I'm pretty sure you are too young to really remember 2006, 2007, 2008.
Pretty sure in 2006 after Game 1 Petero & Price were mocked for being too old and past it - that Locky shouldn't be a 5/8 and that Origin concept is dead because QLD are so crap.
NSW were the clear favourites in 2007.
and oddly enough, in the media in 2008 NSW were favourites again. I think NSW won a game and that marked the "end of the dynasty".
The game that we lost, correct me if i'm wrong people, Dallas Johnson played with a concussion. Steve Price played injured for 80 minutes. Petero never gave up and we only just lost??? I think it could have been the game GI was knocked out by Barrett.
How many times over the last 6 years have we been losing a game (with the help of refs also) and come back and won. Had big forwards out on their feet and just dug deep?
I have never seen NSW do that.