ARLINGTON, Texas -- We can stop talking about the worst defense in the NFL last season. This Dallas Cowboys defense is different. Not dominant, but different. And no doubt good enough to give a team with an elite offense a chance to win on a weekly basis. If there were any demons hanging around from last season's historically horrible defense, they were exorcised in the first half of Sunday night's 38-17 rout of the New Orleans Saints. The Saints offense that humiliated the Dallas defense last season, setting an NFL record with 40 first downs and cruising to 625 total yards in a blowout, entered halftime with a goose egg on the scoreboard.
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