Old school: There were a couple of plays in the 1979 finale against Dallas, including a fumble with less than 5 minutes left when we were in Dallas territory, and then Riggins getting stopped on 3rd and short on the series after Dallas scored to cut it to 6. Would've liked to have seen what that team could've done in the playoffs, although many point out that if Riggins doesn't hold out in '80 and the team doesn't crater, we never get a chance to hire Joe Gibbs going into '81.
New era: Boone brings up good ones about 2005 and 2007. In 2005, would've been nice if the refs had ruled correctly that Alstott didn't make it in at the end of the Tampa regular season game. If we had won that game, I believe we would've gotten a first-round bye, and it would've been nice to have had a home playoff game during Gibbs 2. In 2007, yeah, what if Cooley holds onto a catch at the Seattle 1 and we score a TD instead of missing a FG? Maybe a playoff win and then perhaps beating Dallas (who did lose to the Giants) convinces Gibbs to stick around in 2008, although I'm not sure if he would've lasted longer than one more year anyway, and don't know how successful that season would've turned out....I think that Gibbs' assessment of the talent level of his squad, especially with the tragic Taylor murder, played a role in his decision to leave.
Speaking of Gibbs, I have mixed feelings about that '92 SF playoff game that turned out to be the last of his first run. Even though we had beaten Dallas late in the regular season in that wild game at RFK, I just think that, in retrospect, you were seeing a Cowboys team about at its peak in the playoffs that year, and I fear they would've stomped us at Texas Stadium in the NFCCG.