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Record: 9-7-0, Finished 2nd in NFC West Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 362 points (22.6/g), 11th of 30 in the NFL.
Allowed 349 points (21.8/g), 19th.
Differential of 13 points (0.8/g), 15th.
Expected W-L: 8.3-7.7.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +9 (0.6/g), 4th.
Simple Rating System: Total 0.1, Offense: 0.9, Defense: -0.9, SoS: -0.7, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by
June Jones (9-7-0)
Defensive Coordinator: Joe Haering
Training Camp: Falcons Training Facility (Suwanee, Georgia)
| Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 362 | 5579 | 983 | 5.7 | 317 | 364 | 603 | 4186 | 26 | 12 | 6.5 | 216 | 337 | 1393 | 8 | 4.1 | 85 | 21 | 9 | 16 |
| Team Defense | 349 | 6088 | 1084 | 5.6 | 340 | 405 | 650 | 4541 | 28 | 18 | 6.7 | 230 | 404 | 1547 | 12 | 3.8 | 96 | 30 | 12 | 14 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 11 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 30 | 27 | 25 | 10 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 19 | 29 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 11 | 28 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 19 | ||||||
| Score | Offense | Defense | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Day | Date | OT | Rec | Opp | Tm | Opp | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | |||
| 1 | Sun | September 3 | boxscore | W | OT | 1-0 | Carolina Panthers | 23 | 20 | 20 | 391 | 274 | 117 | 3 | 17 | 312 | 261 | 51 | 1 | |
| 2 | Sun | September 10 | boxscore | L | 1-1 | @ | San Francisco 49ers | 10 | 41 | 15 | 267 | 242 | 25 | 3 | 28 | 489 | 331 | 158 | 1 | |
| 3 | Sun | September 17 | boxscore | W | OT | 2-1 | @ | New Orleans Saints | 27 | 24 | 24 | 461 | 337 | 124 | 1 | 18 | 410 | 360 | 50 | 1 |
| 4 | Sun | September 24 | boxscore | W | 3-1 | New York Jets | 13 | 3 | 24 | 348 | 200 | 148 | 2 | 16 | 270 | 176 | 94 | 4 | ||
| 5 | Sun | October 1 | boxscore | W | 4-1 | New England Patriots | 30 | 17 | 19 | 375 | 288 | 87 | 2 | 17 | 332 | 224 | 108 | 3 | ||
| 6 | Bye Week | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Thu | October 12 | boxscore | L | 4-2 | @ | St. Louis Rams | 19 | 21 | 10 | 192 | 148 | 44 | 24 | 451 | 318 | 133 | 2 | ||
| 8 | Sun | October 22 | boxscore | W | 5-2 | @ | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 24 | 21 | 23 | 389 | 268 | 121 | 1 | 16 | 258 | 169 | 89 | ||
| 9 | Sun | October 29 | boxscore | L | 5-3 | Dallas Cowboys | 13 | 28 | 16 | 258 | 158 | 100 | 23 | 380 | 194 | 186 | 1 | |||
| 10 | Sun | November 5 | boxscore | W | 6-3 | Detroit Lions | 34 | 22 | 30 | 434 | 349 | 85 | 1 | 19 | 375 | 314 | 61 | 2 | ||
| 11 | Sun | November 12 | boxscore | L | 6-4 | @ | Buffalo Bills | 17 | 23 | 18 | 319 | 252 | 67 | 2 | 27 | 415 | 261 | 154 | 2 | |
| 12 | Sun | November 19 | boxscore | W | 7-4 | St. Louis Rams | 31 | 6 | 22 | 440 | 325 | 115 | 19 | 351 | 280 | 71 | 3 | |||
| 13 | Sun | November 26 | boxscore | L | OT | 7-5 | @ | Arizona Cardinals | 37 | 40 | 15 | 294 | 260 | 34 | 4 | 28 | 513 | 392 | 121 | 4 |
| 14 | Sun | December 3 | boxscore | L | 7-6 | @ | Miami Dolphins | 20 | 21 | 18 | 296 | 204 | 92 | 29 | 428 | 343 | 85 | 2 | ||
| 15 | Sun | December 10 | boxscore | W | 8-6 | New Orleans Saints | 19 | 14 | 18 | 333 | 242 | 91 | 21 | 342 | 287 | 55 | 1 | |||
| 16 | Sun | December 17 | boxscore | L | 8-7 | @ | Carolina Panthers | 17 | 21 | 25 | 419 | 332 | 87 | 2 | 15 | 328 | 283 | 45 | 2 | |
| 17 | Sun | December 24 | boxscore | W | 9-7 | San Francisco 49ers | 28 | 27 | 20 | 363 | 307 | 56 | 23 | 434 | 348 | 86 | 1 | |||
| Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WildCard | Sun | December 31 | boxscore | L | 9-8 | @ | Green Bay Packers | 20 | 37 | 18 | 360 | 339 | 21 | 2 | 23 | 307 | 190 | 117 | ||
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | QBrec | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | 4QC | GWD | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff George | 28 | QB | 16 | 16 | 9-7-0 | 336 | 557 | 60.3 | 4143 | 24 | 4.3 | 11 | 2.0 | 62 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 12.3 | 258.9 | 89.5 | 43 | 270 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 7.2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Bobby Hebert | 35 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 45 | 62.2 | 313 | 2 | 4.4 | 1 | 2.2 | 37 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 11.2 | 78.3 | 88.5 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 21 | Eric Metcalf | 27 | WR/PR | 16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Team Total | 28.4 | 16 | 9-7-0 | 364 | 603 | 60.4 | 4456 | 26 | 4.3 | 12 | 2.0 | 62 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 12.2 | 278.5 | 89.3 | 43 | 270 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 405 | 650 | 62.3 | 4751 | 28 | 4.3 | 18 | 2.8 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 11.7 | 296.9 | 87.3 | 30 | 210 | 6.7 | 6.3 | 4.4 |
| Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| 34 | Craig Heyward* | 29 | RB | 16 | 16 | 236 | 1083 | 6 | 31 | 4.6 | 67.7 | 14.8 | 37 | 350 | 9.5 | 2 | 25 | 2.3 | 21.9 | 1433 | 8 | 3 |
| 32 | Jamal Anderson | 23 | 16 | 0 | 39 | 161 | 1 | 13 | 4.1 | 10.1 | 2.4 | 4 | 42 | 10.5 | 0 | 17 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 203 | 1 | 0 | |
| 21 | Eric Metcalf | 27 | WR/PR | 16 | 15 | 28 | 133 | 1 | 23 | 4.8 | 8.3 | 1.8 | 104 | 1189 | 11.4 | 8 | 62 | 6.5 | 74.3 | 1322 | 9 | 4 |
| 1 | Jeff George | 28 | QB | 16 | 16 | 27 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 17 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
| 3 | Bobby Hebert | 35 | 4 | 0 | 5 | -1 | 0 | 2 | -0.2 | -0.3 | 1.3 | -1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 87 | Bert Emanuel | 25 | WR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 74 | 1039 | 14.0 | 5 | 52 | 4.6 | 64.9 | 1039 | 5 | 2 |
| 4 | Dan Stryzinski | 30 | P | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 81 | Terance Mathis | 28 | WR | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 78 | 1039 | 13.3 | 9 | 54 | 5.6 | 74.2 | 1039 | 9 | 1 | |
| 89 | J.J. Birden | 30 | WR | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31 | 303 | 9.8 | 1 | 24 | 3.1 | 30.3 | 303 | 1 | 0 | |
| 80 | Tyrone Brown | 22 | wr | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 | 198 | 11.6 | 0 | 26 | 2.8 | 33.0 | 198 | 0 | 1 | |
| 85 | Roell Preston | 23 | KR | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 | 129 | 18.4 | 1 | 61 | 0.5 | 9.2 | 129 | 1 | 1 | |
| 86 | Mitch Lyons | 25 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 83 | 16.6 | 0 | 34 | 0.4 | 5.9 | 83 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 84 | Darryl Spencer | 25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 60 | 12.0 | 0 | 22 | 1.0 | 12.0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 83 | Ricky Sanders | 33 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | 21 | 0.7 | 8.0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Team Total | 28.4 | 16 | 337 | 1393 | 8 | 31 | 4.1 | 87.1 | 21.1 | 364 | 4456 | 12.2 | 26 | 62 | 22.8 | 278.5 | 5849 | 34 | 21 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 404 | 1547 | 12 | 3.8 | 96.7 | 25.3 | 405 | 4541 | 11.2 | 28 | 25.3 | 283.8 | 6088 | 40 | 21 | ||||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| 21 | Eric Metcalf | 27 | WR/PR | 16 | 15 | 39 | 383 | 1 | 66 | 9.8 | 12 | 278 | 0 | 47 | 23.2 | 1983 |
| 85 | Roell Preston | 23 | KR | 14 | 0 | 30 | 627 | 0 | 44 | 20.9 | 756 | |||||
| 32 | Jamal Anderson | 23 | 16 | 0 | 24 | 541 | 0 | 35 | 22.5 | 744 | ||||||
| 50 | Ron George | 25 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 45 | 0 | 21 | 15.0 | 45 | ||||||
| 52 | Ken Tippins | 29 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | ||||||
| Team Total | 28.4 | 16 | 39 | 383 | 1 | 66 | 9.8 | 70 | 1506 | 0 | 47 | 21.5 | 7738 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 28 | 0 | 59 | 1323 | 0 | 22.4 | |||||||||
| 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 | Morten Andersen*+ | 35 | K | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 37 | 31 | 83.8% | 30 | 29 | 96.7% | |||||
| 4 | Dan Stryzinski | 30 | P | 16 | 0 | 67 | 2759 | 64 | 0 | 41.2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Tony Zendejas | 35 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | |||||||||||||||||
| Team Total | 28.4 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 40 | 33 | 82.5% | 30 | 29 | 96.7% | 67 | 2759 | 64 | 0 | 41.2 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 22 | 17 | 77.3% | 38 | 38 | 100.0% | 70 | 3031 | 43.3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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* | 30 | MLB | 16 | 16 | 1.0 | 3 | 84 | 1 | 49 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 41 | |
| 36 | Kevin Ross | 33 | SS | 16 | 15 | 3 | 70 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 18 | ||
| 44 | D.J. Johnson | 29 | RCB | 13 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 9 | |||||||
