1995 Albany Firebirds Statistics
Team Record: 7-5
Finishing 1st in the Arena League's East Division of the National Conference
Postseason: 1-1 Lone Star Division
Coach: Mike Hohensee (7-5)
Location: Albany, New York
Attendance: 73,440, Avg. 12,240 in 6 home dates
1995 Albany Firebirds Results
The Albany Firebirds of the Arena Football League ended the 1995 season with a record of 7 wins and 5 losses, finishing first in the Arena League's East Division of the National Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 1-1.
Offensively, the Firebirds topped the circuit with 649 points. Meanwhile, the defense allowed 560 points. Mike Perez passed for 2,953 yards. Fred Gayles snagged 55 passes for 796 yards. Willie Culpepper and Eddie Brown contributed to the receiving game, too.
Jim Kitts ran for a team-best 104 yards, while Mike Faulkerson additionally contributed to the rushing attack.
David McLeod, Michael Clark and Willie Culpepper each seized 3 opponent throws. Jerome Brown dropped opposing passers 8 times, part of an overall team total of 24 sacks.
Mike Hohensee coached the team. The 1995 Albany Firebirds Lone Star Division.
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Passing:
| Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Perez | 336 | 211 | 62.8 | 2953 | 8.8 | 56 | 16.7 | 11 | 3.3 | 47 | 2 | 11 | 117.0 |
| Fred McNair | 52 | 31 | 59.6 | 431 | 8.3 | 10 | 19.2 | 3 | 5.8 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 101.8 |
| Khari Jones | 5 | 3 | 60.0 | 38 | 7.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 83.8 |
| Steven Jerry | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 34 | 34.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 158.3 |
| Eddie Brown | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 30 | 10.0 | 2 | 66.7 | 1 | 33.3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 99.3 |
| Totals | 397 | 248 | 62.5 | 3486 | 8.8 | 69 | 17.4 | 15 | 3.8 | 47 | 2 | 11 |
Rushing:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Kitts | 22 | 104 | 4.7 | 5 | |
| Mike Faulkerson | 18 | 79 | 4.4 | 2 | |
| Fred Gayles | 8 | 18 | 2.2 | 1 | |
| Eddie Brown | 9 | 13 | 1.4 | 4 | |
| Chip Todd | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | 0 | |
| Mike Perez | 11 | 7 | 0.6 | 3 | |
| Khari Jones | 3 | 2 | 0.7 | 0 | |
| Mike Green | 2 | -1 | -0.5 | 0 | |
| Steven Jerry | 3 | -12 | -4.0 | 1 | |
| Totals | 80 | 222 | 2.8 | 0 | 16 |
Receiving:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Gayles | 55 | 796 | 14.5 | 14 | |
| Eddie Brown | 53 | 785 | 14.8 | 13 | |
| Willie Culpepper | 48 | 658 | 13.7 | 14 | |
| David McLeod | 21 | 378 | 18.0 | 9 | |
| Mike Green | 21 | 284 | 13.5 | 5 | |
| Steven Jerry | 13 | 155 | 11.9 | 6 | |
| Mike Faulkerson | 11 | 90 | 8.2 | 1 | |
| Anthony Stinnett | 9 | 130 | 14.4 | 3 | |
| Chris Poston | 3 | 45 | 15.0 | 1 | |
| Chip Todd | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 1 | |
| Nuygen Pendleton | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | |
| Jim Kitts | 2 | 19 | 9.5 | 1 | |
| David Caldwell | 2 | 14 | 7.0 | 0 | |
| Alvin Ashley | 1 | 26 | 26.0 | 1 | |
| Maurice Smith | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 0 | |
| Jerome Brown | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 0 | |
| Guy Howard | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | |
| Kyle Moore-Brown | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 248 | 3486 | 14.1 | 0 | 69 |
Kicking:
| Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trey Weir | 54 | 52 | 96.3 | 14 | 4 | 28.6 | 64 |
| Tripp Pignetti | 5 | 5 | 100.0 | 4 | 2 | 50.0 | 11 |
| Arden Czyzewski | 28 | 27 | 96.4 | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | 30 |
| Totals | 87 | 84 | 96.6 | 26 | 7 | 26.9 | 105 |
Kick Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eddie Brown | 23 | 491 | 21.3 | 1 | |
| Fred Gayles | 18 | 343 | 19.1 | 0 | |
| Steven Jerry | 20 | 329 | 16.4 | 0 | |
| Mike Green | 7 | 137 | 19.6 | 0 | |
| Willie Culpepper | 9 | 102 | 11.3 | 0 | |
| Chris Poston | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 0 | |
| Anthony Stinnett | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | |
| Kyle Moore-Brown | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | |
| Jim Kitts | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 83 | 1447 | 17.4 | 0 | 1 |
Interceptions:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willie Culpepper | 3 | 22 | 7.3 | 1 | |
| Michael Clark | 3 | 19 | 6.3 | 1 | |
| David McLeod | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Chris Poston | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Mike Green | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 0 | |
| Maurice Smith | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 13 | 57 | 4.4 | 0 | 2 |
Sacks:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome Brown | 8.0 | 0.0 | |
| Jim Kitts | 4.0 | 0.0 | |
| Kyle Moore-Brown | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
| David Caldwell | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
| Mitch Suplee | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
| Chip Todd | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
| Mike Green | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Mark Valvo | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Totals | 24.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
| Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF | K Blk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Poston | 70 | 66 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Michael Clark | 40 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Willie Culpepper | 30.5 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Fred Gayles | 32 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Maurice Smith | 25 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Jim Kitts | 27 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Mike Green | 21 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Jerome Brown | 18 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| David McLeod | 17.5 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Toren Robinson | 17 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Anthony Stinnett | 18.5 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mark Valvo | 15.5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Bruce Plummer | 15.5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mike Faulkerson | 14.5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Phil Poirier | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Dwayne Ware | 12.5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Kyle Moore-Brown | 14 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| David Caldwell | 10.5 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Mitch Suplee | 8.5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Steven Jerry | 6.5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Guy Howard | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Darrin Kenney | 4.5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Nuygen Pendleton | 2.5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Chip Todd | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mike Perez | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Jerome Rinehart | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Arden Czyzewski | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Trey Weir | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Totals | 445 | 389 | 112 | 34 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
Total Scoring:
| Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
| Eddie Brown | 4 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | |||||||
| Fred Gayles | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | ||||||
| Willie Culpepper | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | |||||||
| Trey Weir | 0 | 4 | 52 | 0 | 64 | |||||||||
| David McLeod | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | ||||||||
| Steven Jerry | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | ||||||
| Jim Kitts | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||
| Arden Czyzewski | 0 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 30 | |||||||||
| Mike Green | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | ||||||
| Anthony Stinnett | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
| Mike Faulkerson | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
| Mike Perez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
| Tripp Pignetti | 2 | 5 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Alvin Ashley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Chip Todd | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
| Chris Poston | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
| Michael Clark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Totals | 16 | 69 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 633 |
