1988 Chicago Bears Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

Record: 12-4-0, 1st in NFC Central Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Mike Ditka (12-4-0)

Points For: 312 (19.5/g) 18th of 28

Points Against: 215 (13.4/g) 1st of 28

SRS: 6.60 (2nd of 28), SOS: .53

Playoffs:
Won Divisional Round 20-12 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Lost Conference Championship 3-28 vs. San Francisco 49ers

Offensive Coordinator: Ed Hughes

Defensive Coordinator: Vince Tobin

Other Notable Asst.: Jim Dooley (Offensive Consultant), Greg Landry (QB/WR/TE), John Levra (Defensive Line), Dave McGinnis (Linebackers) and Dick Stanfel (Offensive Line)

Stadium: Soldier Field

Secretary of the Board of Directors: Virginia Halas McCaskey

Director of Player Personnel/de facto General Manager: Bill Tobin

Offensive Scheme: Smashmouth

Defensive Alignment: 4-3

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +1000

Training Camp: UW Platteville (Platteville, Wisconsin)

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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	312	5317	1040	5.1	34	19	303	248	461	2998	13	15	6.2	134	555	2319	25	4.2	137	88	644	32
Opp. Stats	215	4360	977	4.5	35	9	264	245	545	3034	18	26	5.2	158	389	1326	5	3.4	76	102	804	30
Lg Rank Offense	18	11			15	25	17		22	20	23	5	8		4	3	3	9
Lg Rank Defense	1	2			12	26	2		25	9	10	3	2		1	1	1	2

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	W		1-0		Miami Dolphins	34	7	28	427	165	262		10	163	118	45	2	21.49	16.34	-11.15
2	Sun	September 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-0	@	Indianapolis Colts	17	13	23	326	172	154	1	11	173	65	108	3	-0.95	11.55	-4.74
3	Sun	September 18	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-1		Minnesota Vikings	7	31	14	235	165	70	5	20	376	249	127	1	-14.57	-5.68	-4.84
4	Sun	September 25	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-1	@	Green Bay Packers	24	6	22	358	116	242	3	16	233	199	34	3	0.63	11.11	6.89
5	Sun	October 2	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-1		Buffalo Bills	24	3	22	423	260	163	2	13	217	217		1	13.07	15.34	-3.41
6	Sun	October 9	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-1	@	Detroit Lions	24	7	20	323	222	101	1	18	262	220	42	2	3.01	13.16	1.46
7	Sun	October 16	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-1		Dallas Cowboys	17	7	24	385	261	124	1	18	291	195	96	2	13.55	-0.66	-1.96
8	Mon	October 24	9:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-1		San Francisco 49ers	10	9	14	237	115	122	1	12	213	135	78	1	-7.20	17.39	-6.11
9	Sun	October 30	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		7-2	@	New England Patriots	7	30	11	208	74	134	3	19	350	165	185	1	-12.66	-8.20	-0.82
10	Sun	November 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		8-2		Tampa Bay Buccaneers	28	10	19	338	269	69	3	25	357	273	84	2	6.18	6.49	7.57
11	Sun	November 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		9-2	@	Washington Redskins	34	14	20	418	273	145	1	22	323	295	28	5	17.14	2.45	-0.01
12	Sun	November 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		10-2	@	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	27	15	16	339	200	139	4	18	321	153	168	3	-6.36	18.38	-0.94
13	Sun	November 27	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		11-2		Green Bay Packers	16	0	22	372	159	213	2	9	189	167	22	2	-2.04	19.65	-2.39
14	Mon	December 5	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		11-3	@	Los Angeles Rams	3	23	13	213	99	114	3	22	364	232	132	3	-19.28	-1.50	1.14
15	Sun	December 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		12-3		Detroit Lions	13	12	14	250	168	82	1	14	310	195	115	2	-7.93	3.91	3.17
16	Mon	December 19	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		12-4	@	Minnesota Vikings	27	28	21	465	280	185	3	17	218	156	62	2	-4.55	12.23	-3.66
		Playoffs
Division	Sat	December 31	12:30PM ET	boxscore	W		13-4		Philadelphia Eagles	20	12	14	341	177	164	4	22	430	378	52	3	-7.05	18.55	-2.38
Conf. Champ.	Sun	January 8	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		13-5		San Francisco 49ers	3	28	15	267	176	91	2	21	406	268	138	1	-13.01	-13.24	-0.65

Passing

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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	Jim McMahon	29	QB	9	9	7-2-0	114	192	59.4	1346	6	3.1	7	3.6	61	41.5	63	7.0	5.99	11.8	149.6	76.0	13	79	6.34	6.18	5.23	1	1
2	Mike Tomczak	26	QB	14	5	4-1-0	86	170	50.6	1310	7	4.1	6	3.5	53	42.3	76	7.7	6.94	15.2	93.6	75.4	5	47	2.86	7.22	6.47	0	0
3	Jim Harbaugh	25	QB	10	2	1-1-0	47	97	48.5	514	0	0.0	2	2.1	20	33.0	56	5.3	4.37	10.9	51.4	55.9	6	49	5.83	4.51	3.64	1	1
4	Bryan Wagner	26	P	16	0		1	1	100.0	3	0	0.0	0	0.0	0		3	3.0	3.00	3.0	0.2	79.2	0	0	0.00	3.00	3.00	0	0
5	Neal Anderson	24	RB	16	16		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0			0.0	0.00		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0	PB
	Team Totals			16	16	12-4-0	248	461	53.8	2998	13	2.8	15	3.3	134	39.8	76	6.9	5.98	12.8	187.4	71.4	24	175	4.95	6.18	5.33	2	2

