It’s been a long week in Cowboys Nation, and we’re not even a month into the season. The road loss to the previously-winless Bears is going to sting for a while, especially if the Cowboys fall to Micah Parsons and the Packers on Sunday night in prime time. Yet Jerry Jones insists this team is still a playoff team.

Is he right? The odds surely don’t look good, but let’s take a look at what the hard data says. We’re still waiting on strength of schedule adjustments for all DVOA-related grades, but three weeks is a decent enough sample size to start drawing a few conclusions, so let’s dive in.

That bad, huh? The Cowboys dropped six spots in total team DVOA rankings this week. Sitting at 23rd in total team DVOA, they’re also 13th in the NFC, which hardly bodes well for their playoff chances.

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