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Dallas has struggled this season to generate disruption plays on defense (defined as plays with perfect coverage or pressure that prevents a quarterback from progressing through his reads). Since losing Micah Parsons to injury in Week 4 (and with Parsons still on the wrong side of questionable), the situation has only worsened for Dallas, which now creates the fewest disruption plays of any team in the NFL.