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1974 Houston Oilers Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 7-7-0, 2nd in AFC Central Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Sid Gillman (7-7-0)

Points For: 236 (16.9/g) 17th of 26

Points Against: 282 (20.1/g) 18th of 26

Expected W-L: 5.5-8.5

SRS: -1.91 (16th of 26), SOS: 1.38

Defensive Coordinator: Bum Phillips

Other Notable Asst.: Ed Biles (Defensive Backs), Sam Boghosian (Special Teams), Lew Carpenter (Receivers), King Hill (Quarterbacks), Larry Peccatiello (Linebackers) and Richie Petitbon (Defensive Assistant)

Stadium: Houston Astrodome

Founder/Owner/Chairman/President/CEO: Bud Adams

Head Coach/General Manager: Sid Gillman

Offensive Scheme: Vertical

Defensive Alignment: 3-4

Training Camp: Sam Houston State (Huntsville, Texas)

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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	236	3338	817	4.1	33	14	200	203	363	1977	12	19	5.0	103	421	1361	16	3.2	76	90	749	21
Opp. Stats	282	4425	919	4.8	36	15	268	231	405	2375	19	21	5.3	129	474	2050	15	4.3	124	94	872	15
Lg Rank Offense	17	24			14	14	25		16	20	15	13	18		23	26	7	25
Lg Rank Defense	18	22			8	8	23		20	20	23	11	13		13	19	12	22

Schedule & Game Results

Schedule & Game Results Table
										Score		Offense					Defense
Week	Day	Date				OT	Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO
1	Sun	September 15	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-0		San Diego Chargers	21	14	19	349	193	156	1	23	411	195	216	5
2	Sun	September 22	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-1	@	Cleveland Browns	7	20	13	168	133	35	6	22	342	126	216
3	Sun	September 29	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-2		Kansas City Chiefs	7	17	17	206	151	55	4	13	172	152	20	1
4	Sun	October 6	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-3		Pittsburgh Steelers	7	13	10	240	121	119	3	18	386	202	184	3
5	Sun	October 13	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-4	@	Minnesota Vikings	10	51	11	185	129	56	4	25	502	357	145
6	Sun	October 20	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-5		St. Louis Cardinals	27	31	21	433	348	85	3	23	345	134	211	2
7	Sun	October 27	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-5	@	Cincinnati Bengals	34	21	12	254	142	112		26	415	330	85	6
8	Sun	November 3	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-5	@	New York Jets	27	22	20	325	214	111	1	18	312	235	77	2
9	Sun	November 10	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-5	@	Buffalo Bills	21	9	10	174	59	115	4	16	224	91	133	6
10	Sun	November 17	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-5		Cincinnati Bengals	20	3	14	214	90	124	1	16	238	149	89	2
11	Sun	November 24	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-6		Dallas Cowboys	0	10	6	81	55	26	1	15	252	38	214	1
12	Sun	December 1	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-6	@	Pittsburgh Steelers	13	10	11	158	61	97		6	84	9	75	3
13	Sun	December 8	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		6-7	@	Denver Broncos	14	37	16	268	180	88	2	27	411	168	243	1
14	Sun	December 15	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-7		Cleveland Browns	28	24	20	283	101	182	3	20	331	189	142	4

Passing

Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Dan Pastorini	25	QB	11	10	6-4-0	140	247	56.7	1571	10	4.0	10	4.0	65	6.4	5.35	11.2	142.8	72.4	23	225	8.52	4.99	4.06	1	2
2	Lynn Dickey	25	QB	14	4	1-3-0	63	113	55.8	704	2	1.8	8	7.1	59	6.2	3.40	11.2	50.3	50.9	10	73	8.13	5.13	2.53	0	1
3	George Amundson	23	RB	14	3		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	100.0		0.0	-45.00		0.0	0.0	0	0	0.00	0.00	-45.00	0	0
4	Ronnie Coleman	23	RB	13	4		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0.0	0.00		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0
	Team Totals			14	14	7-7-0	203	363	55.9	1977	12	3.3	19	5.2	65	6.3	4.57	11.2	141.2	64.0	33	298	8.33	4.99	3.44	1	3

