The Dallas Cowboys’ loss to the Baltimore Ravens is a bad record in team history

The Dallas Cowboys were bad by any measure against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. Some late heroics made the chaos more bearable from a score-sheet perspective, but Dallas was trailing 28-6 when the Ravens decided to take their foot off the gas. That move nearly cost Baltimore the win, but that’s what ultimately counts.

For the Cowboys, it was a horrific game and their latest unfortunate masterpiece created with questionable means.

Thanks to our friends at Stathead and Pro Football Reference, we are able to put the game somewhat into context with the Dallas Cowboys’ long history.

It was a historically bad day for the run defense

In case you didn’t know, the Cowboys let the Ravens run for 274 yards. It’s not common for an opposing team to reach that high mark in franchise history.

This was only the ninth instance in franchise history where this happened. Coincidentally, the last time this happened was against the Ravens on that strange Tuesday night in 2020.

Speaking of history: The performance in the running game is historically bad

You don’t have to look through history to know that the Cowboys are really bad at running the ball right now. But how bad are they, really?

In the first three games of the season, the Cowboys have amassed 221 rushing yards, the third-fewest rushing yards they have ever amassed in the first three games of a season.

Those were dark days.

It should come as no surprise that the rushing margin was terrible

While the Ravens overran the Cowboys, the Cowboys themselves did very little of the same. Dallas managed only 51 yards on the ground to Baltimore’s 274. This was the third worst Rushing margin in a single game in franchise history.

The fact that this happened immediately after Jerry Jones proudly proclaimed how great the Cowboys’ offense was, and against Derrick Henry of all teams, is the ultimate theatrics.

Derrick Henry had a career day against the Cowboys

Forgive me for the long and thin screenshot here. The problem is that Derrick Henry did something against the Dallas Cowboys that no one has ever done. No one.

To be more specific, Henry accomplished three specific targets against the Cowboys. He had over 150 rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns and over 20 receiving yards. No one, you read that right, has ever accomplished that in a game against the Cowboys. Until now.