Cowboys No Longer Most Winningest Team

[plasticman]

The last of the Cowboys historic bragging rights are no more.

For years the Cowboys had the NFL's highest winning percentage.

However, the last game dropped the Cowboys behind the Ravens. The Cowboys present winning percentage of 57.36% is now 2nd to the Raven's 57.39%.

This happened briefly after the 2010 season when the Packers took the lead, but the Cowboys regained it after the 2016 season. Green Bay currently sits at #3 with a winning percentage of 57.28%.

These are the only teams that are legitimately competing for the top spot for at least a decade. Three other teams, the Bears, Chiefs Dolphins are in 4th to 6th place at around 55.3%.

The Cowboys can regain the lead with two more wins than the Ravens in 2025. The Packers will take 2nd place with 3 more wins than the Cowboys and they will take 1st place with 5 more wins than the Ravens.

Some care, some don't, and I get it. To each his own.

 

[KingCorcoran]

The last of the Cowboys historic bragging rights are no more.

For years the Cowboys had the NFL's highest winning percentage.

However, the last game dropped the Cowboys behind the Ravens. The Cowboys present winning percentage of 57.36% is now 2nd to the Raven's 57.39%.

This happened briefly after the 2010 season when the Packers took the lead, but the Cowboys regained it after the 2016 season. Green Bay currently sits at #3 with a winning percentage of 57.28%.

These are the only teams that are legitimately competing for the top spot for at least a decade. Three other teams, the Bears, Chiefs Dolphins are in 4th to 6th place at around 55.3%.

The Cowboys can regain the lead with two more wins than the Ravens in 2025. The Packers will take 2nd place with 3 more wins than the Cowboys and they will take 1st place with 5 more wins than the Ravens.

Some care, some don't, and I get it. To each his own.

What is the point of this nonsense? The only season that counts now, for the Cowboys, is the 2025 season. History recorded by etchings on cave walls have no bearing on today’s Dallas Cowboys, even if the team’s owner is so old he made those drawings on the cave walls.

“The Cowboys can regain the lead”? The team stinks. You’re trying to put lipstick on a pig and pass it off as Miss America. Here’s a challenge. Just win more games than the New York Giants next season. “Three other teams”…you can’t be serious.

 

[Bobhaze]

The Schramm-Landry years: 1960-1988. 29 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 20 playoff wins
• 14 playoff wins in the 70s.
• 5 NFC championships
• 2 SB wins
• 10 NFC championship appearances (7 in the 70s, 3 in the 80s)
• 20 playoff wins in 29 years.

The Jerry Jones era: 1989-present. 36 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 16 playoff wins.
• 12 playoff wins in the 90s.
• 3 NFC championships.
• 3 SB wins.
• 4 NFC championship game appearances (all 4 in the 90s; zero since)
• 16 playoff wins in 36 years. (Only 5 playoff wins in the last 29 years)

 

[cowboyec]

crap.
they stole super bowl v.
now this.
we'll get it back.

 

[BHendri5]

The last of the Cowboys historic bragging rights are no more.

For years the Cowboys had the NFL's highest winning percentage.

However, the last game dropped the Cowboys behind the Ravens. The Cowboys present winning percentage of 57.36% is now 2nd to the Raven's 57.39%.

This happened briefly after the 2010 season when the Packers took the lead, but the Cowboys regained it after the 2016 season. Green Bay currently sits at #3 with a winning percentage of 57.28%.

These are the only teams that are legitimately competing for the top spot for at least a decade. Three other teams, the Bears, Chiefs Dolphins are in 4th to 6th place at around 55.3%.

The Cowboys can regain the lead with two more wins than the Ravens in 2025. The Packers will take 2nd place with 3 more wins than the Cowboys and they will take 1st place with 5 more wins than the Ravens.

Some care, some don't, and I get it. To each his own.

Man that’s selective history, if you’re going to use history as an argument then use history all of it , but because you want to whine and cry and complain you selected a version that fits your narrative, and that’s a loser’s narrative. Start from 1960 then tell us who’s the winningest team

 

[gtb1943]

Man that’s selective history, if you’re going to use history as an argument then use history all of it , but because you want to whine and cry and complain you selected a version that fits your narrative, and that’s a loser’s narrative. Start from 1960 then tell us who’s the winningest team

well the Ravens have not been around as long as we have been.

 

[BHendri5]

well the Ravens have not been around as long as we have been.

Ok so how can they be the winningest, actually they have their the original browns

 

[BigD_95]

The Schramm-Landry years: 1960-1988. 29 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 20 playoff wins
• 14 playoff wins in the 70s.
• 5 NFC championships
• 2 SB wins
• 10 NFC championship appearances (7 in the 70s, 3 in the 80s)
• 20 playoff wins in 29 years.

The Jerry Jones era: 1989-present. 36 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 16 playoff wins.
• 12 playoff wins in the 90s.
• 3 NFC championships.
• 3 SB wins.
• 4 NFC championship game appearances (all 4 in the 90s; zero since)
• 16 playoff wins in 36 years. (Only 5 playoff wins in the last 29 years)

nice breakdown

 

[atlantacowboy]

The Schramm-Landry years: 1960-1988. 29 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 20 playoff wins
• 14 playoff wins in the 70s.
• 5 NFC championships
• 2 SB wins
• 10 NFC championship appearances (7 in the 70s, 3 in the 80s)
• 20 playoff wins in 29 years.

