Why A’Mauri Washington fits the Cowboys’ run defense
The numbers explain the pick. The 2-4 Cowboys have allowed 899 rushing yards, the most in the NFL, at 4.7 yards per carry. They were giving up 168.4 rushing yards per game before Week 6, including 241 to Tampa Bay, which helped bring Mike Pettine onto the staff as a senior defensive assistant.
Dallas did hold Green Bay to 57 rushing yards on 26 carries in the 23-13 loss at Lambeau, and Clark pointed straight at that. “I think it all started right there with the run game, stopping that,” Clark said after the game, adding that it got the Packers into “longer passing situations.”