1988 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 5-11-0, 3rd in NFC Central Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Ray Perkins (5-11-0)

Points For: 261 (16.3/g) 22nd of 28

Points Against: 350 (21.9/g) 19th of 28

Expected W-L: 5.3-10.7

SRS: -4.06 (23rd of 28), SOS: 1.50

Defensive Coordinator: Doug Graber

Other Notable Asst.: Larry Beightol (Offensive Line), Sylvester Croom (Running Backs), Herb Paterra (Linebackers), Mike Shula (Offensive Assistant) and Richard Williamson (Wide Receivers/AHC)

Stadium: Tampa Stadium

Owner/President: Hugh Culverhouse

General Manager/Assistant to the President: Phil Krueger

Head Coach/VP of Player Personnel: Ray Perkins

Offensive Scheme: Erhardt-Perkins

Defensive Alignment: 3-4

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +20000

Training Camp: University of Tampa (Tampa, Florida)

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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	261	5061	998	5.1	52	16	295	253	512	3308	16	36	6.1	173	452	1753	11	3.9	91	102	816	31
Opp. Stats	350	5155	1025	5.0	33	12	293	304	527	3604	19	21	6.6	169	478	1551	21	3.2	104	105	872	20
Lg Rank Offense	22	17			28	16	18		14	12	18	28	11		21	21	19	18
Lg Rank Defense	19	13			16	22	9		21	26	12	11	25		14	2	25	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 4	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-1		Philadelphia Eagles	14	41	19	362	319	43	5	18	389	248	141	2	-22.54	-5.64	1.74
2	Sun	September 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-1	@	Green Bay Packers	13	10	18	266	118	148	2	13	240	181	59	2	-10.92	8.66	8.99
3	Sun	September 18	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-2		Phoenix Cardinals	24	30	15	298	184	114	3	24	475	294	181		2.42	-15.35	4.90
4	Sun	September 25	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		1-3	@	New Orleans Saints	9	13	19	296	204	92	1	18	268	151	117	1	-5.55	1.96	2.49
5	Sun	October 2	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-3		Green Bay Packers	27	24	17	368	283	85	5	22	426	354	72	3	-6.57	8.22	-3.08
6	Sun	October 9	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-4	@	Minnesota Vikings	13	14	18	331	154	177	3	15	276	207	69	2	-6.99	6.23	3.93
7	Sun	October 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-5	@	Indianapolis Colts	31	35	24	483	444	39	2	25	349	246	103	2	12.84	-15.22	0.12
8	Sun	October 23	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-6		Minnesota Vikings	20	49	18	243	215	28	7	25	433	305	128	1	-23.51	-13.28	7.73
9	Sun	October 30	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-7		Miami Dolphins	14	17	21	362	283	79	5	20	309	266	43		-12.27	0.45	6.73
10	Sun	November 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-8	@	Chicago Bears	10	28	25	357	273	84	2	19	338	269	69	3	-6.49	-6.18	-7.57
11	Sun	November 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-8	@	Detroit Lions	23	20	17	304	79	225	4	21	278	203	75	3	-3.27	4.96	1.43
12	Sun	November 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-9		Chicago Bears	15	27	18	321	153	168	3	16	339	200	139	4	-18.38	6.36	0.94
13	Sun	November 27	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-10	@	Atlanta Falcons	10	17	16	313	186	127	4	16	289	108	181	2	-6.37	-0.22	0.52
14	Sun	December 4	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-10		Buffalo Bills	10	5	19	253	143	110		16	273	234	39	2	-5.54	13.32	-0.90
15	Sun	December 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	4-11	@	New England Patriots	7	10	14	262	131	131	2	11	223	147	76	2	-16.42	18.25	-3.98
16	Sun	December 18	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-11		Detroit Lions	21	10	17	242	139	103	4	14	250	191	59	4	0.15	18.78	-7.19

