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Record: 10-4-0, Finished 2nd in AFC East Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 313 points (22.4/g), 5th of 26 in the NFL.
Allowed 140 points (10.0/g), 2nd.
Differential of 173 points (12.4/g), 2nd.
Expected W-L: 12.2-1.8.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +9 (0.6/g), 6th.
Coached by Don McCafferty (10-4-0)
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1971 Statistics / Starters & Roster / Games & Schedule / Team Draftees
| Score | Offense | Defense | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Date | Rec | Opp | Tm | Opp | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | ||||
| 1 | Sun | September 19 | box | W | 1-0 | New York Jets | 22 | 0 | 16 | 319 | 66 | 253 | 1 | 7 | 118 | 75 | 43 | ||
| 2 | Sun | September 26 | box | L | 1-1 | Cleveland Browns | 13 | 14 | 12 | 178 | 41 | 137 | 8 | 18 | 267 | 149 | 118 | 4 | |
| 3 | Sun | October 3 | box | W | 2-1 | @ | New England Patriots | 23 | 3 | 24 | 358 | 222 | 136 | 2 | 9 | 151 | 62 | 89 | 1 |
| 4 | Sun | October 10 | box | W | 3-1 | @ | Buffalo Bills | 43 | 0 | 19 | 401 | 187 | 214 | 3 | 4 | 49 | 45 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | Sun | October 17 | box | W | 4-1 | @ | New York Giants | 31 | 7 | 19 | 363 | 122 | 241 | 15 | 251 | 164 | 87 | 5 | |
| 6 | Mon | October 25 | box | L | 4-2 | @ | Minnesota Vikings | 3 | 10 | 16 | 276 | 147 | 129 | 3 | 9 | 153 | 86 | 67 | 1 |
| 7 | Sun | October 31 | box | W | 5-2 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 34 | 21 | 19 | 383 | 312 | 71 | 2 | 14 | 181 | 155 | 26 | 2 | |
| 8 | Mon | November 8 | box | W | 6-2 | Los Angeles Rams | 24 | 17 | 17 | 249 | 94 | 155 | 2 | 12 | 262 | 154 | 108 | 2 | |
| 9 | Sun | November 14 | box | W | 7-2 | @ | New York Jets | 14 | 13 | 15 | 189 | 70 | 119 | 3 | 9 | 188 | 113 | 75 | 3 |
| 10 | Sun | November 21 | box | L | 7-3 | @ | Miami Dolphins | 14 | 17 | 14 | 268 | 168 | 100 | 3 | 16 | 249 | 81 | 168 | 1 |
| 11 | Sun | November 28 | box | W | 8-3 | @ | Oakland Raiders | 37 | 14 | 19 | 306 | 96 | 210 | 1 | 20 | 311 | 246 | 65 | 6 |
| 12 | Sun | December 5 | box | W | 9-3 | Buffalo Bills | 24 | 0 | 16 | 310 | 130 | 180 | 2 | 8 | 182 | 106 | 76 | 6 | |
| 13 | Sat | December 11 | box | W | 10-3 | Miami Dolphins | 14 | 3 | 19 | 225 | 121 | 104 | 14 | 247 | 151 | 96 | 2 | ||
| 14 | Sun | December 19 | box | L | 10-4 | New England Patriots | 17 | 21 | 17 | 246 | 146 | 100 | 2 | 11 | 243 | 152 | 91 | 2 | |
| Playoffs | |||||||||||||||||||
| Division | Sun | December 26 | box | W | 11-4 | @ | Cleveland Browns | 20 | 3 | ||||||||||
| ConfChamp | Sun | January 2 | box | L | 11-5 | @ | Miami Dolphins | 0 | 21 | ||||||||||
| Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 313 | 4071 | 883 | 4.6 | 242 | 176 | 344 | 1922 | 10 | 21 | 5.2 | 104 | 512 | 2149 | 23 | 4.2 | 123 | 32 | 11 | 15 |
| Team Defense | 140 | 2852 | 746 | 3.8 | 272 | 185 | 361 | 1739 | 9 | 28 | 4.4 | 95 | 352 | 1113 | 8 | 3.2 | 166 | 41 | 13 | 11 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 5 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 19 | ||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Unitas | 38 | qb | 13 | 5 | 92 | 176 | 52.3 | 942 | 3 | 1.7 | 9 | 5.1 | 35 | 5.4 | 3.2 | 10.2 | 72.5 | 52.3 | 15 | 129 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 7.9 |
| Earl Morrall | 37 | QB | 14 | 9 | 84 | 167 | 50.3 | 1210 | 7 | 4.2 | 12 | 7.2 | 64 | 7.2 | 4.4 | 14.4 | 86.4 | 58.2 | 11 | 89 | 6.3 | 3.7 | 6.2 |
| Tom Matte | 32 | RB | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.6 | 1 | 12 | -6.0 | -6.0 | 50.0 | |
| Team Total | 26.6 | 14 | 176 | 344 | 51.2 | 2152 | 10 | 2.9 | 21 | 6.1 | 64 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 12.2 | 153.7 | 55.0 | 27 | 230 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 7.3 | ||
| Opp Total | 14 | 185 | 361 | 51.2 | 1739 | 9 | 2.5 | 28 | 7.8 | 4.8 | 1.6 | 9.4 | 124.2 | 40.9 | 33 | 288 | 4.4 | 0.7 |
