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1979 Denver Broncos Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 10-6-0, 2nd in AFC West Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Red Miller (10-6-0)

Points For: 289 (18.1/g) 20th of 28

Points Against: 262 (16.4/g) 5th of 28

Expected W-L: 8.9-7.1

SRS: 4.11 (6th of 28), SOS: 2.42

Playoffs:
Lost Wild Card 7-13 vs. Houston Oilers

Defensive Coordinator: Joe Collier

Other Notable Asst.: Richie McCabe (Defensive Backs), Paul Roach (Offensive Backs) and Bob Zeman (Linebackers)

Stadium: Mile High Stadium

Majority Owner/Chairman of the Board of Directors: Gerald Phipps

Partial Owner/President: Allan Phipps

VP/General Manager: Fred Gehrke

Defensive Alignment: 3-4

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +1200

Training Camp: Colorado State (Fort Collins, Colorado)

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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	289	5142	1044	4.9	40	17	306	260	476	3106	18	23	6.0	149	525	2036	13	3.9	130	116	996	27
Opp. Stats	262	4852	1033	4.7	37	18	273	296	512	3159	11	19	5.9	146	502	1693	16	3.4	100	118	1033	27
Lg Rank Offense	20	12			17	13	11		12	13	15	16	11		16	18	21	18
Lg Rank Defense	5	10			17	10	9		26	23	1	19	18		5	1	12	1

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 2	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-0		Cincinnati Bengals	10	0	22	399	200	199		16	232	137	95		12.68	-0.26	-1.15
2	Thu	September 6	8:30PM ET	boxscore	L		1-1		Los Angeles Rams	9	13	12	179	106	73	2	15	277	181	96		-24.86	8.35	9.59
3	Sun	September 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W	OT	2-1	@	Atlanta Falcons	20	17	18	369	201	168	2	19	382	326	56		2.10	-8.78	8.41
4	Sun	September 23	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-1		Seattle Seahawks	37	34	23	344	254	90	3	22	350	197	153	4	5.19	-0.41	-0.08
5	Sun	September 30	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-2	@	Oakland Raiders	3	27	21	291	210	81	3	16	277	187	90		-20.42	1.58	-4.15
6	Sun	October 7	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-2		San Diego Chargers	7	0	11	193	33	160	1	19	374	305	69	4	-16.86	12.31	13.70
7	Sun	October 14	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-2	@	Kansas City Chiefs	24	10	21	344	207	137	1	16	166	68	98	2	6.63	18.80	-11.45
8	Mon	October 22	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-3	@	Pittsburgh Steelers	7	42	16	329	276	53	3	27	530	294	236	3	-9.13	-26.73	2.19
9	Sun	October 28	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-3		Kansas City Chiefs	20	3	20	381	269	112	2	12	210	108	102	3	-2.11	24.53	-2.16
10	Sun	November 4	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-3		New Orleans Saints	10	3	19	349	201	148	3	13	239	117	122	1	-1.22	13.52	-4.07
11	Sun	November 11	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		8-3		New England Patriots	45	10	21	289	182	107	3	8	92	34	58	3	-5.03	35.84	-4.46
12	Sun	November 18	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		9-3	@	San Francisco 49ers	38	28	22	369	225	144	2	18	240	166	74	2	8.73	19.39	-15.12
13	Sun	November 25	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		9-4		Oakland Raiders	10	14	22	382	167	215	3	15	376	203	173	2	-10.96	0.17	0.98
14	Sun	December 2	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		10-4	@	Buffalo Bills	19	16	11	226	129	97	4	19	398	298	100	7	-32.11	39.18	-4.07
15	Sat	December 8	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		10-5	@	Seattle Seahawks	23	28	27	363	222	141	3	21	382	308	74	2	1.73	-3.71	-0.79
16	Mon	December 17	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		10-6	@	San Diego Chargers	7	17	20	335	224	111	5	17	327	230	97	4	-14.88	2.91	3.65
		Playoffs
Wild Card	Sun	December 23	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		10-7	@	Houston Oilers	7	13	17	216	104	112	1	15	282	147	135	2	-16.14	6.95	0.63

