The defense under John Fox...

[RazzleDazzle]

We are currently ranked 29th in the NFL against the rush.

Marion Barber is probably going to miss the game due to an injury, however Felix Jones is going to run all over us in his place. Dallas isn't going to have to throw, and they won't.

I have a feeling we'll do just fine no matter what they do. Here's to our first win of the season :cheers2:.

[firstdayfan]

One thing I found interesting was that in 2007 we had 31 sacks for 31st in the league, yet a year later merely 6 more sacks elevated us into 9th.

Yeah that was a typo, my bad. Like the other poster said we actually only had 23 sacks that year. I think the QB rating thing is a big issue but others may be right that better QB's in the division along with rule changes have increased the abilities for QB's to put up better numbers. I thought I'd check this out so I looked at the defenses with the lowest QB ratings, here they are:

1) Saints 53.4 (Stadford and Kolb) Who knows

2) Jets 54.3 (Schaub and Brady) impressive

3) Eagles 55.3 (Delhomme and Brees) got a lot of help from Jake

4) Giants 55.3 (Campbell and Romo) defense looks good right now

5) Broncos 59.9 (Palmer and Quinn) not impressive

Maybe I should do last season, here are 2008's top defensive passer rating

1) Ravens 60.6

2) Steelers 63.4

3) Titans 69.2

4) Packers 71.2 (no QB's in that division)

5) Eagles 72.9

So maybe it does have a lot to do with how well a defense performs. On a side note, so far this season the cowboys defensive passer rating is 98.2 and last year it was in the upper 80's. Jake has got to make some big plays against this defense, play action should yield some big results.

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