1983 Green Bay Packers season

1983 Green Bay Packers season
Head coach Bart Starr
Home field Lambeau Field
Milwaukee County Stadium
Results
Record 8–8
Division place 2nd NFC Central
Playoff finish did not qualify

The 1983 Green Bay Packers season was their 65th season overall and their 63rd in the National Football League. The club posted an 8–8 record under ninth-year head coach Bart Starr to finish second in the NFC Central division. The team set an NFL record for most overtime games played in one season with five,[1] winning two and losing three. On Monday Night Football in October, Green Bay defeated the Washington Redskins, 48–47, in the highest-scoring game in MNF history. It was voted one of the ten best Packer games and is featured on the NFL Films collection, "The Green Bay Packers Greatest Games."

Green Bay hovered around the .500 mark all season. Entering their final regular season game on December 18 at Chicago, the Packers (8–7) could secure a playoff berth with a victory. Green Bay scored a touchdown to take a one-point lead with just over three minutes in the game, and Chicago running back Walter Payton was sidelined with a wrist injury. The Bears returned the kickoff to their 38 and drove fifty yards, down to the Packer twelve, with 1:17 remaining. Although Green Bay had all three of its timeouts, they opted not to use any, and the Bears kicked a winning 22-yard field goal with ten seconds on the clock. Green Bay fumbled away the ensuing kickoff, and the Los Angeles Rams (9–7) gained the final playoff slot.[2][3]

Starr was fired the following day by team president Robert Parins, ending a 26-year association with the team as a player and coach.[4][5] Former player Forrest Gregg, the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, was hired before the end of the week, announced on Christmas Eve.[6] Gregg had led the Bengals to Super Bowl XVI two years earlier, but had less success in his four seasons in Green Bay, then left for his alma mater SMU in Dallas in January 1988.[7]

Offseason

NFL draft

Pick #PlayerPositionCollege
11Tim LewisCornerbackPittsburgh
48Dave DrechslerGuardNorth Carolina
104Mike MillerWide ReceiverTennessee
132Brian ThomasRunning BackPittsburgh
160Ron SamsGuardPittsburgh
188Jessie ClarkRunning BackArkansas
216Carlton BriscoeDefensive BackMcNeese State
243Robin HamCenterWest Texas State
253Byron WilliamsWide ReceiverTexas Arlington
271Jimmy ThomasDefensive BackIndiana
299Bucky ScribnerPunterKansas
327John HarveyLinebackerUSC

Undrafted free agents

1983 Undrafted Free Agents of note
Player Position College
Chet Winters Running back Oklahoma

Personnel

Staff

1983 Green Bay Packers staff
Front office

Head coaches

Offensive coaches

 Defensive coaches

Special teams coaches

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Roster

1983 Green Bay Packers final roster
Quarterbacks

Running backs

Wide receivers

Tight ends

 Offensive linemen

Defensive linemen

 Linebackers

Defensive backs

Special teams

 Reserve lists

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Practice squad



Rookies in italics
 00 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 Practice squad

Regular season

Schedule

GameDateOpponentScoreRecordNotesVenueAttendance
19-04-1983at Houston OilersW, 41–38 O.T.1–0Astrodome
44,073
29-11-1983Pittsburgh SteelersL, 21–251–1Lambeau Field
55,154
39-18-1983Los Angeles RamsW, 27–242–1Milwaukee County Stadium
54,037
49-26-1983at New York GiantsL, 3–272–2Monday Night FootballGiants Stadium
75,308
510-02-1983Tampa Bay BuccaneersW, 55–133–2NFL-record 49 points in 1st halfLambeau Field
54,272
610-09-1983at Detroit LionsL, 14–383–3Pontiac Silverdome
67,738
710-17-1983Washington RedskinsW, 48–474–3Highest MNF aggregate scoreLambeau Field
55,255
810-23-1983Minnesota VikingsL, 17–20 O.T.4–4Lambeau Field
55,236
910-30-1983at Cincinnati BengalsL, 14–344–5Riverfront Stadium
53,349
1011-06-1983Cleveland BrownsW, 35–215–5Milwaukee County Stadium
54,089
1111-13-1983at Minnesota VikingsW, 29–216–5Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
60,113
1211-20-1983Detroit LionsL, 20–23 O.T.6–6Milwaukee County Stadium
50,050
1311-27-1983at Atlanta FalconsL, 41–47 O.T.6–74th O.T. gameAtlanta–Fulton County Stadium
35,688
1412-04-1983Chicago BearsW, 31–287–7Lambeau Field
51,147
1512-12-1983at Tampa Bay BuccaneersW, 12–9 O.T.8–75th O.T. game, NFL recordTampa Stadium
50,763
1612-18-1983at Chicago BearsL, 21–238–8Soldier Field
35,807

Game summaries

Week 1

1 234OTTotal
• Packers 7 21373 41
Oilers 10 07210 38

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Standings

NFC Central
W L T PCT DIV CONF PF PA STK
Detroit Lions(3) 9 7 0 .563 7–1 8–4 347 286 W1
Green Bay Packers 8 8 0 .500 4–4 6–6 429 439 L1
Chicago Bears 8 8 0 .500 4–4 7–7 311 301 W2
Minnesota Vikings 8 8 0 .500 4–4 4–8 316 348 W1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2 14 0 .125 1–7 1–11 241 380 L3

Statistics

Passing

PlayerAttemptsCompletionPercentageYardsAvgLongTDIntRating
Lynn Dickey48428959.7%44589.2175322987.3

Receiving

PlayerReceptionsYardsAverageTDLong
James Lofton58130022.4874
John Jefferson5783014.6736
Paul Coffman5481415.11174
Gerry Ellis5260311.6256

Rushing

PlayerAttemptsYardsavgTDLong
Gerry Ellis1416964.9471
Eddie Lee Ivery863404.0221
Jessie Clark713284.6042
Harlan Huckleby501823.6420

Defensive

PlayerSacksINT'SYardsAverageTDLong
John Anderson4.555410.8127t
Greg Boyd2.0000.000
Byron Braggs5.5000.000
George Cumby2.0000.000
Mike Douglass5.5000.000
Johnnie Gray0.0252.505
Charles Johnson3.5000.000
Ezra Johnson14.5000.000
Mike Jolly0.0100.000
Jim Laughlin0.012222.0022
Mark Lee0.04235.8015
Cliff Lewis2.0000.000
Tim Lewis0.0511122.2046
Randy Scott0.011212.0012

Records

  • Lynn Dickey, Club Record, Most Passing Yards in One Season, 4,458. First NFC Quarterback to ever throw for over 4,000 yards.
  • NFL record, Most Overtime Games played in one season, (5)
  • NFC Central record, Most Interceptions in a season by a passer other than the quarterback (3, Cliff Lewis).

References

  1. ↑ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York,NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 388
  2. ↑ Feuerherd, Vic (December 19, 1983). "Bears end playoff bid by Packers". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
  3. ↑ Lea, Bud (December 19, 1983). "Defeat clouds Starr's future". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
  4. ↑ Feuerherd, Vic (December 20, 1983). "Sad Starr said Pack set to win". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 1.
  5. ↑ Lea, Bud (December 20, 1983). "Parins shows he runs Pack". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
  6. ↑ Salituro, Chuck (December 25, 1983). "Gregg shortened Parins' search". Milwaukee Journal. p. 1, sports.
  7. ↑ Perkins, Eddie (January 15, 1988). "The rebuilding starts for SMU, Packers". Milwaukee Journal. p. 1C.
  8. ↑ "All Time Coaches Database". Packers.com. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  9. ↑ Pro-Football-Reference.com
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