1st AFC East (12-4-0)
Founded: 1960
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Game Averages (2012)
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| Team Statistics | ||
| Patriots | Opponents | |
| Total First Downs | 399 | 370 |
| 1st Downs (Rush-Pass-By Penalty) | 107 - 262 - 30 | 101 - 245 - 24 |
| 3rd Down Conversions | 89/194 | 87/202 |
| 4th Down Conversions | 7/11 | 8/19 |
| Total Offensive Yds | 6848 | 6577 |
| Offense (Plays-Avg Yds) | 1082 - 6.3 | 1064 - 6.2 |
| Total Rushing Yds | 1764 | 1874 |
| Rushing (Plays-Avg Yards) | 438 - 4.0 | 405 - 4.6 |
| Total Passing Yds | 5084 | 4703 |
| Passing (Comp-Att-Int-Avg) | 402 - 612 - 12 - 8.6 | 386 - 619 - 23 - 8.0 |
| Sacks | 40 | 32 |
| Field Goals | 28/33 | 20/23 |
| Touchdowns | 61 | 40 |
| (Rush-Pass-Ret-Def) | 18 - 39 - 1 - 3 | 13 - 26 - 0 - 1 |
| Time of Possession | 28:47 | 31:12 |
| Turnover Ratio | +17 | |
| Passing Statistics | |||||||||||||
| Player | Att | Comp | Yds | Comp % | Yds/Att | TD | TD % | INT | INT % | Long | Sck | Sack/Lost | Rating |
| Tom Brady | 611 | 401 | 5235 | 65.6 | 8.6 | 39 | 6.4 | 12 | 2.0 | 99 | 32 | 173 | 105.6 |
| Brian Hoyer | 1 | 1 | 22 | 100.0 | 22.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 118.8 |
| Rushing Statistics | |||||
| Player | Att | Yds | Yds/Att | Long | TD |
| BenJarvus Green-Ellis | 181 | 667 | 3.7 | 18 | 11 |
| Stevan Ridley | 87 | 441 | 5.1 | 33 | 1 |
| Danny Woodhead | 77 | 351 | 4.6 | 12 | 1 |
| Tom Brady | 43 | 109 | 2.5 | 13 | 3 |
| Kevin Faulk | 17 | 57 | 3.4 | 9 | 0 |
| Shane Vereen | 15 | 57 | 3.8 | 19 | 1 |
| Aaron Hernandez | 5 | 45 | 9.0 | 19 | 0 |
| Wes Welker | 4 | 30 | 7.5 | 19 | 0 |
| Julian Edelman | 4 | 8 | 2.0 | 6 | 0 |
| Brian Hoyer | 4 | -3 | -0.8 | 0 | 0 |
| Rob Gronkowski | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 1 |
| Receiving Statistics | |||||
| Player | Rec | Yds | Yds/Rec | Long | TD |
| Wes Welker | 122 | 1569 | 12.9 | 99 | 9 |
| Rob Gronkowski | 90 | 1327 | 14.7 | 52 | 17 |
| Aaron Hernandez | 79 | 910 | 11.5 | 46 | 7 |
| Deion Branch | 51 | 702 | 13.8 | 63 | 5 |
| Danny Woodhead | 18 | 157 | 8.7 | 16 | 0 |
| Chad Johnson | 15 | 276 | 18.4 | 53 | 1 |
| BenJarvus Green-Ellis | 9 | 159 | 17.7 | 53 | 0 |
| Kevin Faulk | 7 | 34 | 4.9 | 18 | 0 |
| Julian Edelman | 4 | 34 | 8.5 | 11 | 0 |
| Tiquan Underwood | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | 13 | 0 |
| Stevan Ridley | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 8 | 0 |
| Matthew Slater | 1 | 46 | 46.0 | 46 | 0 |
| Field Goal Statistics | ||||||||||
| Player | 1-19 A | 1-19 M | 20-29 A | 20-29 M | 30-39 A | 30-39 M | 40-49 A | 40-49 M | 50+ A | 50+ M |
| Stephen Gostkowski | 1 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 1 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 0 | 0 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Punting Statistics | ||||||
| Player | Punts | Avg | Touchbacks/g | IN 20 | Long | Blck |
| Zoltan Mesko | 57 | 46.5 | 3 | 24 | 65 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 57 | 46.5 | 3 | 24 | 65 | 0 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 67 | 45.5 | 2 | 26 | 64 | 0 |
| Punt Return Statistics | |||||
| Player | Returns | FC | Yds/Ret | Long | TD |
| Julian Edelman | 28 | 7 | 10.6 | 72 | 1 |
| Wes Welker | 8 | 6 | 10.3 | 25 | 0 |
| Kevin Faulk | 2 | 0 | 5.5 | 7 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 38 | 13 | 10.2 | 72 | 1 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 26 | 18 | 8.5 | 26 | 0 |
| Kick Return Statistics | |||||
| Player | Returns | Yds | Yds/Ret | Long | TD |
| Danny Woodhead | 20 | 437 | 21.9 | 37 | 0 |
| Julian Edelman | 12 | 284 | 23.7 | 37 | 0 |
| Stevan Ridley | 7 | 152 | 21.7 | 32 | 0 |
| Matthew Slater | 4 | 68 | 17.0 | 22 | 0 |
| Devin McCourty | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 24 | 0 |
| Rob Gronkowski | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 11 | 0 |
| Rob Ninkovich | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 46 | 986 | 21.4 | 37 | 0 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 60 | 1294 | 21.6 | 88 | 0 |
| Defense Statistics | |||||
| Player | Comb | Total | Assist | Sck | Fumb |
