The Division Stank has masked the Cowboys Stank for Years

[atlantacowboy]

We mention this time and again, then forget it, time and again.

We've been overrated for years because our division blows chunks. We rack up wins as a team, and stats as players.

If we want an honest evaluation versus the rest of the league, we should run all stats and PFF scores excluding division games.

The numbers will probably be eye-opening. I wonder if even Martin survives such an evaluation. I'm sure he's good, but really All Pro? All Pro based on games outside the division? I have my doubts.

You dare pick on future HOFer Zach Martin? lol.

But here is an easy stat. Dak had 17 of his record 37 TD passes against NFC East teams. I don't think it takes much digging to see that Dak pads his stats against poor defenses and is very pedestrian against top 15 defenses. He was 1-4 against top 15 defenses with the lone win coming @NE which was 2-4 at the time.

 

[buybuydandavis]

The Giants and Eagles have won three Super Bowls in the last 15 years but I get where you are coming from. The bad quarterback play in the division hides are warts on defense. It also makes Dak look like Tom Brady in division games. The good news if Dak stays healthy we should win the division again next season.

I was thinking the last 3 or 4 years. NFC Least hasn't always stunk. But it has for a while now.

 

[buybuydandavis]

You dare pick on future HOFer Zach Martin? lol.

Run the numbers and see. PFF scores are PFF scores.

 

[Aftershock]

This is a 9-8 team in a terrible divison

 

[atlantacowboy]

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[atlantacowboy]

Run the numbers and see. PFF scores are PFF scores.

Its pointless to do this on Zach Martin. The guy just had the best PFF season grade of his career and ranked #1 at his position. But here you go.... most games, he is easily our best offensive player and certainly the most consistent.

* denotes highest offensive grade on the team that week

Tampa. DNP
LAC. 95.8*
Philly. 59.8
Carolina 95.8*
NYG. 76.0
NE. 93.0*
MN. 82.4*
Denver. 74.3*
ATL. 91.1 (CD beat him for highest grade honors by .2)
KC. 76.9*
LV. 91.7*
NO. 65.6
WFT. 80.7*
NYG. 61.3
WFT. 82.6
AZ. 70.0
Philly. 91.3*

 

[buybuydandavis]

Its pointless to do this on Zach Martin. The guy just had the best PFF season grade of his career and ranked #1 at his position. But here you go.... most games, he is easily our best offensive player and certainly the most consistent.

* denotes highest offensive grade on the team that week

Tampa. DNP
LAC. 95.8*
Philly. 59.8
Carolina 95.8*
NYG. 76.0
NE. 93.0*
MN. 82.4*
Denver. 74.3*
ATL. 91.1 (CD beat him for highest grade honors by .2)
KC. 76.9*
LV. 91.7*
NO. 65.6
WFT. 80.7*
NYG. 61.3
WFT. 82.6
AZ. 70.0
Philly. 91.3*
[ ed. SF ~65]

Thanks.

Interesting as a time series. Except for the game against the second string in Philly, Martin was not his All Pro self after the NO game.

But his data runs opposite to my thesis about players generally having their stats/ratings boosted by playing within division. He was actually clearly worse in division. It would be extremely weird if that somehow held generally.

Philly. 59.8
NYG. 76.0
WFT. 80.7*
NYG. 61.3
WFT. 82.6
Philly. 91.3*

LAC. 95.8*
Carolina 95.8*
NE. 93.0*
MN. 82.4*
Denver. 74.3*
ATL. 91.1 (CD beat him for highest grade honors by .2)
KC. 76.9*
LV. 91.7*
NO. 65.6
AZ. 70.0
SF ~65