Know Your Dallas Cowboys: The Blog

Not much of a Halloween in central Texas, given that it is still 70 degrees and that we are still on daylight savings time. This is the second Halloween post on this blog, my with children this year appearing as a clone trooper and Sleeping Beauty. Last year I led off with:
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We’ll have plenty to discuss this week about the Eagles, but here are ten questions about the rivalry between the Cowboys and Eagles. Most of these questions focus on games played in Philadelphia.
Make your own Quiz!
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If you missed it, Tony Romo reportedly signed a six-year deal worth between $67 and $69 million. […]

The Cowboys-Eagles next week is the first quite a run of games to finish this season. After wins by the Giants and Lions, along with losses by the Redskins and Panthers (Green Bay plays on Monday), the NFC standings look like this:
1. Dallas Cowboys (6-1)
2. Green Bay Packers (5-1)
3. New York Giants (6-2)
4. Detroit […]

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For the last of the posts focusing on statistics during the bye week, I present the history of Cowboys’ games after bye weeks. The first bye week took place in 1990. In 1993, the NFL experimented with giving two bye weeks, but the idea bombed. Including those two byes, Dallas has played […]

As you may have gathered, I am having way too much fun with picture generators and widgets. You may have also gathered that I cannot stand the bye week for the Cowboys, given that I don’t find it very interesting giving a daily update on Tony Romo’s hamstring. His girl “friend”, though, wasn’t […]

Very brief post today, focusing on the Cowboys’ team statistical rankings:
Offense (NFL rank in parentheses)
Points Per Game: 32.4 (2)
Plays from Scrimmage: 441 (7)
Yards per Game: 402.0 (2)
Yards per Play: 6.4 (2)
1st Downs per Game: 21.4 (4)
3rd Down %: 47% (6)
Penalties: 53 (30)
Penalty Yards: 419 (30)
Time of Possession: 31:00 (10)
Turnover Ratio: +1 (18)
Defense
Points per Game: 22.6 […]

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Marion Barber vs. Julius Jones: Another Look
Marion Barber is on his way to a 1,000-yard season even though he is not technically the Cowboys’ starter. You can tell from watching the games that he seems to get stronger as the game progresses. You can see from the stats below […]

I’ve been told– by students, no less– not to acknowledge that my courses get boring due to (a) me, (b) the subject matter, and (c) me teaching the subject matter. The same admonishment should also apply to this blog, even if I know all too well that there aren’t a lot of people interested […]

Tony Romo’s Statistics by Quarter
Yesterday I questioned how much Tony Romo has had to do with the Cowboys’ slow starts. I can’t answer that, obviously, but Romo’s stats in the second and third quarters are heads and shoulders above his stats in the first quarters of those game. Eleven of his sixteen touchdowns […]