1976 Atlanta Falcons (NFL) Scores, Roster, Stats , Coaches, Draft

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Sat	7/31/1976	H	Washington Redskins	10-17	L	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	38808
Sat	8/7/1976	N	Cleveland Browns	7-31	L	Stillwater, OK	Lewis Field	24227
Sat	8/14/1976	N	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	3-17	L	Jacksonville, FL	Gator Bowl	11342
Sat	8/21/1976	H	New England Patriots	17-28	L	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	23495
Sat	8/28/1976	H	Baltimore Colts	21-7	W	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	24986
Fri	9/3/1976	A	Green Bay Packers	26-7	W	Milwaukee, WI	County Stadium	54989
Sun	9/12/1976	H	Los Angeles Rams	14-30	L	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	53607
Sun	9/19/1976	A	Detroit Lions	10-24	L	Pontiac, MI	Pontiac Silverdome	50115
Sun	9/26/1976	A	Chicago Bears	10-0	W	Chicago, IL	Soldier Field	41029
Sun	10/3/1976	H	Philadelphia Eagles	13-14	L	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	45535
Sun	10/10/1976	A	New Orleans Saints	0-30	L	New Orleans, LA	Louisiana Superdome	51521
Sun	10/17/1976	H	Cleveland Browns	17-20	L	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	32837
Sat	10/23/1976	A	San Francisco 49ers	0-15	L	San Francisco, CA	Candlestick Park	50240
Sun	10/31/1976	H	New Orleans Saints	23-20	W	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	33702
Sun	11/7/1976	A	Seattle Seahawks	13-30	L	Seattle, WA	Kingdome	57985
Sun	11/14/1976	H	San Francisco 49ers	21-16	W	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	19733
Sun	11/21/1976	H	Dallas Cowboys	17-10	W	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	54992
Sun	11/28/1976	A	Houston Oilers	14-20	L	Houston, TX	Astrodome	25838
Sat	12/4/1976	A	Los Angeles Rams	0-59	L	Los Angeles, CA	Memorial Coliseum	57366
Sun	12/12/1976	H	Green Bay Packers	20-24	L	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium	23116

ROSTER
Player	No	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
Bob Adams	81	TE	6-2	225	30	San Mateo JC; Pacific	13	0
Brent Adams	61	LOT	6-5	256	24	Tennessee-Chattanooga	14	14
Jim Bailey	72	RDT	6-4	253	28	Kansas	7	6
Steve Bartkowski	10	QB	6-4	215	24	California	5	5
Bubba Bean	44	RB	5-11	195	22	Texas A&M	14	8
Greg Brezina	50	RLB	6-1	221	30	Houston	11	11
Ray Brown	34	SS	6-2	206	27	West Texas A&M	14	14
Rick Byas	38	CB-S	5-10	185	26	Eastern Michigan; Wayne State (Michigan)	14	0
Sonny Collins	41	RB	6-1	196	23	Kentucky	11	5
Jim Cope	51	LB	6-1	235	23	Ohio State	6	0
Brad Davis	47	RB	5-10	204	23	Louisiana State	1	0
Ron East	77	LDE	6-4	245	33	Oregon State; Columbia Basin JC; Oregon State; Montana State	14	1
Ray Easterling	32	FS	6-0	193	27	Richmond	14	14
Mike Esposito	26	RB	6-0	186	23	Boston College	10	4
Karl Farmer	80	WR	5-11	165	22	Los Angeles Southwest JC; Pittsburgh	1	0
Wallace Francis	89	WR	5-11	190	25	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	14	0
Steve George	71	DT	6-6	265	25	Houston	1	0
John Gilliam	42	WR	6-1	190	31	South Carolina State	14	14
Len Gotshalk	65	ROT	6-4	255	27	Santa Rosa JC; Cal Poly (Humboldt)	14	14
Dave Hampton	43	RB	6-0	210	29	Wyoming	2	1
Claude Humphrey	87	LDE	6-5	258	32	Tennessee State	13	13
Scott Hunter	16	QB	6-2	207	29	Alabama	8	6
Larron Jackson	68	LOG	6-3	270	27	Missouri	14	14
John James	6	P	6-3	199	27	Florida	14	0
Alfred Jenkins	84	WR	5-10	172	24	Morris Brown	14	14
Bob Jones	40	CB-S	6-1	194	25	Virginia Union	14	0
Greg Kindle	63	ROG	6-4	256	26	Tennessee State	10	10
Fulton Kuykendall	54	LLB	6-4	226	23	UCLA	7	7
Rolland Lawrence	22	LCB	5-10	179	25	Tabor	14	14
Mike Lewis	69	RDT	6-4	260	27	Wiley; Arkansas-Pine Bluff	12	8
Ron Mabra	29	CB-S	5-10	169	25	Howard	8	0
Greg Marderian	71	DT	6-4	250	24	Southern California	1	0
Dewey McClain	52	LLB	6-3	236	22	East Central	14	5
Phil McKinnely	73	OT	6-4	248	22	UCLA	12	0
Kim McQuilken	11	QB	6-2	205	25	Lehigh	8	3
Jeff Merrow	75	RDE	6-4	250	23	West Virginia	14	14
Nick Mike-Mayer	12	K	5-8	187	26	Temple	14	0
Jim Mitchell	86	TE	6-1	235	29	Prairie View A&M	14	14
Tommy Nobis	60	MLB	6-2	235	33	Texas	13	13
Ralph Ortega	55	RLB-MLB	6-2	220	23	Florida	14	3
Wally Pesuit		OT	6-4	255	22	Kentucky	1	0
Scott Piper	82	WR	6-1	179	22	Arizona	13	0
Billy Pritchett	39	RB	6-3	232	25	West Texas A&M	6	1
Frank Reed	38	RCB	5-11	193	22	Washington	14	14
Guy Roberts	56	LLB-RLB	6-1	230	26	Maryland	14	3
Paul Ryczek	53	C	6-2	231	24	Virginia	14	4
Dave Scott	70	OT	6-4	265	23	Kansas	13	0
Royce Smith	64	ROG	6-3	260	27	Georgia	10	4
Haskel Stanback	24	RB	6-0	210	24	Tennessee	14	7
Woody Thompson	48	RB	6-1	228	24	Miami (Florida)	7	2
Mike Tilleman	74	LDT	6-5	275	32	Montana	14	14
Jeff Van Note	57	C	6-2	247	30	Kentucky	10	10
Jim Weatherly	58	C	6-3	245	24	Mount San Antonio JC	3	0
Bill Windauer	78	DT	6-4	250	27	Iowa	3	0
Jeff Yeates	79	DT	6-3	252	25	Boston College	2	0

