Young called BYU’s 1980 team “nutty” with how they were able to play and revolutionize the game of football.

“They were beating people 70-2, you know. I mean, like Jim was throwing the ball thousands and thousands of yards, and the rest of college football was still running the Split-T or veer,” he said. “We were so far ahead of everybody else, and we were just abusing the system because we were so far ahead of it. It felt very familiar when I got to the 49ers with the West Coast offense and what they were doing and abusing the league because they were so far ahead as well. There’s real resonance between what we were doing in the late ’70s and ‘80s.”
Young believes his predecessor at BYU, Jim McMahon, shouldn’t be excluded from the praise of the BYU teams in the ‘80s. He considers McMahon one of the best quarterbacks technically, alongside his San Francisco 49ers predecessor Joe Montana.

“He technically was the most sound quarterback that I’ve ever been around and maybe ever was,” he said. “For all of his craziness, he was technically right down the middle, man. He was amazing, and I don’t know if there was anyone that threw the ball like he did as early as he did in pros or college.”

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