1978 New Orleans Saints Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New Orleans Saints

7-9-0

3rd in NFC West

Scored 17.6 PPG (16th)

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	281	4,996	1,028	4.9	1,845	512	3.6	3,452	479	7.2	37	301	295	119	154	22	104	1,044
Team Rank		16th	8th	17th	8th	26th	27th	22nd	3rd	3rd	7th	14th	10th	9th	15th	7th	20th	14th	22nd
Opponent	16	298	4,884	1,025	4.8	2,420	574	4.2	2,700	418	6.5	33	236	286	129	130	27	103	929
Opponent Rank		16th	15th	13th	20th	21st	15th	23rd	7th	9th	12th	15th	9th	16th	19th	12th	17th	13th	14th
Net		-17	+112	+3	+0.1	-575	-62	-0.6	+752	+61	+0.7	+4	+65	+9	-10	+24	-5	+1	+115
Net Rank		16th	9th	13th	10th	25th	22nd	25th	1st	7th	5th	14th	8th	11th	16th	7th	19th	15th	19th

1978 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Archie Manning	16	291	471	61.8	29.4	3,416	7.3	213.5	17	3.6	16	3.4	71	37	301	81.7
	Bobby Scott	1	3	5	60.0	5	36	7.2	36.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	23	0	0	82.1
	Ike Harris	15	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6
	Chuck Muncie	13	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6
	Michael Strachan	15	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
	Tony Galbreath	16	186	11.6	635	3.4	39.7	5	20	260	1,217
	Chuck Muncie	13	160	12.3	557	3.5	42.8	7	28	186	790
	Michael Strachan	15	108	7.2	388	3.6	25.9	4	21	118	439
	Archie Manning	16	38	2.4	202	5.3	12.6	1	19	38	202
	Kim Jones	16	9	0.6	31	3.4	1.9	0	8	11	41
	Ike Harris	15	2	0.1	22	11.0	1.5	0	22	42	612
	Wes Chandler	16	2	0.1	10	5.0	0.6	0	10	37	482
	Jack Holmes	11	2	0.2	4	2.0	0.4	0	4	2	4
	Tom Blanchard	16	2	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	2	0
	Henry Childs	16	2	0.1	-4	-2.0	-0.3	0	-1	55	865
	Bobby Scott	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
	Tony Galbreath	16	74		4.6	582	7.9	36.4	2	35	260	1,217
	Henry Childs	16	53		3.3	869	16.4	54.3	4	52	55	865
	Ike Harris	15	40		2.7	590	14.8	39.3	4	45	42	612
	Tinker Owens	14	40		2.9	446	11.2	31.9	2	47	40	446
	Wes Chandler	16	35		2.2	472	13.5	29.5	2	58	37	482
	Chuck Muncie	13	26		2	233	9.0	17.9	0	34	186	790
	Michael Strachan	15	10		0.7	51	5.1	3.4	0	15	118	439
	Rich Mauti	16	8		0.5	69	8.6	4.3	2	16	8	69
	Larry Hardy	16	5		0.3	131	26.2	8.2	1	71	5	131
	Kim Jones	16	2		0.1	10	5.0	0.6	0	6	11	41
	James Van Wagner	5	1		0.2	-1	-1.0	-0.2	0	-1	1	-1

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Tom Myers	16							6	167	27.8	1	97
	Mo Spencer	16							4	83	20.8	0	37
	Ray Brown	16							4	50	12.5	0	19
	Joe Federspiel	16							2	12	6	0	12
	Pat Hughes	16							2	11	5.5	0	7
	Clarence Chapman	14							2	-4	-2	0	0
	Eric Felton	16							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Tony Galbreath	16	5	2	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Chuck Muncie	13	7	0	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Steve Mike-Mayer	9	0	0	0	0	6	18		0	36
	Henry Childs	16	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Ike Harris	15	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Michael Strachan	15	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Richie Szaro	4	0	0	0	0	4	9		0	21
	Wes Chandler	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Rich Mauti	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Tinker Owens	14	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	John Leypoldt	2	0	0	0	0	2	4		0	10
	Larry Hardy	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Archie Manning	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Tom Myers	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Tom Jurich	1	0	0	0	0	0	2		0	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Wes Chandler	16	32	233	6.9	0	32	34
	Rich Mauti	16	17	0		0	0	0
	Clarence Chapman	14	9	0		0		0
	Donald Schwartz	16	3	4	4.0	0	4	1
	Larry Hardy	16	2	0		0		0
	Jack Holmes	11	1	0		0		0
	Floyd Rice	15	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
	Steve Mike-Mayer	9	6	13	46.2	1-1	2-3	2-3	0-2	1-4	18	18	100.0	36
	Richie Szaro	4	4	6	66.7	0-0	2-2	2-2	0-2	0-0	9	9	100.0	21
	John Leypoldt	2	2	3	66.7	0-0	1-2	1-1	0-0	0-0	4	5	80.0	10
	Tom Jurich	1	0	3	0.0	0-0	0-2	0-0	0-1	0-0	2	2	100.0	2

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Tom Blanchard	16	84	3,532	42.0	61	2