1973 Buffalo Bills Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Buffalo Bills

9-5-0

2nd in AFC East

Scored 18.5 PPG (15th)

Allowed 16.4 PPG (10th)

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1973 Regular Season Team Stats

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG	SCK	SCKY	1DWN	RUSH 1DWN	PASS 1DWN	PEN 1DWN	PEN	PEN YDS
Team	14	259	4,085	849	4.8	3,088	605	5.1	1,236	213	5.8	31	239	219	152	60	7	75	744
Team Rank		15th	10th	20th	10th	1st	2nd	1st	26th	26th	21st	11th	14th	16th	2nd	26th	26th	16th	16th
Opponent	14	230	3,915	855	4.6	1,797	455	3.9	2,394	368	6.5	32	276	231	101	112	18	53	485
Opponent Rank		10th	14th	9th	14th	7th	5th	10th	18th	19th	12th	12th	17th	14th	8th	17th	15th	25th	24th
Net		+29	+170	-6	+0.2	+1,291	+150	+1.2	-1,158	-155	-0.7	-1	-37	-12	+51	-52	-11	+22	+259
Net Rank		12th	10th	16th	11th	2nd	2nd	2nd	26th	26th	15th	11th	17th	18th	3rd	26th	24th	25th	26th

1973 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Joe Ferguson	14	73	164	44.5	11.7	939	5.7	67.1	4	2.4	10	6.1	42	20	164	45.8
	Dennis Shaw	4	22	46	47.8	11.5	300	6.5	75.0	0	0.0	4	8.7	40	11	75	32.9
	O.J. Simpson	14	1	2	50.0	0.1	-3	-1.5	-0.2	0	0.0	0	0.0	-3	0	0	56.3
	Bob Chandler	14	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	O.J. Simpson	14	332	23.7	2,003	6.0	143.1	12	80	338	2,073
	Jim Braxton	6	108	18	494	4.6	82.3	4	36	114	595
	Larry Watkins	14	98	7	414	4.2	29.6	2	17	110	500
	Joe Ferguson	14	48	3.4	147	3.1	10.5	2	24	49	144
	Bob Chandler	14	5	0.4	-14	-2.8	-1.0	0	18	35	413
	Bo Cornell	14	4	0.3	13	3.3	0.9	0	7	4	13
	Dennis Shaw	4	4	1	2	0.5	0.5	0	1	4	2
	Steve Jones	11	3	0.3	9	3.0	0.8	0	7	3	9
	Pete Van Valkenburg	13	2	0.2	20	10.0	1.5	0	12	3	27
	Spike Jones	14	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Bob Chandler	14	30		2.1	427	14.2	30.5	3	37	35	413
	J.D. Hill	14	29		2.1	422	14.6	30.1	0	42	29	422
	Larry Watkins	14	12		0.9	86	7.2	6.1	1	28	110	500
	Paul Seymour	14	10		0.7	114	11.4	8.1	0	22	10	114
	Jim Braxton	6	6		1	101	16.8	16.8	0	37	114	595
	O.J. Simpson	14	6		0.4	70	11.7	5.0	0	24	338	2,073
	Ray Jarvis	12	1		0.1	12	12.0	1.0	0	12	1	12
	Pete Van Valkenburg	13	1		0.1	7	7.0	0.5	0	7	3	27
	Joe Ferguson	14	1		0.1	-3	-3.0	-0.2	0	-3	49	144

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Dwight Harrison	14							5	117	23.4	1	38
	Jim Cheyunski	13							3	31	10.3	0	31
	Ernie Kellermann	10							2	23	11.5	0	19
	Donnie Walker	11							1	22	22	0	22
	Leon Garror	4							1	0	0	0	0
	Tony Greene	14							1	0	0	0	0
	Robert James	13							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	John Leypoldt	14	0	0	0	0	21	27		0	90
	O.J. Simpson	14	12	0	0	12	0	0		0	72
	Jim Braxton	6	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Bob Chandler	14	0	3	0	3	0	1		0	19
	Larry Watkins	14	2	1	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Joe Ferguson	14	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Wally Francis	12	0	0	2	2	0	0		0	12
	Bill Cahill	5	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Dwight Harrison	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Wally Francis	12	23	0		0		0
	Steve Jones	11	6	0		0		0
	Bill Cahill	5	2	73	18.3	1	51	4
	Ray Jarvis	12	5	0		0		0
	Larry Watkins	14	1	0		0		0
	Willie Parker	14	1	0		0		0
	Tony Greene	14	1	0		0		0
	Bo Cornell	14	1	0		0		0
	Jim Braxton	6	1	0		0		0
	Pete Van Valkenburg	13	1	0		0		0

Kicking

		GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	John Leypoldt	14	21	30	70.0	7-7	3-5	5-6	4-8	2-4	27	27	100.0	90

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Spike Jones	14	66	2,660	40.3	62	0