1978 Houston Oilers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Houston Oilers

10-6-0

2nd in AFC Central

Scored 17.7 PPG (14th)

Allowed 18.6 PPG (16th)

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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	283	4,814	993	4.8	2,476	603	4.1	2,473	373	6.6	17	135	276	135	119	22	102	833
Team Rank		14th	16th	22nd	9th	6th	7th	10th	22nd	24th	15th	1st	28th	15th	7th	20th	20th	12th	9th
Opponent	16	298	4,914	1,021	4.8	2,072	556	3.7	3,125	428	7.3	37	283	292	120	144	28	99	940
Opponent Rank		16th	17th	11th	21st	9th	10th	10th	24th	12th	24th	10th	14th	19th	12th	24th	19th	18th	13th
Net		-15	-100	-28	+0.0	+404	+47	+0.4	-652	-55	-0.7	-20	-148	-16	+15	-25	-6	+3	-107
Net Rank		15th	16th	17th	12th	8th	10th	7th	27th	21st	24th	3rd	25th	17th	9th	22nd	22nd	17th	9th

1978 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Dan Pastorini	16	199	368	54.1	23	2,473	6.7	154.6	16	4.3	17	4.6	80	15	123	70.4
	Gifford Nielsen	2	2	4	50.0	2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	2	12	56.3
	Ken Burrough	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
	Earl Campbell	15	302	20.1	1,450	4.8	96.7	13	81	314	1,498
	Tim Wilson	16	126	7.9	431	3.4	26.9	0	24	141	522
	Rob Carpenter	11	82	7.5	348	4.2	31.6	5	20	99	498
	Ronnie Coleman	15	61	4.1	188	3.1	12.5	1	16	80	434
	Dan Pastorini	16	18	1.1	11	0.6	0.7	0	11	18	11
	Rich Caster	14	5	0.4	32	6.4	2.3	0	11	25	348
	Ken Burrough	16	3	0.2	-11	-3.7	-0.7	0	1	50	613
	Mike Barber	16	2	0.1	14	7.0	0.9	0	13	34	527
	Robert Woods	3	2	0.7	4	2.0	1.3	0	5	8	100
	Mike Renfro	14	1	0.1	9	9.0	0.6	0	9	27	348
	Brian Duncan	5	1	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	3	0

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ken Burrough	16	47		2.9	624	13.3	39.0	2	44	50	613
	Mike Barber	16	32		2	513	16.0	32.1	3	72	34	527
	Mike Renfro	14	26		1.9	339	13.0	24.2	2	58	27	348
	Rich Caster	14	20		1.4	316	15.8	22.6	5	47	25	348
	Ronnie Coleman	15	19		1.3	246	12.9	16.4	1	33	80	434
	Rob Carpenter	11	17		1.5	150	8.8	13.6	0	37	99	498
	Tim Wilson	16	15		0.9	91	6.1	5.7	1	14	141	522
	Earl Campbell	15	12		0.8	48	4.0	3.2	0	20	314	1,498
	Robert Woods	3	6		2	96	16.0	32.0	2	80	8	100
	Conrad Rucker	13	2		0.2	38	19.0	2.9	0	22	2	38
	Brian Duncan	5	2		0.4	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	3	0
	Billy Johnson	5	1		0.2	10	10.0	2.0	0	10	1	10
	Guido Merkens	12	1		0.1	6	6.0	0.5	0	6	1	6
	Greg Sampson	16	1		0.1	-4	-4.0	-0.3	0	-4	1	-4

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Willie Alexander	16							5	51	10.2	0	29
	Greg Stemrick	16							3	65	21.7	0	38
	J.C. Wilson	16							2	10	5	0	10
	Robert Brazile	16							1	30	30	0	30
	Art Stringer	7							1	20	20	0	20
	Bill Currier	14							1	8	8	0	8
	Kurt Knoff	16							1	6	6	0	6
	C.L. Whittington	12							1	6	6	0	6
	Steve Kiner	16							1	3	3	0	3
	Mike Reinfeldt	16							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Earl Campbell	15	13	0	0	13	0	0		0	78
	Toni Fritsch	16	0	0	0	0	14	31		0	73
	Rob Carpenter	11	5	0	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Rich Caster	14	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Mike Barber	16	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Ken Burrough	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Ronnie Coleman	15	1	1	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Mike Renfro	14	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Robert Woods	3	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Tim Wilson	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Johnnie Dirden	16	32	0		0		0
	Ronnie Coleman	15	2	142	8.9	0	32	16
	Robert Woods	3	3	82	9.1	0	14	9
	Billy Johnson	5	4	60	7.5	0	20	8
	Larry Poole	9	4	0		0		0
	Anthony Davis	2	4	0		0		0
	Robert Turner	4	4	0		0		0
	Brian Duncan	5	2	0		0		0
	Tim Wilson	16	2	0		0		0
	Rob Carpenter	11	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
	Toni Fritsch	16	14	18	77.8	2-2	2-3	7-9	3-4	0-0	31	32	96.9	73

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Cliff Parsley	16	91	3,539	38.9	59	1