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Founded: 1960
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Game Averages (2012)
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| Team Statistics | ||
| Patriots | Opponents | |
| Total First Downs | 444 | 340 |
| 1st Downs (Rush-Pass-By Penalty) | 151 - 256 - 37 | 100 - 207 - 33 |
| 3rd Down Conversions | 110/226 | 82/205 |
| 4th Down Conversions | 8/12 | 9/23 |
| Total Offensive Yds | 6846 | 5972 |
| Offense (Plays-Avg Yds) | 1191 - 5.7 | 1046 - 5.7 |
| Total Rushing Yds | 2184 | 1630 |
| Rushing (Plays-Avg Yards) | 523 - 4.2 | 415 - 3.9 |
| Total Passing Yds | 4662 | 4342 |
| Passing (Comp-Att-Int-Avg) | 402 - 641 - 9 - 7.6 | 369 - 594 - 20 - 7.7 |
| Sacks | 37 | 27 |
| Field Goals | 29/35 | 21/25 |
| Touchdowns | 67 | 38 |
| (Rush-Pass-Ret-Def) | 25 - 34 - 2 - 6 | 10 - 27 - 0 - 1 |
| Time of Possession | 30:55 | 29:32 |
| Turnover Ratio | +25 | |
| Passing Statistics | |||||||||||||
| Player | Att | Comp | Yds | Comp % | Yds/Att | TD | TD % | INT | INT % | Long | Sck | Sack/Lost | Rating |
| Tom Brady | 637 | 401 | 4827 | 63.0 | 7.6 | 34 | 5.3 | 8 | 1.3 | 83 | 27 | 182 | 98.7 |
| Ryan Mallett | 4 | 1 | 17 | 25.0 | 4.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 25.0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 |
| Rushing Statistics | |||||
| Player | Att | Yds | Yds/Att | Long | TD |
| Stevan Ridley | 290 | 1263 | 4.4 | 41 | 12 |
| Danny Woodhead | 76 | 301 | 4.0 | 19 | 4 |
| Shane Vereen | 62 | 251 | 4.0 | 16 | 3 |
| Brandon Bolden | 56 | 274 | 4.9 | 27 | 2 |
| Tom Brady | 23 | 32 | 1.4 | 7 | 4 |
| Ryan Mallett | 8 | -9 | -1.1 | -1 | 0 |
| Julian Edelman | 4 | 45 | 11.3 | 47 | 0 |
| Wes Welker | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 11 | 0 |
| Aaron Hernandez | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| Receiving Statistics | |||||
| Player | Rec | Yds | Yds/Rec | Long | TD |
| Wes Welker | 118 | 1354 | 11.5 | 59 | 6 |
| Brandon Lloyd | 74 | 911 | 12.3 | 53 | 4 |
| Rob Gronkowski | 55 | 790 | 14.4 | 41 | 11 |
| Aaron Hernandez | 51 | 483 | 9.5 | 31 | 5 |
| Danny Woodhead | 40 | 446 | 11.2 | 25 | 3 |
| Julian Edelman | 21 | 235 | 11.2 | 56 | 3 |
| Deion Branch | 16 | 145 | 9.1 | 25 | 0 |
| Shane Vereen | 8 | 149 | 18.6 | 83 | 1 |
| Stevan Ridley | 6 | 51 | 8.5 | 20 | 0 |
| Michael Hoomanawanui | 5 | 109 | 21.8 | 41 | 0 |
| Daniel Fells | 4 | 85 | 21.3 | 35 | 0 |
| Brandon Bolden | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 11 | 0 |
| Donte' Stallworth | 1 | 63 | 63.0 | 63 | 1 |
| Kellen Winslow | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| Punting Statistics | ||||||
| Player | Punts | Avg | Touchbacks/g | IN 20 | Long | Blck |
| Zoltan Mesko | 60 | 43.1 | 6 | 28 | 62 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 60 | 42.4 | 6 | 28 | 62 | 1 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 67 | 50.3 | 4 | 23 | 66 | 0 |
| Punt Return Statistics | |||||
| Player | Returns | FC | Yds/Ret | Long | TD |
| Wes Welker | 25 | 7 | 9.7 | 31 | 0 |
| Julian Edelman | 17 | 1 | 15.5 | 68 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 42 | 8 | 12.0 | 68 | 1 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 23 | 19 | 6.7 | 25 | 0 |
| Kick Return Statistics | |||||
| Player | Returns | Yds | Yds/Ret | Long | TD |
| Devin McCourty | 27 | 654 | 24.2 | 104 | 1 |
| Julian Edelman | 3 | 38 | 12.7 | 32 | 0 |
| Wes Welker | 3 | 33 | 11.0 | 17 | 0 |
| Danny Woodhead | 2 | 43 | 21.5 | 23 | 0 |
| Matthew Slater | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 20 | 0 |
| Rob Gronkowski | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 38 | 807 | 21.2 | 104 | 1 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 60 | 1229 | 20.5 | 62 | 0 |
