Team Summary [+]
1980 Atlanta Falcons
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Record: 12-4-0, Finished 1st in NFC West Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 405 points (25.3/g), 5th of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 272 points (17.0/g), 5th.
Differential of 133 points (8.3/g), 4th.
Expected W-L: 11.5-4.5.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +16 (1.0/g), 1st.
Simple Rating System: Total 7.8, Offense: 4.5, Defense: 3.4, SoS: -0.5, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by Leeman Bennett(12-4-0)
Defensive Coordinator: Jerry Glanville
Training Camp: Falcons' Training Facility (Suwanee, Georgia)
Players[+]
- Pos · # · College
- Anthony Anderson
rb · #33 · Temple
- William Andrews
FB · #31 · Auburn
- Steve Bartkowski
QB · #10 · California
- Jon Brooks
lb · #61 · Clemson
- Warren Bryant
RT · #66 · Kentucky
- Rick Byas
db · #38 · Eastern Michigan; Wayne State (MI)
- Lynn Cain
RB · #21 · East L.A. J.C.; USC
- Chuck Correal
c · #53 · Penn St.
- Buddy Curry
RILB · #50 · No. Carolina
- Tony Daykin
lb · #55 · Georgia Tech
- Wilson Faumuina
dt · #74 · San Jose State
- Edgar Fields
dt · #77 · Navarro J.C.; Texas A&M
- Wallace Francis
WR · #89 · Arkansas-Pine Bluff
- Bob Glazebrook
SS · #36 · Fresno City J.C.; Fresno State
- Chuck Herman
g · #61 · Arkansas
- Pat Howell
g · #64 · USC
- Alfred Jackson
wr · #85 · Texas
- John James
P · #6 · Florida
- Alfred Jenkins
WR · #84 · Morris Brown
- Kenny Johnson
RCB · #37 · Mississippi State
- Earl Jones
db · #20 · Norfolk State
- Mike Kenn
LT · #78 · Michigan
- Jerome King
db · #30 · Purdue
- Fulton Kuykendall
LILB · #54 · UCLA
- Jim Laughlin
lilb · #51 · Ohio State
- Rolland Lawrence
LCB · #22 · Tabor
- James Mayberry
rb · #39 · Colorado
- Tim Mazzetti
K · #4 · Pennsylvania
- Dewey McClain
lb · #52 · East Central
- Phil McKinnely
t · #73 · UCLA
- Jeff Merrow
RDE · #75 · West Virginia
- Russ Mikeska
te · #87 · Texas A&M
- Calvin Miller
nt · #67 · Mississippi Gulf Coast CC; Oklahoma State
- Junior Miller
TE · #80 · Nebraska
- Mike Moroski
qb · #15 · California-Davis
- Robert Pennywell
mlb · #59 · Grambling State
- Tom Pridemore
FS · #27 · West Virginia
- Frank Reed
ss · #28 · Washington
- Al Richardson
LOLB · #56 · Georgia Tech
- Dave Scott
LG · #70 · Kansas
- Don L. Smith
NT · #65 · Miami (FL)
- Mike T. Smith
wr · #86 · Grambling State
- Reggie Smith
PR/KR · #16 · North Carolina Central
- Ray Strong
rb · #25 · Contra Costa J.C.; UNLV
- Stan Sytsma
lb · #61 · Minnesota
- R.C. Thielemann
RG · #68 · Arkansas
- Jeff Van Note
C · #57 · Kentucky
- Joel Williams
ROLB · #58 · Peru State; Wisconsin-LaCrosse
- Jeff Yeates
LDE · #79 · Boston College
- Mike Zele
nt · #63 · Kent State
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