1979 St. Louis Cardinals Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

St. Louis Cardinals

5-11-0

5th in NFC East

Scored 19.2 PPG (17th)

Allowed 22.4 PPG (21st)

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Schedule & ResultsSchedule

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	307	5,184	1,097	4.7	2,582	566	4.6	2,870	492	5.8	39	268	305	145	136	24	107	954
Team Rank		17th	10th	5th	17th	3rd	11th	2nd	19th	9th	27th	15th	17th	12th	4th	19th	14th	17th	22nd
Opponent	16	358	5,077	1,073	4.7	2,204	567	3.9	3,067	478	6.4	28	194	302	125	149	28	92	744
Opponent Rank		21st	16th	21st	12th	14th	22nd	10th	14th	20th	6th	25th	4th	15th	14th	16th	20th	25th	24th
Net		-51	+107	+24	0.0	+378	-1	+0.7	-197	+14	-0.6	+11	+74	+3	+20	-13	-4	+15	+210
Net Rank		20th	13th	11th	14th	9th	17th	3rd	20th	11th	20th	20th	11th	14th	7th	18th	21st	25th	25th

1979 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Jim Hart	14	194	378	51.3	27	2,218	5.9	158.4	9	2.4	20	5.3	51	25	183	55.2
	Steve Pisarkiewicz	6	52	109	47.7	18.2	621	5.7	103.5	3	2.8	4	3.7	78	14	85	59.5
	Steve Little	16	2	3	66.7	0.2	31	10.3	1.9	0	0.0	0	0.0	16	0	0	100.7
	Ottis Anderson	16	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6
	Willard Harrell	14	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
	Ottis Anderson	16	331	20.7	1,605	4.8	100.3	8	76	372	1,913
	Wayne Morris	15	106	7.1	387	3.7	25.8	8	16	141	624
	Theotis Brown	16	73	4.6	318	4.4	19.9	7	30	98	509
	Willard Harrell	14	19	1.4	100	5.3	7.1	0	19	22	133
	Thomas Lott	10	11	1.1	50	4.5	5.0	0	13	13	58
	Steve Pisarkiewicz	6	11	1.8	20	1.8	3.3	0	12	11	20
	Jim Hart	14	6	0.4	11	1.8	0.8	0	12	7	7
	Mel Gray	13	4	0.3	41	10.3	3.2	0	38	29	488
	Rod Phillips	11	3	0.3	50	16.7	4.5	1	17	3	50
	Steve Little	16	2	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	2	0

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Pat Tilley	16	57		3.6	938	16.5	58.6	6	51	57	938
	Ottis Anderson	16	41		2.6	308	7.5	19.3	2	28	372	1,913
	Wayne Morris	15	35		2.3	237	6.8	15.8	1	20	141	624
	Mel Gray	13	25		1.9	447	17.9	34.4	1	78	29	488
	Theotis Brown	16	25		1.6	191	7.6	11.9	0	19	98	509
	Dave Stief	16	22		1.4	324	14.7	20.3	0	32	22	324
	Gary Parris	9	14		1.6	174	12.4	19.3	0	39	14	174
	Jimmy Childs	13	8		0.6	93	11.6	7.2	0	22	8	93
	Richard Osborne	7	7		1	37	5.3	5.3	0	10	7	37
	Al Chandler	8	5		0.6	49	9.8	6.1	2	28	5	49
	Willard Harrell	14	3		0.2	33	11.0	2.4	0	15	22	133
	Bill Murrell	12	2		0.2	20	10.0	1.7	0	14	2	20
	Thomas Lott	10	2		0.2	8	4.0	0.8	0	5	13	58
	Roy Green	16	1		0.1	15	15.0	0.9	0	15	1	15
	Jim Hart	14	1		0.1	-4	-4.0	-0.3	0	-4	7	7

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Ken Stone	16							6	70	11.7	0	30
	Carl Allen	15							5	126	25.2	0	78
	Ken Greene	16							3	37	12.3	0	21
	Roger Wehrli	16							2	8	4	1	9
	Eric Williams	16							1	25	25	0	25
	Perry Smith	16							1	22	22	0	22

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Ottis Anderson	16	8	2	0	10	0	0		0	60
	Steve Little	16	0	0	0	0	10	24		0	54
	Wayne Morris	15	8	1	0	9	0	0		0	54
	Theotis Brown	16	7	0	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Pat Tilley	16	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Al Chandler	8	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Mike Wood	3	0	0	0	0	2	6		0	12
	Mark Arneson	11	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Mel Gray	13	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Roy Green	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Steve Neils	9	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Rod Phillips	11	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Roger Wehrli	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Gary Parris	9	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	1

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Willard Harrell	14	22	205	6.4	0	68	32
	Roy Green	16	41	42	5.3	0	14	8
	Thomas Lott	10	1	33	8.3	0	13	4
	John Barefield	15	3	0		0		0
	Kurt Allerman	16	2	0		0		0
	Calvin Favron	16	1	0		0		0
	Chris Garlich	9	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 Little	16	10	19	52.6	0-0	5-5	1-3	3-10	1-1	24	32	75.0	54
	Mike Wood	3	2	7	28.6	0-0	2-2	0-2	0-2	0-1	6	7	85.7	12

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Steve Little	16	79	3,060	38.7	63	2