Rushing & Receiving

Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing							Receiving							Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Willie Rodgers	25	FB	14	11	122	413	5	20	3.4	29.5	8.7	24	153	6.4	0	24	1.7	10.9	146	3.9	566	5	5
2	Ken Burrough	26	WR	11	11	1	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.1	36	492	13.7	2	51	3.3	44.7	37	13.3	492	2	1
3	Billy Johnson	22	WR	14	5	5	82	1	47	16.4	5.9	0.4	29	388	13.4	2	44	2.1	27.7	34	13.8	470	3	1
4	Vic Washington	28	RB	12	5	74	281	2	23	3.8	23.4	6.2	13	92	7.1	0	15	1.1	7.7	87	4.3	373	2	4
5	Fred Willis	27	RB	10	5	74	239	3	18	3.2	23.9	7.4	25	130	5.2	1	21	2.5	13.0	99	3.7	369	4	0
6	Billy Parks	26	WR	14	12	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	20	330	16.5	1	59	1.4	23.6	20	16.5	330	1	0
7	George Amundson	23	RB	14	3	59	138	4	11	2.3	9.9	4.2	18	152	8.4	1	29	1.3	10.9	77	3.8	290	5	1
8	Mack Alston	27	TE	13	12	1	-3	0	-3	-3.0	-0.2	0.1	17	249	14.6	3	33	1.3	19.2	18	13.7	246	3	1
9	Ronnie Coleman	23	RB	13	4	52	193	1	37	3.7	14.8	4.0	4	9	2.3	0	7	0.3	0.7	56	3.6	202	1	1
10	Mike Montgomery	25	WR	5	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	9	179	19.9	1	65	1.8	35.8	9	19.9	179	1	0
11	Jerry Broadnax	23	TE	8	2	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	3	69	23.0	0	42	0.4	8.6	3	23.0	69	0	0
12	Bob Gresham	26	RB	14	0	3	6	0	3	2.0	0.4	0.2	3	19	6.3	0	9	0.2	1.4	6	4.2	25	0	2
13	Jeff Queen	28	TE	11	0	2	7	0	4	3.5	0.6	0.2	1	4	4.0	1	4	0.1	0.4	3	3.7	11	1	0
14	Terry Wells	23	RB	6	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	9	9.0	0	9	0.2	1.5	1	9.0	9	0	0
15	Lynn Dickey	25	QB	14	4	3	7	0	7	2.3	0.5	0.2	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	3	2.3	7	0	2
16	David Beverly	24	P	14	0	1	4	0	4	4.0	0.3	0.1	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	1	4.0	4	0	0
17	Dan Pastorini	25	QB	11	10	24	-6	0	7	-0.3	-0.5	2.2	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	24	-0.3	-6	0	8
	Team Totals			14	14	421	1361	16	47	3.2	97.2	30.1	203	2275	11.2	12	65	14.5	162.5	624	5.8	3636	28	26

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Defense & Fumbles

Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions				Fumbles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Sfty	Awards
1	Willie Alexander	25	LCB	14	14	2	56	0	29	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	Bob Atkins	28	FS	14	14	6	85	0	36	0	2	0	0	0.0	0
3	Elvin Bethea	28	RDE	14	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	38	1	5.0	0	PB
4	Gregg Bingham	23	LILB	14	14	4	36	0	18	0	1	0	0	0.0	0
5	Steve Kiner	27	RILB	14	14	1	34	0	34	0	0	0	0	2.5	0
6	Zeke Moore	31	RCB	14	14	2	38	1	22	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	Tody Smith	26	LDE	14	14	1	34	0	34	0	1	0	0	10.5	0
8	Ted Washington	26	ROLB	14	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	11.0	0
9	Mack Alston	27	TE	13	12	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0
10	Ken Burrough	26	WR	11	11	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0
11	Willie Rodgers	25	FB	14	11	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	0
12	Al Cowlings	27	LOLB	14	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0
13	Dan Pastorini	25	QB	11	10	0	0	0	0	8	4	-17	0	0.0	0
14	Curley Culp	28	LDT	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	0
15	Harris Jones	29	LG	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0
16	Ronnie Carroll	25	G	14	5	0	0	0	0	0	4	28	0	0.0	0
17	Billy Johnson	22	WR	14	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0
18	Vic Washington	28	RB	12	5	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0.0	0
19	Ronnie Coleman	23	RB	13	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0
20	Lynn Dickey	25	QB	14	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	-7	0	0.0	0
21	Jeff Severson	25	DB	14	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0
22	George Amundson	23	RB	14	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0
23	Duane Benson	29	LOLB	13	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	0
24	Tommy Maxwell	27	DB	13	1	2	30	0	15	0	1	0	0	0.0	0
25	Bob Gresham	26	RB	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	0
26	Guy Roberts	24	LB	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	0
27	Jim White	26	DE	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0
28	C.L. Whittington	22	DB	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0
	Team Totals			14	14	21	313	1	36	26	25	42	1	42.0	0

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