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— the most in all three categories between any combination of active players.
Home not-so-sweet home
Dallas owner Jerry Jones celebrated his 82nd birthday by watching his team endure its most lopsided home loss in his 36 seasons in charge of the Cowboys.
The 47-9 drubbing by Detroit was the biggest loss at home for the Cowboys since they fell 43-3 to Minnesota on Nov. 13, 1988, just months before Jones bought the team.
The struggles at home have been a problem for Dallas ever since the Cowboys saw their 16-game home winning streak snapped with a 48-32 loss in the wild-card round to Green Bay last season.
Dallas has dropped three home games to open this season, losing 44-19 to New Orleans in Week 2 and 28-25 to Baltimore in Week 3. The 167 points allowed by the Cowboys in their last four home games are the fourth most ever in a span of four home games, according to Sportradar. Only the 1948 Giants (177 points) and 1972-73 Oilers (176) allowed more.
Dallas isn't the only NFC East team struggling at home. The New York Giants have lost all three home games this season and Daniel Jones dropped to 0-5 with nine turnovers, no TDs and a 57.9 passer rating over the last two seasons at MetLife Stadium following a 17-7 loss to Cincinnati on Sunday . There are 20 players who have thrown a TD pass at MetLife more recently than Jones has.
Falling off
The New Orleans Saints have followed a historic start to the season with a nearly unprecedented collapse. New Orleans opened the season by beating Carolina by 37 points and Dallas by 25 — becoming the 13th team in the Super Bowl era to win each of the first two games by at least 24 points.
The Saints have followed that up with four straight losses, scoring 76 points the past four weeks after having 91 the first two games. Only two other teams in NFL history won the first two games by at least 20 points and then lost four straight, with Dallas doing it in 1965 and the Cleveland Indians in 1921.
New Orleans reached a new low this past week in a 51-27 loss to Tampa Bay when the Saints scored 27 points in the second quarter and none in the other three. They allowed the Buccaneers to become the fifth team in NFL history to gain at least 300 yards through the air and 275 on the ground.
The loss dropped coach Dennis Allen's career winning percentage to .342 — fifth worst out of 148 coaches with at least 75 games.