| Kyle Arrington | 88 | 66 | 22 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Devin McCourty | 87 | 65 | 22 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jerod Mayo | 95 | 58 | 37 | 1.0 | 1 |
| James Ihedigbo | 69 | 46 | 23 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Rob Ninkovich | 74 | 43 | 31 | 6.5 | 1 |
| Patrick Chung | 62 | 37 | 25 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Brandon Spikes | 47 | 32 | 15 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Andre Carter | 52 | 31 | 21 | 10.0 | 2 |
| Vince Wilfork | 52 | 29 | 23 | 3.5 | 1 |
| Sergio Brown | 37 | 28 | 9 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Tracy White | 37 | 27 | 10 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Gary Guyton | 47 | 26 | 21 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Antwaun Molden | 36 | 25 | 11 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Kyle Love | 33 | 20 | 13 | 3.0 | 0 |
| Dane Fletcher | 32 | 19 | 13 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Mark Anderson | 29 | 18 | 11 | 10.0 | 2 |
| Matthew Slater | 24 | 18 | 6 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Josh Barrett | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Julian Edelman | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Leigh Bodden | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Brandon Deaderick | 17 | 11 | 6 | 2.0 | 0 |
| Nate Jones | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Gerard Warren | 12 | 8 | 4 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Shaun Ellis | 14 | 7 | 7 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Niko Koutouvides | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sterling Moore | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Danny Woodhead | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jeff Tarpinian | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Stephen Gostkowski | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Danny Aiken | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Ras-I Dowling | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Rob Gronkowski | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Deion Branch | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sebastian Vollmer | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Ross Ventrone | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Ron Brace | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0.0 | 1 |
| BenJarvus Green-Ellis | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Matt Light | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Myron Pryor | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Wes Welker | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Zoltan Mesko | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Nate Solder | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Tiquan Underwood | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Landon Cohen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Shane Vereen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Mike Wright | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Lousaka Polite | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jermaine Cunningham | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| TEAM TOTAL | 1126 | 743 | 383 | 40 | 10 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 1171 | 757 | 414 | 32 | 8 |
| Interception Statistics | |||||
| Player | Int | Yds | Yds/Int | Long | TD |
| Kyle Arrington | 7 | 92 | 13.1 | 28 | 0 |
| Vince Wilfork | 2 | 47 | 23.5 | 28 | 0 |
| Antwaun Molden | 2 | 40 | 20.0 | 27 | 0 |
| Devin McCourty | 2 | 38 | 19.0 | 38 | 0 |
| Rob Ninkovich | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 18 | 1 |
| Sterling Moore | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 21 | 1 |
| Jerod Mayo | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| Gary Guyton | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
| Sergio Brown | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| Patrick Chung | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 23 | 296 | 12.9 | 38 | 2 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 12 | 186 | 15.5 | 42 | 1 |
