PRESEASON EditiON - Detroit Lions
PRESEASON EditiON - Detroit Lions
PRESEASON EditiON - Detroit Lions
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Year-BY-Year resuLts<br />
<strong>Detroit</strong>lions.com<br />
Media.<strong>Detroit</strong>lions.com<br />
1984<br />
Record: 4-11-1, 4th nFc central<br />
Date W/L Score Opponent Att<br />
9/2 l 27-30 san Francisco 56,782<br />
9/9 W 27-24ot at atlanta 49,878<br />
9/16 l 17-21 at tampa Bay 44,560<br />
9/23 l 28-29 Minnesota 57,511<br />
9/30 l 24-27 at san Diego 59,849<br />
10/7 l 7-28 Denver 55,836<br />
10/14 W 13-7ot tampa Bay 44,308<br />
10/21 W 16-14 at Minnesota 57,953<br />
10/28 l 9-41 at Green Bay 54,289<br />
11/4 t 23-23ot Philadelphia 59,141<br />
11/11 l 14-28 at Washington 50,212<br />
11/18 l 14-16 at Chicago 54,911<br />
11/22 W 31-28 Green Bay 63,696<br />
12/2 l 17-38 at seattle 62,441<br />
12/10 l 3-24 l.a. raiders 66,710<br />
12/16 l 13-30 Chicago 53,252<br />
Usual Starters<br />
Offense<br />
Wr 86 Mark Nichols<br />
lt 73 Don laster<br />
lG 72 Chris Dietrich<br />
C 65 amas Fowler<br />
rG 67 Don Greco<br />
rt 70 Keith Dorney<br />
te 84 Bob rubick<br />
Wr 39 leonard thompson<br />
QB 16 Gary Danielson<br />
rB 20 Billy sims<br />
FB 30 James Jones<br />
Defense<br />
le 55 Michael Cofer<br />
lt 62 Curtis Green<br />
rt 78 Doug english<br />
re 79 William Gay<br />
llB 53 Garry Cobb<br />
MlB 57 Ken Fantetti<br />
rlB 59 Jimmy Williams<br />
lCB 27 Bobby Watkins<br />
rCB 29 Bruce McNorton<br />
ls 33 William Graham<br />
rs 35 alvin Hall<br />
Team Statistics Det Opp<br />
Total First Downs 306 328<br />
rushing 118 120<br />
Passing 170 177<br />
Penalty 18 31<br />
3rd Down: Made/att 84/215 98/216<br />
3rd Down Pct. 39.1 45.4<br />
4th Down: Made/att 9/19 4/9<br />
4th Down Pct. 47.4 44.4<br />
Possession Avg. 29:43 30:17<br />
Total net Yards 5318 5319<br />
avg. Per Game 332.4 332.4<br />
Total Plays 1038 1022<br />
avg. Per Play 5.1 5.2<br />
net Yards Rushing 2017 1808<br />
avg. Per Game 206.3 219.4<br />
total rushes 446 519<br />
net Yards Passing 3301 3511<br />
avg. Per Game 206.3 219.4<br />
sacked/Yards lost 61/486 32/271<br />
Gross Yards 3787 3782<br />
att./Completions 531/298 466/288<br />
Completion Pct. 56.1 61.8<br />
Had Intercepted 22 14<br />
Punts/Average 76/41.6 73/40.0<br />
net Punting Avg. 32.7 33.9<br />
Penalties/Yards 138/1165 107/978<br />
Fumbles/Ball Lost 36/14 28/11<br />
Touchdowns 32 48<br />
rushing 13 17<br />
Passing 19 27<br />
returns 0 4<br />
Points Scored Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT Pts<br />
lions 47 108 76 43 9 283<br />
Opponents 108 133 57 110 0 408<br />
Scoring TD Ru Pa Rt PAT FG S Pts<br />
Murray 0 0 0 0 31/31 20/27 0 91<br />
J. Jones 3 5 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 48<br />
l. thompson 0 6 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 36<br />
sims 5 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 30<br />
Danielson 3 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 24<br />
Chadwick 1 2 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 18<br />
lewis 0 3 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 18<br />
