1979 New England Patriots Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New England Patriots

9-7-0

2nd in AFC East

Scored 25.7 PPG (2nd)

Allowed 20.4 PPG (15th)

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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	411	5,470	1,128	4.8	2,252	604	3.7	3,600	475	7.6	49	382	318	132	159	27	99	864
Team Rank		2nd	8th	1st	14th	15th	6th	22nd	9th	13th	7th	23rd	7th	7th	9th	9th	9th	11th	13th
Opponent	16	326	4,323	1,019	4.2	1,770	495	3.6	3,065	467	6.6	57	512	283	118	139	26	102	902
Opponent Rank		15th	3rd	7th	3rd	5th	3rd	7th	13th	15th	10th	1st	28th	12th	13th	12th	15th	16th	11th
Net		+85	+1,147	+109	+0.6	+482	+109	+0.2	+535	+8	+1.0	-8	-130	+35	+14	+20	+1	-3	-38
Net Rank		3rd	3rd	2nd	5th	6th	2nd	11th	6th	13th	4th	12th	25th	6th	12th	12th	13th	11th	11th

1979 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	206	423	48.7	26.4	3,286	7.8	205.4	28	6.6	20	4.7	63	45	341	77.4
	Tom Owen	6	27	47	57.4	7.8	248	5.3	41.3	2	4.3	3	6.4	32	4	41	59.5
	Donald Westbrook	16	2	2	100.0	0.1	52	26.0	3.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	28	0	0	118.8
	Matt Cavanaugh	13	1	1	100.0	0.1	10	10.0	0.8	0	0.0	0	0.0	10	0	0	108.3
	Eddie Hare	16	1	1	100.0	0.1	4	4.0	0.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	0	0	83.3
	Harold Jackson	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
	Sam Cunningham	12	159	13.3	563	3.5	46.9	5	27	188	799
	Horace Ivory	11	143	13	522	3.7	47.5	1	52	166	738
	Don Calhoun	16	137	8.6	456	3.3	28.5	5	29	152	522
	Steve Grogan	16	64	4	368	5.8	23.0	2	26	64	368
	Andy Johnson	5	43	8.6	132	3.1	26.4	1	15	52	200
	Mosi Tatupu	16	23	1.4	71	3.1	4.4	0	12	25	80
	Allan Clark	16	19	1.2	84	4.4	5.3	2	19	21	119
	Stanley Morgan	16	7	0.4	39	5.6	2.4	0	17	51	1,041
	Harold Jackson	16	3	0.2	12	4.0	0.8	0	12	48	1,025
	Donald Westbrook	16	2	0.1	8	4.0	0.5	0	4	11	181
	Tom Owen	6	2	0.3	-1	-0.5	-0.2	0	0	2	-1
	Eddie Hare	16	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Matt Cavanaugh	13	1	0.1	-2	-2.0	-0.2	0	-2	1	-2

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Harold Jackson	16	45		2.8	1,013	22.5	63.3	7	59	48	1,025
	Stanley Morgan	16	44		2.8	1,002	22.8	62.6	12	63	51	1,041
	Russ Francis	12	39		3.3	557	14.3	46.4	5	44	39	557
	Sam Cunningham	12	29		2.4	236	8.1	19.7	0	20	188	799
	Horace Ivory	11	23		2.1	216	9.4	19.6	2	24	166	738
	Don Calhoun	16	15		0.9	66	4.4	4.1	1	14	152	522
	Don Hasselbeck	16	13		0.8	158	12.2	9.9	0	41	13	158
	Donald Westbrook	16	9		0.6	173	19.2	10.8	1	38	11	181
	Andy Johnson	5	9		1.8	68	7.6	13.6	0	11	52	200
	Carlos Pennywell	6	4		0.7	35	8.8	5.8	1	13	4	35
	Allan Clark	16	2		0.1	35	17.5	2.2	0	20	21	119
	Ray Jarvis	7	2		0.3	30	15.0	4.3	1	15	2	30
	Mosi Tatupu	16	2		0.1	9	4.5	0.6	0	5	25	80
	Al Chandler	7	1		0.1	2	2.0	0.3	0	2	1	2

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Raymond Clayborn	16							5	56	11.2	0	27
	Mike Haynes	16							3	66	22	0	33
	Prentice McCray	14							3	48	16	0	26
	Tim Fox	16							2	38	19	0	25
	Mike Hawkins	16							2	35	17.5	1	35
	Rick Sanford	16							1	39	39	0	27
	Doug Beaudoin	10							1	30	30	0	30
	Ray Costict	16							1	22	22	0	22
	Steve Nelson	15							1	18	18	0	18
	Rod Shoate	14							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	John Smith	16	0	0	0	0	23	46		0	115
	Stanley Morgan	16	0	12	1	13	0	0		0	78
	Harold Jackson	16	0	7	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Don Calhoun	16	5	1	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Sam Cunningham	12	5	0	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Russ Francis	12	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Horace Ivory	11	1	2	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Allan Clark	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Steve Grogan	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Mike Hawkins	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Ray Jarvis	7	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Andy Johnson	5	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Carlos Pennywell	6	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Rick Sanford	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Donald Westbrook	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Allan Clark	16	37	0		0		0
	Stanley Morgan	16	1	289	10.0	1	80	29
	Donald Westbrook	16	11	5	2.5	0	5	2
	Rick Sanford	16	10	1	1.0	0	1	1
	Mosi Tatupu	16	3	0		0		0
	Raymond Clayborn	16	2	0		0		0
	Mark Washington	12	1	0		0		0
	Horace Ivory	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
	John Smith	16	23	33	69.7	0-0	6-6	11-13	6-14	0-0	46	49	93.9	115

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Eddie Hare	16	83	3,038	36.6	58	1