1979 Cincinnati Bengals Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 4-12-0, 4th in AFC Central Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Homer Rice (4-12-0)

Points For: 337 (21.1/g) 13th of 28

Points Against: 421 (26.3/g) 28th of 28

Expected W-L: 5.9-10.1

SRS: -1.31 (18th of 28), SOS: 3.94

Defensive Coordinator: Howard Brinker

Other Notable Asst.: Frank Gansz (Special Teams/Tight Ends), Mike McCormack (Offensive Line), Dick Modzelewski (Defensive Line), George Sefcik (Quarterbacks/RB) and Charley Winner (Defensive Backs)

Stadium: Riverfront Stadium

Principal Owner/General Manager: Paul Brown

Defensive Alignment: 4-3

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +2500

Training Camp: Wilmington College (Wilmington, Ohio)

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Team Stats and Rankings

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	4639	1049	4.4	29	14	289	228	426	2310	17	15	4.7	131	560	2329	23	4.2	138	88	744	20
Opp. Stats	421	5911	1052	5.6	44	24	334	275	492	3692	27	20	7.0	175	528	2219	22	4.2	133	101	871	26
Lg Rank Offense	13	23			2	6	20		20	24	18	3	25		14	11	7	9
Lg Rank Defense	28	28			5	1	26		24	27	27	17	28		13	16	20	19

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		0-1	@	Denver Broncos	0	10	16	232	137	95		22	399	200	199		0.26	-12.68	1.15
2	Sun	September 9	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-2	@	Buffalo Bills	24	51	16	335	201	134	3	23	455	246	209	2	-14.11	-20.90	12.52
3	Sun	September 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-3		New England Patriots	14	20	17	198	32	166	1	18	332	167	165		0.47	-6.08	1.39
4	Sun	September 23	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	0-4		Houston Oilers	27	30	21	265	100	165	2	19	361	184	177	3	-3.07	3.33	-3.26
5	Sun	September 30	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-5	@	Dallas Cowboys	13	38	20	285	181	104	3	24	370	176	194	1	-17.44	-13.62	8.39
6	Sun	October 7	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-6		Kansas City Chiefs	7	10	14	221	66	155	2	11	200	101	99	2	-14.57	13.65	-4.90
7	Sun	October 14	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-6		Pittsburgh Steelers	34	10	19	284	114	170	4	16	327	263	64	9	-12.50	37.09	2.23
8	Sun	October 21	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-7	@	Cleveland Browns	27	28	20	395	293	102	2	22	315	191	124	3	5.53	-4.05	-3.42
9	Sun	October 28	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-7		Philadelphia Eagles	37	13	17	290	92	198		17	260	187	73	4	2.54	19.64	1.23
10	Sun	November 4	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-8	@	Baltimore Colts	28	38	15	351	284	67	3	23	355	215	140		-6.13	-3.08	-2.66
11	Sun	November 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-9		San Diego Chargers	24	26	19	254	60	194		19	324	270	54	4	-6.54	10.52	-3.75
12	Sun	November 18	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-10	@	Houston Oilers	21	42	17	306	106	200	6	26	485	322	163	3	-15.42	-16.35	10.42
13	Sun	November 25	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-10		St. Louis Cardinals	34	28	20	342	153	189		26	480	317	163	6	11.31	-6.17	-2.02
14	Sun	December 2	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-11	@	Pittsburgh Steelers	17	37	21	340	209	131	1	24	478	324	154	1	1.02	-24.46	3.06
15	Sun	December 9	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-12	@	Washington Redskins	14	28	22	345	232	113		23	420	295	125	2	3.09	-13.79	-0.44
16	Sun	December 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-12		Cleveland Browns	16	12	15	196	50	146	2	21	350	234	116	4	-13.46	0.56	12.98

Passing

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Passing Table
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	Ken Anderson	30	QB	15	15	4-11-0	189	339	55.8	2340	16	4.7	10	2.9	111	39.7	73	6.9	6.52	12.4	156.0	80.7	46	324	11.95	5.24	4.90
2	Jack Thompson	23	QB	9	1	0-1-0	39	87	44.8	481	1	1.1	5	5.7	21	32.0	50	5.5	3.17	12.3	53.4	42.4	16	178	15.53	2.94	0.95
3	Steve Kreider	21	WR	15	0		0	0		0	0		0		0						0.0		1	9	100.00	-9.00	-9.00
	Team Totals			16	16	4-12-0	228	426	53.5	2310	17	4.0	15	3.5	132	38.0	73	6.6	5.84	12.4	144.4	72.9	63	511	12.88	4.72	4.04

