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STATS OF THE WEEK

A special 49er edition of stats, in honor of San Francisco's 20-14 victory over the Eagles.

•The 10-2 Niners are the first team to win 10 or more games in 10 straight years.

•The alltime best winning percentage (minimum 100 victories) by a coach is the .740 of Vince Lombardi. With a 52-13 record in four seasons, San Francisco coach George Seifert's percentage is .800.

•In the first quarter Jerry Rice caught his 100th career scoring pass to tie the record Steve Largent set between 1976 and '89. Rice has averaged one TD catch every five quarters of his career, while Largent averaged one per eight quarters.

•San Francisco committed neither a penalty nor a turnover on Sunday.

HURRY-UP OFFENSE

In an unusual in-season development, some teams are trying to sign their best players to long-term contracts as a hedge against losing them in a liberalized free-agency system, which could be adopted in the coming off-season. The Cowboys have laid the groundwork for a new deal with running back Emmitt Smith, whose contract expires after this season, and the Packers are trying to sign their rising-star linebacker, Johnny Holland.

On Nov. 6 the Dolphins tore up the contract of linebacker Bryan Cox, who will likely make the Pro Bowl this season, and signed him to a four-year, $3.6 million deal. His original three-year contract, which was paying him $150,000 in base salary this year, would have run out after next season. "We wanted to correct a salary injustice," says Miami general manager Eddie Jones, "and we had our eye on the future. We bought two years of security in a very uncertain marketplace with that contract."

DISPATCHES
Despite the Falcons' disappointing 5-7 record, team sources say coach Jerry Glanville is not in danger of being fired. Last year Atlanta went 10-6 under Glanville to end an eight-year stretch of losing seasons, and reached the playoffs.... The Eagles gave Keith Byars a $100,000 bonus because, having been moved from running back to tight end, he wasn't getting a fair chance to meet some of the incentive clauses in his contract.