1987 New England Patriots (NFL) Scores, Roster, Stats , Coaches, Draft

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Result			Location	Venue	Attendance
Sun	8/16/1987	H	New York Giants	17-19	L		Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	50014
Sun	8/23/1987	H	Philadelphia Eagles	13-19	L	OT	Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	38734
Sat	8/29/1987	A	Minnesota Vikings	38-27	W		Minneapolis, MN	Metrodome	49339
Fri	9/4/1987	N	Atlanta Falcons	14-13	W		Jacksonville, FL	Gator Bowl	52508
Sun	9/13/1987	H	Miami Dolphins	28-21	W		Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	54642
Mon	9/21/1987	A	New York Jets	24-43	L		East Rutherford, NJ	Giants Stadium	70847
Sun	9/27/1987	A	Washington Redskins		-		Washington, DC	RFK Stadium
Sun	10/4/1987	H	Cleveland Browns	10-20	L		Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	14830
Sun	10/11/1987	H	Buffalo Bills	14-7	W		Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	11878
Sun	10/18/1987	A	Houston Oilers	21-7	W		Houston, TX	Astrodome	26294
Sun	10/25/1987	A	Indianapolis Colts	16-30	L		Indianapolis, IN	Hoosier Dome	48850
Sun	11/1/1987	H	Los Angeles Raiders	26-23	W		Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	60664
Sun	11/8/1987	A	New York Giants	10-17	L		East Rutherford, NJ	Giants Stadium	73817
Sun	11/15/1987	H	Dallas Cowboys	17-23	L	OT	Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	60567
Sun	11/22/1987	H	Indianapolis Colts	24-0	W		Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	56906
Sun	11/29/1987	H	Philadelphia Eagles	31-34	L	OT	Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	54198
Sun	12/6/1987	A	Denver Broncos	20-31	L		Denver, CO	Mile High Stadium	75794
Sun	12/13/1987	H	New York Jets	42-20	W		Foxborough, MA	Sullivan Stadium	60617
Sun	12/20/1987	A	Buffalo Bills	13-7	W		Orchard Park, NY	Rich Stadium	74945
Mon	12/28/1987	A	Miami Dolphins	24-10	W		Miami-Dade County, FL	Joe Robbie Stadium	61192

