Simmons in 1995 was great! 11 sacks, 6 forced fumbles and a pick 6! And Joyner had 6 INTs in 3 years along with 11 sacks as a LB. Definitely both were highlights from the horrible Buddy eara.
I remember the first Buddy home preseason game against the Niners. It was on a Saturday night, after a monsoon and on the defense’s very first time on the field, we got pressure on Steve Young, hammered him, the ball went up in the air and Simmons caught it for a 20ish yard pick-6 TD. That stadium erupted in a way never seen before and an indelible image is still burned into my brain as I can still see the moment, clear as day when I looked up into the sky and the bright night lights made the post Monsoon drizzle look like gold flints falling the sky as if football heaven had finally opened its gates and was raining down on us lowly Cardinals fans.
Little did I know, that was a completely different type of g-olden shower being rained down from above, almost as if forewarning our moronic asses about the kind of ish-show the football Gods were really about to unleash on us.
Good times, though!