The 2019 season was odd for the Dallas Cowboys. Stats wise the Cowboys were good on both sides of the ball, but the team still finished with an 8-8 record. In Week 16 all the Cowboys needed to do was win on the road in Philadelphia but the offense really struggled. They only scored nine points total and that led to an eight-point loss.

One game can't decide an entire grade for a season for the offense, but it can play a big role. So what grade did the Cowboys offense earn? Let's break it down.

Passing Game

Dak Prescott earned himself a lot of money with his play this season. He finished the season completing 65.1 percent of his passes for 4,902 yards, 30 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions. In that game against the Eagles late in the season, Prescott was dealing with a shoulder injury and it was having a pretty big impact on his performance. If he would have been fully healthy, there is no doubt he would have had more success and maybe the Cowboys would have made the playoffs.

The Cowboys had Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup both finish with over 1,000 receiving yards. Cooper disappeared a bit down the stretch of the season which hurt the team, but when Gallup was healthy he was the perfect deep threat for Prescott.

Running Game

Ezekiel Elliott got out to a slow start to the season for the Cowboys but had more good games than bad. He finished the season rushing 301 times for 1357 yards and 12 touchdowns. Everyone knows what Elliott is going to do, so it really wasn't a surprise just how much success he found on the ground.

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Rookie Tony Pollard was a pleasant surprise, and it looks like he could be a good one-two punch with Elliott for years to come. Drafted in the 4th round out of Memphis he finished the season rushing 86 times for 455 yards and two touchdowns. In the last game of the season against the Washington Redskins, he rushed 14 times for 60 yards.

Final Grade: B

This was a hard final grade to come up with, because of the many factors involved. Just looking at stats this team should have received the grade of an A or A-. They had a lot of success all season running and throwing the ball, and that led to a lot of high scores being put on the scoreboard.

Looking at what the offense was able to accomplish with the team finishing with an 8-8 record that means the team should have been closer to a C or C-.

Just because the team didn't make the playoffs, the offense was still good enough to earn a final grade of B.