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Record: 6-10-0, Finished 3rd in NFC West Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 316 points (19.8/g), 12th of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 385 points (24.1/g), 28th.
Differential of -69 points (-4.3/g), 23rd.
Expected W-L: 6.2-9.8.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -18 (-1.1/g), 28th.
Simple Rating System: Total -4.4, Offense: 0.8, Defense: -5.2, SoS: -0.1, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by
Jerry Glanville
Offensive Coordinator: June Jones
Defensive Coordinator: Doug Shivley
Training Camp: Falcons' Training Facility (Suwanee, Georgia)
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| Tot Yds & TO | Passing | Rushing | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 316 | 5110 | 1008 | 5.1 | 292 | 334 | 573 | 3520 | 28 | 25 | 5.7 | 185 | 395 | 1590 | 4 | 4.0 | 91 | 42 | 17 | 16 |
| Team Defense | 385 | 5421 | 951 | 5.7 | 278 | 308 | 505 | 3637 | 27 | 13 | 6.8 | 180 | 419 | 1784 | 14 | 4.3 | 79 | 24 | 11 | 19 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 12 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 13 | 27 | 23 | 26 | 10 | 27 | 21 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 28 | 25 | 9 | 14 | 25 | 28 | 19 | 28 | 8 | 15 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 20 | ||||||
| Score | Offense | Defense | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Day | Date | OT | Rec | Opp | Tm | Opp | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | |||
| 1 | Sun | September 5 | boxscore | L | 0-1 | @ | Detroit Lions | 13 | 30 | 12 | 237 | 216 | 21 | 3 | 12 | 262 | 166 | 96 | ||
| 2 | Sun | September 12 | boxscore | L | 0-2 | New Orleans Saints | 31 | 34 | 20 | 375 | 297 | 78 | 2 | 24 | 557 | 330 | 227 | 1 | ||
| 3 | Sun | September 19 | boxscore | L | 0-3 | @ | San Francisco 49ers | 30 | 37 | 24 | 381 | 187 | 194 | 1 | 23 | 478 | 210 | 268 | 2 | |
| 4 | Mon | September 27 | boxscore | L | 0-4 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 17 | 45 | 16 | 220 | 176 | 44 | 6 | 22 | 368 | 259 | 109 | 1 | ||
| 5 | Sun | October 3 | boxscore | L | 0-5 | @ | Chicago Bears | 0 | 6 | 16 | 271 | 184 | 87 | 3 | 14 | 220 | 114 | 106 | ||
| 6 | Bye Week | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Thu | October 14 | boxscore | W | 1-5 | Los Angeles Rams | 30 | 24 | 16 | 311 | 208 | 103 | 1 | 22 | 450 | 283 | 167 | 3 | ||
| 8 | Sun | October 24 | boxscore | W | 2-5 | @ | New Orleans Saints | 26 | 15 | 17 | 279 | 156 | 123 | 16 | 321 | 274 | 47 | 2 | ||
| 9 | Sun | October 31 | boxscore | L | 2-6 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 24 | 31 | 16 | 337 | 269 | 68 | 3 | 16 | 405 | 307 | 98 | 2 | ||
| 10 | Bye Week | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Sun | November 14 | boxscore | W | 3-6 | @ | Los Angeles Rams | 13 | 0 | 15 | 319 | 182 | 137 | 2 | 14 | 260 | 165 | 95 | 3 | |
| 12 | Sun | November 21 | boxscore | W | 4-6 | Dallas Cowboys | 27 | 14 | 22 | 400 | 315 | 85 | 1 | 13 | 230 | 182 | 48 | |||
| 13 | Sun | November 28 | boxscore | W | 5-6 | Cleveland Browns | 17 | 14 | 13 | 261 | 194 | 67 | 1 | 16 | 306 | 191 | 115 | 1 | ||
| 14 | Sun | December 5 | boxscore | L | 5-7 | @ | Houston Oilers | 17 | 33 | 25 | 333 | 296 | 37 | 7 | 18 | 388 | 336 | 52 | 3 | |
| 15 | Sat | December 11 | boxscore | W | 6-7 | San Francisco 49ers | 27 | 24 | 20 | 362 | 270 | 92 | 1 | 22 | 330 | 251 | 79 | 4 | ||
| 16 | Sun | December 19 | boxscore | L | 6-8 | @ | Washington Redskins | 17 | 30 | 22 | 378 | 196 | 182 | 6 | 8 | 167 | 129 | 38 | 2 | |
| 17 | Sun | December 26 | boxscore | L | 6-9 | @ | Cincinnati Bengals | 17 | 21 | 22 | 376 | 185 | 191 | 1 | 16 | 284 | 162 | 122 | ||
| 18 | Sun | January 2 | boxscore | L | 6-10 | Phoenix Cardinals | 10 | 27 | 16 | 270 | 189 | 81 | 4 | 22 | 395 | 278 | 117 | |||
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | QBrec | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | 4QC | GWD | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Bobby Hebert* | 33 | QB | 14 | 12 | 4-8-0 | 263 | 430 | 61.2 | 2978 | 24 | 5.6 | 17 | 4.0 | 98 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 11.3 | 212.7 | 84.0 | 29 | 190 | 6.07 | 5.45 | 6.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| 11 | Billy Joe Tolliver | 27 | qb | 7 | 2 | 2-0-0 | 39 | 76 | 51.3 | 464 | 3 | 3.9 | 5 | 6.6 | 42 | 6.1 | 3.9 | 11.9 | 66.3 | 56.0 | 3 | 15 | 5.68 | 3.59 | 3.8 | 1 | 1 | |
| 12 | Chris Miller | 28 | qb | 3 | 2 | 0-2-0 | 32 | 66 | 48.5 | 345 | 1 | 1.5 | 3 | 4.5 | 32 | 5.2 | 3.5 | 10.8 | 115.0 | 50.4 | 8 | 62 | 3.82 | 2.27 | 10.8 | |||
