1981 Chicago Bears Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 6-10-0, 5th in NFC Central Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Neill Armstrong (6-10-0)

Points For: 253 (15.8/g) 27th of 28

Points Against: 324 (20.3/g) 14th of 28

Expected W-L: 5.7-10.3

SRS: -2.85 (20th of 28), SOS: 1.58

Offensive Coordinator: Ted Marchibroda

Defensive Coordinator: Buddy Ryan

Other Notable Asst.: Jim Dooley (Offensive Consultant), Hank Kuhlmann (Running Backs/Special Teams), Ted Plumb (Receivers) and Dick Stanfel (Offensive Line)

Stadium: Soldier Field

Principal Owner: George Halas

Executive VP/General Manager: Jim Finks

Defensive Alignment: 4-3

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +1800

Training Camp: Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois)

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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	253	4633	1132	4.1	40	17	278	222	489	2462	14	23	4.7	126	608	2171	13	3.6	126	121	996	26
Opp. Stats	324	5394	1077	5.0	40	22	290	233	525	3248	23	18	5.8	144	521	2146	13	4.1	120	119	961	26
Lg Rank Offense	27	26			13	9	24		15	27	26	16	28		3	11	17	25
Lg Rank Defense	14	19			12	4	7		20	14	18	18	12		17	20	9	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 6	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-1		Green Bay Packers	9	16	20	306	161	145	4	20	346	153	193	3	-10.76	7.73	0.98
2	Sun	September 13	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-2	@	San Francisco 49ers	17	28	18	339	216	123	3	20	412	287	125	2	-9.32	-3.04	2.10
3	Sun	September 20	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-2		Tampa Bay Buccaneers	28	17	15	247	126	121	1	22	450	309	141	3	-4.83	5.12	9.49
4	Mon	September 28	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-3		Los Angeles Rams	7	24	17	223	135	88	3	20	329	195	134	2	-23.97	13.92	-10.63
5	Sun	October 4	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-4	@	Minnesota Vikings	21	24	24	396	307	89	2	22	345	211	134	1	1.96	1.96	-5.13
6	Sun	October 11	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-5		Washington Redskins	7	24	13	204	153	51	4	16	301	74	227	1	-31.91	8.99	7.43
7	Mon	October 19	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-6	@	Detroit Lions	17	48	24	449	316	133	4	23	485	326	159	1	-7.28	-27.43	0.44
8	Sun	October 25	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W	OT	2-6		San Diego Chargers	20	17	28	414	219	195	1	15	356	295	61	2	0.15	8.04	-4.80
9	Sun	November 1	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-7	@	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	10	20	18	325	233	92	3	15	392	183	209	1	-10.25	-8.22	8.27
10	Sun	November 8	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W	OT	3-7	@	Kansas City Chiefs	16	13	15	278	77	201		18	249	84	165	6	-16.69	19.09	0.60
11	Sun	November 15	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-8	@	Green Bay Packers	17	21	20	253	88	165	3	18	247	133	114	2	-17.58	10.33	0.02
12	Sun	November 22	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-9		Detroit Lions	7	23	4	24	-20	44	3	20	356	127	229	3	-46.70	21.66	5.83
13	Thu	November 26	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-10	@	Dallas Cowboys	9	10	15	272	43	229	3	11	273	178	95	3	-15.23	21.12	-4.39
14	Sun	December 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-10		Minnesota Vikings	10	9	13	244	69	175	2	16	292	254	38	5	-13.63	15.84	-1.04
15	Sun	December 13	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-10	@	Oakland Raiders	23	6	19	378	228	150	2	15	263	217	46	2	-0.45	19.70	-1.29
16	Sun	December 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-10		Denver Broncos	35	24	15	281	111	170	2	19	298	222	76	3	-11.71	28.51	-11.35

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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
1	Vince Evans	26	QB	16	16	6-10-0	195	436	44.7	2354	11	2.5	20	4.6	114	33.3	85	5.4	3.8	12.1	147.1	51.1	23	173	5.01	4.75	3.3	0	2
2	Bob Avellini	28	QB	9	0		15	32	46.9	185	1	3.1	3	9.4	6	23.1	72	5.8	2.2	12.3	20.6	36.6	7	52	17.95	3.41	0.5	1	1
3	Mike Phipps	34	QB	3	0		11	17	64.7	171	2	11.8	0	0.0	6	45.5	43	10.1	12.4	15.5	57.0	137.1	5	41	22.73	5.91	7.7	0	0
4	Brian Baschnagel	27	WR	16	14		1	1	100.0	18	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	100.0	18	18.0	18.0	18.0	1.1	118.7	0	0	0.00	18.00	18.0	0	0
5	Bob Parsons	31	P	16	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0			0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0	0	0
6	Walter Payton	28	RB	16	16		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0			0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	6-10-0	222	489	45.4	2462	14	2.9	23	4.7	127	33.0	85	5.6	4.0	12.3	153.9	53.1	35	266	6.68	4.70	3.26	1	3

