1979 Buffalo Bills Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Buffalo Bills

7-9-0

4th in AFC East

Scored 16.8 PPG (23rd)

Allowed 17.4 PPG (8th)

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1979 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	268	4,837	982	4.9	1,621	474	3.4	3,603	465	7.7	43	387	252	83	147	22	103	882
Team Rank		23rd	21st	24th	11th	28th	27th	27th	8th	14th	3rd	19th	6th	25th	27th	14th	19th	15th	15th
Opponent	16	279	5,011	1,022	4.9	2,481	617	4.0	2,713	382	7.1	23	183	273	137	117	19	106	788
Opponent Rank		8th	14th	9th	17th	24th	25th	16th	2nd	1st	19th	26th	3rd	9th	22nd	2nd	5th	9th	22nd
Net		-11	-174	-40	+0.0	-860	-143	-0.6	+890	+83	+0.6	+20	+204	-21	-54	+30	+3	-3	+94
Net Rank		17th	16th	22nd	13th	27th	26th	24th	4th	4th	8th	24th	3rd	19th	27th	8th	8th	11th	20th

1979 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Joe Ferguson	16	238	458	52.0	28.6	3,572	7.8	223.3	14	3.1	15	3.3	84	43	387	74.4
	Bill Munson	3	3	7	42.9	2.3	31	4.4	10.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	16	0	0	56.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Curtis Brown	15	172	11.5	574	3.3	38.3	1	25	211	975
	Terry Miller	16	139	8.7	484	3.5	30.3	1	75	149	595
	Roland Hooks	16	89	5.6	320	3.6	20.0	6	32	115	574
	Mike Collier	16	34	2.1	130	3.8	8.1	2	22	41	173
	Joe Ferguson	16	22	1.4	68	3.1	4.3	1	15	22	68
	Steve Powell	15	10	0.7	29	2.9	1.9	0	9	10	29
	Dennis Johnson	3	3	1	5	1.7	1.7	0	2	3	5
	Jerry Butler	13	2	0.2	13	6.5	1.0	0	12	50	847
	Frank Lewis	15	2	0.1	-6	-3.0	-0.4	0	-1	56	1,076
	Nick Mike-Mayer	13	1	0.1	4	4.0	0.3	0	4	1	4

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Frank Lewis	15	54		3.6	1,082	20.0	72.1	2	55	56	1,076
	Jerry Butler	13	48		3.7	834	17.4	64.2	4	75	50	847
	Curtis Brown	15	39		2.6	401	10.3	26.7	3	84	211	975
	Lou Piccone	16	33		2.1	556	16.8	34.8	2	49	33	556
	Roland Hooks	16	26		1.6	254	9.8	15.9	0	42	115	574
	Reuben Gant	14	19		1.4	245	12.9	17.5	2	22	19	245
	Terry Miller	16	10		0.6	111	11.1	6.9	0	52	149	595
	Mike Collier	16	7		0.4	43	6.1	2.7	0	19	41	173
	Joseph Shipp	16	3		0.2	43	14.3	2.7	1	27	3	43
	Danny Fulton	6	2		0.3	34	17.0	5.7	0	18	2	34

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Jeff Nixon	16							6	81	13.5	0	43
	Mario Clark	16							5	95	19	0	36
	Steve Freeman	16							3	62	20.7	1	50
	Lucius Sanford	16							2	44	22	0	25
	Isiah Robertson	16							2	29	14.5	1	23
	Jim Haslett	16							2	15	7.5	0	11
	Doug Greene	15							1	21	21	0	21
	Shane Nelson	16							1	13	13	0	13
	Tony Greene	16							1	10	10	0	10
	Charles Romes	16							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Nick Mike-Mayer	13	0	0	0	0	20	17		0	77
	Roland Hooks	16	6	0	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Curtis Brown	15	1	3	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Jerry Butler	13	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Mike Collier	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Reuben Gant	14	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Frank Lewis	15	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Lou Piccone	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Tom Dempsey	3	0	0	0	0	1	8		0	11
	Joe Ferguson	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Steve Freeman	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Terry Miller	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Isiah Robertson	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Charles Romes	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Lucius Sanford	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Joseph Shipp	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Fred Smerlas	13	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Keith Moody	16	27	318	8.4	0	32	38
	Terry Miller	16	8	0		0		0
	Mike Collier	16	7	0		0		0
	Steve Powell	15	6	0		0		0
	Leonard Willis	7	4	0		0		0
	Curtis Brown	15	3	0		0		0
	Lou Piccone	16	3	0		0	0	0
	Chris Keating	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
	Nick Mike-Mayer	13	20	29	69.0	0-0	8-8	8-10	4-11	0-0	17	18	94.4	77
	Tom Dempsey	3	1	4	25.0	1-1	0-0	0-2	0-1	0-0	8	11	72.7	11

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Rusty Jackson	16	96	3,671	38.2	60	0