1981 New Orleans Saints Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New Orleans Saints

4-12-0

4th in NFC West

Scored 12.9 PPG (28th)

Allowed 23.6 PPG (24th)

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1981 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	207	4,705	1,028	4.6	2,286	546	4.2	2,778	441	6.3	41	359	280	126	124	30	109	909
Team Rank		28th	25th	23rd	24th	7th	10th	8th	27th	24th	25th	20th	7th	23rd	12th	27th	4th	19th	17th
Opponent	16	378	5,253	1,002	5.2	1,916	504	3.8	3,578	471	7.6	27	241	303	127	161	15	118	1,089
Opponent Rank		24th	11th	3rd	20th	11th	12th	10th	17th	5th	26th	24th	8th	14th	21st	14th	2nd	2nd	1st
Net		-171	-548	+26	-0.7	+370	+42	+0.4	-800	-30	-1.3	+14	+118	-23	-1	-37	+15	-9	-180
Net Rank		27th	23rd	12th	26th	7th	11th	7th	26th	19th	26th	23rd	8th	22nd	16th	25th	2nd	6th	3rd

1981 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	12	134	232	57.8	19.3	1,447	6.2	120.6	5	2.2	11	4.7	55	21	164	63.6
	Dave Wilson	11	82	159	51.6	14.5	1,058	6.7	96.2	1	0.6	11	6.9	50	12	121	46.1
	Bobby Scott	4	20	46	43.5	11.5	245	5.3	61.3	1	2.2	5	10.9	31	7	72	28.2
	Guido Merkens	16	1	2	50.0	0.1	20	10.0	1.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	20	1	2	85.4
	Tom Myers	16	1	2	50.0	0.1	8	4.0	0.5	1	50.0	0	0.0	8	0	0	100.0

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	George Rogers	16	378	23.6	1,674	4.4	104.6	13	79	394	1,800
	Jack Holmes	16	58	3.6	194	3.3	12.1	2	11	96	400
	Wayne Wilson	16	44	2.8	137	3.1	8.6	1	13	75	521
	Toussaint Tyler	16	36	2.3	183	5.1	11.4	0	42	59	318
	Jimmy Rogers	15	9	0.6	37	4.1	2.5	0	15	11	49
	Dave Wilson	11	5	0.5	1	0.2	0.1	0	9	5	1
	Bobby Scott	4	3	0.8	-4	-1.3	-1.0	0	-1	3	-4
	Archie Manning	12	2	0.2	28	14.0	2.3	0	15	2	28
	Jeff Groth	15	2	0.1	27	13.5	1.8	0	28	22	407
	Russell Erxleben	16	2	0.1	10	5.0	0.6	0	26	2	10
	Scott Stauch	10	2	0.2	6	3.0	0.6	0	5	3	13
	Guido Merkens	16	2	0.1	-1	-0.5	-0.1	0	2	31	457
	Tom Myers	16	2	0.1	-3	-1.5	-0.2	0	6	2	-3
	Rich Caster	4	1	0.3	-3	-3.0	-0.8	0	-3	8	105

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jack Holmes	16	38		2.4	206	5.4	12.9	0	19	96	400
	Wayne Wilson	16	31		1.9	384	12.4	24.0	4	55	75	521
	Guido Merkens	16	29		1.8	458	15.8	28.6	1	50	31	457
	Larry Hardy	16	23		1.4	275	12.0	17.2	1	27	23	275
	Toussaint Tyler	16	23		1.4	135	5.9	8.4	0	18	59	318
	Jeff Groth	15	20		1.3	380	19.0	25.3	1	54	22	407
	Wes Chandler	4	17		4.3	285	16.8	71.3	1	39	17	285
	George Rogers	16	16		1	126	7.9	7.9	0	25	394	1,800
	Rich Martini	12	8		0.7	72	9.0	6.0	0	15	8	72
	Hoby Brenner	9	7		0.8	143	20.4	15.9	0	34	7	143
	Rich Caster	4	7		1.8	108	15.4	27.0	0	31	8	105
	Aundra Thompson	10	6		0.6	81	13.5	8.1	0	25	6	81
	Brooks Williams	7	5		0.7	50	10.0	7.1	0	13	5	50
	Ike Harris	3	2		0.7	33	16.5	11.0	0	20	2	33
	Gordon Banks	6	2		0.3	18	9.0	3.0	0	12	2	18
	Jimmy Rogers	15	2		0.1	12	6.0	0.8	0	9	11	49
	Scott Stauch	10	1		0.1	7	7.0	0.7	0	7	3	13
	Dave Lafary	16	1		0.1	5	5.0	0.3	0	5	1	5

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Dave Waymer	16							4	54	13.5	0	31
	Frank Wattelet	16							3	16	5.3	0	16
	Tom Myers	16							2	70	35	0	54
	Ricky Ray	4							1	33	33	0	33
	Rob Nairne	16							1	18	18	0	18
	Jim Kovach	15							1	13	13	0	13
	Glen Redd	16							1	7	7	0	7
	Ken Bordelon	15							1	3	3	0	3
	Russell Gary	14							1	0	0	0	0
	Johnnie Poe	15							1	0	0	0	0
	Mike Spivey	12							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	George Rogers	16	13	0	0	13	0	0		0	78
	Benny Ricardo	16	0	0	0	0	13	24		0	63
	Wayne Wilson	16	1	4	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Jack Holmes	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Wes Chandler	4	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Jeff Groth	15	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Larry Hardy	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Guido Merkens	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Jeff Groth	15	3	436	11.8	0	36	37
	Wayne Wilson	16	31	0		0		0
	Jimmy Rogers	15	28	0		0		0
	Scott Stauch	10	3	0		0		0
	Guido Merkens	16	2	-12	-12.0	0	-12	1
	Gordon Banks	6	1	0	0.0	0	0	2
	Stan Brock	16	2	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	13	25	52.0	0-0	5-5	3-9	5-10	0-1	24	24	100.0	63

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Russell Erxleben	16	66	2,672	40.5	60	0