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Record: 10-6-0, Finished 1st in NFC Central Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 362 points (22.6/g), 8th of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 356 points (22.2/g), 18th.
Differential of 6 points (0.4/g), 14th.
Expected W-L: 8.2-7.8.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +7 (0.4/g), 9th.
Coached by Lindy Infante (10-6-0)
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1989 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 10 | box | L | 0-1 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 21 | 23 | 17 | 321 | 218 | 103 | 3 | 26 | 347 | 205 | 142 | ||
| 2 | Sun | September 17 | box | W | 1-1 | New Orleans Saints | 35 | 34 | 29 | 490 | 341 | 149 | 2 | 21 | 367 | 282 | 85 | 2 | |
| 3 | Sun | September 24 | box | L | 1-2 | @ | Los Angeles Rams | 38 | 41 | 29 | 442 | 326 | 116 | 5 | 20 | 440 | 223 | 217 | 2 |
| 4 | Sun | October 1 | box | W | 2-2 | Atlanta Falcons | 23 | 21 | 27 | 448 | 295 | 153 | 2 | 17 | 333 | 258 | 75 | 1 | |
| 5 | Sun | October 8 | box | W | 3-2 | Dallas Cowboys | 31 | 13 | 28 | 502 | 313 | 189 | 1 | 12 | 213 | 168 | 45 | 2 | |
| 6 | Sun | October 15 | box | L | 3-3 | @ | Minnesota Vikings | 14 | 26 | 11 | 219 | 151 | 68 | 3 | 21 | 398 | 160 | 238 | 2 |
| 7 | Sun | October 22 | box | L | 3-4 | @ | Miami Dolphins | 20 | 23 | 21 | 296 | 215 | 81 | 24 | 438 | 333 | 105 | 3 | |
| 8 | Sun | October 29 | box | W | 4-4 | Detroit Lions | 23 | 20 | 24 | 421 | 345 | 76 | 2 | 21 | 402 | 192 | 210 | 2 | |
| 9 | Sun | November 5 | box | W | 5-4 | Chicago Bears | 14 | 13 | 19 | 339 | 270 | 69 | 2 | 19 | 321 | 188 | 133 | ||
| 10 | Sun | November 12 | box | L | 5-5 | @ | Detroit Lions | 22 | 31 | 30 | 432 | 328 | 104 | 4 | 8 | 128 | 54 | 74 | 2 |
| 11 | Sun | November 19 | box | W | 6-5 | @ | San Francisco 49ers | 21 | 17 | 21 | 248 | 139 | 109 | 1 | 22 | 360 | 289 | 71 | 4 |
| 12 | Sun | November 26 | box | W | 7-5 | Minnesota Vikings | 20 | 19 | 16 | 332 | 248 | 84 | 1 | 22 | 377 | 301 | 76 | 2 | |
| 13 | Sun | December 3 | box | W | 8-5 | @ | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 17 | 16 | 19 | 376 | 315 | 61 | 3 | 18 | 258 | 170 | 88 | 5 |
| 14 | Sun | December 10 | box | L | 8-6 | Kansas City Chiefs | 3 | 21 | 11 | 208 | 98 | 110 | 2 | 21 | 381 | 203 | 178 | 3 | |
| 15 | Sun | December 17 | box | W | 9-6 | @ | Chicago Bears | 40 | 28 | 24 | 456 | 239 | 217 | 1 | 19 | 355 | 197 | 158 | 5 |
| 16 | Sun | December 24 | box | W | 10-6 | @ | Dallas Cowboys | 20 | 10 | 16 | 250 | 207 | 43 | 1 | 16 | 229 | 116 | 113 | 5 |
| Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 362 | 5780 | 1045 | 5.5 | 342 | 354 | 600 | 4048 | 27 | 20 | 6.2 | 207 | 397 | 1732 | 13 | 4.4 | 114 | 33 | 13 | 21 |
| Team Defense | 356 | 5347 | 970 | 5.5 | 498 | 302 | 476 | 3339 | 22 | 25 | 6.5 | 179 | 460 | 2008 | 15 | 4.4 | 307 | 40 | 15 | 12 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 26 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 9 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 18 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 23 | 13 | 19 | 16 | 26 | 5 | 13 | ||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Majkowski* | 25 | QB | 16 | 16 | 353 | 599 | 58.9 | 4318 | 27 | 4.5 | 20 | 3.3 | 79 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 12.2 | 269.9 | 82.3 | 47 | 268 | 6.3 | 5.3 | 7.3 |
| Anthony Dilweg | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 95.8 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
| Team Total | 27.0 | 16 | 354 | 600 | 59.0 | 4325 | 27 | 4.5 | 20 | 3.3 | 79 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 12.2 | 270.3 | 82.4 | 48 | 277 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 7.4 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 302 | 476 | 63.4 | 3339 | 22 | 4.6 | 25 | 5.3 | 7.0 | 5.1 | 11.1 | 208.7 | 77.7 | 34 | 214 | 6.5 | 4.4 |
| Rushing | Receiving | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| Brent Fullwood* | 26 | FB | 15 | 15 | 204 | 821 | 5 | 38 | 4.0 | 54.7 | 13.6 | 19 | 214 | 11.3 | 0 | 67 | 1.3 | 14.3 | 1035 | 5 | 6 |