| 21 | Deion Sanders*+ | 26 | RCB | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | |||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 6-10-0 | 334 | 573 | 58.3 | 3787 | 28 | 4.9 | 25 | 4.4 | 98 | 6.6 | 5.6 | 11.3 | 236.7 | 76.3 | 40 | 267 | 5.74 | 4.82 | 6.5 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 308 | 505 | 61.0 | 3786 | 27 | 5.3 | 13 | 2.6 | 7.5 | 7.41 | 12.3 | 236.6 | 91.2 | 27 | 149 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 5.1 |
| Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| 33 | Erric Pegram | 24 | RB | 16 | 14 | 292 | 1185 | 3 | 29 | 4.1 | 74.1 | 18.3 | 33 | 302 | 9.2 | 0 | 30 | 2.1 | 18.9 | 1487 | 3 | 6 |
| 44 | Steve Broussard | 26 | 8 | 0 | 39 | 206 | 1 | 26 | 5.3 | 25.8 | 4.9 | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 210 | 1 | 0 | |
| 29 | Eric Dickerson | 33 | rb | 4 | 2 | 26 | 91 | 0 | 10 | 3.5 | 22.8 | 6.5 | 6 | 58 | 9.7 | 0 | 30 | 1.5 | 14.5 | 149 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Bobby Hebert* | 33 | QB | 14 | 12 | 24 | 49 | 0 | 14 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 49 | 0 | 11 | |||||||
| 11 | Billy Joe Tolliver | 27 | qb | 7 | 2 | 7 | 48 | 0 | 24 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 1.0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 35 | Mike Pritchard | 24 | WR | 15 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 74 | 736 | 9.9 | 7 | 34 | 4.9 | 49.1 | 740 | 7 | 1 |
| 5 | Harold Alexander | 23 | P | 16 | 0 | 2 | -7 | 0 | 0 | -3.5 | -0.4 | 0.1 | -7 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 12 | Chris Miller | 28 | qb | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 11 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
| 34 | David Mims | 23 | wr | 15 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 12 | 107 | 8.9 | 1 | 19 | 0.8 | 7.1 | 110 | 1 | 0 |
| 80 | Andre Rison* | 26 | WR | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 86 | 1242 | 14.4 | 15 | 53 | 5.4 | 77.6 | 1242 | 15 | 2 | |
| 81 | Michael Haynes | 28 | WR | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 72 | 778 | 10.8 | 4 | 98 | 4.5 | 48.6 | 778 | 4 | 1 | |
| 85 | Drew Hill | 37 | wr | 16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 34 | 384 | 11.3 | 0 | 30 | 2.1 | 24.0 | 384 | 0 | 0 | |
| 86 | Mitch Lyons | 23 | TE | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 | 63 | 7.9 | 0 | 14 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 63 | 0 | 0 | |
| 21 | Deion Sanders*+ | 26 | RCB | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 | 106 | 17.7 | 1 | 70 | 0.5 | 9.6 | 106 | 1 | 0 | |
| 75 | Chris Hinton+ | 32 | RG | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -8 | -8.0 | 0 | -8 | 0.1 | -0.5 | -8 | 0 | 0 | |
| 82 | Jason Phillips | 27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 0 | 15 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 395 | 1590 | 4 | 29 | 4.0 | 99.4 | 24.7 | 334 | 3787 | 11.3 | 28 | 98 | 20.9 | 236.7 | 5377 | 32 | 31 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 419 | 1784 | 14 | 4.3 | 111.5 | 26.2 | 308 | 3637 | 11.8 | 27 | 19.3 | 227.3 | 5421 | 41 | 25 | ||||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| 28 | Tony Smith | 23 | KR/PR | 15 | 0 | 32 | 255 | 0 | 51 | 8.0 | 38 | 948 | 1 | 97 | 24.9 | 1203 |
| 21 | Deion Sanders*+ | 26 | RCB | 11 | 10 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 16 | 10.5 | 7 | 169 | 0 | 31 | 24.1 | 296 |
| 33 | Erric Pegram | 24 | RB | 16 | 14 | 4 | 63 | 0 | 28 | 15.8 | 1550 | |||||
| 22 | Alton Montgomery | 25 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 0 | 33 | 26.5 | 53 | ||||||
| 82 | Jason Phillips | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 0 | 29 | 19.0 | 53 | ||||||
| 27 | Vinnie Clark | 24 | rcb | 15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |||||
| 34 | David Mims | 23 | wr | 15 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 22.0 | 132 | |||||
| 55 | Mike Ruether | 31 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | ||||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 35 | 276 | 0 | 51 | 7.9 | 55 | 1300 | 1 | 97 | 23.6 | 6953 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 41 | 0 | 55 | 1064 | 0 | 19.3 | |||||||||
| 0-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | Tot | PAT | Punting | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | XPA | XPM | Pnt | Yds | Lng | Blck | ||||
| 5 | Harold Alexander | 23 | P | 16 | 0 | 72 | 3114 | 75 | 0 | 43.3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Norm Johnson* | 33 | K | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 26 | 96.3% | 34 | 34 | 100.0% | |||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 26 | 96.3% | 34 | 34 | 100.0% | 72 | 3114 | 75 | 0 | 43.3 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 31 | 20 | 64.5% | 46 | 45 | 97.8% | 74 | 3027 | 40.9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Tkl | Ast | Sfty | |
| 58 | Jessie Tuggle | 28 | MLB | 16 | 16 | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 185 | 0 | ||||||
| 67 | Moe Gardner | 25 | RDT | 16 | 16 | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128 | 0 | ||||||
