Team Stats and Rankings Table
			Tot Yds & TO					Passing							Rushing					Penalties
Player	PF	Yds	Ply	Y/P	TO	FL	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	Pen	Yds	1stPy
Team Stats	337	5244	1035	5.1	38	13	299	190	369	2598	16	25	6.5	126	634	2646	23	4.2	153	109	876	20
Opp. Stats	383	5821	1094	5.3	40	19	331	339	570	4115	31	21	7.0	198	502	1706	13	3.4	107	98	888	26
Lg Rank Offense	13	9			13	4	14		27	21	20	22	6		1	1	7	8
Lg Rank Defense	25	26			12	7	25		28	28	28	15	26		5	3	5	3

Schedule & Game Results

Schedule & Game Results Table
										Score		Offense					Defense					Expected Points
Week	Day	Date				OT	Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	Offense	Defense	Sp. Tms
1	Sun	September 2	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	0-1		Cleveland Browns	22	25	24	390	161	229	2	24	423	292	131	4	-9.70	0.31	4.27
2	Sun	September 9	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-2	@	New England Patriots	3	56	12	134	45	89	6	30	597	365	232	3	-40.42	-31.78	15.81
3	Sun	September 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-2		Detroit Lions	31	10	22	387	178	209	1	12	229	176	53	3	10.28	7.71	6.57
4	Sun	September 23	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-3	@	Buffalo Bills	31	46	22	416	151	265	4	25	497	348	149	1	2.36	-23.83	3.00
5	Sun	September 30	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-3		Miami Dolphins	33	27	16	354	186	168	1	21	354	286	68	1	3.41	2.14	-4.11
6	Sun	October 7	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-4	@	Baltimore Colts	8	10	19	358	174	184	3	14	276	232	44	2	-12.07	9.91	0.16
7	Mon	October 15	9:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-4		Minnesota Vikings	14	7	16	245	62	183		20	310	256	54	7	-6.00	13.13	-1.28
8	Sun	October 21	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-4		Oakland Raiders	28	19	16	328	161	167	3	25	459	346	113	5	3.55	5.75	-0.68
9	Sun	October 28	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	4-5	@	Houston Oilers	24	27	20	357	225	132	3	17	311	199	112	1	-7.67	8.72	-4.24
10	Sun	November 4	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-5	@	Green Bay Packers	27	22	20	382	136	246	2	22	395	287	108	4	6.48	-1.11	-2.75
11	Sun	November 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-6		Buffalo Bills	12	14	16	237	170	67	3	15	270	132	138		-8.04	-0.03	2.76
12	Sun	November 18	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-7	@	Chicago Bears	13	23	20	320	180	140	3	19	254	108	146		-1.98	-7.91	1.61
13	Mon	November 26	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-8	@	Seattle Seahawks	7	30	21	365	226	139	2	25	399	313	86	1	-1.06	-12.96	-8.14
14	Sun	December 2	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-8		Baltimore Colts	30	17	21	368	190	178	1	21	343	240	103	3	-1.94	10.22	-0.47
15	Sun	December 9	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-8		New England Patriots	27	26	20	281	127	154		19	320	213	107	1	-1.52	3.56	1.39
16	Sat	December 15	12:30PM ET	boxscore	W		8-8	@	Miami Dolphins	27	24	14	322	226	96	4	22	384	322	62	4	-1.45	-2.21	5.02

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Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A
1	Richard Todd	26	QB	15	15	8-7-0	171	334	51.2	2660	16	4.8	22	6.6	114	40.4	72	8.0	6.0	15.6	177.3	66.5	25	222	6.96	6.79	4.9
2	Matt Robinson	24	QB	15	1	0-1-0	17	31	54.8	191	0	0.0	2	6.5	10	33.3	33	6.2	3.3	11.2	12.7	46.6	5	30	13.89	4.47	2.0
3	Pat Ryan	24	QB	1	0		2	4	50.0	13	0	0.0	1	25.0	1	33.3	7	3.3	-8.0	6.5	13.0	17.7	2	14	33.33	-0.17	-7.7
	Team Totals			16	16	8-8-0	190	369	51.5	2598	16	4.3	25	6.8	125	39.7	72	7.8	5.6	15.1	162.4	63.6	32	266	7.98	6.48	4.47