| Don Majkowski* | 25 | QB | 16 | 16 | 75 | 358 | 5 | 20 | 4.8 | 22.4 | 4.7 | 358 | 5 | 15 | |||||||
| Keith Woodside | 25 | RB | 16 | 16 | 46 | 273 | 1 | 68 | 5.9 | 17.1 | 2.9 | 59 | 527 | 8.9 | 0 | 33 | 3.7 | 32.9 | 800 | 1 | 4 |
| Michael Haddix | 28 | 16 | 1 | 44 | 135 | 0 | 10 | 3.1 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 15 | 111 | 7.4 | 1 | 23 | 0.9 | 6.9 | 246 | 1 | 2 | |
| Herman Fontenot | 26 | 16 | 0 | 17 | 69 | 1 | 19 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 40 | 372 | 9.3 | 3 | 38 | 2.5 | 23.3 | 441 | 4 | 0 | |
| Perry Kemp | 28 | WR | 14 | 13 | 5 | 43 | 0 | 14 | 8.6 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 48 | 611 | 12.7 | 2 | 39 | 3.4 | 43.6 | 654 | 2 | 3 |
| Vince Workman | 21 | RET | 15 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Sterling Sharpe*+ | 24 | WR | 16 | 16 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 26 | 12.5 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 90 | 1423 | 15.8 | 12 | 79 | 5.6 | 88.9 | 1448 | 12 | 1 |
| Jeff Query | 22 | RET | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23 | 350 | 15.2 | 2 | 45 | 1.4 | 21.9 | 350 | 2 | 1 | |
| Ed West | 28 | TE | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 22 | 269 | 12.2 | 5 | 31 | 1.7 | 20.7 | 269 | 5 | 0 | |
| Aubrey Matthews | 27 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18 | 200 | 11.1 | 0 | 25 | 1.4 | 15.4 | 200 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Carl Bland | 28 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11 | 164 | 14.9 | 1 | 46 | 0.7 | 10.3 | 164 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Clint Didier | 30 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 | 71 | 10.1 | 1 | 24 | 0.4 | 4.4 | 71 | 1 | 0 | ||
| John Spagnola | 32 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | 14 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Team Total | 27.0 | 16 | 397 | 1732 | 13 | 68 | 4.4 | 108.3 | 24.8 | 354 | 4325 | 12.2 | 27 | 79 | 22.1 | 270.3 | 6057 | 40 | 35 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 460 | 2008 | 15 | 4.4 | 125.5 | 28.8 | 302 | 3339 | 11.1 | 22 | 18.9 | 208.7 | 5347 | 37 | 28 | |||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| Jeff Query | 22 | RET | 16 | 0 | 30 | 247 | 0 | 15 | 8.2 | 6 | 125 | 0 | 28 | 20.8 | 722 |
| Vince Workman | 21 | RET | 15 | 0 | 33 | 547 | 0 | 46 | 16.6 | 555 | |||||
| Carl Bland | 28 | 16 | 0 | 13 | 256 | 0 | 37 | 19.7 | 420 | ||||||
| Brent Fullwood* | 26 | FB | 15 | 15 | 11 | 243 | 0 | 35 | 22.1 | 1278 | |||||
| Mickey Sutton | 29 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 42 | 0 | 17 | 8.4 | 42 | ||||||
| Herman Fontenot | 26 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 20 | 15.0 | 471 | ||||||
| Keith Woodside | 25 | RB | 16 | 16 | 2 | 38 | 0 | 23 | 19.0 | 838 | |||||
| Clint Didier | 30 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 71 | ||||||
| Tony Mandarich | 23 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | ||||||
| Team Total | 27.0 | 16 | 35 | 289 | 0 | 17 | 8.3 | 69 | 1239 | 0 | 46 | 18.0 | 7585 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 30 | 0 | 63 | 1389 | 0 | 22.0 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||
| Chris Jacke | 23 | K | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 22 | 78.6% | 42 | 42 | 100.0% | |||||
| Don Bracken | 27 | P | 16 | 0 | 66 | 2682 | 63 | 0 | 40.6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Team Total | 27.0 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 22 | 78.6% | 42 | 42 | 100.0% | 66 | 2682 | 63 | 0 | 40.6 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 30 | 23 | 76.7% | 41 | 39 | 95.1% | 65 | 2646 | 40.7 | |||||||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Tkl | Ast | Sfty | |
| Tim Harris*+ | 25 | ROLB | 16 | 16 | 19.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 86 | |||||||
