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Cowboys back on top of NFC East in 2007

After nearly a decade removed from its last division title in 1998, the 2007 Cowboys set out to reclaim the NFC East crown. They would turn to Wade Phillips – who became

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The era of Tony Romo is born in 2006

In a bid to get back to the playoffs, the Cowboys shook up their roster in 2006. Terrell Owens — once Public Enemy No. 1 after his stints in San Francisco and

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Cowboys rebound in 2005 with winning record

After a major step backward the year before, Dallas went to work on getting back to a winning record. Despite losing the team’s all-time leading tackler in Darren Woodson, the Cowboys improved

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Dallas blundered its way through the 2004 season

Coming into the 2004 season hopes were running high in Dallas that a return to past glory was imminent. Those hopes couldn’t have been any more false. Questions of Quincy Carter’s inconsistent

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The Parcells Era begins in 2003

With the last of the Triplets gone with the departure of Emmitt Smith to the Cardinals, the era of Bill Parcells began in Dallas in 2003. The Cowboys’ sixth head coach quickly

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Emmitt Smith goes out on top in 2002

Despite the previous two seasons, the Cowboys came into the 2002 season with some hope of turning things around. They actually had their best draft since the departure of Jimmy Johnson nearly

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Cowboys’ began life without Troy Aikman in 2001

With the departure of both Troy Aikman (retirement) and Randall Cunningham (free agency), the Cowboys needed a quarterback. But Jerry Jones had traded the team’s first round pick of the 2001 Draft

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Troy Aikman deserved a better career finale in 2000

For the first 29 seasons of existence in the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys had one head coach. Over the next 11 seasons Dallas would hire and then fire three head coaches. With

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The Cowboys closed out the century with a mediocre 1999 campaign

The 40th season – and the final one of the 20th Century – was less than stellar for the Cowboys. In an attempt to ignite the passing game Dallas acquired free agent

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Former Cowboy Greg Ellis takes over NAIA program

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A season of hits, one big miss, for the 1998 Cowboys

With the departure of Barry Switzer the Cowboys turned to Chan Gailey to become the fourth head coach in team history. Gailey brought back a focus on the running game and the

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Barry Switzer’s bitter swan song in 1997

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Bitter swan song for Barry Switzer in 1997

The Cowboys streak of consecutive NFC Championship game appearance had ended at four in 1996. The team came into the 1997 season looking to get back on top. Instead, the whole thing

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Emmitt Smith, Michael Irving, Troy Aikman, Triplets

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Crumbling Cowboys somehow made the 1996 playoffs

The Cowboys title defense in 1996 was literally doomed before it even started. Two years of poor drafts by Jerry Jones left the Cowboys without depth. The 1996 draft was better than

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Switzer gets a ring in 1995 with Johnson’s players

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Barry Switzer gets a ring in 1995 with Jimmy Johnson’s players

Still stinging from letting a three-peat slip away the Cowboys went to work on getting back to the Super Bowl in 1995. If owner Jerry Jones was hoping to show the world

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The decline of the Cowboys’ empire began in 1994

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The decline of the Cowboys’ empire began in 1994

After a second-straight Super Bowl win over Buffalo in January, the Cowboys were early favorites to make it three in a row at the end of the 1994 season. Barring catastrophic injuries,

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1993 was turmoil sandwiched around another championship

To call the 14 months between Dallas’ victory over the Bills in Super Bowl XXVII and the firing of Jimmy Johnson as tumultuous would be an understatement. Over that period of time,

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Cowboys rode four winning streaks to a Super Bowl win in 1992

Just call 1992 the year of the three- and five-game win streaks in Dallas. The Cowboys would win three games, lose a game, then win five straight twice during the season. The

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The Cowboys reaped a bountiful harvest in 1991

The Herschel Walker trade paid off big in 1991 and continued to do so for several years to come. With the assets gained from that transaction, along with a few additional moves,

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Dallas kicked off the 1990s with a Hall of Fame draft pick

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Dallas kicked off 1990 with a Hall of Fame draft pick

By virtue of a league-worst 1-15 record in 1989, the Dallas Cowboys should have had the No. 1 pick in the 1990 NFL Draft. They didn’t because they gave up that pick

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Jimmy Johnson discusses how Jerry Jones 'hurt' him before his departure from Dallas

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Jerry Jones takes command as Cowboys hit rock bottom in 1989

If Jerry Jones’ had hoped to ride into town and be proclaimed ‘savior of the Dallas Cowboys’ he would be sorely disappointed. It wasn’t that changes didn’t need to be made. And

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The curtain falls on several Cowboys in 1988

After enduring consecutive losing seasons the Cowboys were looking to turn things around in 1988. Tony Dorsett was traded to Denver during the offseason. Dallas even had a productive draft for a

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A bitter rivalry is born from the 1987 players’ strike

For the second time in the 1980s, the NFL players went out on strike after the first two games of the 1987 season. But unlike the 1982 strike, which saw seven weeks

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