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Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing									Receiving												Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Tgt	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Ctch%	Y/Tgt	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Clark Gaines	25	FB	16	9	186	905	0	32	54.3	52	4.9	56.6	11.6	42	29	219	7.6	0	11	45.2	15	1.8	13.7	69.0	5.2	215	5.2	1124	0	1
2	Scott Dierking	24	RB	16	14	186	767	3	38	54.8	40	4.1	47.9	11.6	17	10	121	12.1	0	5	41.2	27	0.6	7.6	58.8	7.1	196	4.5	888	3	1
3	Wesley Walker	24	WR	9	9	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	42	23	569	24.7	5	20	47.6	71	2.6	63.2	54.8	13.5	23	24.7	569	5	0
4	Kevin Long	24	FB	12	6	116	442	7	36	52.6	25	3.8	36.8	9.7	14	10	115	11.5	0	5	50.0	27	0.8	9.6	71.4	8.2	126	4.4	557	7	3
5	Derrick Gaffney	24	WR	16	16	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	72	32	534	16.7	1	26	44.4	43	2.0	33.4	44.4	7.4	32	16.7	534	1	0
6	Bruce Harper	24	RB	16	0	65	282	0	10	49.2	31	4.3	17.6	4.1	31	17	250	14.7	2	10	41.9	72	1.1	15.6	54.8	8.1	82	6.5	532	2	6
7	Jerome Barkum	29	TE	13	13	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	63	27	401	14.9	4	20	39.7	40	2.1	30.8	42.9	6.4	27	14.9	401	4	1
8	Bobby Jones	24	WR	10	7	1	4	0	0	100.0	4	4.0	0.4	0.1	40	19	379	19.9	1	16	47.5	51	1.9	37.9	47.5	9.5	20	19.2	383	1	2
9	Mickey Shuler	23	TE	16	6	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	27	16	225	14.1	3	10	44.4	46	1.0	14.1	59.3	8.3	16	14.1	225	3	1
10	Tom Newton	25	RB	16	0	37	145	6	16	59.5	51	3.9	9.1	2.3	6	4	33	8.3	0	2	66.7	11	0.3	2.1	66.7	5.5	41	4.3	178	6	0
11	Richard Todd	26	QB	15	15	36	93	5	18	52.8	21	2.6	6.2	2.4	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			36	2.6	93	5	7
12	Woody Bennett	24	RB	15	0	2	4	1	1	50.0	3	2.0	0.3	0.1	1	1	9	9.0	0	0	100.0	9	0.1	0.6	100.0	9.0	3	4.3	13	1	1
13	Bob Raba	24	TE	8	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	2	9	4.5	0	0	0.0	6	0.3	1.1	100.0	4.5	2	4.5	9	0	0
14	Matt Robinson	24	QB	15	1	3	4	1	2	66.7	10	1.3	0.3	0.2	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			3	1.3	4	1	0
15	Chuck Ramsey	27	P	16	0	2	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			2	0.0	0	0	2
	Team Totals			16	16	634	2646	23	153	53.8	52	4.2	165.4	39.6	357	190	2864	15.1	16	125	44.5	72	11.9	179.0	53.2	8.0	824	6.7	5510	39	25

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Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions				Fumbles						Tackles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Stan Blinka	22	MLB	16	16	2	12	0	8	3	0	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
2	Greg Buttle	25	LLB	16	16	2	27	0	27	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
3	Bobby Jackson	23	LCB	16	16	4	63	1	58	4	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
4	Joe Klecko	26	RDT	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7.0	0	0	0	0
5	Marty Lyons	22	RDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
6	Burgess Owens	28	FS	16	16	6	41	0	15	0	0	4	32	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	Lawrence Pillers	27	LDE	16	15	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	5.5	0	0	0	0
8	Shafer Suggs	26	SS	16	15	3	41	1	32	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
9	Richard Todd	26	QB	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	-10	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
10	Scott Dierking	24	RB	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Johnny Lynn	23	RCB	16	14	2	46	0	32	1	0	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Jerome Barkum	29	TE	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Abdul Salaam	26	LDT	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.5	0	0	0	0
14	Mike McKibben	23	RLB	16	10	1	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Clark Gaines	25	FB	16	9	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Bobby Jones	24	WR	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Kevin Long	24	FB	12	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Mickey Shuler	23	TE	16	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Mark Merrill	24	LB	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
20	Mark Gastineau	23	DE	16	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
21	Ken Schroy	27	DB	16	1	1	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
22	Woody Bennett	24	RB	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
23	Ron Crosby	24	LB	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
24	Paul Darby	23	WR	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Bruce Harper	24	RB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Tim Moresco	25	DB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	1
27	Tom Newton	25	RB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Chuck Ramsey	27	P	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	-34	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
29	Pat Ryan	24	QB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
30	John Sullivan	23	LB	12	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	21	239	2	58	16	26	31	-12	0	22.0	0	0	0	1

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