1978 New England Patriots Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New England Patriots

11-5-0

1st in AFC East

Scored 22.4 PPG (4th)

Allowed 17.9 PPG (13th)

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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	358	5,965	1,085	5.5	3,165	671	4.7	3,006	390	7.7	24	206	322	181	125	16	92	852
Team Rank		4th	1st	5th	1st	1st	1st	1st	11th	17th	2nd	4th	24th	3rd	1st	18th	26th	3rd	10th
Opponent	16	286	4,615	971	4.8	1,852	511	3.6	3,059	425	7.2	35	296	258	100	143	15	81	683
Opponent Rank		13th	9th	4th	19th	4th	5th	6th	23rd	11th	23rd	12th	18th	6th	4th	22nd	1st	28th	28th
Net		+72	+1,350	+114	+0.7	+1,313	+160	+1.1	-53	-35	+0.5	-11	-90	+64	+81	-18	+1	+11	+169
Net Rank		5th	2nd	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	16th	17th	9th	8th	20th	3rd	1st	17th	11th	21st	26th

1978 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Steve Grogan	16	181	362	50.0	22.6	2,824	7.8	176.5	15	4.1	23	6.4	75	21	184	63.6
	Tom Owen	2	15	26	57.7	13	182	7.0	91.0	0	0.0	2	7.7	23	3	22	47.3
	Andy Johnson	15	0	2	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
	Sam Cunningham	16	199	12.4	768	3.9	48.0	8	52	230	1,065
	Andy Johnson	15	147	9.8	675	4.6	45.0	3	52	173	942
	Horace Ivory	15	141	9.4	693	4.9	46.2	11	28	155	815
	Steve Grogan	16	81	5.1	539	6.7	33.7	5	31	81	539
	Don Calhoun	14	76	5.4	391	5.1	27.9	1	73	79	420
	James McAlister	16	19	1.2	77	4.1	4.8	2	16	20	89
	Mosi Tatupu	16	3	0.2	6	2.0	0.4	0	3	3	6
	Stanley Morgan	16	2	0.1	11	5.5	0.7	0	6	36	831
	Harold Jackson	16	1	0.1	7	7.0	0.4	0	7	38	750
	Jerrel Wilson	14	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Donald Westbrook	16	1	0.1	-2	-2.0	-0.1	0	-2	4	36

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Russ Francis	15	39		2.6	543	13.9	36.2	4	53	39	543
	Harold Jackson	16	37		2.3	743	20.1	46.4	6	57	38	750
	Stanley Morgan	16	34		2.1	820	24.1	51.3	5	75	36	831
	Sam Cunningham	16	31		1.9	297	9.6	18.6	0	31	230	1,065
	Andy Johnson	15	26		1.7	267	10.3	17.8	0	31	173	942
	Horace Ivory	15	14		0.9	122	8.7	8.1	0	18	155	815
	Don Hasselbeck	16	7		0.4	107	15.3	6.7	0	24	7	107
	Donald Westbrook	16	3		0.2	38	12.7	2.4	0	19	4	36
	Don Calhoun	14	3		0.2	29	9.7	2.1	0	15	79	420
	Carlos Pennywell	16	1		0.1	28	28.0	1.8	0	28	1	28
	James McAlister	16	1		0.1	12	12.0	0.8	0	12	20	89

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Mike Haynes	16							6	123	20.5	1	50
	Steve Nelson	14							5	104	20.8	0	37
	Raymond Clayborn	16							4	72	18	0	44
	Doug Beaudoin	15							3	25	8.3	0	13
	Tim Fox	16							2	10	5	0	10
	Dick Conn	15							1	24	24	0	24
	Steve Zabel	11							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Horace Ivory	15	11	0	0	11	0	0		0	66
	David Posey	11	0	0	0	0	11	29		0	62
	Sam Cunningham	16	8	0	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Harold Jackson	16	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Steve Grogan	16	5	0	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Stanley Morgan	16	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Russ Francis	15	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Andy Johnson	15	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	James McAlister	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	John Smith	3	0	0	0	0	1	6		0	9
	Nick Lowery	2	0	0	0	0	0	7		0	7
	Don Calhoun	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Mike Haynes	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Richard Bishop	16	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2
	Tim Fox	16	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Stanley Morgan	16	1	335	10.5	0	48	32
	Raymond Clayborn	16	27	0		0		0
	James McAlister	16	10	0		0		0
	Horace Ivory	15	7	0		0		0
	Donald Westbrook	16	7	0		0		0
	Dick Conn	15	1	2	2.0	0	2	1
	Mosi Tatupu	16	1	0		0		0
	Dwight Wheeler	2	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
	David Posey	11	11	22	50.0	1-1	3-4	5-11	2-6	0-0	29	31	93.5	62
	John Smith	3	1	1	100.0	0-0	1-1	0-0	0-0	0-0	6	7	85.7	9
	Nick Lowery	2	0	1	0.0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	0-0	7	7	100.0	7

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Jerrel Wilson	14	54	1,921	35.6	57	0
	Mike Patrick	1	7	216	30.9	47	0