1997 New England Patriots Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New England Patriots

10-6-0

1st in AFC East

Scored 23.1 PPG (8th)

Allowed 18.1 PPG (8th)

Team & Player StatsStats

Schedule & ResultsSchedule

1997 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	369	5,014	960	5.2	1,464	398	3.7	3,808	532	7.2	30	258	267	71	173	23	99	845
Team Rank		8th	15th	27th	10th	26th	28th	22nd	9th	15th	6th	4th	16th	26th	29th	11th	14th	13th	14th
Opponent	16	289	5,085	1,100	4.6	1,616	436	3.7	3,772	619	6.1	45	303	322	114	183	25	106	763
Opponent Rank		8th	19th	29th	5th	5th	10th	7th	22nd	30th	6th	9th	22nd	27th	26th	24th	17th	12th	23rd
Net		+80	-71	-140	+0.6	-152	-38	0.0	+36	-87	+1.1	-15	-45	-55	-43	-10	-2	-7	+82
Net Rank		5th	14th	28th	4th	19th	18th	16th	14th	26th	4th	4th	18th	28th	28th	18th	18th	11th	21st

1997 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Drew Bledsoe	16	314	522	60.2	32.6	3,706	7.1	231.6	28	5.4	15	2.9	76	30	258	87.7
	Scott Zolak	4	6	9	66.7	2.3	67	7.4	16.8	2	22.2	0	0.0	20	0	0	128.2
	Dave Meggett	16	1	1	100.0	0.1	35	35.0	2.2	1	100.0	0	0.0	35	0	0	158.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Curtis Martin	13	274	21.1	1,160	4.2	89.2	4	70	315	1,456
	Marrio Grier	16	33	2.1	75	2.3	4.7	1	12	33	75
	Drew Bledsoe	16	28	1.8	55	2.0	3.4	0	8	28	55
	Derrick Cullors	15	22	1.5	101	4.6	6.7	0	24	24	109
	Dave Meggett	16	20	1.3	60	3.0	3.8	1	10	39	263
	Keith Byars	16	11	0.7	24	2.2	1.5	0	5	31	213
	Sam Gash	16	6	0.4	10	1.7	0.6	0	4	28	164
	Scott Zolak	4	3	0.8	-3	-1.0	-0.8	0	-1	3	-3
	Troy Brown	16	1	0.1	-18	-18.0	-1.1	0	-18	42	589

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ben Coates	16	66		4.1	737	11.2	46.1	8	35	66	737
	Shawn Jefferson	16	54		3.4	841	15.6	52.6	2	76	54	841
	Troy Brown	16	41		2.6	607	14.8	37.9	6	67	42	589
	Curtis Martin	13	41		3.2	296	7.2	22.8	1	22	315	1,456
	Terry Glenn	9	27		3	431	16.0	47.9	2	50	27	431
	Vincent Brisby	16	23		1.4	276	12.0	17.3	2	31	23	276
	Sam Gash	16	22		1.4	154	7.0	9.6	3	19	28	164
	Keith Byars	16	20		1.3	189	9.5	11.8	3	51	31	213
	Dave Meggett	16	19		1.2	203	10.7	12.7	1	49	39	263
	Lovett Purnell	16	5		0.3	57	11.4	3.6	3	20	5	57
	Derrick Cullors	15	2		0.1	8	4.0	0.5	0	6	24	109
	Dietrich Jells	11	1		0.1	9	9.0	0.8	0	9	1	9

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Chris Slade	16					9.0		1	1	1	1	1
	Henry Thomas	16					7.0		0	0		0
	Tedy Bruschi	16					4.0		0	0		0
	Ted Johnson	16					4.0		0	0		0
	Mike Jones	16					4.0		0	0		0
	Mark Wheeler	14					4.0		0	0		0
	Larry Whigham	16					2.0		2	60	30	1	60
	Chris Canty	16					2.0		0	0		0
	Willie McGinest	11					2.0		0	0		0
	Todd Collins	15					1.5		0	0		0
	Ferric Collons	5					1.0		0	0		0
	Chad Eaton	16					1.0		0	0		0
	Steve Israel	5					1.0		0	0		0
	Mike McGruder	3					1.0		0	0		0
	Ty Law	16					0.5		3	70	23.3	0	40

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Adam Vinatieri	16	0	0	0	0	25	40	0	0	115
	Ben Coates	16	0	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	48
	Troy Brown	16	0	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	36
	Curtis Martin	13	4	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	30
	Keith Byars	16	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Sam Gash	16	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Lovett Purnell	16	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Vincent Brisby	16	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Terry Glenn	9	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Shawn Jefferson	16	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Dave Meggett	16	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Willie Clay	16	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Derrick Cullors	15	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Marrio Grier	16	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Jimmy Hitchcock	15	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Chris Slade	16	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Larry Whigham	16	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Dave Meggett	16	33	467	10.4	0	47	45
	Derrick Cullors	15	15	0		0		0
	Chris Canty	16	4	0		0		0
	Ben Coates	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
	Adam Vinatieri	16	25	29	86.2	0-0	11-11	7-9	6-8	1-1	40	40	100.0	115

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Tom Tupa	16	78	3,569	45.8	73	1