This team is on a whole new level. I've watched it all. I watched the expansion years where we were thrilled to get 9-7. A winning record! I've seen the first excellent teams, winning in Miami, winning 12 games (and losing to the freaking Broncos at home(!) to lose the division...), suffering through the Bubba Behring years, watching our dominant team in '05 get the NFL equivalent of the Montreal Screwjob.
None of those teams are as flat out scary as this one.
This team just took a team that places had rated #1 and turned them inside out. Twice.
This team just took a guy who threw for over 400 yards last week against a recent division winner and fairly recent Super Bowl champion and dropped him into a water torture chamber for four quarters.
This team just won the showdown game of the week against the reigning NFC champions, 29-3, and can rightfully say that they didn't play very well in a great many aspects of the game.
Re-read that last sentence again. This team just outscored the NFC Super Bowl representative by almost 10-1 - and screwed up a lot doing it. Anyone who isn't scared by that reality is in a fantasy dreamland where Richard Sherman isn't their own personal Freddy Krueger.
So there was a question at the start of this thread. Which beatdown of the 49ers would I take? I'll have to go with The Genie from Aladdin on this one: I'll have some of Column A and I'll try all of column B!