Darren Woodson can still hear Michael Irvin. We have to three-peat. In January 1994, the Cowboys had just won their second consecutive Super Bowl, again defeating the Bills. Afterward, a group of large, tired men were waiting to get onto their bus outside the Georgia Dome, ready to depart for the airport. At that moment, Irvin, the future Hall of Fame receiver, announced there would be no rest. Dallas was going to commit to doing something no team had ever done: win three straight Super Bowls.
“It was a goal,” Woodson says. “Mentally, we had just got done playing these long-ass seasons, but I wanted to be the first [to three-peat]. If you have guys with that kind of mindset, that want to make history ... Patrick Mahomes, knowing how competitive he is, he’s not going to rest and just say, ‘I’m happy with two. I’m just going to take this season and it’s O.K.’ No. No, there is no O.K.”