Jenkins 1 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 6<br />
Nichols 0 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 6<br />
rubick 0 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 6<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 32 13 19 0 31/31 20/27 0 283<br />
Opponents 48 17 27 4 48/48 24/29 0 408<br />
Rushing Att Yds Avg Lg TD<br />
sims 130 687 5.3 81 5<br />
J. Jones 137 532 3.9 34 3<br />
Jenkins 78 358 4.6 25t 1<br />
Danielson 41 218 5.3 40 3<br />
Bussey 32 91 2.8 18 0<br />
D’addio 7 46 6.6 14 0<br />
Witkowski 7 33 4.7 10 0<br />
Nichols 3 27 9.0 13 0<br />
Martin 1 14 14.0 14 0<br />
Chadwick 1 12 12.0 12t 1<br />
Machurek 1 9 9.0 9 0<br />
Hipple 2 3 1.5 2 0<br />
Black 3 -6 -2.0 4 0<br />
l. thompson 3 -7 -2.3 4 0<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 446 2017 4.5 81 13<br />
Opponents 519 1808 3.5 49 17<br />
Receiving Rec Yds Avg Lg TD<br />
J. Jones 77 662 8.6 39 5<br />
l. thompson 50 773 15.5 66t 6<br />
Chadwick 37 540 14.6 46 2<br />
Nichols 34 744 21.9 77t 1<br />
sims 31 239 7.7 20 0<br />
Jenkins 21 246 11.7 68 0<br />
lewis 16 236 14.8 58 3<br />
rubick 14 188 13.4 29 1<br />
Bussey 9 63 7.0 19 0<br />
Mandley 3 38 12.7 19 0<br />
McCall 3 15 5.0 7 0<br />
Danielson 1 22 22.0 22t 1<br />
D’addio 1 12 12.0 12 0<br />
Martin 1 9 9.0 9 0<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 298 3787 12.7 77t 19<br />
Opponents 288 3782 13.1 73t 27<br />
Passing Att cmp Yds cmp% Avg TD TD% int int% Lg Sk/Y Rtg<br />
Danielson 410 252 3076 61.5 7.50 17 4.1 15 3.7 77t 41/335 83.1<br />
Machurek 43 15 193 32.6 4.49 0 0.0 6 14.0 48 1/12 8.3<br />
Hipple 38 16 246 42.1 6.47 1 2.6 1 2.6 40 7/62 62.0<br />
Witkowski 34 13 210 38.2 6.18 0 0.0 0 0.0 39 11/74 59.7<br />
J. Jones 5 3 62 60.0 12.40 1 20.0 0 0.0 27 1/3 143.3<br />
Jenkins 1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0/0 39.6<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 531 298 3787 56.1 7.13 19 3.6 22 4.1 77t 61/486 73.2<br />
Opponents 466 288 3782 61.8 8.12 27 5.8 14 3.0 73t 37/271 94.2<br />
interceptions int Yds Avg Lg TD<br />
Watkins 6 0 0.0 0 0<br />
Graham 3 22 7.3 15 0<br />
Hall 2 64 32.0 36 0<br />
McNorton 2 0 0.0 0 0<br />
Fantetti 1 1 1.0 1 0<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 14 87 6.2 36 0<br />
Opponents 22 251 11.4 63 1<br />
Punting Pnt Yds Avg net TB in Lg<br />
Black 76 3164 41.6 32.7 8 13 63<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 76 3164 41.6 32.7 8 13 63<br />
Opponents 73 2921 40.0 33.9 10 13 60<br />
Punt Returns PR Fc Yds Avg Lg TD<br />
Martin 25 8 210 8.4 23 0<br />
Hall 7 1 30 4.3 11 0<br />
Mandley 2 2 0 0.0 0 0<br />
Jenkins 1 0 1 1.0 1 0<br />
Johnson 1 0 0 0.0 0 0<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 36 11 241 6.7 23 0<br />
Opponents 49 2 516 10.5 69t 1<br />
Kickoff Returns KR Yds Avg Lg TD<br />
Mandley 22 390 17.7 32 0<br />
Hall 19 385 20.3 46 0<br />
Jenkins 18 396 20.3 46 0<br />
Martin 10 144 14.4 23 0<br />
Meade 4 32 8.0 15 0<br />
D’addio 1 0 0.0 0 0<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 74 1347 18.2 46 0<br />
Opponents 60 1250 20.8 44 0<br />