| Don Majkowski* | 25 | QB | 16 | 16 | 15 | 6 | -13 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Brent Fullwood* | 26 | FB | 15 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Dave Brown | 36 | RCB | 16 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Tiger Greene | 27 | 16 | 0 | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Mark Murphy | 31 | SS | 16 | 16 | 1.0 | 3 | 31 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Brian Noble | 27 | LILB | 16 | 16 | 2.0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Keith Woodside | 25 | RB | 16 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Johnny Holland | 24 | RILB | 16 | 15 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Perry Kemp | 28 | WR | 14 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Scott Stephen | 25 | 16 | 2 | 1.0 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 0 | ||||||
| Carl Bland | 28 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Robert Brown | 29 | RDE/lde | 16 | 16 | 3.0 | |||||||||||||
| Ken Stills | 26 | FS | 16 | 16 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Herman Fontenot | 26 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Michael Haddix | 28 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Mark Lee | 31 | LCB | 12 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Bob W. Nelson | 30 | NT | 16 | 16 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Jeff Query | 22 | RET | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Ken Ruettgers | 27 | LT | 16 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Sterling Sharpe*+ | 24 | WR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mike Weddington | 29 | 15 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Blaise Winter | 27 | LDE | 16 | 10 | 2.0 | 61 | ||||||||||||
| Vince Workman | 21 | RET | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| John Anderson | 33 | LOLB | 14 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Blair Bush | 33 | C | 16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chuck Cecil | 25 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 38 | ||||||||||
| Burnell Dent | 26 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 53 | |||||||||||
| Mark Hall | 24 | 7 | 0 | 1.0 | ||||||||||||||
| Van Jakes | 28 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Michael McGruder | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| Rich Moran | 27 | LG | 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Ron Pitts | 27 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 37 | |||||||||||
| Mickey Sutton | 29 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Shawn Patterson | 25 | rde | 6 | 6 | 0.5 | |||||||||||||
| Team Total | 27.0 | 16 | 34.0 | 25 | 232 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 35 | 34 | 72 | 2 | 190 | |||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 48 | 28 | 13 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Jacke | 23 | K | 16 | 0 | 42 | 22 | 108 | |||||||||
| Sterling Sharpe*+ | 24 | WR | 16 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 78 | |||||||||
| Brent Fullwood* | 26 | FB | 15 | 15 | 5 | 30 | ||||||||||
| Don Majkowski* | 25 | QB | 16 | 16 | 5 | 30 | ||||||||||
| Ed West | 28 | TE | 13 | 12 | 5 | 30 | ||||||||||
| Herman Fontenot | 26 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 24 | ||||||||||
| Carl Bland | 28 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Perry Kemp | 28 | WR | 14 | 13 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Jeff Query | 22 | RET | 16 | 0 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Clint Didier | 30 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Michael Haddix | 28 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Keith Woodside | 25 | RB | 16 | 16 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Vince Workman | 21 | RET | 15 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Team Total | 27.0 | 16 | 13 | 27 | 2 | 42 | 22 | 360 | ||||||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 15 | 22 | 39 | 23 | 1 | 356 |