Denim Chicken
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The Cowboys philosophical approach is to keep games close and try to win late. They could be an improved team next year and still go 6-10 because of it.
When teams win five or more close games than they lost, they have immediately dropped in record in the next season in 18 of 21 instances since 2006. It is worth noting that the three times this rule was broken it was by the Indianapolis Colts, over the course of multiple coaches and quarterbacks. They are massive outliers in close games in general....
If you took a time machine back to 2006, you could go 39-2-1 predicting that unsustainably good close game records would lead to an immediate drop-off and unsustainably bad close game records would lead to an immediate rise. The NFL devours itself through its parity machine (outside of quarterback play and head coaches), but three or four teams a year become easy reads because of how they performed in close games the year prior. When the process is right 94 percent of the time, you take it for its word.
Grinding out games and controlling clock is the antithesis to blowing teams out in a cap league.I don't believe the first part. I'm quite sure we'd rather be blowing the doors off teams rather than keeping games close. The poor red zone efficiency was not by intentional design.
Grinding out games and controlling clock is the antithesis to blowing teams out in a cap league.
But this is impractical. It's not like they're going to go 100% in the red zone.When you have a top defense--like we did early in the year--and you maximize your red zone trips, you're not going to keep games close.
But this is impractical. It's not like they're going to go 100% in the red zone.
Sure, but that doesn't mean they're going to be winning by any more than they did.Of course not, but we can do better than 26th in the league.
Sure, but that doesn't mean they're going to be winning by any more than they did.
Even if they lead the league in TD %, if they don't add a lot more trips to the red zone, we're not talking about much improvement in scoring. For the sake of round numbers, if they go from 50% to 75%, you're only adding 2 points per red zone opportunity. That's pretty insignificant in terms of blowing teams out, especially for a team with a defense that's due to regress in the red zone. Cowboys opponents had almost the same success rate as Dallas.
yikesCowboys have near great upside on offense.
I could actually see the defense trending back to middle of the road and the offense moving into the top 10. Matter of fact I’ll be shocked if the offense isn’t top 12!
In some ways, the Cowboys underachieved by only going tougher than it should’ve been, 10-6.
Return of Fred
Experienced Williams
Smith
Martin
The RT
Add in a good backup lt
That is potentially the best OL the Cowboys have had in this era
Cooper
Not as sold on Gallup as others are but: Galllup
Watson
Brown
WR and TE will be in better shape at the start 19 than they were in 18
Draft a RB
Continued improvement from Dak: who should be primed to have the best season of career
This is why I don’t look at this is say I did the 2009 yes’m that went 11-5. This team went 10-6 while underachieving