1979 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

2-14-0

5th in NFC Central

Scored 13.7 PPG (28th)

Allowed 22.8 PPG (23rd)

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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	219	4,013	944	4.3	1,677	441	3.8	2,775	452	6.1	51	439	227	85	131	11	110	897
Team Rank		28th	26th	28th	26th	25th	28th	21st	23rd	16th	24th	24th	3rd	27th	26th	22nd	28th	23rd	17th
Opponent	16	365	4,957	1,085	4.6	2,515	638	3.9	2,787	402	6.9	45	345	311	142	128	41	123	982
Opponent Rank		23rd	11th	24th	7th	25th	27th	12th	3rd	2nd	15th	8th	20th	18th	24th	4th	28th	1st	8th
Net		-146	-944	-141	-0.3	-838	-197	-0.1	-12	+50	-0.8	+6	+94	-84	-57	+3	-30	-13	-85
Net Rank		28th	24th	27th	21st	26th	28th	17th	17th	8th	22nd	17th	8th	27th	28th	15th	28th	4th	7th

1979 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Jeff Komlo	16	183	368	49.7	23	2,238	6.1	139.9	11	3.0	23	6.3	40	40	361	52.8
	Scott Hunter	13	18	41	43.9	3.2	321	7.8	24.7	1	2.4	1	2.4	82	4	33	69.3
	Joe Reed	2	14	32	43.8	16	164	5.1	82.0	2	6.3	1	3.1	50	5	27	67.7
	Jerry Golsteyn	1	2	9	22.2	9	16	1.8	16.0	0	0.0	2	22.2	15	2	18	0.0
	Larry Swider	14	1	1	100.0	0.1	36	36.0	2.6	0	0.0	0	0.0	36	0	0	118.8
	Tom Skladany	2	0	1	0.0	0.5	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	144	9	625	4.3	39.1	1	38	159	727
	Rick Kane	16	94	5.9	332	3.5	20.8	4	26	103	436
	Bo Robinson	14	87	6.2	302	3.5	21.6	2	29	101	420
	Horace King	16	39	2.4	160	4.1	10.0	1	23	57	310
	Jeff Komlo	16	30	1.9	107	3.6	6.7	2	16	30	107
	Lawrence Gaines	16	23	1.4	55	2.4	3.4	0	6	23	55
	Freddie Scott	14	6	0.4	21	3.5	1.5	0	18	68	950
	Leonard Thompson	15	5	0.3	24	4.8	1.6	0	16	29	475
	Ken Callicutt	16	3	0.2	6	2.0	0.4	0	10	5	22
	Joe Reed	2	2	1	11	5.5	5.5	0	11	2	11
	Scott Hunter	13	2	0.2	3	1.5	0.2	1	2	2	3
	Gene Washington	16	1	0.1	24	24.0	1.5	0	24	15	216
	David Hill	16	1	0.1	15	15.0	0.9	0	15	48	584
	Jerry Golsteyn	1	1	1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Ed O'Neil	16	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Larry Swider	14	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Luther Blue	9	1	0.1	-8	-8.0	-0.9	0	-8	9	94

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Freddie Scott	14	62		4.4	929	15.0	66.4	5	50	68	950
	David Hill	16	47		2.9	569	12.1	35.6	3	40	48	584
	Leonard Thompson	15	24		1.6	451	18.8	30.1	2	82	29	475
	Horace King	16	18		1.1	150	8.3	9.4	0	30	57	310
	Dexter Bussey	16	15		0.9	102	6.8	6.4	0	22	159	727
	Gene Washington	16	14		0.9	192	13.7	12.0	1	29	15	216
	Bo Robinson	14	14		1	118	8.4	8.4	0	14	101	420
	Rick Kane	16	9		0.6	104	11.6	6.5	1	36	103	436
	Luther Blue	9	8		0.9	102	12.8	11.3	1	26	9	94
	Ulysses Norris	16	4		0.3	43	10.8	2.7	1	34	4	43
	Ken Callicutt	16	2		0.1	16	8.0	1.0	0	11	5	22
	Russ Bolinger	16	1		0.1	-1	-1.0	-0.1	0	-1	1	-1

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Luther Bradley	16							4	11	2.8	0	11
	Jimmy Allen	16							4	0	0	0	0
	James Hunter	15							3	6	2	0	6
	Walt Williams	12							2	39	19.5	1	36
	Charlie Weaver	8							1	17	17	0	17

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Benny Ricardo	16	0	0	0	0	10	25		0	55
	Rick Kane	16	4	1	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Freddie Scott	14	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	David Hill	16	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Jeff Komlo	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Bo Robinson	14	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Leonard Thompson	15	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Luther Blue	9	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Dexter Bussey	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bill Gay	15	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Scott Hunter	13	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Horace King	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Ulysses Norris	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Gene Washington	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Walt Williams	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Doug English	16	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	John Arnold	7	23	164	8.6	0	27	19
	Ken Callicutt	16	24	25	6.3	0	13	4
	Leonard Thompson	15	6	117	13.0	0	31	9
	Rick Kane	16	13	0		0		0
	Tony Leonard	1	3	7	7.0	0	7	1
	Robert Woods	1	2	12	6.0	0	9	2
	Horace King	16	2	0		0		0
	Ken Fantetti	16	2	0		0		0
	Luther Blue	9	1	0		0		0
	Bo Robinson	14	1	0		0		0
	Bill Gay	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
	Benny Ricardo	16	10	18	55.6	0-0	4-4	4-4	2-8	0-2	25	26	96.2	55

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Larry Swider	14	88	3,523	40.0	72	0
	Tom Skladany	2	10	406	40.6	52	0