Passing

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	Craig Morton	36	QB	14	10	6-4-0	204	370	55.1	2626	16	4.3	19	5.1	117	43.0	64	7.1	5.7	12.9	187.6	70.6	30	241	7.50	5.96	4.6	1	3
2	Norris Weese	28	QB	16	6	4-2-0	53	97	54.6	731	1	1.0	3	3.1	30	37.3	50	7.5	6.4	13.8	45.7	69.6	13	86	11.82	5.86	4.8	0	1
3	Craig Penrose	26	QB	2	0		2	5	40.0	44	0	0.0	1	20.0	2	40.0	29	8.8	-0.2	22.0	22.0	32.5	0	0	0.00	8.80	-0.2	0	0
4	Jon Keyworth	29	FB	16	9		1	1	100.0	32	1	100.0	0	0.0	1	100.0	32	32.0	52.0	32.0	2.0	158.3	0	0	0.00	32.00	52.0	0	0
5	Dave Preston	24	RB	10	3		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	Luke Prestridge	23	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
7	Rick Upchurch	27	WR	16	16		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	PB,AP-2
	Team Totals			16	16	10-6-0	260	476	54.6	3106	18	3.8	23	4.8	150	41.6	64	7.2	5.8	13.2	194.1	70.1	43	327	8.29	5.98	4.68	1	4

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	Craig Morton	36	QB	1	1	0-1-0	14	27	51.9	144	1	3.7	1	3.7	9	30.3	25	5.3	4.4	10.3	144.0	64.4	6	40	18.18	3.15	2.4	0	0
	Team Totals			1	1	0-1-0	14	27	51.9	104	1	3.7	1	3.7	9	30.3	25	5.3	4.4	10.3	104.0	64.4	6	40	18.18	3.15	2.39	0	0

Rushing & Receiving

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	Rick Upchurch	27	WR	16	16	3	17	0	1	33.3	18	5.7	1.1	0.2	103	64	937	14.6	7	42	55.3	47	4.0	58.6	62.1	9.1	67	14.2	954	7	5	PB,AP-2
2	Haven Moses	33	WR	16	16	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	109	54	943	17.5	6	38	46.8	64	3.4	58.9	49.5	8.7	54	17.5	943	6	0
3	Riley Odoms	29	TE	13	12	1	-7	0	0	0.0	-7	-7.0	-0.5	0.1	68	40	638	16.0	1	31	55.9	45	3.1	49.1	58.8	9.4	41	15.4	631	1	0
4	Otis Armstrong	29	RB	15	1	108	453	2	25	49.1	26	4.2	30.2	7.2	21	14	138	9.9	1	6	61.9	17	0.9	9.2	66.7	6.6	122	4.8	591	3	2
5	Jim Jensen	26	FB	16	7	106	400	1	20	45.3	30	3.8	25.0	6.6	26	19	144	7.6	1	6	34.6	25	1.2	9.0	73.1	5.5	125	4.4	544	2	2
6	Rob Lytle	25	RB	15	12	102	371	4	25	50.0	19	3.6	24.7	6.8	25	13	93	7.2	0	4	44.0	12	0.9	6.2	52.0	3.7	115	4.0	464	4	1
7	Jon Keyworth	29	FB	16	9	81	323	1	18	46.9	17	4.0	20.2	5.1	29	18	132	7.3	0	4	31.0	18	1.1	8.3	62.1	4.6	99	4.6	455	1	4
8	Dave Preston	24	RB	10	3	43	169	1	10	48.8	18	3.9	16.9	4.3	27	19	137	7.2	1	7	44.4	19	1.9	13.7	70.4	5.1	62	4.9	306	2	1
9	Larry Canada	25	RB	16	0	36	143	0	14	50.0	17	4.0	8.9	2.3	5	3	36	12.0	0	2	40.0	15	0.2	2.3	60.0	7.2	39	4.6	179	0	2
10	Norris Weese	28	QB	16	6	18	116	3	8	72.2	20	6.4	7.3	1.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			18	6.4	116	3	4
11	Steve Watson	22	WR	16	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	15	6	83	13.8	0	3	33.3	22	0.4	5.2	40.0	5.5	6	13.8	83	0	0
12	Jack Dolbin	31	WR	4	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	4	3	74	24.7	0	2	75.0	45	0.8	18.5	75.0	18.5	3	24.7	74	0	0
13	Ron Egloff	24	TE	15	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	11	5	70	14.0	0	4	45.5	22	0.3	4.7	45.5	6.4	5	14.0	70	0	0
14	Luke Prestridge	23	P	16	0	1	29	0	1	0.0	29	29.0	1.8	0.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	29.0	29	0	0
15	Craig Morton	36	QB	14	10	23	13	1	7	39.1	7	0.6	0.9	1.6	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	23	0.6	13	1	9
16	Zachary Dixon	23	RB	5	0	3	9	0	0	0.0	7	3.0	1.8	0.6	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3	3.0	9	0	1
17	Jim Turner	38	K	16	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	1	6	6.0	0	0	0.0	6	0.1	0.4	100.0	6.0	1	6.0	6	0	0
18	Dave Studdard	24	RT	16	16	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	1	2	2.0	1	1	100.0	2	0.1	0.1	100.0	2.0	1	2.0	2	1	0
19	Vince Kinney	23	WR	15	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0		0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	525	2036	13	129	48.0	30	3.9	127.3	32.8	450	260	3433	13.2	18	150	48.0	64	16.3	214.6	57.8	7.6	785	7.0	5469	31	31

