It was inevitable. No matter how hard people tried to will it away, the Dallas Cowboys defense was always going to regress to the mean.
What do we mean (no pun intended) by that exactly? Consider that in 2021 the Dallas Cowboys defense took the ball away something like a million times (the true answer is 34). That was never going to happen this season as basically all of NFL history has taught us. They were bound to regress to the mean.
Through three games, an admittedly small sample size, we are seeing this bear out.