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	Walter Payton	28	RB	16	16	339	1222	6	58	44.0	39	3.6	76.4	21.2	77	41	379	9.2	2	17	33.8	30	2.6	23.7	53.2	4.9	380	4.2	1601	8	9
2	Matt Suhey	23	FB	15	14	150	521	3	40	47.3	26	3.5	34.7	10.0	41	33	168	5.1	0	7	41.5	15	2.2	11.2	80.5	4.1	183	3.8	689	3	3
3	Ken Margerum	23	WR	16	7	1	11	0	1	100.0	11	11.0	0.7	0.1	96	39	584	15.0	1	31	37.5	41	2.4	36.5	40.6	6.1	40	14.9	595	1	0
4	Brian Baschnagel	27	WR	16	14	1	10	0	0	100.0	10	10.0	0.6	0.1	88	34	554	16.3	3	28	36.4	72	2.1	34.6	38.6	6.3	35	16.1	564	3	2
5	Rickey Watts	24	WR	12	9	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	74	27	465	17.2	3	22	35.1	42	2.3	38.8	36.5	6.3	27	17.2	465	3	3
6	Marcus Anderson	22	WR	12	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	15	9	243	27.0	2	5	60.0	85	0.8	20.3	60.0	16.2	9	27.0	243	2	1
7	Vince Evans	26	QB	16	16	43	218	3	20	53.5	25	5.1	13.6	2.7	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			43	5.1	218	3	13
8	Dave Williams	27	RB	8	0	2	19	0	2	100.0	15	9.5	2.4	0.3	26	18	126	7.0	2	6	34.6	18	2.3	15.8	69.2	4.8	20	7.3	145	2	0
9	Robin Earl	26	TE	16	15	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	28	10	118	11.8	1	7	35.7	24	0.6	7.4	35.7	4.2	10	11.8	118	1	0
10	Roland Harper	28	RB	15	2	34	106	1	3	50.0	11	3.1	7.1	2.3	4	2	10	5.0	0	0	25.0	8	0.1	0.7	50.0	2.5	36	3.2	116	1	1
11	Willie McClendon	24	RB	16	0	30	74	0	2	26.7	17	2.5	4.6	1.9	3	2	4	2.0	0	0	33.3	4	0.1	0.3	66.7	1.3	32	2.4	78	0	0
12	Brooks Williams	27	TE	5	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	8	3	32	10.7	0	2	25.0	16	0.6	6.4	37.5	4.0	3	10.7	32	0	0
13	Mike Cobb	26	TE	16	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	6	2	20	10.0	0	1	33.3	11	0.1	1.3	33.3	3.3	2	10.0	20	0	0
14	Al Harris	25	RDE	16	11	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	1	18	18.0	0	1	100.0	18	0.1	1.1	100.0	18.0	1	18.0	18	0	0
15	Emanuel Zanders	30	RG	12	12	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	1	7	7.0	0	0	0.0	7	0.1	0.6	100.0	7.0	1	7.0	7	0	0
16	Bob Avellini	28	QB	9	0	5	2	0	0	0.0	2	0.4	0.2	0.6	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			5	0.4	2	0	0
17	Bob Fisher	23	TE	6	1	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
18	Emery Moorehead	27	FL	9	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
19	Mike Phipps	34	QB	3	0	1	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.3	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	0.0	0	0	0
20	Dan Neal	32	C	16	16	1	-6	0	0	0.0	-6	-6.0	-0.4	0.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	-6.0	-6	0	2
21	Bob Parsons	31	P	16	0	1	-6	0	0	0.0	-6	-6.0	-0.4	0.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	-6.0	-6	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	608	2171	13	126	44.7	39	3.6	135.7	38.0	470	222	2728	12.3	14	127	36.6	85	13.9	170.5	47.2	5.8	830	5.9	4899	27	34

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Defense & Fumbles

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						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	Gary Campbell	29	RLB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
2	Vince Evans	26	QB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	13	2	-10	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
3	Gary Fencik	27	SS	16	16	6	121	1	69	3	0	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-1
4	Dan Hampton	24	LDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9.0	0	0	0	0
5	Reuben Henderson	23	RCB	16	16	4	84	0	39	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
6	Dan Neal	32	C	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	-4	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	Jim Osborne	32	LDT	16	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	7	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
8	Alan Page	36	RDT	16	16	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	9.0	0	0	0	0
9	Walter Payton	28	RB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	9	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
10	Terry Schmidt	29	LCB	16	16	2	4	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Brian Baschnagel	27	WR	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Matt Suhey	23	FB	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Doug Plank	28	FS	16	12	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	6	0	3.0	0	0	0	1
14	Keith Van Horne	24	RT	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Otis Wilson	24	LLB	15	12	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	31	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Emanuel Zanders	30	RG	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Al Harris	25	RDE	16	11	1	44	1	44	1	0	3	5	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
18	Mike Singletary	23	MLB	16	9	1	-3	0	-3	2	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Rickey Watts	24	WR	12	9	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Ken Margerum	23	WR	16	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
21	Mike Hartenstine	28	RDE	16	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
22	Revie Sorey	28	G	16	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
23	Len Walterscheid	27	DB	6	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
24	Roland Harper	28	RB	15	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Marcus Anderson	22	WR	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Mike Cobb	26	TE	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	Todd Bell	23	FS	16	0	1	92	1	92	2	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Jeff Fisher	23	DB	16	0	2	3	0	3	1	3	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
29	Bruce Herron	27	LB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
30	Steve McMichael	24	DT	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	18	345	3	92	17	37	41	42	0	31.0	1	1	0	1

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