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This is the best description I have ever heard of Mora. You hit the nail on the head perfectly. Wish I could give a dozen likes for this one.

They played not to lose, not to beat themselves but would get easily exposed due to their weaknesses.

You just made me think of all the gut wrenching losses from the Mora era. Not just the playoff losses, but the close losses that left you devastated back in the day. The 49ers used to always edge us out in those close tight games. I hated the Niners so much cause it felt like no matter what we did, no matter how tightly we played them, they would still edge right by us for the win.

I believe from 1989 up through 1992, we had some streak with the 49ers where almost every game was decided by 6 points or less. Those were the losses that made me want to scream my head off. I have tape of some of these games and they are so hard to watch. Mora gets out-coached in most of them by Siefart who keeps his foot on the gas pedal and still trying to outgun them down the field and run the clock. The Niners spent most of those games running Nickel defenses cause it seemed like they knew our offense wasn't going to pose much of a threat and the game hinged on our defense doing everything to try and win the game. We even shut down Young and company in a number of those games, only to barely lose.