| Defense Statistics | |||||
| Player | Comb | Total | Assist | Sck | Fumb |
| Jerod Mayo | 147 | 88 | 59 | 3.0 | 4 |
| Devin McCourty | 82 | 63 | 19 | 0.0 | 2 |
| Kyle Arrington | 74 | 62 | 12 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Brandon Spikes | 92 | 57 | 35 | 1.0 | 5 |
| Dont'a Hightower | 60 | 43 | 17 | 4.0 | 0 |
| Alfonzo Dennard | 35 | 34 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Rob Ninkovich | 58 | 32 | 26 | 8.0 | 5 |
| Steve Gregory | 37 | 31 | 6 | 0.0 | 2 |
| Vince Wilfork | 48 | 29 | 19 | 3.0 | 2 |
| Patrick Chung | 44 | 29 | 15 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Tavon Wilson | 41 | 28 | 13 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Chandler Jones | 45 | 24 | 21 | 6.0 | 3 |
| Jermaine Cunningham | 24 | 16 | 8 | 2.5 | 0 |
| Marquice Cole | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Aqib Talib | 19 | 13 | 6 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Matthew Slater | 19 | 13 | 6 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Nate Ebner | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Kyle Love | 25 | 11 | 14 | 1.5 | 0 |
| Brandon Deaderick | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1.0 | 2 |
| Trevor Scott | 14 | 7 | 7 | 3.0 | 1 |
| Tracy White | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Justin Francis | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 |
| Mike Rivera | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Ras-I Dowling | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Brandon Bolden | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Derrick Martin | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Niko Koutouvides | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Julian Edelman | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Ron Brace | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Tom Brady | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Wes Welker | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Michael Hoomanawanui | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Stephen Gostkowski | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Malcolm Williams | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Danny Aiken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Daniel Fells | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Ryan Wendell | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sebastian Vollmer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Shane Vereen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Rob Gronkowski | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Deion Branch | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jeff Tarpinian | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Aaron Hernandez | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Stevan Ridley | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Bobby Carpenter | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| TEAM TOTAL | 1057 | 739 | 318 | 37 | 30 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 1219 | 836 | 383 | 27 | 12 |
| Interception Statistics | |||||
| Player | Int | Yds | Yds/Int | Long | TD |
| Devin McCourty | 5 | 53 | 10.6 | 34 | 0 |
| Tavon Wilson | 4 | 87 | 21.8 | 45 | 0 |
| Alfonzo Dennard | 3 | 95 | 31.7 | 87 | 1 |
| Steve Gregory | 3 | 50 | 16.7 | 36 | 0 |
| Patrick Chung | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 27 | 0 |
| Aqib Talib | 1 | 59 | 59.0 | 59 | 1 |
| Jerod Mayo | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marquice Cole | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 20 | 371 | 18.6 | 87 | 2 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 9 | 112 | 12.4 | 63 | 0 |
