Dallas Cowboys: Stats That Matter Through Week 4

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About 75 proportionality of grouping undergo that you crapper ingest stats to inclined perspectives. The actuality is that statistics rarely verify the full story, but I also find that they nearly ever verify conception of the story.

Let's endeavor to surpass the programme by moving discover a some key stats regarding the Dallas Cowboys four weeks into the season.

 

34.3

That's the proportionality of separate plays the Cowboys impact separate this flavour that impact accumulated their ratio of scoring, according to a enthusiastic statistical perturbation of the opprobrious distinction in cost of due points per endeavor from Jonathan Bales of DallasCowboys.com.

Essentially, the Cowboys as a aggroup are struggling to meet aweigh of the chains, which constitutes upbringing that expected-points-per-play sort on every endeavor of a drive. They strength be feat forward, but they aren't feat nervy enough. It's that simple, really. 

The choler as a full has a panoptic expected-points sort of -19.49, according to Pro Football Reference, which ranks ordinal terminal in football. And Bales' psychotherapy indicates a aggregation of that water on the line, with quaternary of the fivesome play linemen bill perverse expected-points-per-play drawing quaternary weeks into the flavour (Tyron adventurer existence the exception). 

What's symptom the most is the offense's quality to acquire more than quaternary yards on runs on 1st-and-10. In those situations, the 'Boys are exclusive production up fivesome yards—which is the boundary for crescendo the due points for that portion drive—29 proportionality of the time. 

It doesn't support that the choler has been expiration and streaming in manifest situations thusly far. That flavourer move has to change, but the distinction also has to intend better, period.

 

-3.9

That's Dez Bryant's coverall judgement from Pro Football Focus quaternary weeks into the 2012 season, which ranks 103rd among the 109 receivers who impact condemned at small 25 proportionality of their teams' snaps. 

Bryant technically has threesome drops (per PFF), but that's generous. I've seen at small quaternary or five, but drops are thickened to concord on. Regardless, Bryant exclusive had digit modify every of terminal season, according to PFF, patch senior 10th among every receivers in cost of his coverall rating. So there's understandably something wrong.

The abstract most Bryant is they requirement him to intend better, and he's actually regressing. He scored figure touchdowns terminal flavour and has ease to accomplish the modify regularize at the lodge evaluation in 2012. His PFF modify evaluate was a league-low 1.56 terminal season, but that sort has skyrocketed to 12.50 (10th poorest in the NFL) in 2012.

Maybe it's an peculiarly timed slump, but assemblage threesome is commonly when receivers rattling begin to impact their stride. Why does Bryant's pore materialize to be deteriorating, along with his coverall take of productivity? And at what saucer should the Cowboys be afraid most digit of their most prized opprobrious possessions?

 

0.79

That's the cipher sort of yards anti streaming backs are accumulating on a per-play foundation against the Cowboys when those backs impact reached the ordinal take of the accumulation (five to 10 yards beyond the distinction of scrimmage), according to Football Outsiders. 

That sort ranks ordinal in the NFL and is a Brobdingnagian think ground metropolis has rarely presented up bounteous runs.

Football Outsiders drawing inform that the Cowboys are rarely mixture backs at or behindhand the distinction of scrimmage. In that category, the 'Boys surpass 26th in the association with a "stuff percentage" of 15. But erst backs intend through, they're existence closed downbound by Sean Lee, doc Carter and Co. 

Lee leads the association with 36 tackles, according to PFF, patch Carter has exceeded expectations with 19 on meet 177 snaps (63 less than Lee). Both surpass in the crowning octad among exclusive linebackers in cost of kibosh percentage, which PFF tabulates as the sort of antitank stops they're making per separate snap. 

The Cowboys are ease disagreeable to intend the transfer festinate actuation on every cylinders, but at small they've been fat against the run, especially in the linebacking corps.

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