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Who Wins Games For The Cowboys: Offense or Defense?

We look at a metric called 'Wins Over Average' to understand how the Cowboys offense and defense have contributed to wins for the team.

Heading into last season, there was relatively little concern about the Cowboys' offense, but the naysayers, scaremongers and doom merchants were having the time of their lives predicting catastrophe for the Cowboys defense.

  • In a series of Tweets in August 2014, Ross Tucker wrote that the "Cowboys have worst defensive depth chart (1st 4 games) I've seen since I entered NFL in 2001. I'm serious. I think we have to consider possibility that Cowboys will have worst defense in NFL history.