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It’s been FIVE years!"It’s my own personal opinion that we’ve been treated to quite the NFL offseason here in 2019.We got some dicey trades across the league Bob Lilly Jersey , a riveting NCAA Tournament, Tiger Woods won The Masters, the Stanley Cup Playoffs saw both top seeds fall, and the NBA Playoffs have been... more of the same.On Monday night, the Golden State Warriors punched their ticket to the NBA Finals, their fifth one in a row. That’s insane to think about.The Dallas Cowboys once ran into a team making multiple consecutive appearances in a sport’s championship event (shout out to BTBer Tony Casillas and his teammates), but even then the Buffalo Bills only went to four straight Super Bowls (and never won.) The Warriors have reached the promised land a whole hand full of times.Similarly to how we chronicled what the Cowboys looked like when Tiger last won The Masters Jay Novacek Color Rush Jersey , we thought it would be a fun exercise to look back at Dallas the last time GSW was not the Western Conference representative in basketball’s final series. Dallas had just gone 8-8 for the third straight seasonThe 2013 season was not a particularly fun one for the Cowboys, although it did give us perhaps the greatest regular season loss in franchise history on October 6th when Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos came to town. Amazingly, the 2019 Cowboys will also host a legendary quarterback on October 6th (Aaron Rodgers), but this story is about 2013. That season the Cowboys lost to the Packers quarterback at home, but it wasn’t Aaron Rodgers. No no, it was Matt Flynn and the team that came back from a 26-3 deficit. Ugh.This was Jason Garrett’s third full season leading the Cowboys and the third in which they finished with a .500 record at the hands of a division rival in a winner-takes-the-NFC-East game in Week 17. It truly is one of the more amazing phenomenons that the Cowboys played three games in a row of such, against all three other teams in the division https://www.dallascowboysfanshop.com/Bill-Bates-Jersey , and lost each one of them.The final game of the year was played against Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles. Who would have thought? Thankfully, this horrible tradition came to an end after 2013.The Cowboys had just passed on drafting Johnny ManzielWhen Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was available at the 16th overall pick, many Cowboys fans wanted to see the team draft an heir to Tony Romo (time sure does fly). Ultimately the front office decided to trust in Romo’s future (he’d start only 19 more games) and took a point of protection for him instead of a replacement. Hello Zack Martin.It’s been five years since this pick happened yet you’ll still hear people try to tell you that Jerry Jones fought with the strength of a thousand men against people restraining him in the name of taking Johnny Football. Since then, Martin has literally never not been named an All-Pro and the former Heisman Trophy winner has had trouble landing in any kind of professional football league.The future highest-paid player in franchise history was draftedAmazingly, we are not talking about a quarterback with this particular person (for now at least). If not for Zack Martin the second selection that the Cowboys made in 2014 would by far be their best of the class, but DeMarcus Lawrence finishing just behind the all-world guard is probably okay in his book.The Cowboys traded up to land Lawrence in 2014 (shout out to the Washington Redskins) and their tradition of missing in the second round started to come to an end (although it took some time). While many were still wondering if the tight end wearing number 89 could supplant Jason Witten (Gavin Escobar, not Blake Jarwin) Charles Haley Jersey , the team themselves were thrilled with their draft haul.2014 Dallas Cowboys Draft Class:1st: Zack Martin2nd: DeMarcus Lawrence4th: Anthony Hitchens5th: Devin Street7th: Ben Gardner7th: Will Smith7th: Ahmad Dixon7th: Ben Bishop7th: Terrance MitchellOverall this draft class is about what you expect five years removed. In fact some would argue it’s even better than average as the Cowboys also yielded a serviceable player in Anthony Hitchens. Terrance Mitchell is also still in the league and started 15 games over the last two years.Not only did Hitch contribute nicely to the Cowboys while wearing their uniform, he also helped them cash in. Hitchens walked away in free agency a year ago to the Kansas City Chiefs and in return Dallas was awarded a fourth-round compensatory pick here in 2019. They turned that into three total picks, nice work by them. The last non-Warriors team in the Western Conference to make it to the NBA Finals was in fact (takes long pause for dramatic effect and smiles...) the San Antonio Spurs. That’s right, baby. Recognize the Alamo City.My beloved Spurs won the title that year, but ever since then it’s been an all-Warriors affair (save for 2016, LeBron, and Andre Iguodala). It’s fascinating to look back at the scope of a lot of things last time Golden State wasn’t at this stage L. P. Ladouceur Color Rush Jersey , but perhaps it’s even more fun to consider what they will look like next time. Week 1 of the Alliance of American Football is officially in the books and there are a lot of things to take away off the top.There were only four games (eight teams in the league) to dissect, but overall more football proved to be a good thing. If this new league can continue to grow there’s a high possibility that some players will develop and potentially make their way into the NFL. That’s good for everyone.Something particularly interesting that the AAF has already brought forth is innovation and transparency when it comes to officials reviewing questionable calls on the field. During the game between the Orlando Apollos and Atlanta Legends, the booth showed us the entire review process from the perspective of the woman making it. That’s revolutionary.Options mean different perspectives and that’s what we got during the first week of the Alliance. Was it perfect football of the highest quality? Of course not, but it was what the proper expectations thought it would be... competitive football that can serve as a developmental league in the spring. We all win there.Since the AAF is going to be a focal point of the NFL offseason and because many BTBers have been discussing it all over the place we thought it might be fun to choose an official team of the site. The closest in proximity to the Cowboys themselves is the San Antonio Commanders, they also have Daryl Johnston as their General Manager, but BTB has flags planted all over the world. Who’s your squad?