A friend of mine named Ari Temkin once brought up an interesting point about Dan Bailey. He noted that Bailey and his high level of consistency and success may have been one of the worst things to ever happen to Jason Garrett.
The point was that because Bailey was so reliable that Garrett became, uh, reliant upon him to the point that he was too conservative in moments and opted to kick a field goal where going for it on fourth down may have been the better decision. That is an argument for a different day (if you want to have it), but whether Bailey’s reliability was a detriment to anybody, it was something that Dallas really missed when it was gone.