With the Commanders advancing in the postseason, the Cowboys now have the longest NFC Championship Game drought in NFL history.
It's been nearly three decades since the Cowboys last made the NFC championship game. They now have the longest title game drought in the conference.
They may be "America's Team," but it's been a long time since the Dallas Cowboys played in front of the country in an NFC Championship Game. In fact, no NFC team has had a longer NFC title game drought than the Cowboys by virtue of the Washington Commanders' shocking upset win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.
The Dallas Cowboys now own the longest NFC Championship drought after the Washington Commanders punched their ticket to the conference title game on Saturday night.
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Now that the Commanders have reached this playoff feat, a new team takes the unfortunate streak since last making an NFC championship, and it happens to be the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys haven't reached the conference title game since the 1995 season. Every other NFC team has reached the title game since 1996.
The Commanders punched their ticket to the NFL's version of the Final Four, their first appearance there since the 1991 season.
Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn has praised the team's full-game intensity as key to defeating the Detroit Lions.
With Saturday’s win over the Detroit Lions, the Washington Commanders snapped the NFC’s longest active championship game drought and passed that designation to another team that hasn’t reached the NFL’s final four since the ’90s, the Dallas Cowboys.
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The Giants went 0-6 in the NFC East this season, and Schoen and Brian Daboll are 4-14-1 in division since they took over: 0-6 against the Dallas Cowboys, 1-6 against the Eagles and 3-2-1 against Washington, including 0-2 against Daniels.