1978 Chicago Bears Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Chicago Bears

7-9-0

4th in NFC Central

Scored 15.8 PPG (20th)

Allowed 17.1 PPG (9th)

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1978 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	16	253	4,459	1,020	4.4	2,526	634	4.0	2,221	352	6.3	34	288	262	136	99	27	101	958
Team Rank		20th	22nd	19th	22nd	4th	4th	14th	26th	28th	23rd	11th	12th	21st	6th	27th	15th	10th	18th
Opponent	16	274	4,680	1,044	4.5	2,174	568	3.8	2,857	436	6.6	40	351	282	128	134	20	101	801
Opponent Rank		9th	12th	17th	9th	12th	14th	14th	16th	15th	14th	9th	21st	13th	17th	17th	7th	14th	24th
Net		-21	-221	-24	-0.1	+352	+66	+0.2	-636	-84	-0.2	-6	-63	-20	+8	-35	+7	0	+157
Net Rank		19th	18th	16th	17th	9th	7th	10th	25th	27th	19th	12th	19th	19th	10th	26th	8th	13th	24th

1978 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Bob Avellini	13	141	264	53.4	20.3	1,718	6.5	132.2	5	1.9	16	6.1	61	26	208	54.8
	Mike Phipps	6	44	83	53.0	13.8	465	5.6	77.5	2	2.4	10	12.0	35	6	55	38.1
	Vince Evans	3	1	3	33.3	1	38	12.7	12.7	0	0.0	1	33.3	38	2	25	42.4
	Roland Harper	16	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	1	100.0		0	0	0.0
	Bob Parsons	16	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
	Walter Payton	16	333	20.8	1,395	4.2	87.2	11	76	383	1,875
	Roland Harper	16	240	15	992	4.1	62.0	6	31	283	1,332
	Bob Avellini	13	34	2.6	54	1.6	4.2	2	10	34	54
	Mike Phipps	6	13	2.2	34	2.6	5.7	0	10	13	34
	Vince Evans	3	6	2	23	3.8	7.7	0	13	6	23
	Robin Earl	16	3	0.2	17	5.7	1.1	0	9	4	18
	Art Best	16	2	0.1	11	5.5	0.7	0	6	2	11
	Brian Baschnagel	16	2	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	4	29
	Bob Parsons	16	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
	Walter Payton	16	50		3.1	480	9.6	30.0	0	61	383	1,875
	Roland Harper	16	43		2.7	340	7.9	21.3	2	33	283	1,332
	James Scott	15	42		2.8	759	18.1	50.6	5	59	42	759
	Golden Richards	15	27		1.8	379	14.0	25.3	0	52	27	379
	Greg Latta	16	15		0.9	159	10.6	9.9	0	21	15	159
	Steve Schubert	13	4		0.3	51	12.8	3.9	0	19	4	51
	Brian Baschnagel	16	2		0.1	29	14.5	1.8	0	22	4	29
	Bo Rather	6	1		0.2	16	16.0	2.7	0	16	1	16
	Mike Cobb	13	1		0.1	7	7.0	0.5	0	7	1	7
	Robin Earl	16	1		0.1	1	1.0	0.1	0	1	4	18

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Gary Fencik	16							4	77	19.3	0	59
	Virgil Livers	13							3	86	28.7	1	60
	Doug Buffone	15							3	22	7.3	0	16
	Terry Schmidt	16							2	23	11.5	0	23
	Don Rives	16							2	8	4	0	8
	Wentford Gaines	11							1	0	0	0	0
	Doug Plank	14							1	0	0	0	0
	Len Walterscheid	14							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Bob Thomas	16	0	0	0	0	17	26		0	77
	Walter Payton	16	11	0	0	11	0	0		0	66
	Roland Harper	16	6	2	0	8	0	0		0	48
	James Scott	15	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Bob Avellini	13	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Virgil Livers	13	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Steve Schubert	13	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Mike Spivey	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Tommy Hart	16	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Steve Schubert	13	4	229	8.5	1	73	27
	Brian Baschnagel	16	20	2	2.0	0	2	1
	Len Walterscheid	14	11	24	8.0	0	11	3
	Wentford Gaines	11	10	0		0		0
	Mike Morgan	5	5	0		0		0
	Robin Earl	16	3	0		0		0
	John Skibinski	16	3	0		0		0
	Mike Spivey	16	2	0		0		0
	Greg Latta	16	2	0		0		0
	Jerry Muckensturm	16	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
	Bob Thomas	16	17	22	77.3	0-0	7-7	9-11	1-4	0-0	26	28	92.9	77

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Bob Parsons	16	96	3,549	37.0	54	0