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Based on last year’s statistics, what can the Cowboys learn about the defenses they’ll face in 2017?
When you go from worst to first like the Dallas Cowboys did in 2016, you will wind up with a first-place schedule. Depending on where you look, the Cowboys strength of schedule is between 10th (traditional win/loss calculations) and 13th (FPI uses home/away, distance traveled, time between games, etc). Preferably, FPI will be our guide due to the other parameters they use to make their calculations. The Cowboys will be facing a win percentage of .531 per ESPN which coincidentally ties them with the Eagles.
Let’s look at the defenses the Cowboys will be up against in 2017. It’s important to look at the defenses as a whole and not just rank them by total yards as the NFL statisticians do. Using just last year’s defensive stats published by the NFL: total yards, run defense, pass defense, and points allowed per game.
[Disclaimer: Green represents the teams ranking in Top 10, Yellow are for the middle of the pack (11-15), Orange is for those teams that are flirting with the bottom half of the league, and Red is for teams that find themselves struggling in that area. The average rank at the end of the chart is just that, an average of their run defense, pass defense, and points per game allowed.]
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