1983 Green Bay Packers season
The 1983 Green Bay Packers season was their 64th season 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
Personnel
Staff
1983 Green Bay Packers staff |
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Front office
Head coaches
Offensive coaches
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Defensive coaches
Special teams coaches
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Regular season
Schedule
Game | Date | Opponent | Score | Record | Notes | Venue | Attendance |
1 | 9-04-1983 | at Houston Oilers | W, 41–38 O.T. | 1–0 | | Astrodome | 44,073 |
2 | 9-11-1983 | Pittsburgh Steelers | L, 21–25 | 1–1 | | Lambeau Field | 55,154 |
3 | 9-18-1983 | Los Angeles Rams | W, 27–24 | 2–1 | | Milwaukee County Stadium | 54,037 |
4 | 9-26-1983 | at New York Giants | L, 3–27 | 2–2 | Monday Night Football | Giants Stadium | 75,308 |
5 | 10-02-1983 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | W, 55–13 | 3–2 | NFL-record 49 points in 1st half | Lambeau Field | 54,272 |
6 | 10-09-1983 | at Detroit Lions | L, 14–38 | 3–3 | | Pontiac Silverdome | 67,738 |
7 | 10-17-1983 | Washington Redskins | W, 48–47 | 4–3 | Highest MNF aggregate score | Lambeau Field | 55,255 |
8 | 10-23-1983 | Minnesota Vikings | L, 17–20 O.T. | 4–4 | | Lambeau Field | 55,236 |
9 | 10-30-1983 | at Cincinnati Bengals | L, 14–34 | 4–5 | | Riverfront Stadium | 53,349 |
10 | 11-06-1983 | Cleveland Browns | W, 35–21 | 5–5 | | Milwaukee County Stadium | 54,089 |
11 | 11-13-1983 | at Minnesota Vikings | W, 29–21 | 6–5 | | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | 60,113 |
12 | 11-20-1983 | Detroit Lions | L, 20–23 O.T. | 6–6 | | Milwaukee County Stadium | 50,050 |
13 | 11-27-1983 | at Atlanta Falcons | L, 41–47 O.T. | 6–7 | 4th O.T. game | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium | 35,688 |
14 | 12-04-1983 | Chicago Bears | W, 31–28 | 7–7 | | Lambeau Field | 51,147 |
15 | 12-12-1983 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | W, 12–9 O.T. | 8–7 | 5th O.T. game, NFL record | Tampa Stadium | 50,763 |
16 | 12-18-1983 | at Chicago Bears | L, 21–23 | 8–8 | | Soldier Field | 35,807 |
Game summaries
Week 1
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21 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
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Oilers |
10 |
0 | 7 | 21 | 0 |
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Scoring summary |
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| GB | Paul Coffman 25-yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | Packers 7–0 |
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| HOU | Florian Kempf 49-yard field goal | Packers 7–3 |
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| HOU | Tim Smith 47-yard pass from Archie Manning (Florian Kempf kick) | Oilers 10–7 |
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| GB | John Jefferson 5-yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | Packers 14–10 |
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| GB | John Jefferson 13-yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | Packers 21–10 |
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| GB | Gerry Ellis 11-yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | Packers 28–10 |
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| HOU | Earl Campbell 7-yard run (Florian Kempf kick) | Packers 28–17 |
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| GB | Jan Stenerud 46-yard field goal | Packers 31–17 |
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| HOU | Earl Campbell 8-yard run (Florian Kempf kick) | Packers 31–24 |
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| HOU | Earl Campbell 1-yard run (Florian Kempf kick) | Tie 31–31 |
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| GB | James Lofton 74-yard pass from Lynn Dickey (Jan Stenerud kick) | Packers 38–31 |
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| HOU | Larry Moriarty 2-yard run (Florian Kempf kick) | Tie 38–38 |
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OT |
| GB | Jan Stenerud 42-yard field goal | Packers 41–38 |
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Standings
Statistics
Passing
Player | Attempts | Completion | Percentage | Yards | Avg | Long | TD | Int | Rating |
Lynn Dickey | 484 | 289 | 59.7% | 4458 | 9.21 | 75 | 32 | 29 | 87.3 |
Receiving
Rushing
Defensive
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
- ↑ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York,NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 388
- ↑ Feuerherd, Vic (December 19, 1983). "Bears end playoff bid by Packers". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
- ↑ Lea, Bud (December 19, 1983). "Defeat clouds Starr's future". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
- ↑ Feuerherd, Vic (December 20, 1983). "Sad Starr said Pack set to win". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 1.
- ↑ Lea, Bud (December 20, 1983). "Parins shows he runs Pack". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
- ↑ Salituro, Chuck (December 25, 1983). "Gregg shortened Parins' search". Milwaukee Journal. p. 1, sports.
- ↑ Perkins, Eddie (January 15, 1988). "The rebuilding starts for SMU, Packers". Milwaukee Journal. p. 1C.
- ↑ "All Time Coaches Database". Packers.com. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
- ↑ Pro-Football-Reference.com
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