I feel the same way. It's weird to have a Cowboys/Skins game and feel ho-hum about it. It was the most intense rivalry in football in the 70s. Tom Landry and George Allen both put together extraordinary teams that fought hard in some amazing games. Back then the Cowboys and the Commanders were what made the NFC East such an intense division. The Eagles and the Giants were usually just mediocre also-rans. We did get some competition from the Don-Coryell-coached St. Louis Cardinals with Jim Hart and quarterback. Coryell put together some outstanding teams that gave both the Cowboys and the Commanders a run for their money. Jim Hart was a great quarterback. A victory over an Allen-coached Commanders team or over a Coryell-coached Cardinals team meant something. I miss those days.
Today, it's the Cowboys and the Commanders who are the also-ran teams. The Eagles and the Giants are the ones with recent championship success, and the Cardinals are no longer in the division. I never thought I'd say this, but I want the Commanders to have a good team, and of course I want the Cowboys to be great. The league just isn't the same without that rivalry. Both teams' owners have made poor decisions for decades that have mired the teams in poor to mediocre seasons. Anyone who remembers what it was like in the 70s knows what I mean. That rivalry shaped the league. Landry was the innovator, and Allen was the coach with a knack for assembling a team of older players that people thought were done and whipping them into a great team. The term "quarterback sack" stems from that rivalry. It was a reference to Cowboys quarterback, Craig Morton. Coach Allen said something like, "We're going to take that Morton salt and put it in a sack." After that, the term "sack" caught on. It used to be known as "quarterback tackled for a loss." How boring. Allen's term is way better.
Anyway, I would love to see a resurgence of great Cowboys and Commanders teams and a rivalry to match. The rivalry did come back some in the 90s with Jimmy Johnson and Joe Gibbs as the respective coaches. Today's two teams just don't have the magic that we saw back in the 70s or the 90s.