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Ten At The Bye: A Look At The Cowboys 2014 Season, In Seven Wins And Three Losses
On Thursday, as we sit in the midst of bye week, our own Tom Ryle authored a superb collocation of thoughts about our Beloved 'Boys. Here. I'd like to follow his lead, offering an assessment of the team after ten games. In fact, I'd like to use those ten games - and their respective win-loss results - as a template. Since the Cowboys currently find themselves at 7-3, I'll present seven positive developments and three not-so-positives for the 2014 campaign.
eek 1: Loss (Turnovers): In 2013, one of the very few defensive bright spots for the Cowboys was their ability to generate turnovers. Not only did they register 28 takeaways, they also had five turnovers returned for touchdowns (two picks and three fumble returns). Most startling, however, was the fact that the Cowboys recovered a league-leading 67.6% of all fumbles (both their own and those of their opponents). On defense, Dallas' opponents fumbled sixteen times, and the Cowboys recovered 13 of them!
That has not continued in 2014. Five times this season, the Cowboys have been on the positive side of the turnover ledger; they are 5-0 in those games. The other five games, when they have been on the negative side (they have not had an even turnover margin all season), they are 2-3. Given that the team that wins the turnover battle wins about 80% of the time in the NFL, the aberration here is the two wins Dallas notched when having more giveaways than takeaways. Had those two games - against Houston and Seattle - held true to form, we're looking at a 5-5 team.
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...-at-the-cowboys-2014-season-in-seven-wins-and
On Thursday, as we sit in the midst of bye week, our own Tom Ryle authored a superb collocation of thoughts about our Beloved 'Boys. Here. I'd like to follow his lead, offering an assessment of the team after ten games. In fact, I'd like to use those ten games - and their respective win-loss results - as a template. Since the Cowboys currently find themselves at 7-3, I'll present seven positive developments and three not-so-positives for the 2014 campaign.
eek 1: Loss (Turnovers): In 2013, one of the very few defensive bright spots for the Cowboys was their ability to generate turnovers. Not only did they register 28 takeaways, they also had five turnovers returned for touchdowns (two picks and three fumble returns). Most startling, however, was the fact that the Cowboys recovered a league-leading 67.6% of all fumbles (both their own and those of their opponents). On defense, Dallas' opponents fumbled sixteen times, and the Cowboys recovered 13 of them!
That has not continued in 2014. Five times this season, the Cowboys have been on the positive side of the turnover ledger; they are 5-0 in those games. The other five games, when they have been on the negative side (they have not had an even turnover margin all season), they are 2-3. Given that the team that wins the turnover battle wins about 80% of the time in the NFL, the aberration here is the two wins Dallas notched when having more giveaways than takeaways. Had those two games - against Houston and Seattle - held true to form, we're looking at a 5-5 team.
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...-at-the-cowboys-2014-season-in-seven-wins-and
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