The Jerry Jones era: 1989-present. 36 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 16 playoff wins.
• 12 playoff wins in the 90s.
• 3 NFC championships.
• 3 SB wins.
• 4 NFC championship game appearances (all 4 in the 90s; zero since)
• 16 playoff wins in 36 years. (Only 5 playoff wins in the last 29 years)

Oh common. First of all, they expanded the playoffs. In the Landry era, only 4 teams made the playoffs. There was no "wild card round". If you won a single playoff game, you were in the NFC title game. By that measure, Jerry would have zero playoff wins.

Second of all, 89-93 was all Jimmy Johnson. So, you can't lump that in with the rest of the Jerry era.

Landry also made the playoffs 20 consecutive seasons.

 

[diamonddelts]

Cry me a river.

 

[Hardline]

I don't care.

 

[tyke1doe]

Well, at least we have "America's Team" copyrighted. Sigh!

 

[john van brocklin]

The last of the Cowboys historic bragging rights are no more.

For years the Cowboys had the NFL's highest winning percentage.

However, the last game dropped the Cowboys behind the Ravens. The Cowboys present winning percentage of 57.36% is now 2nd to the Raven's 57.39%.

This happened briefly after the 2010 season when the Packers took the lead, but the Cowboys regained it after the 2016 season. Green Bay currently sits at #3 with a winning percentage of 57.28%.

These are the only teams that are legitimately competing for the top spot for at least a decade. Three other teams, the Bears, Chiefs Dolphins are in 4th to 6th place at around 55.3%.

The Cowboys can regain the lead with two more wins than the Ravens in 2025. The Packers will take 2nd place with 3 more wins than the Cowboys and they will take 1st place with 5 more wins than the Ravens.

Some care, some don't, and I get it. To each his own.

Interesting, thanks for posting.

 

[bewp7]

oh yeah?????


well by the time stephen is done cowboys will be dead last!!!!!

 

[DallasEast]

Ok so how can they be the winningest, actually they have their the original browns

Bold> Officially, they do not (link):

...After (Art) Modell moved the team in 1995, he willingly surrendered the name, records and colors. ​

​

Every event pertaining to the Cleveland Browns' franchise are reflected in all NFL records. The Baltimore Ravens' entire history beings with the 1996 season.

The NFL acknowledges Cleveland's All-American Football Conference 1946 origin, 1950 merger into its league after the AAFC folded, continued through the 1995 season when Model fled to Baltimore, ceased, and finally re-started again with the 1999 season. Nothing officially connects the Browns and Ravens' franchises except Modell's notoriety.

 

[FVSTONE]

The last of the Cowboys historic bragging rights are no more.

For years the Cowboys had the NFL's highest winning percentage.

However, the last game dropped the Cowboys behind the Ravens. The Cowboys present winning percentage of 57.36% is now 2nd to the Raven's 57.39%.

This happened briefly after the 2010 season when the Packers took the lead, but the Cowboys regained it after the 2016 season. Green Bay currently sits at #3 with a winning percentage of 57.28%.

These are the only teams that are legitimately competing for the top spot for at least a decade. Three other teams, the Bears, Chiefs Dolphins are in 4th to 6th place at around 55.3%.

The Cowboys can regain the lead with two more wins than the Ravens in 2025. The Packers will take 2nd place with 3 more wins than the Cowboys and they will take 1st place with 5 more wins than the Ravens.

Some care, some don't, and I get it. To each his own.

Baltimore is a far better organization with knowledgeable football minds running the football side of things.

 

[plasticman]

Baltimore is a far better organization with knowledgeable football minds running the football side of things.

I agree at this point in the Cowboys history. Baltimore also had the benefit of not being a true expansion team. They were actually the Cleveland Browns. After the sudden move and subsequent legal battle, the Ravens owner agreed to relinquish the name and the history of the Cleveland Browns to an expansion team in Cleveland.

Therefore, the Ravens roster was not comprised of rookies and castoffs, the Ravens started with a legitimate team.

They were also fortunate in that their very first draft as the Ravens gave them both Hall of Famers Jonathan Ogden and Ray Lewis.

The Cowboys didn't even get to participate in the draft when they started in 1960.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

The Schramm-Landry years: 1960-1988. 29 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 20 playoff wins
• 14 playoff wins in the 70s.
• 5 NFC championships
• 2 SB wins
• 10 NFC championship appearances (7 in the 70s, 3 in the 80s)
• 20 playoff wins in 29 years.

The Jerry Jones era: 1989-present. 36 seasons.

• 18 playoff seasons in 29 years.
• 16 playoff wins.
• 12 playoff wins in the 90s.
• 3 NFC championships.
• 3 SB wins.
• 4 NFC championship game appearances (all 4 in the 90s; zero since)
• 16 playoff wins in 36 years. (Only 5 playoff wins in the last 29 years)

fewer teams, no free agency, no cap etc

 

[CowboysRule]

Oh common. First of all, they expanded the playoffs. In the Landry era, only 4 teams made the playoffs. There was no "wild card round". If you won a single playoff game, you were in the NFC title game. By that measure, Jerry would have zero playoff wins.

Second of all, 89-93 was all Jimmy Johnson. So, you can't lump that in with the rest of the Jerry era.

Landry also made the playoffs 20 consecutive seasons.

Yeah, and if you take away all the wins they've had when Jerry was the owner, he'd have 0 wins!

Jerry hired Jimmy. Jerry paid him. Jerry financed all those moves. Without Jerry there is no Jimmy. Without Jerry, the Cowboys may have folded. You hate him for "destroying what you love" while avoiding the fact that he kept what you loved alive.

 

[JayFord]

The real loser here is the Browns

They would’ve been a blessing to the city of Cleveland had they never moved