How many low scoring, defensive battles has Dallas won?

[blueblood70]

You know when you look at games like last night when two teams have defenses that held the score low and it was 10- 7 win for a team.

I'm not a person who's got time to research this right now, but I am curious how about we just go back to Prescott Career 2016 to present...

If you want to add in losses, that's fine, but I'm really looking to see how many games have the Cowboys been in that they could have won with just 14 points?

So ,I guess you would add in wins or losses, but the score would have to be both teams under 14 points,

I wonder how many games have the Cowboys been in where they didn't have to worry about their offense being perfect...

I mean we have a head-to-head opponent just as an example, the Kansas City Chiefs had four turnovers on offense, and won a game, I believe it was like 35 to 7, they beat the commanders...

That sure is a nice luxury to have when you don't blame your offense or your quarterback for losses, so I am curious how many games going back to 2016 have they been in where both teams were under fourteen points?

 

[Coogiguy03]

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[blueblood70]

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Look it's a bye week, I'll do my own research ,I'm betting there aren't many, I bet I find 5 in the last 10 years, if that want to put money on it?

Some people are just lazy, and they just link to other people's stories, isn't that something and then claim It's not their opinion they're just posting it..

hmm I wonder who that might be?

But some of us have original thoughts and we'll do the research I will find it myself....

 

[sunalsorises]

Going back to 2016, here are the games where both teams were under 14 points.

Dec 11, 2026 NYG 10-7 L
Dec 31, 2017 Phi 6-10 L
Sep 29, 2019 NO 10-12 L
Nov 24, 2019 NE 9-13 L

 

[Captain-Crash]

I'll be betting big on that first one next year.

 

[Pass2Run]

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Right on cue.

 

[Pass2Run]

Look it's a bye week, I'll do my own research ,I'm betting there aren't many, I bet I find 5 in the last 10 years, if that want to put money on it?

Some people are just lazy, and they just link to other people's stories, isn't that something and then claim It's not their opinion they're just posting it..

hmm I wonder who that might be?

But some of us have original thoughts and we'll do the research I will find it myself....

Too funny.

 

[gtb1943]

Going back to 2016, here are the games where both teams were under 14 points.

Dec 11, 2026 NYG 10-7 L
Dec 31, 2017 Phi 6-10 L
Sep 29, 2019 NO 10-12 L
Nov 24, 2019 NE 9-13 L

what is depressing is that we lost all of them

 

[Cowboy_svt]

Going back to 2016, here are the games where both teams were under 14 points.

Dec 11, 2026 NYG 10-7 L
Dec 31, 2017 Phi 6-10 L
Sep 29, 2019 NO 10-12 L
Nov 24, 2019 NE 9-13 L

missing this one, was actually a W

 

[thunderpimp91]

In general those 10-7 type of games are mostly a thing of the past for the NFL. Under DQ we did have several dominant performances even if the defense overall wasnt a truly dominant unit.

2023 the Cowboys had 7 games where the defense gave up 2 scores or less.
2022 they had 6 of those games giving up 2 scores or less.

 

[sunalsorises]

missing this one, was actually a W

To be fair, I wasn’t using my reading glasses.

 

[Tommy]

I'll be betting big on that first one next year.

Looks like its going to be a Friday night game!

 

[gimmesix]

In general those 10-7 type of games are mostly a thing of the past for the NFL. Under DQ we did have several dominant performances even if the defense overall wasnt a truly dominant unit.

2023 the Cowboys had 7 games where the defense gave up 2 scores or less.
2022 they had 6 of those games giving up 2 scores or less.

My standard for defenses is not giving up more than 20 points, while the offense should score more than 20. If either unit is not doing that, then it is underperforming.

I almost revised it to 24 points for both units because of the rules today, but still think 20/21 is reasonable.

 

[Blitzen]

You know when you look at games like last night when two teams have defenses that held the score low and it was 10- 7 win for a team.

I'm not a person who's got time to research this right now, but I am curious how about we just go back to Prescott Career 2016 to present...

If you want to add in losses, that's fine, but I'm really looking to see how many games have the Cowboys been in that they could have won with just 14 points?

So ,I guess you would add in wins or losses, but the score would have to be both teams under 14 points,

I wonder how many games have the Cowboys been in where they didn't have to worry about their offense being perfect...

I mean we have a head-to-head opponent just as an example, the Kansas City Chiefs had four turnovers on offense, and won a game, I believe it was like 35 to 7, they beat the commanders...

That sure is a nice luxury to have when you don't blame your offense or your quarterback for losses, so I am curious how many games going back to 2016 have they been in where both teams were under fourteen points?

Curious as to why the qualifier for both the defense and OFFENSE being 14 or fewer points. When it’s obvious this is another Dak apologist thread to lay blame on a defense when the team overwhelming pays the most resources on offense. It’s not close. They are also not as good at building a successful defense from a draft and develop perspective.

 

[bewp7]

zero because of dak

 

[Coogiguy03]

Right on cue.

Thanks

 

[BoysForLife]

Going back to 2016, here are the games where both teams were under 14 points.

Dec 11, 2026 NYG 10-7 L
Dec 31, 2017 Phi 6-10 L
Sep 29, 2019 NO 10-12 L
Nov 24, 2019 NE 9-13 L

The first Giants game was 2016 not 2026. Just a minor typo. I'm showing the Philly game in 2017 as a 6-0 win. Our defense pitched a shutout and the offense chipped in with 2 big field goals for the convincing win. Super Impressive.

You missed 11/29/18, a 13-10 win over New Orleans. Another slugfest defensive style win

nearly making the cut--a 16-8 loss at Carolina in the opening game of 2018.

Interesting, we keep hearing how Dak "has had to be perfect and hasn't been backed by a defense his whole career" to win games, and here are 6 examples of slugfests where our defense basically shut down the opponent. and we lost 67% of those games.

in those 6 games--the defense surrendered an average of 10.1 points per game. And we lost 4 of them. I repeat--the defense allowed 10.1 points per game, and we lost 4 of them. Because our offense averaged 8.8 points per game in those 6 contests.

OP might be having second thoughts about this thread. To me the last paragraph in the title post reads like a "let's give Dak another excuse" thread. The reality is--this isn't a very flattering story line for #4. I wish I could tell you I was surprised.....

 

[big dog cowboy]

Right on cue.

It's like the 7 year itch that lasts far more than 7 years.

 

[RonnieT24]

I know we won at Philly like 6-0 in the 2017 season finale. But after a little research I found that the Cowboys have won a total of 4 games in Dak's career when they didn't score at least 20 points.

They beat Minny 17-15 in 2016
They beat the G-men 19-3 in the 2018 season opener
They beat the Saints 13-10 that same year.

That's it.. The moral of this story is the Cowboys simply have NOT had a great defense in Dak's tenure at QB no matter what people wanna say. The total number of times the Cowboys defense has held opponents to under 20 withy Dak at QB is 53 times. The record in those games is 45-8. So basically when the defense shows up AND Dak is playing this team has been money. Don't beat me up if my count is off by a game or two.. I aint countin 'em up again. You come up with a different count.. post it and we'll compare notes.

 

[thunderpimp91]

My standard for defenses is not giving up more than 20 points, while the offense should score more than 20. If either unit is not doing that, then it is underperforming.

I almost revised it to 24 points for both units because of the rules today, but still think 20/21 is reasonable.

I agree, that is typically what I look for as well. It'll vary a little bit by team and season, but typically you'll see around an 80% win rate or so if you hold a team to under 20 points.