
1981 New Orleans Saints Statistics
Team Record: 4-12
Finishing 4th in the NFL's West Division of the National Football Conference
Coach: Bum Phillips (4-12)
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
1981 New Orleans Saints Results
The New Orleans Saints of the National Football League ended the 1981 season with a record of 4 wins and 12 losses, finishing fourth in the NFL's West Division of the National Football Conference.
New Orleans struggled to score 207 points, worst in the circuit, while the defensive squad conceded 378. George Rogers piled up yardage, accumulating a 1,674 yards for the Saints.
Archie Manning threw for 1,447 yards, and Dave Wilson played quarterback, too. Jack Holmes grabbed 38 passes, while Guido Merkens added 458 receiving yards. Jeff Groth and Wayne Wilson were targeted regularly also.
Dave Waymer picked off 4 errant tosses from the opposition.
Bum Phillips coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Archie Manning | 232 | 134 | 57.8 | 1447 | 6.2 | 5 | 2.2 | 11 | 4.7 | 55 | 21 | 164 | 63.6 |
Dave Wilson | 159 | 82 | 51.6 | 1058 | 6.7 | 1 | 0.6 | 11 | 6.9 | 50 | 12 | 121 | 46.1 |
Bobby Scott | 46 | 20 | 43.5 | 245 | 5.3 | 1 | 2.2 | 5 | 10.9 | 31 | 7 | 72 | 28.2 |
Guido Merkens | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 20 | 10.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 85.4 |
Tom Myers | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 8 | 4.0 | 1 | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 |
Totals | 441 | 238 | 54.0 | 2778 | 6.3 | 8 | 1.8 | 27 | 6.1 | 55 | 41 | 359 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
George Rogers | 378 | 1674 | 4.4 | 79 | 13 |
Jack Holmes | 58 | 194 | 3.3 | 11 | 2 |
Toussaint Tyler | 36 | 183 | 5.1 | 42 | 0 |
Wayne Wilson | 44 | 137 | 3.1 | 13 | 1 |
Jimmy Rogers | 9 | 37 | 4.1 | 15 | 0 |
Archie Manning | 2 | 28 | 14.0 | 15 | 0 |
Jeff Groth | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 28 | 0 |
Russell Erxleben | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 26 | 0 |
Scott Stauch | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 5 | 0 |
Dave Wilson | 5 | 1 | 0.2 | 9 | 0 |
Guido Merkens | 2 | -1 | -0.5 | 2 | 0 |
Rich Caster | 1 | -3 | -3.0 | -3 | 0 |
Tom Myers | 2 | -3 | -1.5 | 6 | 0 |
Bobby Scott | 3 | -4 | -1.3 | -1 | 0 |
Totals | 546 | 2286 | 4.2 | 79 | 16 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jack Holmes | 38 | 206 | 5.4 | 19 | 0 |
Wayne Wilson | 31 | 384 | 12.4 | 55 | 4 |
Guido Merkens | 29 | 458 | 15.8 | 50 | 1 |
Larry Hardy | 23 | 275 | 12.0 | 27 | 1 |
Toussaint Tyler | 23 | 135 | 5.9 | 18 | 0 |
Jeff Groth | 20 | 380 | 19.0 | 54 | 1 |
Wes Chandler | 17 | 285 | 16.8 | 39 | 1 |
George Rogers | 16 | 126 | 7.9 | 25 | 0 |
Rich Martini | 8 | 72 | 9.0 | 15 | 0 |
Hoby Brenner | 7 | 143 | 20.4 | 34 | 0 |
Rich Caster | 7 | 108 | 15.4 | 31 | 0 |
Aundra Thompson | 6 | 81 | 13.5 | 25 | 0 |
Brooks Williams | 5 | 50 | 10.0 | 13 | 0 |
Ike Harris | 2 | 33 | 16.5 | 20 | 0 |
Gordon Banks | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 12 | 0 |
Jimmy Rogers | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 9 | 0 |
Scott Stauch | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Dave Lafary | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Totals | 238 | 2778 | 11.7 | 55 | 8 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Benny Ricardo | 24 | 24 | 100.0 | 25 | 13 | 52.0 | 63 |
Totals | 24 | 24 | 100.0 | 25 | 13 | 52.0 | 63 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Russell Erxleben | 66 | 2672 | 40.5 | 60 |
Totals | 66 | 2672 | 40.5 | 60 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jeff Groth | 37 | 436 | 11.8 | 36 | 0 |
Johnnie Poe | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
Gordon Banks | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Guido Merkens | 1 | -12 | -12.0 | -12 | 0 |
Totals | 41 | 426 | 10.4 | 36 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wayne Wilson | 31 | 722 | 23.3 | 57 | 0 |
Jimmy Rogers | 28 | 621 | 22.2 | 44 | 0 |
Scott Stauch | 3 | 65 | 21.7 | 29 | 0 |
Jeff Groth | 3 | 50 | 16.7 | 21 | 0 |
Guido Merkens | 2 | 38 | 19.0 | 20 | 0 |
Stan Brock | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 12 | 0 |
Gordon Banks | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
Totals | 70 | 1523 | 21.8 | 57 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dave Waymer | 4 | 54 | 13.5 | 31 | 0 |
Frank Wattelet | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 16 | 0 |
Tom Myers | 2 | 70 | 35.0 | 54 | 0 |
Ricky Ray | 1 | 33 | 33.0 | 33 | 0 |
Rob Nairne | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
Jim Kovach | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
Glen Redd | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Ken Bordelon | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Russell Gary | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Johnnie Poe | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Spivey | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 17 | 214 | 12.6 | 54 | 0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rickey Jackson | 125 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Frank Warren | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Dave Wilson | 4 | 3 | -8 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Guido Merkens | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Dave Waymer | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Larry Hardy | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Stan Brock | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Rob Nairne | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jim Wilks | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Derland Moore | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Wayne Wilson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Elois Grooms | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | ||||
J.T. Taylor | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Wes Chandler | 0 | 1 | 51 | 0 | |||||
George Rogers | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Bobby Scott | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Tom Myers | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jim Kovach | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jimmy Rogers | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gordon Banks | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Scott Stauch | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Johnnie Poe | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
Dave Lafary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Scott Pelluer | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Nat Hudson | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Frank Wattelet | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Russell Erxleben | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Rich Caster | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Toussaint Tyler | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Hoby Brenner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Archie Manning | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Totals | 145 | 145 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 35 | 87 | 0 | 2 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
George Rogers | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | ||||||||
Benny Ricardo | 13 | 24 | 0 | 63 | ||||||||||
Wayne Wilson | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |||||||
Jack Holmes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Larry Hardy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Jeff Groth | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
Wes Chandler | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Guido Merkens | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
Totals | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207 |