Schedule Notes
9/27/1987	Washington Redskins	Canceled

ROSTER
Player	No	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
Julius Adams	69	DE	6-3	262	39	Texas Southern	10	0
Rogers Alexander	91	ROLB	6-3	225	23	Penn State	3	2
Bruce Armstrong	78	ROT	6-4	291	22	Louisville	12	12
Ricky Atkinson	22	CB	6-0	175	22	Southern Connecticut State	1	0
Greg Baty	85	TE	6-5	241	23	Stanford	5	0
Frank Bianchini	30	RB	5-8	190	26	Hofstra	1	0
Mel Black	51	LOLB	6-2	228	25	Santa Ana JC; Eastern Illinois	3	2
Don Blackmon	55	ROLB	6-3	235	29	Tulsa	4	4
Bob Bleier	10	QB	6-3	210	23	Richmond	3	2
Jim Bowman	28	SS	6-2	212	24	Central Michigan	12	8
Pete Brock	58	C	6-5	270	33	Colorado	4	3
Rich Camarillo	3	P	5-11	188	28	Cerritos JC; Washington	12	0
Brian Carey	81	WR	6-0	200	24	American International	2	0
Ray Clayborn	26	RCB	6-0	186	32	Texas	10	10
Duffy Cobbs	43	S	5-11	178	23	Penn State	3	0
Wayne Coffey	83	WR	5-7	158	23	Cisco JC; Texas State	3	2
Tony Collins	33	RB	5-11	210	28	East Carolina	13	11
George Colton	63	LOT	6-4	279	24	Maryland	3	3
Rico Corsetti	93	LB	6-1	225	24	Bates	2	0
Elgin Davis	40	RB	5-10	192	22	Central Florida	4	0
Lin Dawson	87	TE	6-3	240	28	North Carolina State	12	11
Steve Doig	59	LB	6-2	240	27	New Hampshire	1	0
Reggie Dupard	21	RB-FB	5-11	205	24	Southern Methodist	8	3
Tony Eason	11	QB	6-4	212	28	American River JC; Illinois	4	3
Paul Fairchild	66	C-LOG	6-4	270	26	Ellsworth CC; Kansas	11	2
Sean Farrell	62	LOG	6-3	260	27	Penn State	14	14
Doug Flutie	2	QB	5-10	178	25	Boston College	1	1
Todd Frain	44	TE	6-3	240	25	Nebraska	3	2
Russ Francis	49	TE	6-6	242	34	Oregon	1	0
Arnold Franklin	87	TE	6-3	246	24	North Carolina	3	0
Tony Franklin	1	K	5-8	182	31	Texas A&M	14	0
Irving Fryar	80	WR	6-0	199	25	Nebraska	12	12
Dennis Gadbois	82	WR	6-1	183	24	Boston University	3	1
Ernest Gibson	43	RCB	5-10	180	26	Furman	12	5
Steve Grogan	14	QB	6-4	210	34	Kansas State	7	6
John Guzik	97	NT-DE	6-4	270	25	Ohio University	3	2
Bruce Hansen	24	FB	6-1	225	26	Brigham Young	6	2
David Hendley	28	CB	6-0	188	23	Southern Connecticut State	2	0
Alan Herline	6	P	6-0	168	23	Vanderbilt	3	0
Milford Hodge	97	DE	6-3	278	26	Washington State	12	0
Darryl Holmes	41	FS	6-2	190	23	Fort Valley State	15	3
Craig James	32	RB	6-0	215	26	Southern Methodist	2	0
Roland James	38	SS	6-2	191	29	Tennessee	9	4
Cedric Jones	83	WR	6-1	184	27	Duke	12	4
Tim Jordan	93	LB	6-3	221	23	Wisconsin	5	0
Mike LeBlanc	40	HB	5-11	199	25	Stephen F. Austin State	4	2
Larry Linne	80	WR	6-1	185	25	Midland JC; Texas-El Paso	3	3
Ronnie Lippett	42	LCB	5-11	180	27	Miami (Florida)	12	12
Dino Mangiero	96	NT	6-2	267	29	Rutgers	2	0
Fred Marion	31	FS	6-2	191	28	Miami (Florida)	12	12
Trevor Matich	64	C	6-4	279	26	Brigham Young	6	4
Jerry McCabe	52	LILB	6-1	225	22	Holy Cross	3	3
Larry McGrew	50	RILB-ROLB	6-5	233	30	Contra Costa JC; Southern California	12	12
Joe McHale	55	LB	6-2	227	24	Delaware	3	0
Chuck McSwain	32	FB	6-0	191	26	Clemson	3	1
Rod McSwain	23	CB	6-1	198	25	Clemson	12	0
Greg Moore	54	ILB	6-1	240	22	Tennessee-Chattanooga	3	3
Steve Moore	67	LOT	6-4	295	27	Tennessee State	5	4
Stanley Morgan	86	WR	5-11	181	32	Tennessee	10	9
Guy Morriss	75	C	6-4	275	36	Texas Christian	11	7
Steve Nelson	57	LILB	6-2	230	36	Augsburg; North Dakota State	11	11
Bob Perryman	33	FB	6-2	228	23	Michigan	9	1
Joe Peterson	45	LCB	5-10	180	23	Nevada-Reno	3	3
Clay Pickering	48	WR	6-5	216	26	Wright State; Daytona Beach CC; Maine	1	0
Art Plunkett	70	LOT	6-7	262	28	Nevada-Las Vegas	7	1
Tom Porell	65	NT	6-3	275	23	Boston College	1	1
Eugene Profit	22	CB	5-10	165	23	Yale	7	0
Tom Ramsey	12	QB	6-1	187	26	UCLA	9	3
Ben Reed	71	LDE	6-5	265	24	Mississippi	3	3
Johnny Rembert	55	LILB	6-3	234	26	Cowley County JC; Clemson	11	1
Ed Reynolds	95	RILB	6-5	243	26	Virginia	12	1
Greg Robinson	61	ROT	6-5	280	25	Nevada-Reno; Sacramento State	3	3
Mike Ruth	65	NT	6-1	266	23	Boston College	2	0
Frank Sacco	95	LB	6-4	240	23	Fordham	2	0
Todd Sandham	72	OG	6-3	255	24	Northeastern	2	0
Jon Sawyer	31	CB	5-9	175	22	Merced JC; Cincinnati	2	0
Eric Schubert	1	K	5-8	193	25	Pittsburgh	1	0
Willie Scott	88	TE	6-4	245	28	South Carolina	9	1
Randy Sealby	59	ROLB	6-2	230	27	Colorado; Missouri	2	1
Ron Shegog	42	SS	6-0	185	24	Northwest Mississippi CC; Austin Peay State	3	3
Kenneth Sims	77	LDE	6-5	271	28	Texas	12	8
Stephen Starring	81	WR	5-10	172	26	McNeese State	11	1
Eric Stokes	78	ROG	6-4	255	25	Northeastern	1	1
Mosi Tatupu	30	FB	6-0	227	32	Southern California	12	9
Andre Tippett	56	LOLB	6-3	241	28	Iowa	13	13
Bill Turner	74	DE	6-4	245	27	St. Francis Xavier	2	0
Darren Twombly	64	ROG	6-4	270	22	Boston College	1	1
Garin Veris	60	RDE	6-4	255	24	Stanford	12	12
Danny Villa	73	LOT	6-5	307	23	Arizona State	11	7
Todd Whitten	15	QB	6-0	184	22	Stephen F. Austin State	1	0
Murray Wichard	90	NT-DE	6-2	260	24	Frostburg State	3	0
Steve Wilburn	99	RDE	6-4	266	26	Illinois State	3	3
Brent Williams	96	LDE	6-3	277	23	Toledo	12	4
Derwin Williams	82	WR	6-1	185	26	New Mexico	10	0
Ed Williams	54	ROLB	6-4	244	26	Texas	12	7
Perry Williams	38	CB-S	6-1	200	23	Clemson	3	0
Toby Williams	90	NT	6-4	270	28	Nebraska	12	12
Carl Woods	34	RB	5-11	200	23	Vanderbilt	2	0
Ron Wooten	61	ROG	6-4	273	28	North Carolina	13	13