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
1	Mike Tomczak	26	QB	2	1	1-0-0	16	32	50.0	227	1	3.1	3	9.4	8	37.5	64	7.1	3.50	14.2	113.5	44.7	0	0	0.00	7.09	3.50
2	Jim McMahon	29	QB	2	1	0-1-0	16	32	50.0	134	0	0.0	1	3.1	5	42.4	18	4.2	2.78	8.4	67.0	48.2	1	8	3.03	3.82	2.45
	Team Totals			2	2	1-1-0	32	64	50.0	353	1	1.6	4	6.3	13	40.0	64	4.3	3.14	11.3	176.5	50.5	1	8	1.54	4.29	3.20

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	Neal Anderson	24	RB	16	16	249	1106	12	57	45.0	80	4.4	69.1	15.6	60	39	371	9.5	0	13	45.0	36	2.4	23.2	65.0	6.2	288	5.1	1477	12	8	PB
2	Dennis McKinnon	27	WR	15	15	3	25	1	2	100.0	12	8.3	1.7	0.2	77	45	704	15.6	3	27	50.6	76	3.0	46.9	58.4	9.1	48	15.2	729	4	3
3	Dennis Gentry	29	WR	16	16	7	86	1	3	71.4	58	12.3	5.4	0.4	65	33	486	14.7	3	25	41.5	45	2.1	30.4	50.8	7.5	40	14.3	572	4	2
4	Ron Morris	24	WR	16	1	3	40	0	2	66.7	21	13.3	2.5	0.2	61	28	498	17.8	4	20	41.0	63	1.8	31.1	45.9	8.2	31	17.4	538	4	0
5	Brad Muster	23	RB	16	0	44	197	0	9	50.0	15	4.5	12.3	2.8	32	21	236	11.2	1	10	43.8	40	1.3	14.8	65.6	7.4	65	6.7	433	1	1
6	Thomas Sanders	26	RB	16	0	95	332	3	22	38.9	20	3.5	20.8	5.9	16	9	94	10.4	0	2	18.8	39	0.6	5.9	56.3	5.9	104	4.1	426	3	5
7	Matt Suhey	30	FB	16	16	87	253	2	19	47.1	19	2.9	15.8	5.4	26	20	154	7.7	0	8	46.2	29	1.3	9.6	76.9	5.9	107	3.8	407	2	1
8	Wendell Davis	22	WR	16	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	3	3.0	0.2	0.1	36	15	220	14.7	0	11	41.7	36	0.9	13.8	41.7	6.1	16	13.9	223	0	2
9	James Thornton	23	TE	16	12	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	30	15	135	9.0	0	7	40.0	19	0.9	8.4	50.0	4.5	15	9.0	135	0	1
10	Emery Moorehead	34	TE	13	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	22	14	133	9.5	2	7	50.0	28	1.1	10.2	63.6	6.0	14	9.5	133	2	0
11	Jim Harbaugh	25	QB	10	2	19	110	1	6	52.6	19	5.8	11.0	1.9	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			19	5.8	110	1	1
12	Jim McMahon	29	QB	9	9	26	104	4	11	46.2	16	4.0	11.6	2.9	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			26	4.0	104	4	6
13	Glen Kozlowski	26	WR	16	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	3	3.0	0.2	0.1	11	3	92	30.7	0	2	18.2	50	0.2	5.8	27.3	8.4	4	23.8	95	0	1
14	Cap Boso	25	TE	6	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	10	6	50	8.3	0	2	60.0	15	1.0	8.3	60.0	5.0	6	8.3	50	0	0
15	Mike Tomczak	26	QB	14	5	13	40	1	5	46.2	17	3.1	2.9	0.9	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			13	3.1	40	1	1
16	Calvin Thomas	28	RB	1	0	5	20	0	1	40.0	8	4.0	20.0	5.0	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			5	4.0	20	0	0
17	Bryan Wagner	26	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
	Team Totals			16	16	555	2319	25	137	45.4	80	4.2	144.9	34.7	446	248	3173	12.8	13	134	43.3	76	15.5	198.3	55.6	7.1	803	6.8	5492	38	33

