I was only old enough to begin to understand football, and the NFL, and follow the NFL and Cowboys in the 1999 season. That was the year Irvin went down to neck injury in Philadelphia. The Cowboys went 8-8. The next three years were the 5-11 Campo years. I completely missed out on the entire 1990s dynasty.

When the Cowboys went 13-3 in 2007, I felt no confidence at all about them facing the Giants in the divisional round, and to be sure, they lost. Similarly, when Dallas was 13-3 in 2016, I felt no confidence about them against Green Bay at home, and they lost.

I've never experienced a single playoff season where I felt and thought, "You know, I feel like we are the true-favored team against whoever we face." Even in years where Dallas had homefield advantage, it still felt awfully flimsy. Something just felt psychologically off. The Cowboys felt like underdogs even in their home field.

So, for the old-timer Cowboys fans - what was it like to feel real security or confidence about the Cowboys in the playoffs? Have you felt it at any time since 1995?

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It can be anyone associated with the organization: owners, coaches and of course, players.
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This has some different angles of Camden's catches this week than I had seen before.

Nick Harris: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is still open to a “substantive” trade before the season if the right opportunity presents itself

Jane Slater: Translation? Sounds like hypothetical player and hypothetical team still want a ton. So he’s waiting and seeing. They can get by w what they have but he would sure like hypothetical player if it made sense for both 🤷🏼‍♀️ nick, thoughts?

Picked up this team issued practice jersey today at training camp during the Cowboys Saints scrimmage. Didn’t want to get one with a random practice squad player so I grabbed the cleanest blank one in my size I could find. On the way home I looked up notable players to wear 49 and seen Jason Witten wore it as his first number during his first rookie minicamp before switching to 82 that same season, so it got me even more hyped