of the playoffs for the first time. And the locker room went crazy, man. I mean, if you saw what happened on the field, when we got back into the locker room, it was just like that. And they were like the standard of that era, right? Like the 80s and 90s, they were the team to beat. They won three Super Bowls in the 80s. Yes, true. And in the pre-game, the pre-game for both games, your locker room was going crazy, and their locker room was very stoic and silent, right? Right. What was that like? It took on the persona of Bill Walsh, you know? Right. He was a genius. He was tactical. This man here was wide open and fun, and we were rolling beforehand. That's kind of how we played. We went to the league meetings, and all the head coaches there. You guys will love this, because you know who I am. And Bill Walsh says, Jerry, I would like to have dinner with you and our wives. I think we should go out to dinner together. And I said, why is that, Bill? He said, you're at the zenith of all the football. I said, Bill, I don't talk like that. I thought you were in the mouth of what? I didn't know if it was a compliment or what. I was at the zenith. What the hell is that? One thing I want to say to you that I want to get overlooked, you see the trophy, right? Yeah. Who does that, man? Well, the team would have a make a trophy and put California State champion. That was so cool. That was the first thing that ever happened, right, Jerry? Yeah, nobody had ever went and spiked the whole left course. We had the Rams, the 49ers. San Diego. The Raiders. Seattle. Yeah, we played Seattle, sir. We got them all. The Raiders. Everybody on that board. Raiders. And who else would think about doing it? Right. Man over there. I thought it was so cool. And what stands out to you about those games from the Niners or the Rams or any of those teams in California? The biggest thing that's standing out the most to me in the world, why were we in the NFC West? In the NFC South, right? Okay, we're in the South, but you still had the Falcons in the same thing. You had the LA Rams in San Francisco. It didn't make any sense how they had those listed in the West for all those years, but it was a long flight every year. There were some great road trips. But that was a great road trip. That's where it was. And those teams were strong, too. Back in the Nunnies. Rams were stopped. They was pretty strong, man. So it was a time for me to get focused. Well, the 49ers had the best team money could buy. There was no salary cap. And D Bartolo had all the money he wanted. So we could not bid and get anybody. They could come get your players because with no salary cap, you go with the money. You guys remember some of those plane flights coming home, too, after a big win? We're landing. No seat belts on. We're standing like this, trying to surf the landing. That was the best time ever. We fly back from the West Coast. We get back seven o'clock in the morning the next day because of the time change. And you tell my fun on some flights. Can you tell you what happened? Didn't sleep much. Let's put it that way. We did sleep. Mike Ken played 17 years and several of us when we got back from those West Coast trips, we just go to his bar and kick it up the next day and keep going. Rafters. Rafters. Play cards. Play dice. Mondays were off. Mondays were film days. If you go and watch some film, you'd be a little cloudy. Tuesdays were off. They would be good by Wednesday. When you all beat the 49ers that season twice, did y'all know, was that kind of a point where you realized that y'all might be on to something special or was it a different point in the season? I would say it was before that. We started rolling as a team before that. We started the season off 0-2 that year. People don't remember that. And then we won a game, then we lost another game, so we were at 3-3. And we finished the season at 10-6. We started rolling. And we started winning games. Before that, yeah. Exactly. We started expecting to win. And before you know it, man, we were just rolling wins off. Like Robert said earlier, we were winning the games, we wasn't supposed to win. And also winning the games, we should have won. Yeah. We had a new offense coordinator that you brought in June Jones in 1991. A difference, yeah. A year before we had Tom Rossi who went to Green Bay with Farve. And catching that Hail Mary. See, what is that like, catching a Hail Mary in that? When did you know you had it? When he stood up. When he stood up. Look, here's the thing you don't hear. I got shut out the whole game. I'm the only kid. Oh, really? Yes. I'm the only kid. So I got that, huh? You got the best one. Absolutely. You got the only one in the bad road. We had been going back and forth with the score. And we ended up kicking a field goal and then they scored a touchdown. We were up 10-7 and Charles Haley buried me in the ground. I got cracked ribs, still got a lump up in there. We were up 10-7. So Billy Joe went in, hit a big time comeback on the sideline. Yeah, he hit a big, yeah. Launched the Hail Mary. He caught the big out. Yeah, that was the big out. I'm going to call it. I mean, I'm talking about touching the ball out there. On a big third down. On a big third down. Led to the Hail Mary. And that just got us close enough to throw the Hail Mary. Right. But until everyone, it wasn't luck though. Tell them what you guys did and practiced it. Yeah, what did you practice? Well, we used to do this thing. We used to put buckets. And the quarterbacks used to put, I don't know how far you got. About 44 yards. 44 yards. 44 yards. And their whole thing was to throw the ball into the buckets. It was a trash can. Yeah, trash. And they had to throw it in. Six yards from the sideline. 44 yards. 64 yards from the sideline. So we practiced that. You were the bucket. Right. He was the bucket after. At that time, yes. He became the bucket. It was one of those things. I mean, you got all these guys down there. It's a free fall. You just trying to go get the ball. And for y'all, Justin and Rob, what was it like game-planning for that offense? For the 49, for 49ers. I know right now. Extremely tough. But you're playing against the West Coast offense that run multiple formations. Two back set. And they had skilled athletes. And they had a great quarterback. And they always had somebody every year. You got Steve Young. You got Jerry Rice. You got John Taylor. You got Roger Craig. You're talking about all. Well, Joe Montana was the. And Montana left. I know what Montana left. Steve Young was like, they stepped right in. Well, you two are like this when they had them both. I had them both. Yeah. And I would coach him. Yeah. And I told the defense, if any of you knock Joe Montana out of the game, I'm cutting you. We don't want that Steve Young killing him. We wanted Joe Montana. So you knew. Oh, we all knew. We all knew. We all knew he would be a superstar. But the biggest thing we'd do was that when Steve was in the game, 80% of their offense was going where? 80. To the left. Yeah. Left handed. Boomer. Yeah. Yeah. So that was one thing, but he was so athletic, you know, he could do it all. But you knew that most of this stuff is going to outright his left. You know what I mean? But overall, the offense for me was they would put somebody in every part of the field. Yeah. So he had a thread every. So you had to be right. And I got caught the time that you were cheating. You had to cover Jerry Rice on the couch. Cover four. We done a lot of cover four. When we wasn't blitzing. We blitzed a lot. You know, man to man a lot. But when you cover four, any time, you know, I knew I had three on the strong side wherever I come in, but they knew it too. So they're brain-jering and they run the option right off of me. Right. So you already, everybody knows where the ball's going. I know where the ball's going. Can I stop Jerry Rice? No. Can I tap him? Yeah, it's for eight-yard game. So my biggest thing is just making the tackle, making the tackle. You're not going to defend the ball. You're not going to knock the ball down. That goal was to knock him down as hard as I possibly could.