| Rushing | Receiving | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| Tom Matte | 32 | RB | 14 | 0 | 173 | 607 | 8 | 26 | 3.5 | 43.4 | 12.4 | 29 | 239 | 8.2 | 0 | 34 | 2.1 | 17.1 | 846 | 8 | 4 |
| Norm Bulaich* | 25 | FB | 13 | 0 | 152 | 741 | 8 | 67 | 4.9 | 57.0 | 11.7 | 25 | 229 | 9.2 | 2 | 30 | 1.9 | 17.6 | 970 | 10 | 4 |
| Don Nottingham | 22 | 14 | 0 | 95 | 388 | 5 | 36 | 4.1 | 27.7 | 6.8 | 15 | 88 | 5.9 | 0 | 35 | 1.1 | 6.3 | 476 | 5 | 2 | |
| Don McCauley | 22 | 13 | 0 | 58 | 246 | 2 | 19 | 4.2 | 18.9 | 4.5 | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | 0 | 8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 252 | 2 | 0 | |
| Johnny Unitas | 38 | qb | 13 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
| Earl Morrall | 37 | QB | 14 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 16 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 13 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
| Ray Perkins | 30 | WR | 11 | 0 | 5 | 35 | 0 | 18 | 7.0 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 24 | 424 | 17.7 | 4 | 64 | 2.2 | 38.5 | 459 | 4 | 0 |
| Eddie Hinton | 24 | WR | 14 | 0 | 4 | 56 | 0 | 30 | 14.0 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 25 | 436 | 17.4 | 2 | 33 | 1.8 | 31.1 | 492 | 2 | 0 |
| John Mackey | 30 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 6.0 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 11 | 143 | 13.0 | 0 | 28 | 0.8 | 10.2 | 161 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tom Mitchell | 27 | TE | 14 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 4.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 33 | 402 | 12.2 | 0 | 35 | 2.4 | 28.7 | 411 | 0 | 0 |
| Willie Richardson | 32 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 24 | 13.5 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 10 | 173 | 17.3 | 2 | 49 | 0.8 | 14.4 | 200 | 2 | 0 | |
| Charlie Pittman | 23 | RET | 10 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
| Tom Nowatzke | 29 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Sam Havrilak | 24 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Team Total | 26.6 | 14 | 512 | 2149 | 23 | 67 | 4.2 | 153.5 | 36.6 | 176 | 2152 | 12.2 | 10 | 64 | 12.6 | 153.7 | 4301 | 33 | 26 | ||
| Opp Total | 14 | 352 | 1113 | 8 | 3.2 | 79.5 | 25.1 | 185 | 1739 | 9.4 | 9 | 13.2 | 124.2 | 2852 | 17 | 22 | |||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| Rick Volk*+ | 26 | FS | 14 | 0 | 22 | 118 | 0 | 18 | 5.4 | 118 | |||||
| Charlie Pittman | 23 | RET | 10 | 0 | 14 | 330 | 0 | 37 | 23.6 | 333 | |||||
| Lenny Dunlap | 22 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 112 | 0 | 57 | 14.0 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 28 | 28.0 | 140 | |
| Tom Curtis | 24 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 10 | 2.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 15 | |
| Don McCauley | 22 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 194 | 0 | 29 | 24.3 | 446 | ||||||
| Jim Duncan | 25 | RCB | 11 | 0 | 3 | 102 | 0 | 54 | 34.0 | 102 | |||||
| Rex Kern | 22 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 7 | 6.3 | 19 | ||||||
| Ron Gardin | 27 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 75 | 0 | 65 | 37.5 | 75 | ||||||
| Jerry Logan* | 30 | SS | 14 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 12.0 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 16.0 | 28 |
| Tom Matte | 32 | RB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 846 | |||||
| Tom Mitchell | 27 | TE | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 411 | |||||
| Tom Nowatzke | 29 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | 2 | ||||||
| Charlie Stukes | 28 | LCB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | |||||
| Team Total | 26.6 | 14 | 43 | 351 | 0 | 65 | 8.2 | 32 | 679 | 0 | 54 | 21.2 | 5331 | ||