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	23	Bruce Armstrong	T	Louisville
3	79	Bob Perryman	RB	Michigan
4	98	Rich Gannon	QB	Delaware
4	102	Derrick Beasley	DB	Winston-Salem State
4	107	Tim Jordan	LB	Wisconsin
5	113	Danny Villa	T	Arizona State
5	116	Tom Gibson	DE	Northern Arizona
6	163	Gene Taylor	WR	Fresno State
11	302	Carlos Reveiz	K	Tennessee
12	330	Elgin Davis	RB	Central Florida

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT	PTS
Team Totals	76	111	72	61	0	320
Opponents Totals	39	68	71	106	9	293

TEAM STATS	TOP	1st Downs	FDR	FDP	FDX	3rd Down Efficiency	4th Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals	29:37	266	84	158	24	82/220 37.3%	9/14 64.3%	64	506
Opponents Totals	30:23	293	112	159	22	84/228 36.8%	11/23 47.8%	110	846

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	SAF	PTS
Tony Franklin	0	37	38	97.4	15	26	57.7	0	82
Tony Collins	6	0	0		0	0		0	36
Irving Fryar	5	0	0		0	0		0	30
Reggie Dupard	3	0	0		0	0		0	18
Cedric Jones	3	0	0		0	0		0	18
Stanley Morgan	3	0	0		0	0		0	18
Stephen Starring	3	0	0		0	0		0	18
Greg Baty	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Steve Grogan	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Larry Linne	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Ronnie Lippett	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Willie Scott	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Bob Bleier	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Ray Clayborn	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Mike LeBlanc	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Tom Ramsey	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Andre Tippett	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Carl Woods	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Eric Schubert	0	1	1	100.0	1	2	50.0	0	4
Team Totals	39	38	39	97.4	16	28	57.1	0	320
Opponents Totals	34	33	33	100.0	18	27	66.7	1	293