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	9	Bubba Bean	RB	Texas A&M
2	36	Sonny Collins	RB	Kentucky
3	71	Dave Scott	T	Kansas
4	102	Walt Brett	G-T	Montana
6	169	Stan Varner	DT-DE	Brigham Young
7	193	Karl Farmer	WR	Pittsburgh
8	219	Frank Reed	DB	Washington
9	246	Phil McKinnely	T	UCLA
11	302	Chuck Brislin	T	Mississippi State
12	329	Pat Bolton	K	Montana State
13	356	Mike Williams	T	Florida
14	383	Mark Husfloen	DE	Washington State
15	414	Ron Olson	DB	Washington
16	441	Pat Curto	LB	Ohio State
17	468	Tony Green	DB	Texas Tech

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	PTS
Team Totals	7	61	33	71	172
Opponents Totals	41	86	77	108	312

TEAM STATS	TOP	1st Downs	FDR	FDP	FDX	3rd Down Efficiency	4th Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		191	78	93	20	66/210 31.4%	/ %	84	714
Opponents Totals	30:00	257	143	95	19	87/221 39.4%	/ %	102	868

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	SAF	PTS
Nick Mike-Mayer	0	20	20	100.0	10	21	47.6	0	50
Alfred Jenkins	6	0	0		0	0		0	36
Haskel Stanback	4	0	0		0	0		0	24
Bubba Bean	3	0	0		0	0		0	18
Mike Esposito	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
John Gilliam	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Steve Bartkowski	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Scott Hunter	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Billy Pritchett	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Claude Humphrey	0	0	0		0	0		1	2
Team Totals	20	20	20	100.0	10	21	47.6	1	172
Opponents Totals	40	32	40	80.0	12	17	70.6	2	312

FIELD GOALS	MADE	ATT	PCT	BL	LG	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+
Nick Mike-Mayer	10	21	47.6	3	46	2/2	2/4	1/5	5/10	0/0
Team Totals	10	21	47.6	3	46	2/2	2/4	1/5	5/10	0/0
Opponents Totals	12	17	70.6			1/1	7/7	2/4	2/5	0/0

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bubba Bean	124	428	3.5	30	2
Haskel Stanback	95	324	3.4	30	3
Sonny Collins	91	319	3.5	47	0
Mike Esposito	60	317	5.3	36t	2
Woody Thompson	42	152	3.6	10	0
Billy Pritchett	14	74	5.3	16	1
Scott Hunter	14	41	2.9	16	1
Kim McQuilken	9	26	2.9	17	0
Dave Hampton	12	24	2.0	10	0
Jim Mitchell	1	-6	-6.0	-6	0
Steve Bartkowski	8	-10	-1.3	2	1
Team Totals	470	1689	3.6	47	10
Opponents Totals	574	2577	4.5	64	22

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Scott Hunter	110	51	46.4	55	633	5.8	12.4	34t	5	4.5	4	3.6	9	81	552	64.7
Steve Bartkowski	120	57	47.5	54	677	5.6	11.9	50t	2	1.7	9	7.5	18	150	527	39.5
Kim McQuilken	121	48	39.7	63	450	3.7	9.4	39	2	1.7	10	8.3	17	164	286	21.7
Bubba Bean	1	1	100.0	0	49	49.0	49.0	49t	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0	49	158.3
Mike Esposito	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0	39.6
Alfred Jenkins	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0			0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0	0	0.0
Team Totals	354	157	44.4	173	1809	5.1	11.5	50	10	2.8	24	6.8	44	395	1414	41.5
Opponents Totals	340	184	54.1	138	2276	6.7	12.4	80t	14	4.1	18	5.3	35	275	2001	66.7

