1988 Dallas Cowboys Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 3-13-0, 5th in NFC East Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Tom Landry (3-13-0)

Points For: 265 (16.6/g) 21st of 28

Points Against: 381 (23.8/g) 25th of 28

Expected W-L: 4.8-11.2

SRS: -6.06 (27th of 28), SOS: 1.19

Defensive Coordinator: Ernie Stautner

Other Notable Asst.: Neill Armstrong (Quality Control), Paul Hackett (PGC), Dick Nolan (Defensive Backs) and Mike Solari (Assistant Offensive Line/ST)

Stadium: Texas Stadium

Principal Owner: Harvey Bright

President/General Manager: Tex Schramm

Defensive Alignment: 4-3

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +3000

Training Camp: California Lutheran College (Thousand Oaks, California)

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Team Stats and Rankings

Team Stats and Rankings Table
			Tot Yds & TO					Passing							Rushing					Penalties
Player	PF	Yds	Ply	Y/P	TO	FL	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	Pen	Yds	1stPy
Team Stats	265	5483	1059	5.2	40	13	311	307	555	3488	21	27	5.9	175	469	1995	10	4.3	112	141	1148	24
Opp. Stats	381	5414	1023	5.3	19	9	297	264	523	3556	30	10	6.2	180	454	1858	13	4.1	93	92	772	24
Lg Rank Offense	21	9			25	10	12		7	7	10	26	16		18	16	23	5
Lg Rank Defense	25	20			28	26	11		19	24	27	28	19		9	13	8	16

Schedule & Game Results

Schedule & Game Results Table
										Score		Offense					Defense					Expected Points
Week	Day	Date				OT	Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	Offense	Defense	Sp. Tms
1	Sun	September 4	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-1	@	Pittsburgh Steelers	21	24	25	414	280	134	3	17	356	214	142		8.03	-9.33	-2.33
2	Mon	September 12	8:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-1	@	Phoenix Cardinals	17	14	18	352	162	190	1	22	367	237	130	1	-1.06	-4.16	-0.19
3	Sun	September 18	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-2		New York Giants	10	12	22	366	275	91	2	21	278	150	128	2	-1.07	6.70	-1.07
4	Sun	September 25	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-2		Atlanta Falcons	26	20	17	323	210	113	1	15	314	207	107	2	2.04	8.56	-2.29
5	Mon	October 3	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-3	@	New Orleans Saints	17	20	28	457	271	186	3	17	333	268	65	1	10.67	-2.98	-9.34
6	Sun	October 9	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-4		Washington Redskins	17	35	18	361	301	60	5	19	350	170	180	1	-8.08	-8.21	0.86
7	Sun	October 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-5	@	Chicago Bears	7	17	18	291	195	96	2	24	385	261	124	1	0.66	-13.55	1.96
8	Sun	October 23	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-6	@	Philadelphia Eagles	23	24	25	437	332	105	1	23	339	274	65	2	2.77	-0.07	-2.88
9	Sun	October 30	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-7		Phoenix Cardinals	10	16	11	228	103	125	2	15	295	135	160		-20.30	3.18	7.95
10	Sun	November 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-8	@	New York Giants	21	29	21	365	262	103	3	15	262	151	111	1	-7.77	4.19	-5.07
11	Sun	November 13	8:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-9		Minnesota Vikings	3	43	12	159	49	110	7	18	325	222	103	1	-40.61	-6.69	5.74
12	Sun	November 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-10		Cincinnati Bengals	24	38	23	355	176	179	2	23	410	196	214	1	-3.66	-17.31	5.87
13	Thu	November 24	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-11		Houston Oilers	17	25	17	282	203	79	2	19	355	210	145		4.12	-7.03	-6.32
14	Sun	December 4	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-12	@	Cleveland Browns	21	24	22	410	247	163	1	16	302	275	27	1	11.79	-4.88	-8.09
15	Sun	December 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-12	@	Washington Redskins	24	17	21	444	320	124	2	15	372	348	24	5	1.51	8.97	-4.60
16	Sun	December 18	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-13		Philadelphia Eagles	7	23	13	239	102	137	3	18	371	238	133		-23.21	-1.39	5.83

Passing

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Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD
1	Steve Pelluer	26	QB	16	14	3-11-0	245	435	56.3	3139	17	3.9	19	4.4	147	42.5	61	7.2	6.0	12.8	196.2	73.9	21	112	4.61	6.64	5.5	1	2
2	Kevin Sweeney	25	QB	3	2	0-2-0	33	78	42.3	314	3	3.8	5	6.4	17	28.7	28	4.0	1.9	9.5	104.7	40.2	9	80	10.34	2.69	0.8	0	0
3	Danny White	36	QB	3	0		29	42	69.0	274	1	2.4	3	7.1	11	48.9	24	6.5	3.8	9.4	91.3	65.0	5	47	10.64	4.83	2.4	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	3-13-0	307	555	55.3	3488	21	3.8	27	4.9	175	41.0	61	6.7	5.3	12.1	218.0	68.5	35	239	5.93	5.91	4.56	1	2