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	Otis Armstrong	29	RB	1	1	12	51	0	1	50.0	15	4.3	51.0	12.0	3	2	22	11.0	0	1	66.7	13	2.0	22.0	66.7	7.3	14	5.2	73	0	0
2	Dave Preston	24	RB	1	0	9	24	0	2	44.4	7	2.7	24.0	9.0	7	4	40	10.0	1	4	57.1	12	4.0	40.0	57.1	5.7	13	4.9	64	1	0
3	Haven Moses	33	WR	1	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	6	3	47	15.7	0	2	33.3	25	3.0	47.0	50.0	7.8	3	15.7	47	0	0
4	Larry Canada	25	RB	1	0	4	29	0	3	75.0	13	7.3	29.0	4.0	1	1	4	4.0	0	0	0.0	4	1.0	4.0	100.0	4.0	5	6.6	33	0	0
5	Ron Egloff	24	TE	1	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	1	17	17.0	0	1	50.0	17	1.0	17.0	50.0	8.5	1	17.0	17	0	0
6	Jim Jensen	26	FB	1	0	4	5	0	1	50.0	3	1.3	5.0	4.0	2	1	11	11.0	0	1	50.0	11	1.0	11.0	50.0	5.5	5	3.2	16	0	0
7	Riley Odoms	29	TE	1	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	2	3	1.5	0	0	0.0	3	2.0	3.0	66.7	1.0	2	1.5	3	0	0
8	Rick Upchurch	27	WR	1	1	1	3	0	0	0.0	3	3.0	3.0	1.0	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1	3.0	3	0	0
9	Craig Morton	36	QB	1	1	2	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	2.0		0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			2	0.0	0	0	1
10	Steve Watson	22	WR	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
	Team Totals			1	1	32	112	0	7	46.9	15	3.5	112.0	32.0	26	14	144	10.3	1	9	38.5	25	14.0	144.0	53.8	5.5	46	5.6	256	1	1

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Defense & Fumbles

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	Bill Bryan	24	C	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
2	Barney Chavous	28	LDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
3	Steve Foley	26	RCB	16	16	6	14	0	7	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
4	Tom Glassic	25	LG	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
5	Brison Manor	27	RDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	6.5	0	0	0	0
6	Bob Swenson	26	LOLB	16	16	3	0	0	0	1	1	4	93	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	AP DPoY-7
7	Bill Thompson	33	SS	16	16	4	57	0	28	1	0	2	28	1	1.0	0	0	0	0
8	Rick Upchurch	27	WR	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-2
9	Louis Wright	26	LCB	16	16	2	20	0	15	0	0	1	82	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-1,AP DPoY-8
10	Rubin Carter	27	NT	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Randy Gradishar	27	RILB	16	15	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	8	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-2,AP DPoY-8
12	Tom Jackson	28	ROLB	13	13	1	34	0	34	2	0	2	70	0	3.5	0	0	0	0	PB
13	Rob Lytle	25	RB	15	12	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Joe Rizzo	29	LILB	13	12	2	25	0	25	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Craig Morton	36	QB	14	10	0	0	0	0	0	9	2	-11	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Jon Keyworth	29	FB	16	9	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Jim Jensen	26	FB	16	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Charlie West	33	FS	16	7	1	26	0	26	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Norris Weese	28	QB	16	6	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Larry Evans	26	LB	16	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0	0	0	0
21	Dave Preston	24	RB	10	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
22	Otis Armstrong	29	RB	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
23	Don Latimer	24	NT	15	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
24	Ken Brown	25	C	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Larry Canada	25	RB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	-5	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Zachary Dixon	23	RB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	John Grant	29	NT	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.5	0	0	0	0
28	Chris Pane	26	DB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
29	Bruce Radford	24	DE	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
30	Jim Ryan	22	LB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	19	176	0	34	11	34	33	271	4	19.0	0	0	0	0

Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions					Fumbles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	PD	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Sfty	Awards
1	Barney Chavous	28	LDE	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0
2	Craig Morton	36	QB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
3	Bob Swenson	26	LOLB	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
4	Bill Thompson	33	SS	1	1	1	12	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
	Team Totals			1	1	2	12	0	12	0	0	1	1	0	0	1.0	0	0

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