FIELD GOALS	MADE	ATT	PCT	BL	LG	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+
Tony Franklin	15	26	57.7	0	50	0/0	5/5	6/11	3/7	1/3
Eric Schubert	1	2	50.0	0	23	0/0	1/1	0/0	0/1	0/0
Team Totals	16	28	57.1	0	50	0/0	6/6	6/11	3/8	1/3
Opponents Totals	18	27	66.7			2/2	7/7	6/9	3/8	0/1

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Tony Collins	147	474	3.2	19	3
Reggie Dupard	94	318	3.4	49	3
Mosi Tatupu	79	248	3.1	19	0
Bob Perryman	41	187	4.6	48	0
Mike LeBlanc	49	170	3.5	42	1
Tom Ramsey	13	75	5.8	19	1
Irving Fryar	9	52	5.8	16	0
Bruce Hansen	16	44	2.8	7	0
Doug Flutie	6	43	7.2	13	0
Elgin Davis	9	43	4.8	27	0
Steve Grogan	20	37	1.9	8	2
Tony Eason	3	25	8.3	13	0
Chuck McSwain	9	23	2.6	9	0
Carl Woods	4	20	5.0	13	1
Stephen Starring	2	13	6.5	10	0
Craig James	4	10	2.5	5	0
Rich Camarillo	1	0	0.0	0	0
Bob Bleier	5	-5	-1.0	1t	1
Todd Whitten	2	-6	-3.0	-2	0
Team Totals	513	1771	3.5	49	12
Opponents Totals	490	1778	3.6	60t	13

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Doug Flutie	25	15	60.0	10	199	8.0	13.3	30	1	4.0	0	0.0	1	3	196	98.6
Steve Grogan	161	93	57.8	59	1183	7.3	12.7	40	10	6.2	9	5.6	7	55	1128	78.2
Tony Eason	79	42	53.2	35	453	5.7	10.8	45	3	3.8	2	2.5	8	70	383	72.4
Tom Ramsey	134	71	53.0	57	898	6.7	12.6	40	6	4.5	6	4.5	14	90	808	70.4
Bob Bleier	39	14	35.9	24	181	4.6	12.9	35	1	2.6	1	2.6	3	28	153	49.2
Mosi Tatupu	1	1	100.0	0	15	15.0	15.0	15t	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0	15	158.3
Cedric Jones	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0	39.6
Team Totals	440	236	53.6	186	2929	6.7	12.4	45	22	5.0	18	4.1	33	246	2683	74.1
Opponents Totals	520	273	52.5	226	3438	6.6	12.6	61t	17	3.3	21	4.0	43	339	3099	67.5

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Tony Collins	44	347	7.9	29	3		0
Stanley Morgan	40	672	16.8	45	3			0
Irving Fryar	31	467	15.1	40	5
Cedric Jones	25	388	15.5	29	3		0	0
Stephen Starring	17	289	17.0	34t	3		0
Greg Baty	15	138	9.2	22	2		0	0
Mosi Tatupu	15	136	9.1	23	0		0
Lin Dawson	12	81	6.8	14	0	0	0	0
Larry Linne	11	158	14.4	30	2		0
Willie Scott	5	35	7.0	15	1	0	0	0
Wayne Coffey	3	66	22.0	35	0		0	0
Dennis Gadbois	3	51	17.0	20	0		0	0
Derwin Williams	3	30	10.0	12	0	0	0	0
Bob Perryman	3	13	4.3	7	0	0	0
Reggie Dupard	3	1	0.3	2	0	0	0
Todd Frain	2	22	11.0	11	0	0	0	0
Mike LeBlanc	2	3	1.5	3	0	0	0
Bruce Hansen	1	22	22.0	22	0	1	0	0
Clay Pickering	1	10	10.0	10	0	0	0	0
Team Totals	236	2929	12.4	45	22
Opponents Totals	273	3438	12.6	61t	17

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Fred Marion	4	53	13.3	25	0
Ronnie Lippett	3	103	34.3	45t	2
Ray Clayborn	2	24	12.0	24	0
Ernest Gibson	2	17	8.5	17	0
Jim Bowman	2	3	1.5	3	0
Ed Williams	1	51	51.0	51	0
Roland James	1	27	27.0	27	0
Rod McSwain	1	17	17.0	17	0
Ron Shegog	1	7	7.0	7	0
Darryl Holmes	1	4	4.0	4	0
Johnny Rembert	1	1	1.0	1	0
Joe Peterson	1	0	0.0	0	0
Perry Williams	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	21	307	14.6	51	2
Opponents Totals	18	160	8.9	38	2

