1997 New England Patriots Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 10-6-0, 1st in AFC East Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Pete Carroll (10-6-0)

Points For: 369 (23.1/g) 8th of 30

Points Against: 289 (18.1/g) 8th of 30

Expected W-L: 10.3-5.7

SRS: 5.33 (5th of 30), SOS: .33

Playoffs:
Won Wild Card 17-3 vs. Miami Dolphins
Lost Divisional Round 6-7 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers

Offensive Coordinator: Larry Kennan

Defensive Coordinator: Steve Sidwell

Other Notable Asst.: Jeff Davidson (Tight Ends), Ron Lynn (Defensive Backs), Andre Patterson (Defensive Line) and Carl Smith (Asst. Head Coach/QB)

Stadium: Foxboro Stadium

Director of Player Personnel: Bobby Grier

Chairman/CEO: Robert Kraft

Defensive Alignment: 4-3

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +1200; O/U: 9.5

Training Camp: Bryant College (Smithfield, Rhode Island)

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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	369	5014	960	5.2	22	7	267	321	532	3550	31	15	6.3	173	398	1464	6	3.7	71	99	845	23
Opp. Stats	289	5085	1100	4.6	32	13	322	368	619	3469	14	19	5.2	183	436	1616	16	3.7	114	106	763	25
Lg Rank Offense	8	15			7	2	26		15	7	2	14	6		28	26	28	22
Lg Rank Defense	8	19			6	13	27		30	23	4	7	7		10	5	22	7

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	August 31	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-0		San Diego Chargers	41	7	22	424	340	84		14	227	142	85	3	19.61	18.87	-5.33
2	Sun	September 7	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-0	@	Indianapolis Colts	31	6	15	382	260	122		19	255	214	41	1	13.47	11.84	-3.53
3	Sun	September 14	8:00PM ET	boxscore	W	OT	3-0		New York Jets	27	24	23	375	162	213	3	22	355	225	130	3	-1.39	6.31	-2.63
4	Sun	September 21	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-0		Chicago Bears	31	3	23	402	315	87	3	9	199	120	79	3	6.86	24.45	-4.91
5									Bye Week
6	Mon	October 6	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		4-1	@	Denver Broncos	13	34	13	262	211	51	2	25	380	188	192	2	-17.54	-9.56	5.51
7	Sun	October 12	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-1		Buffalo Bills	33	6	19	310	171	139	1	13	242	148	94	4	-25.15	27.31	28.12
8	Sun	October 19	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-2	@	New York Jets	19	24	19	372	267	105	1	22	330	254	76		0.56	-14.34	5.58
9	Mon	October 27	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-3		Green Bay Packers	10	28	18	324	255	69	4	27	371	227	144	1	-5.81	-7.95	-2.38
10	Sun	November 2	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-4	@	Minnesota Vikings	18	23	21	410	293	117	1	18	288	222	66		3.26	-6.77	-4.81
11	Sun	November 9	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-4	@	Buffalo Bills	31	10	11	267	164	103		14	241	119	122	4	-3.60	24.17	-1.52
12	Sun	November 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		6-5	@	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	7	27	10	168	93	75	3	21	348	202	146	2	-22.01	6.38	-6.87
13	Sun	November 23	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-5		Miami Dolphins	27	24	15	318	234	84		33	406	370	36	3	1.43	5.78	-1.85
14	Sun	November 30	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		8-5		Indianapolis Colts	20	17	17	258	187	71		23	403	285	118	1	3.06	-8.20	9.23
15	Sun	December 7	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		9-5	@	Jacksonville Jaguars	26	20	16	282	227	55		23	341	234	107	2	1.91	1.90	2.08
16	Sat	December 13	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	9-6		Pittsburgh Steelers	21	24	15	253	211	42	2	22	404	266	138	2	-3.61	4.35	-2.48
17	Mon	December 22	9:00PM ET	boxscore	W		10-6	@	Miami Dolphins	14	12	10	207	160	47	2	17	295	253	42	1	-9.01	3.61	0.49
		Playoffs
Wild Card	Sun	December 28	12:30PM ET	boxscore	W		11-6		Miami Dolphins	17	3	15	228	120	108		10	162	120	42	3	-8.39	39.35	-8.61
Division	Sat	January 3	12:30PM ET	boxscore	L		11-7	@	Pittsburgh Steelers	6	7	15	280	244	36	4	16	279	134	145	1	-18.71	8.73	8.38

