New England
Pittsburg
Seattle
Green Bay
New Orleans
And we can expand this list with franchises who have had more success than us the last 25 years.
Remember since 1996 only 3 NFC teams have failed to appear in conference championship game. Dallas, Detroit and Washington.
nope.... that list is fine..........ready?
Green Bay went from one Hall of Fame QB to another, much like the Niners of the 80s.... only difference is that the Niners won 4 SBs in a relatively short timeeriod. Green Bay has won 1 SB with one of the top 5 QBs to ever play the game. Sorry, I do not equate that as a successful run. JMO, but if you are a top 5 QB, you should have 2 or more titles.
New Orleans..... see GB above. The Saints were 3-13 in 2005 and Brees arrived in 2006 and pow.... let the good times begin. Even with Brees, the Saints failed to have a winning record at the end of the season in 6 of Brees 14 Saints seasons, including THREE STRAIGHT 7-9 seasons. They have also been in CAP hell for what seems like forever. Again, 1 SB win. IN the 13 seasons before Brees arrived in New Orleans, they had 2, yes that is TWO winning season.
IN the 4 seasons before Russel Wilson's arrival in Seattle, they won a total of 23 games. Wilson was drafted in the 3rd rd and the Seahawks had no intention of him being a pro bowl QB. Much like the Cowboys, they lucked into a starting franchise QB. When Wilson took over, the Seahawks had an all time great defense and they were able to have a starting QB making peanuts. IN a few short years the defense was torn apart due to salary issues, and as soon as that happened, those 2 great SB years quickly became a distant memory. One could argue the Seahawks did things WRONG and screwed up a team that should have competed for a title for 6 seasons.... not 2. Again, all the seahawks great decisions coincided with the arrival of Russel Wilson.
Patriots..... do I really need to discuss them? I said for years as soon as Brady was gone, Belichek was gonna be exposed for what he is.... a very good coach, just like the other multiple very good NFL coaches in the league. And holy smokes did it happen fast. Brady left, and the Pats entered joke stage. They stay in jokester status this year by bringing back Cam Newton.... are you kidding me? If the Cowboys had signed Cam Newton to even be Dak's back up the Jones' boys would be raked over the coals. IM happy the pats brought "Superman," back, as it will continue to bolster my argument that Belichek became "Belichek," because of Brady. I dont care how great a d coordinator he was in a prior lifetime.... there are lots of those guys out there. I can not say anything about the Pats except for people to stop using that outlier as the example they use to try and point out Cowboy flaws. See me in 5 years and lets discuss the Pats some more....lol
The Steelers.... ill give you them... BUT, again, their Success and great front office moves mostly revolve around them hitting the jackpot with Big Ben. I dont have much to say negatively about the Steelers as THEY, not the Pats are the team I would say always seems to do things the right way. I like the Steelers, a lot. So I will concede them to you in this discussion.