Rushing & Receiving

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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	Archie Griffin	25	RB	16	15	140	688	0	24	47.1	63	4.9	43.0	8.8	67	43	417	9.7	2	20	44.8	52	2.7	26.1	64.2	6.2	183	6.0	1105	2	3
2	Pete Johnson	25	FB	16	13	243	865	14	69	53.9	35	3.6	54.1	15.2	42	24	154	6.4	1	5	38.1	15	1.5	9.6	57.1	3.7	267	3.8	1019	15	6
3	Don Bass	23	WR	16	13	4	35	0	1	25.0	14	8.8	2.2	0.3	98	58	724	12.5	3	40	52.0	50	3.6	45.3	59.2	7.4	62	12.2	759	3	0
4	Isaac Curtis	29	WR	16	14	2	-11	0	0	0.0	-4	-5.5	-0.7	0.1	73	32	605	18.9	8	28	42.5	67	2.0	37.8	43.8	8.3	34	17.5	594	8	1
5	Dan Ross	22	TE	16	16	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	67	41	516	12.6	1	25	52.2	41	2.6	32.3	61.2	7.7	41	12.6	516	1	0
6	Charles Alexander	22	RB	16	3	88	286	1	14	37.5	17	3.3	17.9	5.5	25	11	91	8.3	0	2	36.0	13	0.7	5.7	44.0	3.6	99	3.8	377	1	0
7	Ken Anderson	30	QB	15	15	28	235	2	15	67.9	21	8.4	15.7	1.9	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			28	8.4	235	2	1
8	Billy Brooks	26	WR	4	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	13	8	214	26.8	1	6	53.8	73	2.0	53.5	61.5	16.5	8	26.8	214	1	0
9	Jack Thompson	23	QB	9	1	21	116	5	10	47.6	21	5.5	12.9	2.3	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			21	5.5	116	5	3
10	Deacon Turner	24	RB	16	1	28	86	1	4	53.6	10	3.1	5.4	1.8	7	2	18	9.0	0	0	0.0	10	0.1	1.1	28.6	2.6	30	3.5	104	1	3
11	Pat McInally	26	P	16	0	1	18	0	1	100.0	18	18.0	1.1	0.1	6	1	24	24.0	0	1	16.7	24	0.1	1.5	16.7	4.0	2	21.0	42	0	0
12	Jim Corbett	24	TE	10	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	5	3	34	11.3	0	3	60.0	15	0.3	3.4	60.0	6.8	3	11.3	34	0	0
13	Steve Kreider	21	WR	15	0	2	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.1	7	3	20	6.7	0	1	28.6	8	0.2	1.3	42.9	2.9	5	4.0	20	0	1
14	Tom Dinkel	23	LB	16	3	2	14	0	2	100.0	9	7.0	0.9	0.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			2	7.0	14	0	0
15	Rick Walker	24	TE	10	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	1	14	14.0	1	1	33.3	14	0.1	1.4	33.3	4.7	1	14.0	14	1	0
16	Nathan Poole	23	RB	16	0	1	-3	0	0	0.0	-3	-3.0	-0.2	0.1	1	1	-10	-10.0	0	0	0.0	-10	0.1	-0.6	100.0	-10.0	2	-6.5	-13	0	2
	Team Totals			16	16	560	2329	23	140	49.6	63	4.2	145.6	35.0	414	228	2821	12.4	17	132	44.9	73	14.3	176.3	55.1	6.8	788	6.5	5150	40	20

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Defense & Fumbles

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Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions				Fumbles					Tackles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Ross Browner	25	RDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6.0	0	0	0	0
2	Gary Burley	27	LDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	0	0	0	0
3	Dan Ross	22	TE	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
4	Ken Anderson	30	QB	15	15	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
5	Archie Griffin	25	RB	16	15	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
6	Dave Lapham	27	RG/C	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	Jim LeClair	29	MLB	16	15	1	0	0	0	0	1	27	1	0.0	0	0	0	0
8	Isaac Curtis	29	WR	16	14	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
9	Eddie Edwards	25	LDT	14	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	4.5	0	0	0	0
10	Bo Harris	26	LLB	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
11	Marvin Cobb	26	SS	14	13	3	19	0	14	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Dick Jauron	29	FS	16	13	6	41	0	12	0	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Pete Johnson	25	FB	16	13	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Ken Riley	32	RCB	13	13	1	0	0	0	0	3	31	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Wilson Whitley	24	RDT	14	13	1	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	3.5	0	0	0	0
16	Reggie Williams	25	RLB	12	11	2	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
17	Jim Browner	24	DB	16	6	1	15	0	15	0	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Mark Donahue	23	G	16	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Ray Griffin	23	DB	12	5	4	167	1	96	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Scott Perry	25	DB	14	4	1	11	0	11	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
21	Mike White	22	DT	16	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
22	Tom Dinkel	23	LB	16	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
23	Mack Mitchell	27	DE	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
24	Tom Ruud	26	LB	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Jack Thompson	23	QB	9	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Deacon Turner	24	RB	16	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	Scott Burk	23	DB	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Steve Kreider	21	WR	15	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
29	Howard Kurnick	22	LB	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	38	1	0.0	0	0	0	0
30	Mike Levenseller	23	WR	12	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
31	Vaughn Lusby	23	DB	16	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
32	Nathan Poole	23	RB	16	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	20	260	1	96	24	32	100	2	32.0	0	0	0	0