Jason Garrett's Offense Versus Top 5 Defenses

Originally Posted by gbrittain from a sports forum:

Thought this was interesting.

Dallas played the the #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 rated defenses in the NFL. Wanted to see how Dallas compared.

#1 Defense Pittsburgh - Dallas put up 289 yards. Only Indy with 290, and the Titans with 322 did better. Not to mention we did that horrible weather is worth noting.

#2 Defense Baltimore - Dallas put up 327 yards. Only Indy with 334, Miami with 359, Houston with 355, and NY with 353 yards did better.

#3 Defense Philly - Dallas put up 380 and 298 yards. Only 2 teams did better than 380 yards and that was Washington with 388 and NY Giants with 401. With the next bar being 298 yards only the Falcons did better with 335 yards.

#4 Defense Washington - Dallas put up 344 and 315 yards. Only NY Giants with 354, NY Giants with 404, and 49ers with 359 did better than Dallas 344.
With the next bar being 315 only the teams already mentioned above did better than 315.

#5 Defense NY Giants - Dallas put up 321 yards (Sorry not taking into account a Brad Johnson led offense). Only Cinncy with 347 yards, Brown with 454 yards, Cardinals with 371 yards, Eagles with 331 yards, Panthers with 343, and Vikings with 328 did better.

So we played the #1 defense once, the #2 defense once, the #3 defense twice, the #4 defense twice, and the #5 defense twice. Half of our games came against the top 5 defenses in the NFL.

Romo missed 3 games, Barber our starting RB essentially missed the last 4 games, our second string RB missed from week seven on, and we lost our starting Guard and replaced him with 'Ole Procter and Dallas still finished 13 in offensive yardage in the NFL.