Rushing & Receiving

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Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing									Receiving												Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Tgt	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Ctch%	Y/Tgt	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Herschel Walker	26	RB	16	16	361	1514	5	77	47.4	38	4.2	94.6	22.6	83	53	505	9.5	2	17	39.8	50	3.3	31.6	63.9	6.1	414	4.9	2019	7	6	PB,AP-2,AP MVP-5,AP OPoY-6
2	Ray Alexander	26	WR	16	11	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	102	54	788	14.6	6	41	46.1	50	3.4	49.3	52.9	7.7	54	14.6	788	6	0
3	Michael Irvin	22	WR	14	10	1	2	0	0	0.0	2	2.0	0.1	0.1	61	32	654	20.4	5	25	45.9	61	2.3	46.7	52.5	10.7	33	19.9	656	5	0
4	Kelvin Martin	23	WR	16	7	4	-4	0	1	50.0	11	-1.0	-0.3	0.3	93	49	622	12.7	3	38	48.4	35	3.1	38.9	52.7	6.7	53	11.7	618	3	2
5	Steve Pelluer	26	QB	16	14	51	314	2	18	58.8	27	6.2	19.6	3.2	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			51	6.2	314	2	6
6	Timmy Newsome	30	FB	9	8	32	75	3	9	46.9	8	2.3	8.3	3.6	43	30	236	7.9	0	11	51.2	32	3.3	26.2	69.8	5.5	62	5.0	311	3	1
7	Everett Gay	24	WR	16	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	35	15	205	13.7	1	9	28.6	25	0.9	12.8	42.9	5.9	15	13.7	205	1	1
8	Thornton Chandler	25	TE	16	12	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	30	18	186	10.3	1	8	50.0	29	1.1	11.6	60.0	6.2	18	10.3	186	1	0
9	Darryl Clack	25	RB	15	0	11	54	0	3	54.5	17	4.9	3.6	0.7	19	17	126	7.4	1	6	52.6	18	1.1	8.4	89.5	6.6	28	6.4	180	1	0
10	Doug Cosbie	32	TE	11	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	21	12	112	9.3	0	4	52.4	21	1.1	10.2	57.1	5.3	12	9.3	112	0	0
11	Kelvin Edwards	24	WR	8	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	14	5	93	18.6	0	5	35.7	27	0.6	11.6	35.7	6.6	5	18.6	93	0	1
12	Steve Folsom	30	TE	16	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	12	9	84	9.3	2	8	75.0	20	0.6	5.3	75.0	7.0	9	9.3	84	2	0
13	Todd Fowler	26	TE	16	6	3	6	0	0	33.3	4	2.0	0.4	0.2	13	10	64	6.4	0	2	38.5	13	0.6	4.0	76.9	4.9	13	5.4	70	0	0
14	Cornell Burbage	23	WR	10	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	4	2	50	25.0	0	1	50.0	41	0.2	5.0	50.0	12.5	2	25.0	50	0	1
15	Kevin Sweeney	25	QB	3	2	6	34	0	4	66.7	10	5.7	11.3	2.0	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			6	5.7	34	0	3
16	Nate Newton	27	LG	15	15	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	1	2	2.0	0	0	0.0	2	0.1	0.1	100.0	2.0	1	2.0	2	0	0
17	Kevin Gogan	24	RT	15	15	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0		0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	469	1995	10	112	48.8	38	4.3	124.7	29.3	532	307	3727	12.1	21	175	45.5	61	19.2	232.9	57.7	7.0	776	7.4	5722	31	21

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Defense & Fumbles

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						Def Interceptions				Fumbles						Tackles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Bill Bates	27	SS	16	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.5	124	124	0	0
2	Michael Downs	29	FS	16	16	2	3	0	3	1	0	1	11	0	0.5	0	0	0	0
3	Too Tall Jones	37	LDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	7.0	0	0	0	0
4	Danny Noonan	23	RDT	16	16	1	17	1	17	0	0	0	0	0	7.5	0	0	0	1
5	Herschel Walker	26	RB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-2,AP MVP-5,AP OPoY-6
6	Everson Walls	29	LCB	16	16	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
7	Ron Burton	24	LLB	16	15	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
8	Jim Jeffcoat	27	RDE	16	15	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	6.5	80	80	0	0
9	Kevin Brooks	25	LDT	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	0	0	0	0
10	Garry Cobb	31	RLB	16	14	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	7.5	0	0	0	0
11	Steve Pelluer	26	QB	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	-18	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Robert Williams	26	RCB	16	14	2	18	0	12	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Dave Widell	23	LT	14	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Timmy Newsome	30	FB	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Kelvin Martin	23	WR	16	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Kelvin Edwards	24	WR	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Ron Francis	24	DB	13	2	1	29	0	29	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Garth Jax	25	LB	16	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	13	13	0	0
19	Kevin Sweeney	25	QB	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Mark Walen	25	DE	15	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
21	Steve DeOssie	26	LB	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	23	23	0	0
22	Randy White	35	DT	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0	0	0	0
23	Vince Albritton	26	DB	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
24	Cornell Burbage	23	WR	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Everett Gay	24	WR	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Manny Hendrix	24	DB	16	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	Ken Norton Jr.	22	LB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Billy Owens	23	DB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	10	67	1	29	12	22	18	-3	0	46.0	240	240	0	1

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