The Dallas Cowboys were a team bereft of takeaways on last season. In order to to be a winning team at the highest caliber, you must not only come away with big plays on offense in the form of huge conversions and touchdowns, but you must also mimic that same big-play behavior on defense in the form of takeaways and turning the opposing team over.
If you look at the Cowboys rankings in the major takeaway categories, interceptions and fumble recoveries, they were nothing special in either. As far as pure numbers, they were tied for dead last in the league in interceptions with Arizona and Detroit at seven apiece.