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	GWD	Awards
1	Drew Bledsoe	25	QB	16	16	10-6-0	314	522	60.2	3706	28	5.4	15	2.9	167	43.8	76	7.1	6.88	11.8	231.6	87.7	30	258	5.43	6.25	6.04	1	PB
2	Scott Zolak	30	QB	4	0		6	9	66.7	67	2	22.2	0	0.0	4	55.6	20	7.4	11.89	11.2	16.8	128.2	0	0	0.00	7.44	11.89	0
3	Dave Meggett	31	RB	16	2		1	1	100.0	35	1	100.0	0	0.0	0		35	35.0	55.00	35.0	2.2	158.3	0	0	0.00	35.00	55.00	0
	Team Totals			16	16	10-6-0	321	532	60.3	3550	31	5.8	15	2.8	171	44.0	76	7.2	7.05	11.9	221.9	89.9	30	258	5.34	6.32	6.22	1

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	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Drew Bledsoe	25	QB	2	2	1-1-0	39	76	51.3	403	1	1.3	2	2.6	19	30.9	39	5.3	4.38	10.3	201.5	60.4	5	39	6.17	4.49	3.63	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2	1-1-0	39	76	51.3	364	1	1.3	2	2.6	19	30.9	39	6.0	4.38	10.3	182.0	51.7	5	39	6.17	5.30	3.35	0	0

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	Curtis Martin	24	RB	13	13	274	1160	4	47	44.2	70	4.2	89.2	21.1	51	41	296	7.2	1	12	51.0	22	3.2	22.8	80.4	5.8	315	4.6	1456	5	3
2	Shawn Jefferson	28	WR	16	14	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	93	54	841	15.6	2	37	51.6	76	3.4	52.6	58.1	9.0	54	15.6	841	2	2
3	Ben Coates	28	TE	16	16	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	98	66	737	11.2	8	36	55.1	35	4.1	46.1	67.3	7.5	66	11.2	737	8	0	PB
4	Troy Brown	26	WR	16	6	1	-18	0	0	0.0	-18	-18.0	-1.1	0.1	69	41	607	14.8	6	23	44.9	67	2.6	37.9	59.4	8.8	42	14.0	589	6	0
5	Terry Glenn	23	WR	9	9	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	49	27	431	16.0	2	17	49.0	50	3.0	47.9	55.1	8.8	27	16.0	431	2	1
6	Vincent Brisby	26	WR	16	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	46	23	276	12.0	2	14	43.5	31	1.4	17.3	50.0	6.0	23	12.0	276	2	0
7	Dave Meggett	31	RB	16	2	20	60	1	0	0.0	10	3.0	3.8	1.3	24	19	203	10.7	1	0	0.0	49	1.2	12.7	79.2	8.5	39	6.7	263	2	2
8	Keith Byars	34	FB	16	8	11	24	0	4	45.5	5	2.2	1.5	0.7	40	20	189	9.5	3	8	30.0	51	1.3	11.8	50.0	4.7	31	6.9	213	3	1
9	Sam Gash	28	FB	16	5	6	10	0	0	0.0	4	1.7	0.6	0.4	29	22	154	7.0	3	12	62.1	19	1.4	9.6	75.9	5.3	28	5.9	164	3	0
10	Derrick Cullors	25	RB	15	1	22	101	0	4	40.9	24	4.6	6.7	1.5	5	2	8	4.0	0	0	0.0	6	0.1	0.5	40.0	1.6	24	4.5	109	0	3
11	Marrio Grier	26	RB	16	0	33	75	1	4	27.3	12	2.3	4.7	2.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			33	2.3	75	1	0
12	Lovett Purnell	25	TE	16	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	7	5	57	11.4	3	4	57.1	20	0.3	3.6	71.4	8.1	5	11.4	57	3	0
13	Drew Bledsoe	25	QB	16	16	28	55	0	10	50.0	8	2.0	3.4	1.8	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			28	2.0	55	0	4	PB
14	Dietrich Jells	25	WR	11	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	1	9	9.0	0	0	0.0	9	0.1	0.8	50.0	4.5	1	9.0	9	0	0
15	Sedrick Shaw	24	RB	1	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0		0	0	0
16	Scott Zolak	30	QB	4	0	3	-3	0	0	0.0	-1	-1.0	-0.8	0.8	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			3	-1.0	-3	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	398	1464	6	69	39.7	70	3.7	91.5	24.9	514	321	3808	11.9	31	163	46.1	76	20.1	238.0	62.5	7.4	719	7.3	5272	37	16

