Five Downs With Football Outsiders: Searching hard to give whiny Cowboys fans hope

Thursday, May 03 2012

Bill Barnwell, a contributing editor at footballoutsiders.com and one of the minds behind the must-read Pro Football Prospectus, will answer five Cowboys questions each week of the season using the FO data and methodologies. Here's the Week 8 edition:

1) Whiny Cowboys fans got all hot and bothered last week by the Football Outsider formula that stated the odds were against Dallas making the playoffs. (Then the Cowboys reduced those odds by losing to the Rams, dude.) Let's try to get you back in those folks' good graces. Is there a stat you can point to that provides hope the Cowboys can snap out of their month-long funk?

There are whiny Cowboys fans? On the Internet? No way. I've noticed that the Cowboys fans in the comments are kind, warm-hearted folks, and from what I can tell, many of them are ex-NFL players with decades of experience playing football.

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