| Opp Total | 14 | 40 | 0 | 62 | 1345 | 0 | 21.7 | ||||||||
| 0--19 | 20--29 | 30--39 | 40--49 | 50+ | Tot | PAT | Punting | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | XPA | XPM | Pnt | Yds | Lng | Blck | ||||
| Jim O'Brien | 24 | K | 14 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 20 | 69.0% | 36 | 35 | 97.2% | |||||
| David Lee | 28 | P | 14 | 0 | 62 | 2542 | 76 | 0 | 41.0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Team Total | 26.6 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 20 | 69.0% | 36 | 35 | 97.2% | 62 | 2542 | 76 | 0 | 41.0 | ||
| Opp Total | 14 | 18 | 5 | 27.8% | 18 | 17 | 94.4% | 88 | 3423 | 38.9 | |||||||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Tkl | Ast | Sfty | |
| Jim Bailey | 23 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Norm Bulaich* | 25 | FB | 13 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mike Curtis* | 28 | MLB | 13 | 0 | 3 | 44 | 0 | 31 | ||||||||||
| Tom Curtis | 24 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Jim Duncan | 25 | RCB | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Lenny Dunlap | 22 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Sam Havrilak | 24 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Ted Hendricks*+ | 24 | RLB | 14 | 0 | 5 | 70 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 1 | ||||||
| Roy Hilton | 28 | RDE | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Rex Kern | 22 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Jerry Logan* | 30 | SS | 14 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 0 | 23 | ||||||||||
| John Mackey | 30 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Tom Matte | 32 | RB | 14 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Ray May | 26 | LLB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| Don McCauley | 22 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Ken Mendenhall | 23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Earl Morrall | 37 | QB | 14 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Dennis Nelson | 25 | RT | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Billy Newsome | 23 | LDT | 14 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Don Nottingham | 22 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Tom Nowatzke | 29 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 29 | |||||||||||
| Charlie Pittman | 23 | RET | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Glenn Ressler | 28 | LG | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Charlie Stukes | 28 | LCB | 14 | 0 | 8 | 95 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Johnny Unitas | 38 | qb | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | -2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Rick Volk*+ | 26 | FS | 14 | 0 | 4 | 36 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Team Total | 26.6 | 14 | 28 | 367 | 1 | 46 | 26 | 27 | 63 | 1 | ||||||||
| Opp Total | 14 | 27 | 22 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim O'Brien | 24 | K | 14 | 0 | 35 | 20 | 95 | |||||||||
| Norm Bulaich* | 25 | FB | 13 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 60 | |||||||||
| Tom Matte | 32 | RB | 14 | 0 | 8 | 48 | ||||||||||
| Don Nottingham | 22 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 36 | ||||||||||
| Ray Perkins | 30 | WR | 11 | 0 | 4 | 24 | ||||||||||
| Eddie Hinton | 24 | WR | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Don McCauley | 22 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Willie Richardson | 32 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Ted Hendricks*+ | 24 | RLB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Billy Newsome | 23 | LDT | 14 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Team Total | 26.6 | 14 | 23 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 20 | 311 | ||||||
| Opp Total | 14 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 140 |