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	Terry Glenn	23	WR	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	20	9	153	17.0	0	5	35.0	39	4.5	76.5	45.0	7.7	9	17.0	153	0	0
2	Shawn Jefferson	28	WR	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	20	10	111	11.1	0	6	35.0	19	5.0	55.5	50.0	5.6	10	11.1	111	0	0
3	Derrick Cullors	25	RB	2	2	29	104	0	5	41.4	13	3.6	52.0	14.5	6	2	1	0.5	0	1	16.7	1	1.0	0.5	33.3	0.2	31	3.4	105	0	1
4	Troy Brown	26	WR	2	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	7	3	38	12.7	1	1	42.9	24	1.5	19.0	42.9	5.4	3	12.7	38	1	1
5	Vincent Brisby	26	WR	1	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	3	37	12.3	0	1	66.7	20	3.0	37.0	100.0	12.3	3	12.3	37	0	0
6	Sedrick Shaw	24	RB	1	0	10	22	0	1	30.0	9	2.2	22.0	10.0	1	1	13	13.0	0	1	100.0	13	1.0	13.0	100.0	13.0	11	3.2	35	0	0
7	Ben Coates	28	TE	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	7	4	25	6.3	0	3	42.9	9	2.0	12.5	57.1	3.6	4	6.3	25	0	0
8	Marrio Grier	26	RB	1	0	6	16	0	2	50.0	10	2.7	16.0	6.0	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			6	2.7	16	0	0
9	Dave Meggett	31	RB	1	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	2	2.0	2.0	1.0	2	2	11	5.5	0	0	0.0	14	2.0	11.0	100.0	5.5	3	4.3	13	0	0
10	Sam Gash	28	FB	2	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	2	9	4.5	0	0	0.0	6	1.0	4.5	66.7	3.0	2	4.5	9	0	0
11	Lovett Purnell	25	TE	2	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	1	4	4.0	0	0	0.0	4	0.5	2.0	33.3	1.3	1	4.0	4	0	0
12	Keith Byars	34	FB	2	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	4	2	1	0.5	0	0	0.0	2	1.0	0.5	50.0	0.3	2	0.5	1	0	0
13	Drew Bledsoe	25	QB	2	2	4	0	0	0	25.0	4	0.0	0.0	2.0	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			4	0.0	0	0	2
	Team Totals			2	2	50	144	0	8	38.0	13	2.9	72.0	25.0	76	39	403	10.3	1	18	31.6	39	19.5	201.5	51.3	5.3	89	6.1	547	1	4

