1978 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

7-9-0

3rd in NFC Central

Scored 18.1 PPG (13th)

Allowed 18.8 PPG (19th)

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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	290	4,465	1,001	4.5	2,163	525	4.1	2,746	429	6.4	47	444	269	105	141	23	125	1,003
Team Rank		13th	21st	20th	20th	17th	26th	9th	16th	14th	21st	24th	4th	20th	21st	10th	19th	24th	20th
Opponent	16	300	4,483	970	4.6	2,184	565	3.9	2,781	350	7.9	55	482	276	115	125	36	128	1,043
Opponent Rank		19th	7th	3rd	16th	14th	13th	15th	12th	2nd	27th	2nd	28th	11th	9th	9th	24th	3rd	4th
Net		-10	-18	+31	-0.2	-21	-40	+0.3	-35	+79	-1.5	-8	-38	-7	-10	+16	-13	-3	-40
Net Rank		11th	14th	10th	18th	14th	17th	9th	15th	3rd	25th	10th	17th	15th	16th	12th	27th	9th	12th

1978 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Gary Danielson	16	199	351	56.7	21.9	2,294	6.5	143.4	18	5.1	17	4.8	47	25	237	73.5
	Greg Landry	5	48	77	62.3	15.4	452	5.9	90.4	1	1.3	1	1.3	20	21	205	77.4
	Tom Skladany	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
	Dexter Bussey	16	225	14.1	924	4.1	57.8	5	36	256	1,199
	Horace King	15	155	10.3	660	4.3	44.0	4	75	203	1,056
	Lawrence Gaines	13	54	4.2	178	3.3	13.7	1	12	56	194
	Rick Kane	15	44	2.9	153	3.5	10.2	2	19	60	314
	Gary Danielson	16	22	1.4	93	4.2	5.8	0	25	22	93
	Greg Landry	5	5	1	29	5.8	5.8	0	19	5	29
	Luther Blue	16	5	0.3	9	1.8	0.6	0	10	36	359
	Freddie Scott	16	4	0.3	53	13.3	3.3	0	36	41	617
	David Hill	16	3	0.2	12	4.0	0.8	0	13	56	645
	Jesse Thompson	11	2	0.2	7	3.5	0.6	0	10	20	182
	Andy Bolton	6	2	0.3	5	2.5	0.8	0	3	2	5
	Ed O'Neil	16	1	0.1	25	25.0	1.6	0	25	1	25
	Tony Daykin	16	1	0.1	8	8.0	0.5	0	8	1	8
	Leonard Thompson	16	1	0.1	7	7.0	0.4	0	7	11	174
	Joe Reed	1	1	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
	David Hill	16	53		3.3	633	11.9	39.6	4	32	56	645
	Horace King	15	48		3.2	396	8.3	26.4	2	34	203	1,056
	Freddie Scott	16	37		2.3	564	15.2	35.3	2	47	41	617
	Luther Blue	16	31		1.9	350	11.3	21.9	2	26	36	359
	Dexter Bussey	16	31		1.9	275	8.9	17.2	1	18	256	1,199
	Jesse Thompson	11	18		1.6	175	9.7	15.9	4	21	20	182
	Rick Kane	15	16		1.1	161	10.1	10.7	0	26	60	314
	Leonard Thompson	16	10		0.6	167	16.7	10.4	4	45	11	174
	Lawrence Gaines	13	2		0.2	16	8.0	1.2	0	9	56	194
	Ray Jarvis	2	1		0.5	9	9.0	4.5	0	9	1	9

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Jimmy Allen	14							5	70	14	0	27
	Ed O'Neil	16							4	49	12.3	0	31
	Luther Bradley	16							3	85	28.3	1	76
	Charlie Weaver	16							3	32	10.7	0	22
	James Hunter	9							2	-4	-2	0	0
	Bruce Rhodes	15							1	24	24	0	24
	Reggie Pinkney	13							1	22	22	0	22
	Paul Naumoff	15							1	12	12	0	12
	Walt Williams	15							1	2	2	0	2
	Mike Burns	15							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Benny Ricardo	16	0	0	0	0	20	32		0	92
	Dexter Bussey	16	5	1	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Horace King	15	4	2	0	6	0	0		0	36
	David Hill	16	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Jesse Thompson	11	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Leonard Thompson	16	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Luther Blue	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Rick Kane	15	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Freddie Scott	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Jimmy Allen	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Luther Bradley	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Lawrence Gaines	13	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Jesse Thompson	11	14	161	10.1	0	35	16
	Luther Blue	16	7	59	8.4	0	15	7
	Leonard Thompson	16	8	19	6.3	0	9	3
	Freddie Scott	16	3	55	6.9	0	15	8
	Rick Kane	15	8	0		0		0
	Nat Terry	4	7	0		0		0
	James Hunter	9	1	21	10.5	0	19	2
	Ken Callicutt	13	2	0		0		0
	Willie McGee	4	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
	Benny Ricardo	16	20	28	71.4	3-3	7-7	6-8	4-9	0-1	32	33	97.0	92

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Tom Skladany	16	86	3,654	42.5	63	1