Sheik
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Overall point still stands. Randle is in why? Injuries. Dallas' offense only ranks 16th in the league? injuries.
Would it shock you to find out Dallas ranked 29th most healthy team in 2013, and the defensive line was more than 70% of it?
There's a annual study that correlates games lost due to injury, and in injuries alone Dallas could have won three more games than it did.
Most of your horrible defensive performance was due to injuries.
It doesn't matter the reason we had games where we kept giving the ball back, keeping our defense in jeopardy, amplifying the problem it had. The point is if you give us just a handful of plays back, we're 11-5 anyway, injuries and all.
Injuries were crazy. Yes. Injuries on defense aren't reason for expecting the offense to do more than it did in 2013. The offense had it's fair share of injuries, Austin, Murray, Waters, Romo never was completely over the prior offseason surgery.
Still, points and yardage were pretty good, certainly good enough for a playoff team. Literally everyone but Austin had a tremendous year.
One game where the defense gave the offense 4 or 5 extra chances doesn't mean shit to me. The offense put up 30 points, so they did their part in that game. They punted the ball to the Lions a lot, but never gave them a short field with a turnover of their own.