| 99 | Darryl Talley | 35 | RLB | 16 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 54 | 19 | |||||||
| 57 | Clay Matthews | 39 | LLB | 16 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 14 | ||
| 47 | Roger Harper | 25 | FS | 16 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 17 | ||
| 56 | Chris Doleman* | 34 | RDE | 16 | 16 | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 15 | ||||||
| 45 | Darnell Walker | 25 | LCB | 15 | 7 | 45 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | Terry Taylor | 34 | lcb | 16 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 40 | 1 | ||
| 90 | Chuck Smith | 26 | LDE | 14 | 13 | 5.5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 6 | ||||||
| 67 | Moe Gardner | 27 | RDT | 16 | 15 | 0.5 | 28 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 97 | Jumpy Geathers | 35 | 16 | 2 | 7.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 | |||||||
| 42 | Devin Bush | 22 | fs | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 14 | ||
| 28 | Ron Davis | 23 | lcb | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | |||||||
| 95 | Pierce Holt | 33 | LDT | 11 | 10 | 1.0 | 22 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 26 | Anthony Phillips | 25 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 21 | 2 | ||||||||
| 22 | Alton Montgomery | 27 | 15 | 0 | 3.0 | 1 | 71 | 1 | 71 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | ||
| 92 | Lester Archambeau | 28 | lde | 16 | 7 | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | ||||||
| 68 | Mel Agee | 27 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 91 | John Burrough | 23 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 27 | Brad Edwards | 29 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Jeff George | 28 | QB | 16 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 2 | -15 | 0 | |||||||||
| 34 | Craig Heyward* | 29 | RB | 16 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 21 | Eric Metcalf | 27 | WR/PR | 16 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 52 | Ken Tippins | 29 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| 87 | Bert Emanuel | 25 | WR | 16 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 65 | Roman Fortin | 28 | C | 16 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -6 | 0 | |||||||||
| 50 | Ron George | 25 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 89 | J.J. Birden | 30 | WR | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 80 | Tyrone Brown | 22 | wr | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 88 | Harper LeBel | 32 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -8 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 81 | Terance Mathis | 28 | WR | 14 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 85 | Roell Preston | 23 | KR | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 62 | David Richards | 29 | RT | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 72 | Mike Zandofsky | 30 | RG | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Team Total | 28.4 | 16 | 30.0 | 18 | 304 | 2 | 71 | 0 | 13 | 21 | 24 | -9 | 0 | 740 | 194 | ||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 43 | 21 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | AllTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Morten Andersen*+ | 35 | K | 16 | 0 | 29 | 31 | 122 | ||||||||||
| 81 | Terance Mathis | 28 | WR | 14 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 60 | |||||||||
| 21 | Eric Metcalf | 27 | WR/PR | 16 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 60 | ||||||||
| 34 | Craig Heyward* | 29 | RB | 16 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 48 | |||||||||
| 87 | Bert Emanuel | 25 | WR | 16 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 30 | ||||||||||
| 32 | Jamal Anderson | 23 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 89 | J.J. Birden | 30 | WR | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Alton Montgomery | 27 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 85 | Roell Preston | 23 | KR | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 36 | Kevin Ross | 33 | SS | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 58 | Jessie Tuggle* | 30 | MLB | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Tony Zendejas | 35 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Team Total | 28.4 | 16 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 3 | 29 | 33 | 362 | ||||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 12 | 28 | 38 | 17 | 1 | 349 |