DasSchnitzel
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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.
2 points more per redzone trip would be pretty big though.
It doesn't sound like a lot when you look at games with 40+ points but with the way Dallas limits possessions, it's pretty big. Until the loss in the playoffs they had won something like 16 straight games when scoring 20 or more.
When the possession count is small, the relative value of each successful redzone trip is higher. When you have 7 points, then 1 TD+XP is worth 100% of your total. When you have 28 points, 1 TD+XP is worth 25% of your total.
In my opinion, the team would do well to improve between the 20s, but the biggest step forward in the win column will come from increased redzone efficiency.