A statistic the Cowboys will need to blow up to win the SB

[jackal1969]

Yes. But the ability to score with chunk plays mitigates the risk some.

When you rely on 15 play drives to score that means you need more clean plays than if you look for chunk yardage and have the ability to deliver on chunk yardage.

It's why I was encouraged with Dak going down the field more against Detroit. It's why it was a beauty to see Tony come in and immediately challenge down the sidelines and into the deep middle area of the field.

That's incredibly stressful to a defense. I'll tell you what Romo wouldn't have allowed Dez to run so many routes against single coverage without more opportunities. He went to him once in single coverage and that was an incomplete pass.... Which set up 1st and goal on the 3.

The cowboys have been good on scoring drive efficiency this year( I believe top 3 in NFL)
But, I will agree chunk plays are mucho important to winning. Case in point, look at Dez Bryant's stats in the wins... 16.0 yards per reception.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

Man, I have been reading this word "shootout" for months now. Beware QBs that can win in a shootout.

We beat GB already - but lets ignore that HUGE fact for a moment.

Its hard to have a shootout if we are running the ball down the throats of our opponents. GB and Atlanta should not be able to stop us. We should be getting 10+ play, 6 min+ drives all game long (assuming we don't penalize our own drives). So if the other team only gets the ball 8 times or even less in a game, then good luck scoring a TD on 6 out of a 7/8 possessions, when you are feeling the pressure to have to do so - against perhaps the leagues most experienced bend don't break defense, that actually rushes better as the game goes along.

Yeah, I ain't scared.

Boom, I agree 100 percent. Someone that actually knows something. Great read wussy u could hit like 100 more times

 

[drawandstrike]

I think you're half right. The Raiders were a Wild Card team. Philly were NFC East Champs.
We lost 20-7 in Philly in the NFC Championship that year. Friggin' Wilbur Montgomery ran all over us.

That was the year I became a NFL fan and a Cowboys fan.

 

[drawandstrike]

New England has 23 takeaways this year. Atlanta has 22. Green Bay and the Giants both have 25 so barely meet your threshold. But the Giants are also -2 overall, none of the other playoff teams I mention here are negative on turnover differential.

Gonna go ahead and assume this statistic is meaningless.

Correct.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/givetake

Somebody telling you a team has some edge when their defense has 25 takeaways this year when that same team's offense has GIVEN the ball away 27 times for a turnover differential of -2 doesn't understand what they are saying. Especially when they are comparing this -2 team to a team like Dallas, which has 20 takeaways BUT only 15 giveaways this year for a +5.

I will say this: that NY Giant's defense has done a spectacular job keeping the Giant's competitive when their offense has turned it over 27 times this year, 16 times on Manning interceptions.

 

[xwalker]

Saw this mentioned earlier today and was a bit surprised:

None of the 49 Super Bowl winning teams (non-strike season) has recorded less than 25 takeaways. The Cowboys totaled 20 for the season.

Why or why not, in your opinion, will the Cowboys be the team to finally blow up this statistic?

In 1993 the narrative was that no team had ever won the Super Bowl after starting the season 0-2. The Cowboys started 1993 0-2 in large part due to Emmitt's hold-out. They went on to win the Super Bowl.

 

[drawandstrike]

I wonder how many people noticed that 10 of the Dallas Cowboys 20 turnovers for this 2016 season came in the last 5 games? And you can't really count the last game of the season vs. the Eagles because it was essentially a preseason game with 2/3rds of the starters pulled after the 1st quarter.

 

[JoeKing]

the only stat that matters is on the scoreboard.

 

[Clove]

Technically, the Cowboys are a long shot to win the Super Bowl even with home-field advantage due to the lack of interceptions, and a rookie back court, but trends were made to be broken. Let's hope we can break these trends.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Saw this mentioned earlier today and was a bit surprised:

None of the 49 Super Bowl winning teams (non-strike season) has recorded less than 25 takeaways. The Cowboys totaled 20 for the season.

Why or why not, in your opinion, will the Cowboys be the team to finally blow up this statistic?

Because we are tied for 4th in fewest giveaways and are top 10 in TO differntial

 

[Proof]

Only thing we need to be concerned with is the stat that no team that lost in the playoffs won the SB.

If we can avoid losing we're a shoo-in

 

[drawandstrike]

Even if people buy the idea turnover #'s matter, how do they miss the fact the Cowboys defense forced TEN....that's right....TEN turnovers in it's last 4 games that mattered? That's along with about 7 dropped int's and 4 or 5 fumbles we didn't recover.

The argument is stupid on it's face.