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	Neal Anderson	24	RB	2	2	28	113	1	9	46.4	23	4.0	56.5	14.0	7	6	37	6.2	0	2	71.4	13	3.0	18.5	85.7	5.3	34	4.4	150	1	1
2	Dennis McKinnon	27	WR	2	2	1	-4	0	0	0.0	-4	-4.0	-2.0	0.5	13	8	140	17.5	1	5	53.8	64	4.0	70.0	61.5	10.8	9	15.1	136	1	0
3	Thomas Sanders	26	RB	2	0	15	116	0	4	46.7	58	7.7	58.0	7.5	2	2	20	10.0	0	1	100.0	12	1.0	10.0	100.0	10.0	17	8.0	136	0	1
4	Ron Morris	24	WR	2	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	7	3	52	17.3	0	2	28.6	27	1.5	26.0	42.9	7.4	3	17.3	52	0	0
5	James Thornton	23	TE	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	6	4	52	13.0	0	2	66.7	18	2.0	26.0	66.7	8.7	4	13.0	52	0	0
6	Brad Muster	23	RB	2	0	7	14	0	2	28.6	6	2.0	7.0	3.5	3	1	9	9.0	0	0	0.0	9	0.5	4.5	33.3	3.0	8	2.9	23	0	0
7	Dennis Gentry	29	WR	2	2	1	6	0	1	100.0	6	6.0	3.0	0.5	12	3	16	5.3	0	0	8.3	7	1.5	8.0	25.0	1.3	4	5.5	22	0	0
8	Cap Boso	25	TE	1	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	2	16	8.0	0	0	66.7	9	2.0	16.0	66.7	5.3	2	8.0	16	0	1
9	Wendell Davis	22	WR	2	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	4	1	11	11.0	0	1	25.0	11	0.5	5.5	25.0	2.8	1	11.0	11	0	0
10	Matt Suhey	30	FB	2	2	2	3	0	0	0.0	3	1.5	1.5	1.0	4	2	8	4.0	0	0	50.0	4	1.0	4.0	50.0	2.0	4	2.8	11	0	0
11	Jim McMahon	29	QB	2	1	3	7	0	0	33.3	9	2.3	3.5	1.5		0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			3	2.3	7	0	0
12	Mike Tomczak	26	QB	1	1	1	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	1.0		0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	0.0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2	58	255	1	16	41.4	58	4.4	127.5	29.0	61	32	361	11.3	1	13	42.6	64	16.0	180.5	52.5	5.9	90	6.8	616	2	3

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Defense & Fumbles

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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	Neal Anderson	24	RB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	8	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB
2	Dennis Gentry	29	WR	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
3	Dan Hampton	31	RDT	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9.5	0	0	0	0	AP-2
4	Jay Hilgenberg	29	C	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-18	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-1
5	Vestee Jackson	25	RCB	16	16	8	94	0	46	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
6	Steve McMichael	31	LDT	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	11.5	88	88	0	1
7	Ron Rivera	26	LLB	16	16	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
8	Mike Singletary	30	MLB	16	16	1	13	0	13	0	0	1	4	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-1,AP MVP-4,AP DPoY-1
9	Matt Suhey	30	FB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
10	Dave Duerson	28	SS	15	15	2	18	0	18	2	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	PB
11	Dennis McKinnon	27	WR	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Mike Richardson	27	LCB	16	15	2	15	0	15	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Al Harris	32	LDE	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3.5	0	0	0	0
14	Keith Van Horne	31	RT	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Richard Dent	28	RDE	13	12	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	10.5	61	61	0	0	AP-2
16	James Thornton	23	TE	16	12	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Jim Morrissey	26	RLB	11	11	3	13	0	13	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Maurice Douglass	24	FS	15	9	1	35	0	35	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	76	76	0	0
19	Jim McMahon	29	QB	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Mike Tomczak	26	QB	14	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-3	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
21	Shaun Gayle	26	DB	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	22	22	0	0
22	David Tate	24	DB	16	4	4	35	0	17	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	45	45	0	0
23	William Perry	26	DE	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	19	19	0	0
24	Sean Smith	23	DE	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
25	Jim Harbaugh	25	QB	10	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Troy Johnson	24	LB	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
27	Dante Jones	23	LB	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	16	16	0	0
28	John Adickes	24	C	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-13	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
29	Dick Chapura	24	DT	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
30	Greg Clark	23	LB	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
31	Wendell Davis	22	WR	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
32	Glen Kozlowski	26	WR	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
33	Todd Krumm	23	DB	15	0	2	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
34	Lorenzo Lynch	25	DB	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	0	0
35	Brad Muster	23	RB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
36	Thomas Sanders	26	RB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
37	Bryan Wagner	26	P	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-9	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	26	237	0	46	5	37	24	-39	0	43.0	329	329	0	1

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	Al Harris	32	LDE	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0
2	Vestee Jackson	25	RCB	2	2	1	51	0	51	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
3	Neal Anderson	24	RB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
4	Maurice Douglass	24	FS	1	1	1	47	0	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
5	Dan Hampton	31	RDT	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0
6	Steve McMichael	31	LDT	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0
7	Ron Rivera	26	LLB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0
8	Sean Smith	23	DE	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0
9	Cap Boso	25	TE	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
10	Mickey Pruitt	23	LB	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
11	Thomas Sanders	26	RB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2	3	98	0	51	0	0	3	1	0	0	6.0	0	0