Week 5 Advanced Stats: Crucial metrics indicate Cowboys have healthy advantage over Giants

While it appears the Giants’ offense is on the rise, when it comes to the truly important metrics like EPA, ANY/A and toxic differential, Dallas appears in another class. | From @ProfessorO_NFL

The Dallas Cowboys are just two days away from facing the New York Giants in a divisional matchup.  The Cowboys are riding a three-game winning streak while the Giants are coming off an overtime win. The Cowboys offense is performing effectively on both sides of the ball through four weeks with the defense being particularly opportunistic with takeaways leading as they’ve forced turnovers on 22.3% of their opponents possessions.

The Giants are looking to replicate their success through the air last week in their win against the New Orleans Saints. Quarterback Daniel Jones had a career-high 402 yards passing while completing 70% of his passing attempts as the Giants etched their first win of the season.

What do the advanced statistics tell us about this divisional matchup? We will take a look at DVOA, Toxic Differential, ANY/A and EPA to see what the numbers say about this clash of NFC East rivals.