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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	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Drew Bledsoe	25	QB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	-4	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB
2	Willie Clay	27	FS	16	16	6	109	1	53	1	0	2	0	0	0.0	95	68	27	0
3	Ted Johnson	25	MLB	16	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	127	95	32	0
4	Max Lane	26	LG	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
5	Ty Law	23	LCB	16	16	3	70	0	40	0	1	1	0	0	0.5	77	69	8	0
6	Lawyer Milloy	24	SS	16	16	3	15	0	15	2	0	2	0	0	0.0	112	82	30	0
7	Chris Slade	26	LLB	16	16	1	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	9.0	88	62	26	0	PB,AP-2
8	Henry Thomas	32	RDT	16	16	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	7.0	69	44	25	0
9	Todd Collins	27	RLB	15	15	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.5	99	64	35	0
10	Jimmy Hitchcock	27	RCB	15	15	2	104	1	100	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	83	65	18	0
11	Shawn Jefferson	28	WR	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Mark Wheeler	27	LDT	14	14	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	36	26	10	0
13	Curtis Martin	24	RB	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Willie McGinest	26	RDE	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2.0	35	25	10	0
15	Chris Sullivan	24	LDE	16	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	25	16	9	0
16	Terry Glenn	23	WR	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Keith Byars	34	FB	16	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Mike Jones	28	LDE	16	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4.0	30	22	8	0
19	Ferric Collons	28	LDE	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	1.0	15	11	4	0
20	Dave Meggett	31	RB	16	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
21	Lovett Purnell	25	TE	16	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
22	Tedy Bruschi	24	LB	16	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	4.0	30	25	5	0
23	Chris Canty	21	DB	16	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	9	0	2.0	26	24	2	0
24	Derrick Cullors	25	RB	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Chad Eaton	25	DT	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	21	13	8	0
26	Chris Carter	23	DB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
27	Vernon Crawford	23	LB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Steve Israel	28	DB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
29	Michael McGruder	33	DB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	4	4	0	0
30	Brandon Mitchell	22	DE	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	9	6	3	0
31	Marty Moore	26	LB	16	0	2	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	8	6	2	0
32	Larry Whigham	25	DB	16	0	2	60	1	60	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	19	15	4	0	PB
33	Devin Wyman	24	DT	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	1	2	0
	Team Totals			16	16	19	366	4	100	16	17	22	10	0	44.0	1012	744	268	0

Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions					Fumbles						Tackles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	PD	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Willie Clay	27	FS	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	5	2	3	0
2	Todd Collins	27	RLB	2	2	1	40	1	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11	7	4	0
3	Jimmy Hitchcock	27	RCB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	8	8	0	0
4	Ted Johnson	25	MLB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	14	10	4	0
5	Ty Law	23	LCB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	6	6	0	0
6	Willie McGinest	26	RDE	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.5	8	4	4	0
7	Lawyer Milloy	24	SS	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13	10	3	0
8	Chris Slade	26	LLB	2	2	1	22	0	22	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.5	9	8	1	0
9	Chris Sullivan	24	LDE	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	1	1	0
10	Henry Thomas	32	RDT	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	8	7	1	0
11	Mark Wheeler	27	LDT	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	8	4	4	0
12	Drew Bledsoe	25	QB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0			0
13	Keith Byars	34	FB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0			0
14	Derrick Cullors	25	RB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0			0
15	Troy Brown	26	WR	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0			0
16	Tedy Bruschi	24	LB	2	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	5	4	1
17	Chris Canty	21	DB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	4	4	0	0
18	Chad Eaton	25	DT	2	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	0
19	Marrio Grier	26	RB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	0	0
20	Steve Israel	28	DB	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
21	Mike Jones	28	LDE	2	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	4	2	2
22	Bernard Russ	24	LB	2	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	0
23	Tom Tupa	31	P	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
24	Larry Whigham	25	DB	2	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	4	4	0
	Team Totals			2	2	3	62	1	40	0	0	4	3	0	0	6.0	117	89	28	0