| 25 | Scott Case | 31 | FS | 16 | 16 | 1.5 | 123 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 54 | Jesse Solomon | 30 | LLB | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 0 | |||||||
| 47 | Roger Harper | 23 | SS | 16 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 0 | |||||||
| 95 | Pierce Holt | 31 | LDT | 16 | 15 | 6.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 0 | ||||||
| 92 | Lester Archambeau | 26 | RDE | 15 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 0 | |||||||
| 27 | Vinnie Clark | 24 | rcb | 15 | 9 | 2 | 59 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 56 | 0 | ||
| 56 | Darion Conner | 26 | RLB | 14 | 10 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0 | ||||||
| 45 | Darnell Walker | 23 | LCB | 15 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 48 | 0 | |||||||
| 68 | Mel Agee | 25 | lde | 11 | 7 | 2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | ||||||
| 50 | Ron George | 23 | lb | 12 | 4 | 1.0 | 43 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 21 | Deion Sanders*+ | 26 | RCB | 11 | 10 | 7 | 91 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | ||
| 90 | Chuck Smith | 24 | de | 15 | 1 | 3.5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | ||||||
| 97 | Jumpy Geathers | 33 | 14 | 0 | 3.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | |||||||
| 52 | Ken Tippins | 27 | lb | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |||||||
| 39 | Bruce Pickens | 25 | db | 4 | 4 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 73 | Ernie Logan | 25 | nt | 8 | 1 | 1.0 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 71 | Bill Goldberg | 27 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Bobby Hebert* | 33 | QB | 14 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 3 | -9 | 0 | |||||||||
| 22 | Alton Montgomery | 25 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 33 | Erric Pegram | 24 | RB | 16 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | Tony Smith | 23 | KR/PR | 15 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 53 | Dwayne Gordon | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| 12 | Chris Miller | 28 | qb | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 80 | Andre Rison* | 26 | WR | 16 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 37 | Elbert Shelley* | 29 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 46 | Charles Washington | 27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 70 | Bob Whitfield | 22 | RT | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 | Harold Alexander | 23 | P | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 29 | Eric Dickerson | 33 | rb | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 64 | Jamie Dukes | 29 | C | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 32 | Tracey Eaton | 28 | db | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 76 | Mike Gann | 30 | LDE | 8 | 8 | 1.0 | |||||||||||||
| 81 | Michael Haynes | 28 | WR | 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Mel Jenkins | 31 | db | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 66 | Lincoln Kennedy | 22 | LG | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 88 | Harper LeBel | 30 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -26 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Mike Pritchard | 24 | WR | 15 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 26.0 | 13 | 160 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 13 | 31 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 1205 | 0 | ||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 40 | 25 | 14 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | AllTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Norm Johnson* | 33 | K | 15 | 0 | 34 | 26 | 112 | ||||||||||
| 80 | Andre Rison* | 26 | WR | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 90 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Mike Pritchard | 24 | WR | 15 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 42 | ||||||||||
| 81 | Michael Haynes | 28 | WR | 16 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 24 | ||||||||||
| 33 | Erric Pegram | 24 | RB | 16 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 18 | ||||||||||
| 44 | Steve Broussard | 26 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 27 | Vinnie Clark | 24 | rcb | 15 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 34 | David Mims | 23 | wr | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Deion Sanders*+ | 26 | RCB | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 28 | Tony Smith | 23 | KR/PR | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 4 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 34 | 26 | 316 | ||||||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 14 | 27 | 45 | 20 | 2 | 385 |