News: Tough Schedule May End Up Hurting Cowboys Twice This Year

[CCBoy]

Tough Schedule May End Up Hurting Cowboys Twice This Year
By One.Cool.Customer

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015...le-may-end-up-hurting-cowboys-twice-this-year




When we first took a look at the 2015 Strength Of Schedule (SOS) at the end of last season, we saw that the Cowboys' 2015 opponents finished the 2014 season with a combined 119-136-1 record for a .467 winning percentage, the "easiest" schedule the the Cowboys have had in the last 10 years. Overall, that .467 SOS was only the 24th "toughest" schedule - or the 9th "easiest", as you prefer.

Now that the regular season is nearing its end, we can take a look at how the schedule has actually played out so far. Through Monday, Nov. 30, the Cowboys SOS is .523, which is currently tied with the Saints for the fifth toughest schedule in the league.

In Cowboys Nation we're keeping a keen eye on SOS because it is used as a tiebreaker to determine final draft spots. So after starting the season with what was supposed to be an easy schedule and then flaming out dramatically, will the tough SOS end up hurting the Cowboys again when it comes to draft spots?

Draft Position

These are the rules for determining the draft order for the 2016 draft:

1. Teams that make the playoffs receive the last 12 draft picks from position 21-32, ordered by which round of the playoffs they were eliminated.
2. Teams that didn't make the playoffs are ordered by their regular season W/L record.
3. The tiebreaker for teams with identical records is the Strength of Schedule. For the draft order, the lower SOS results in an earlier pick.
4. If the SOS does not resolve a tie, a division or conference tiebreaker is used. If that fails as well, draft order is determined by a coin toss during the NFL Combine...

 

[JoeyBoy718]

All we can do is lose out and hope the Browns figure out how to win a few games.

 

[StarBoyz83]

The schedule really wasnt that tough this year.

 

[AzorAhai]

All we can do is lose out and hope the Browns figure out how to win a few games.

Well the Browns and 49ers play each other so thats a win for at least one of them. Its probably too much to ask for for each team to win 2 more games. Would have been great if the Browns pulled off a win tonight and the 49ers did on Sunday against Arizona.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Well the Browns and 49ers play each other so thats a win for at least one of them. Its probably too much to ask for for each team to win 2 more games. Would have been great if the Browns pulled off a win tonight and the 49ers did on Sunday against Arizona.

Yep. They were so close. But that's Cleveland for you. What pisses me off is that the only good year they've ever had was the year we got their 1st round draft pick in the Brady Quinn trade. I was sure that'd be the #1 overall pick. I think it was the 22nd.

 

[Richmond Cowboy]

Yep. They were so close. But that's Cleveland for you. What pisses me off is that the only good year they've ever had was the year we got their 1st round draft pick in the Brady Quinn trade. I was sure that'd be the #1 overall pick. I think it was the 22nd.

I believe that was the year we ended up drafting Jenkins and Felix. We probably would have ended up with McFadden if we had the first pick.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I believe that was the year we ended up drafting Jenkins and Felix. We probably would have ended up with McFadden if we had the first pick.

All we have to do now is trade for Brady Quinn. Do we have any more 7th rounders?

 

[Bullflop]

Hogwash. Schedules are always twice as tough for the teams that lack what it takes to beat the competition.

 

[DoomsDayD]

All we can do is lose out and hope the Browns figure out how to win a few games.

After last night i have doubt with the browns...i still cannot believe the ending.

 

[Future]

The schedule really wasnt that tough this year.

This. When all is said and done we'll have played, what, 4 good teams?

NE, CAR, GB and maybe SEA.

 

[canters]

We'll get 'em next year, right?

 

[CATCH17]

Bring on the losses.

 

[StarBoyz83]

This. When all is said and done we'll have played, what, 4 good teams?

NE, CAR, GB and maybe SEA.

Yes this schedule was actually pretty easy.

 

[reddyuta]

All we can do is lose out and hope the Browns figure out how to win a few games.

They play 49ERs .one of them has to lose.

 

[Frosty]

Yep. They were so close. But that's Cleveland for you. What pisses me off is that the only good year they've ever had was the year we got their 1st round draft pick in the Brady Quinn trade. I was sure that'd be the #1 overall pick. I think it was the 22nd.

Sure sounds a lot like the Dallas Cowboys if you ask me......always close, but never finishing.....one good year every now and then... just enough to keep hope alive... 20yrs and waiting

 

[Apollo Creed]

The schedule really wasnt that tough this year.

Not at all. NFC and the East was wide open this year. Missed a golden opportunity.

Even more of a testament to the turd Jason Garrett has laid. How do you lose 7 straight games in todays NFL? Dave Campo never did that.

 

[CyberB0b]

The schedule really wasnt that tough this year.

This. 2 really good teams, 3 god awful teams, and a bunch of middling teams.