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	TB	I20	RYDS	NYDS	NET
Rich Camarillo	62	2489	40.1	73	1	8	14	333	1996	31.7
Alan Herline	25	861	34.4	50	1	4	1	64	717	27.6
Team Totals	89	3350	37.6	73	2	12	15	397	2713	30.5
Opponents Totals	77	2937	38.1	62	2	6	25	213	2604	33.8

PUNT RETURNS	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG
Irving Fryar	18	12	174	9.7	36
Larry Linne	5	2	22	4.4	16
Stephen Starring	1	1	17	17.0	17
Fred Marion	1	2	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	25	17	213	8.5	36
Opponents Totals	41	11	397	9.7	34

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG
Stephen Starring	23	0	445	19.3	43
Irving Fryar	6	0	119	19.8	31
Elgin Davis	5	0	134	26.8	43
Reggie Dupard	4	0	61	15.3	21
Bob Perryman	3	0	43	14.3	16
Chuck McSwain	2	0	32	16.0	24
Mike Leblanc	2	0	31	15.5	24
Tony Collins	1	0	18	18.0	18
Bruce Hansen	1	0	14	14.0	14
Rogers Alexander	1	0	4	4.0	4
Team Totals	48	0	901	18.8	43
Opponents Totals	63		1130	17.9	60

SACKS	NO	YDS
Andre Tippett	12.5
Garin Veris	7.0
Brent Williams	5.0
Toby Williams	4.5
Johnny Rembert	2.0
Ed Reynolds	2.0
Kenneth Sims	1.5
Don Blackmon	1.0
Milford Hodge	1.0
Ronnie Lippett	1.0
Dino Mangiero	1.0
Jerry McCabe	1.0
Larry McGrew	1.0
Murray Wichard	1.0
Steve Wilburn	1.0
Jim Bowman	0.5
Team Totals	43.0	339.0
Opponents Totals	33.0	246.0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Bob Bleier	2		2	0	2	0	0
Jim Bowman	0	0	0	1	1	6	0
Ray Clayborn	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Tony Collins	6		2	0	2	0	0
George Colton	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Reggie Dupard	2		1	0	1	0	0
Tony Eason	1		0	0	0	0	0
Doug Flutie	1		1	0	1	0	0
Irving Fryar	2		0	0	0	0	0
Steve Grogan	8		6	0	6	-6	0
Bruce Hansen	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Darryl Holmes	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Tim Jordan	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Mike LeBlanc	2		0	0	0	0	0
Larry Linne	1		1	0	1	0	0
Fred Marion	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Larry McGrew	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Chuck McSwain	1		0	1	1	11	0
Greg Moore	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Guy Morriss	1		0	0	0	0	0
Steve Nelson	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Bob Perryman	1		2	0	2	0	0
Joe Peterson	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Tom Ramsey	4		1	0	1	0	0
Greg Robinson	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Randy Sealby	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Kenneth Sims	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Stephen Starring	2		1	0	1	0	0
Mosi Tatupu	1		0	0	0	0	0
Andre Tippett	0	0	0	3	3	29	1
Garin Veris	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Danny Villa	1		0	0	0	-13	0
Murray Wichard	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Derwin Williams	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Ed Williams	0	0	0	2	2	8	0
Team Totals	36	15	21	21	42	35	1
Opponents Totals	42	21	19	13	32		2

Dean Brittenham	Strength-Conditioning
Jimmy Carr	Defensive Backs
Bobby Grier	Offensive Backs/Running Game Coordinator
Ray Hamilton	Assistant Defensive Line
Rod Humeniuk	Assistant Head Coach-Offense/Offensive Line
Harold Jackson	Receivers
Eddie Khayat	Defensive Line
John Polonchek	Special Assistant to the Head Coach
Rod Rust	Defensive Coordinator
Dante Scarnecchia	Special Teams/Tight Ends
Don Shinnick	Linebackers
Les Steckel	Quarterbacks/Passing Game Coordinator