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Yeah I don;t think so either. The 85 Bears D would have been worse to play against than the 99 Bux were. Incredibly hard to block.
Nah, the average offensive tackle in 1985 weighed 284 lbs. By 1999 that number grew to 309 lbs. The vaunted Bears front seven would have been neutralized by an o-line that was much larger than any they would have faced. Of course the Rams defense would have easily handled the Bears offense. It was pretty pedestrian for their own era so I’d give them little hope against a Rams defense that was bigger and quicker than them.
Now, if you asked me which team was better, then I would say the 85 Bears. But that’s a different comparison. When you compare teams from different time periods, you have to measure them by the impact they had during their respective eras. Few if any teams have been as dominant as those 85 Bears. I would say the 99 Rams are among the best teams of all time, but they aren’t quite in the 85 Bears strata. But which team would win if they played? I think the 99 Rams would win comfortably.
Here’s an extreme, over-the-top example to make my point – which army was better, the army of the Roman Republic in 49 BC or the current army of North Korea? Obviously the Roman army was one of the greatest of all time, but it would lose miserably to any army from a more recent era…even North Korea 😉
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