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Tony Romo. Terrell Owens. Sean Lee. DeMarcus Ware. Jason Witten. Travis Frederick.
The list of top players on the Dallas Cowboys who never got the chance to play at the highest NFL level continues to grow each year the team fails to reach the Conference Championship game. 
It seems we can now add All-Pro tackle Tyron Smith to that list.
Smith and the Cowboys are expected to part ways this offseason with the organization allowing the future Hall-of-Fame left tackle to hit free agency and potentially sign elsewhere.
The move was a maybe-expected one for an organization needing to give long-term deals to some of their other stars, but it’s a direct example of the recent failings the Cowboys have had in recent memory. Whether it was tying their success to inadequate coaching or mistaken free-agent decisions, there are plenty of reasons why Dallas hasn’t reached a conference championship game since 1996.
But maybe it’s that stat alone that shows how far Dallas has fallen. In their heyday, the Cowboys were synonymous with Super Bowls. Whether it was Roger Staubach and Tom Landy dominating the NFC in the 70s or Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson building an overwhelming dynasty in the 90s, the Cowboys were always seen as title contenders.
When they weren’t, particularly in the 1980s, the players were seen as failures. Everyone compares former quarterback Danny White as a failing player in the Cowboys system because he could never get the franchise over the hump when Staubach retired.