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Alfred Jenkins	41	710	17.3	34t	6
John Gilliam	21	292	13.9	49t	2
Haskel Stanback	21	174	8.3	28	1
Jim Mitchell	17	209	12.3	39	0
Mike Esposito	17	88	5.2	13	0
Bubba Bean	16	148	9.3	50t	1
Woody Thompson	16	111	6.9	26	0
Sonny Collins	4	37	9.3	20	0
Wallace Francis	2	24	12.0	12	0
Bob Adams	1	15	15.0	15	0
Billy Pritchett	1	1	1.0	1	0
Team Totals	157	1809	11.5	50t	10
Opponents Totals	184	2276	12.4	80t	14

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Rolland Lawrence	6	43	7.2	22	0
Ray Brown	3	58	19.3	21	0
Frank Reed	3	48	16.0	42	0
Ray Easterling	3	33	11.0	19	0
Dewey McClain	1	13	13.0	13	0
Guy Roberts	1	7	7.0	7	0
Tommy Nobis	1	5	5.0	5	0
Team Totals	18	207	11.5	42	0
Opponents Totals	24	469	19.5	83t	4

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	TB	I20	RYDS	NYDS	NET
John James	101	4253	42.1	67	0	12	28	360	3653	36.2
Team Totals	101	4253	42.1	67	0	12	28	360	3653	36.2
Opponents Totals	87	3346	38.5	52	1	4	16	385	2881	33.1

PUNT RETURNS	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG
Rolland Lawrence	54	5	372	6.9	24
Rick Byas	1	0	8	8.0	8
Mike Esposito	1	0	6	6.0	6
Karl Farmer	1	0	0	0.0	0
Ron Mabra	1	0	0	0.0	0
Guy Roberts	1	0	0	0.0	0
Bob Jones	1	0	-1	-1.0	-1
Team Totals	60	5	385	6.4	24
Opponents Totals	52	20	360	6.9	25

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Rolland Lawrence	21	521	24.8	36
Rick Byas	12	270	22.5	44
Wallace Francis	9	156	17.3	30
Sonny Collins	7	141	20.1	24
Ron Mabra	3	61	20.3	26
Bubba Bean	2	38	19.0	21
Bob Jones	1	22	22.0	22
Bob Adams	1	21	21.0	21
Haskel Stanback	1	18	18.0	18
Mike Esposito	1	12	12.0	12
Ralph Ortega	1	9	9.0	9
Guy Roberts	1	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	60	1269	21.2	44
Opponents Totals	38	934	24.6	44

SACKS	NO	YDS
Claude Humphrey	14.5
Jeff Merrow	8.5
Mike Tilleman	3.5
Ron East	3.0
Fulton Kuykendall	2.5
Jim Bailey	1.0
Greg Brezina	1.0
Mike Lewis	1.0
Team Totals	35.0	275.0
Opponents Totals	44.0	395.0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS
Brent Adams	0	0	1	0	1	0
Jim Bailey	0	0	0	1	1	0
Steve Bartkowski	2		0	0	0	0
Bubba Bean	4		1	0	1	0
Ray Brown	0	0	0	1	1	0
Rick Byas	2		1	1	2	0
Sonny Collins	1		0	0	0	0
Ron East	0	0	0	1	1	0
Ray Easterling	0	0	0	2	2	0
Mike Esposito	4		0	1	1	0
Len Gotshalk	0	0	1	0	1	0
Dave Hampton	1		0	0	0	0
Claude Humphrey	0	0	0	1	1	19
Scott Hunter	1		2	0	2	0
John James	0	0	0	1	1	0
Greg Kindle	0	0	1	0	1	0
Fulton Kuykendall	0	0	0	1	1	0
Rolland Lawrence	5		1	1	2	0
Mike Lewis	0	0	0	1	1	0
Ron Mabra	0	0	1	0	1	0
Dewey McClain	0	0	0	1	1	0
Phil McKinnely	0	0	0	1	1	0
Kim McQuilken	6		0	0	0	0
Jeff Merrow	0	0	0	2	2	0
Tommy Nobis	0	0	0	2	2	3
Billy Pritchett	0	0	1	0	1	0
Frank Reed	0	0	0	2	2	15
Haskel Stanback	2		0	0	0	0
Woody Thompson	2		2	0	2	0
Team Totals	30	18	12	20	32	37
Opponents Totals	30	20	10	17	27

Fred Bruney	Defensive Coordinator
Eddie Khayat	Defensive Line
Al Lavan	Defensive Secondary
Marv Matuszak	Linebackers
Bill Nelsen	Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
Bill Walsh	Offensive Line