For all the accolades thrown at the Dallas Cowboys defense so far in 2022, there was one negative they couldn’t get away from. Their run defense was a problem. The peak of that dysfunction came in a two-game stretch where they gave up 447 yards rushing. The Bears, with running quarterback Justin Fields, hung 240 rushing yards on the Cowboys. The following week, the Green Bay Packers tallied up 207 yards rushing.
The Cowboys went 1-1 in those two games, and there was some sentiment that the Bears kept running the ball when they need to be passing to catch up, and that the Cowboys defense was content to let them do that.