Passing

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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	Vinny Testaverde	25	QB	15	15	5-10-0	222	466	47.6	3240	13	2.8	35	7.5	156	39.1	59	7.0	4.1	14.6	216.0	48.8	33	292	6.61	5.91	3.3	2	3
2	Joe Ferguson	38	QB	2	1	0-1-0	31	46	67.4	368	3	6.5	1	2.2	17	57.4	34	8.0	8.3	11.9	184.0	104.3	1	8	2.13	7.66	8.0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	5-11-0	253	512	49.4	3308	16	3.1	36	7.0	173	40.7	59	7.0	4.5	14.3	206.8	53.7	34	300	6.23	6.06	3.68	2	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	Bruce Hill	24	WR	14	14	2	-11	0	0	0.0	3	-5.5	-0.8	0.1	114	58	1040	17.9	9	50	49.1	42	4.1	74.3	50.9	9.1	60	17.2	1029	9	2
2	Mark Carrier	23	WR	16	16	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	109	57	970	17.0	5	45	51.4	59	3.6	60.6	52.3	8.9	57	17.0	970	5	2
3	Ron Hall	24	TE	15	14	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	72	39	555	14.2	0	27	50.0	37	2.6	37.0	54.2	7.7	39	14.2	555	0	0
4	William Howard	24	FB	15	9	115	452	1	24	51.3	29	3.9	30.1	7.7	19	11	97	8.8	0	5	47.4	16	0.7	6.5	57.9	5.1	126	4.4	549	1	2
5	Lars Tate	22	RB	15	5	122	467	7	28	41.8	47	3.8	31.1	8.1	10	5	23	4.6	1	1	30.0	9	0.3	1.5	50.0	2.3	127	3.9	490	8	2
6	James Wilder	30	FB	7	7	86	343	1	17	50.0	19	4.0	49.0	12.3	18	15	124	8.3	0	4	50.0	24	2.1	17.7	83.3	6.9	101	4.6	467	1	1
7	Kerry Goode	23	RB	14	5	63	231	0	9	38.1	22	3.7	16.5	4.5	11	7	68	9.7	0	3	54.5	22	0.5	4.9	63.6	6.2	70	4.3	299	0	0
8	Jeff Smith	26	RB	16	3	20	87	0	3	30.0	23	4.4	5.4	1.3	24	16	134	8.4	0	7	41.7	22	1.0	8.4	66.7	5.6	36	6.1	221	0	0
9	Frank Pillow	23	WR	15	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	39	15	206	13.7	1	10	33.3	34	1.0	13.7	38.5	5.3	15	13.7	206	1	0
10	Don Smith	25	RB	10	3	13	46	1	2	46.2	15	3.5	4.6	1.3	23	12	138	11.5	0	9	43.5	25	1.2	13.8	52.2	6.0	25	7.4	184	1	0
11	Vinny Testaverde	25	QB	15	15	28	138	1	9	42.9	24	4.9	9.2	1.9	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			28	4.9	138	1	8
12	Calvin Magee	25	TE	13	3	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	12	9	103	11.4	0	4	50.0	25	0.7	7.9	75.0	8.6	9	11.4	103	0	0
13	Stephen Starring	27	WR	6	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	5	3	75	25.0	0	3	60.0	53	0.5	12.5	60.0	15.0	3	25.0	75	0	0
14	Gene Taylor	26	WR	4	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	15	5	53	10.6	0	4	26.7	14	1.3	13.3	33.3	3.5	5	10.6	53	0	0
15	Jeff Parks	24	TE	3	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	1	22	22.0	0	1	33.3	22	0.3	7.3	33.3	7.3	1	22.0	22	0	0
16	Ray Criswell	25	P	16	0	2	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			2	0.0	0	0	1
17	Joe Ferguson	38	QB	2	1	1	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.5	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	0.0	0	0	1
	Team Totals			16	16	452	1753	11	92	44.5	47	3.9	109.6	28.3	474	253	3608	14.3	16	173	46.8	59	15.8	225.5	53.4	7.6	705	7.6	5361	27	19

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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	Mark Carrier	23	WR	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
2	Paul Gruber	23	LT	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
3	Harry Hamilton	26	FS	16	16	6	123	0	58	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
4	Eugene Marve	28	LILB	16	16	1	29	0	29	1	0	0	0	0	1.5	0	0	0	0
5	Kevin Murphy	25	LOLB	16	16	1	35	1	35	3	0	1	4	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
6	Ricky Reynolds	23	LCB	16	16	4	7	0	7	1	0	2	0	0	0.0	74	74	0	0
7	Bobby Futrell	25	RCB	16	15	1	26	0	26	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
8	Curt Jarvis	23	NT	15	15	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.5	0	0	0	0
9	Vinny Testaverde	25	QB	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	8	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
10	Bruce Hill	24	WR	14	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Reuben Davis	23	LDE	16	13	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3.0	61	61	0	0
12	Sidney Coleman	24	RILB	16	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Ron Holmes	25	RDE	10	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
14	Dan Turk	26	RG	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-19	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	William Howard	24	FB	15	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Mark Robinson	26	SS	9	9	2	28	0	28	2	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Odie Harris	22	SS	16	7	2	26	0	24	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	46	46	0	0
18	James Wilder	30	FB	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Robert Goff	23	RDE	16	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2.0	24	24	0	0
20	Kerry Goode	23	RB	14	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	1
21	Lars Tate	22	RB	15	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
22	John Cannon	28	DE	16	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
23	Joe Ferguson	38	QB	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
24	Rod Jones	24	DB	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	20	20	0	0
25	Chris Washington	26	LB	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Ray Criswell	25	P	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-31	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	Donnie Elder	25	DB	16	0	3	9	0	9	2	1	1	6	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Victor Jones	22	LB	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	3	0	0
29	Shawn Lee	22	DT	15	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	13	13	0	0
30	Tom McHale	25	G	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-4	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
31	Henry Rolling	23	LB	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	21	283	1	58	16	27	23	-44	0	20.0	242	242	0	1

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