The Cowboys set some unlucky historical past on Monday evening

The Dallas Cowboys misplaced on Monday which is clearly very irritating. Factoring within the precise nature during which the sport ended, it’s not a stretch to say it was one of many extra irritating losses of your complete season.

In the end the present goes on and the Cowboys will probably be again in motion on Sunday afternoon in opposition to the Carolina Panthers. Earlier than we absolutely transfer on to that sport although, we have now to correctly bury what occurred on Monday evening and within the burial course of we will contextualize all of it via an essential lens.

One thing we do each week is consider the sport that Dallas simply performed and the outcomes from it via the lenses of each franchise and workforce historical past. The instruments at Stathead and Professional Soccer Reference make this doable and permit us to do all of it with way more ease.

This week is massive on Rico Dowdle.

Rico Dowdle had one other uncommon efficiency

In the event you thought to your self that you simply had not seen a efficiency like what Rico Dowdle provided a lot this season, then you definately would have been completely proper. Over the course of Monday evening Dowdle averaged 7.3 yards per carry which is extremely spectacular, however it’s much more noteworthy on condition that he had 18 whole carries on the evening.

As of Week 14’s conclusion such a efficiency has solely occurred 5 occasions throughout the season as a complete. Dowdle clearly has one in every of them, Derrick Henry has two, Saquon Barkley has one other and New York Giants rookie Tyrone Tracy Jr. did it. Dowdle and Tracy are the one two to do it in a dropping effort. Shucks.

This three-game stretch from Dowdle is somewhat spectacular

Monday evening was simply the most recent piece of labor from Dowdle as he has been on hearth for 3 video games in a row now. Over his final three outings, Dowdle has had 329 whole speeding yards. That is solely the third occasion for the reason that 2021 season the place a participant has had 329 or extra speeding yards in a three-game span for the Cowboys. Dowdle, Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott have every finished it as soon as within the span in query.

Clearly the passing sport has been stout for Dallas over the previous couple of years, however this in the end proves how lackluster the run sport has been for fairly a while now.

This stretch has additionally seen a workload that we haven’t seen shortly

It may very well be argued that the first cause for Dowdle’s performances these days has been how a lot work he has been receiving. Contemplate that Dowdle has had a minimum of 18 carries in every of the final three video games.

This marks the primary time {that a} participant has had a minimum of 18 carries in three consecutive video games since Ezekiel Elliott had them close to the tip (ish) of the 2020 season. As soon as once more this highlights how there may be been a scarcity of consistency within the run sport for Dallas as they’ve divvied issues up a bit for a while now on the place.

Observe that Dowdle is averaging nearly two entire yards greater than Elliott did at that specific cut-off date. What we’re seeing from Dowdle proper now could be very spectacular.

CeeDee Lamb is all by himself in a single explicit method

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Forgive me for not having a screenshot right here, however that occurs when you find yourself speaking about the one participant to perform one thing as they’re on an inventory all by themselves.

CeeDee Lamb handed 935 receiving yards on the season on Monday evening which meant that he has now reached 935 receiving yards in every of his first 5 seasons with the Cowboys. He’s the one participant in franchise historical past to do that.

The Cowboys protection has a formidable streak occurring

Flipping to the opposite facet of the ball, do you know that the Cowboys protection has generated a turnover in six straight video games? It definitely doesn’t really feel prefer it has been that lengthy.

Curiously, that is tied for the longest streak of video games during which the workforce has generated a turnover for the reason that 2020 season (extra on that in a second). Which means Dallas has now tied the longest streak of video games with a turnover that they ever had below Dan Quinn. It must be famous that Quinn’s group did it twice.

It also needs to be famous that the group who they’d tie with a turnover on Sunday is the 2020 model of the protection which was horrible in quite a lot of historic methods. Not each file is an efficient one.

A reminder that the protection has been very unhealthy this season

Clearly this yr’s protection has been unhealthy in their very own method and on Monday evening the Cincinnati Bengals took full benefit of that. By the tip of the evening the Bengals had amassed 433 whole yards.

This marked the fifth occasion this season during which Dallas has allowed 430 whole yards in opposition to them. The 2024 workforce is now tied with the aforementioned 2020 squad in addition to the 2015 group for the second-most occasions that this has occurred to the workforce in a single season. With 4 video games remaining the 2013 “record” is near protected.