Field Goals 1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+<br />
Murray 1/1 1/2 5/7 12/13 1/4<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 1/1 1/2 5/7 12/13 1/4<br />
Opponents 3/3 2/2 9/16 5/8 5/6<br />
Murray:(39G, 43G); (46G, 46N, 55N, 48G); (28G, 52N); (34N, 44G); (); (32N); (44G, 41G, 41G); (46G, 37G, 41G);<br />
(32G, 33G, 18G, 21N); (54N, 32G); (45G); (48G); (52G, 45G)<br />
Opponents:(42G. 53G. 22G); (51G, 47N); (43N); (35G, 32G. 37G. 34G, 19G); (18G, 41G); (51N); (42N); (45G,<br />
34G); (52G, 31G, 40G); (); (24G, 52G, 19G); (); (36G); (37G, 36N); (30G, 35G, 42G)<br />
Defense TT ST AT Sk Yds PD FF FR<br />
Hall, a 147 94 53 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Williams, J 140 105 35 2 4 5 0 1<br />
Graham 138 96 42 0 0 2 0 1<br />
Fantetti 135 94 41 1.5 13 1 2 0<br />
Cobb 128 95 33 3 30 1 0 0<br />
Cofer 107 75 32 7 49 0 1 1<br />
english 95 65 30 5 37 0 1 1<br />
McNorton 79 54 25 0 0 8 0 0<br />
Gay 75 52 23 10 72 0 1 2<br />
Green 71 52 19 8.5 68 0 0 1<br />
Watkins 67 58 9 0 0 5 1 0<br />
Johnson 40 32 8 0 0 0 0 1<br />
Barnes 27 24 3 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Frizzell 21 17 4 0 0 1 0 0<br />
Doig 19 17 2 0 0 0 0 0<br />
latimer 17 12 5 0 0 3 1 1<br />
Williams, e 9 7 2 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Moss 7 4 3 0 0 0 0 0<br />
King 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Dodge 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 1<br />
tautolo 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0<br />
<strong>Lions</strong> 1335 962 373 37 273 26 7 10<br />
nFL Standings<br />
nFc central W L T Pct Pts OP<br />
Chicago 10 6 0 .625 325 246<br />
Green Bay 8 8 0 .500 390 309<br />
tampa Bay 6 10 0 .375 335 360<br />
DetrOIt 4 11 1 .281 263 406<br />
Minnesota 3 13 0 .186 276 484<br />
nFc east<br />
Washington 11 5 0 .688 426 310<br />
NY Giants 9 7 0 .563 299 301<br />
st. louis 9 7 0 .563 423 345<br />
Dallas 9 7 0 .563 306 308<br />
Philadelphia 6 9 1 .406 276 320<br />
nFc West<br />
san Francisco 15 1 0 .936 475 227<br />
l.a. rams 10 6 0 .625 346 316<br />
New Orleans 7 9 0 .438 298 361<br />
atlanta 4 12 0 .250 261 362<br />
AFc central W L T Pct.. Pts OP<br />
Pittsburgh 9 7 0 .563 387 310<br />
Cincinnati 8 8 0 .500 339 339<br />
Cleveland 5 11 0 .313 250 297<br />
Houston 3 13 0 .168 240 437<br />
AFc east<br />
Miami 14 2 0 .875 513 298<br />
New england 9 7 0 .583 362 352<br />
NY Jets 7 9 0 .436 332 364<br />
Indianapolis 4 12 0 .250 239 414<br />
Buffalo 2 14 0 .125 250 454<br />
AFc West<br />
Denver 13 3 0 .813 353 241<br />
seattle 12 4 0 .750 416 282<br />
l.a. raiders 11 5 0 .688 366 278<br />
Kansas City 8 8 0 .500 314 324<br />
san Diego 7 9 0 .436 394 413<br />
NYG defeated larm, 16-13, in NFC wild card. sF defeated NYG, 21-10, and Chi defeated Was, 23-19, in<br />
NFC playoffs. sF defeated Chi, 23-0, for NFC title. sea defeated lard, 13-7, in aFC wild card. Mia defeated<br />
sea, 31-10, and Pit defeated Den, 24-17, in aFC playoffs. Mia defeated Pit, 45-28, for aFC title. sF defeated<br />
Mia, 38-16, for NFl title in sB XIX.<br />
IN 1984: Toxic gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 2,000 and injuring<br />
150,000.