Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn has praised the team's full-game intensity as key to defeating the Detroit Lions.

The Cowboys also have three former players in the AFC Championship, all playing for the Buffalo Bills. Those players are Amari Cooper, Connor McGovern, and Jordan Phillips. The Cowboys themselves have not made it to the NFC Championship since 1995, marking the longest drought in the NFC.

The 2024 playoffs have reinforced almost three decades of futility that has made the Dallas Cowboys the laughingstock of the NFL. | From @BenGrimaldi

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.

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.

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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.

The Washington Commanders are in the NFC championship game after going 12-5 in the regular season and winning two playoff games. It’s the furthest the team has advanced in more than three decades, and it comes after going 4-13 in 2023.

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From Dan Quinn and Kellen Moore to Dorance Armstrong and Neville Gallimore, former Cowboys were all over the scene.