2001 New York/New Jersey Hitmen (XFL) |
| 3rd place • Eastern Division • 4-6-0 .400 |
| Head Coach: Rusty Tillman |
| Edwin Bailey | Offensive Line/Tight Ends |
| Greg Briner | Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks |
| Paul Butcher | Special Teams Coordinator |
| David Catapano | Defensive Coordinator |
| Mike Dietzel | Secondary |
| Joe Lombardi | Running Backs |
| Tony Mottola | Linebackers |
| Bill Urbanik | Defensive Line |
| SCORES | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Date | Opponent | Result | Location | Venue | Attendance | |||
| Sat | 2/3/2001 | A | Las Vegas Outlaws | 0-19 | L | Las Vegas, NV | Sam Boyd Stadium | 30389 | |
| Sun | 2/11/2001 | H | Birmingham Bolts | 12-19 | L | East Rutherford, NJ | Giants Stadium | 36458 | |
| Sun | 2/18/2001 | H | Orlando Rage | 12-18 | L | East Rutherford, NJ | Giants Stadium | 25626 | |
| Sat | 2/24/2001 | A | Chicago Enforcers | 13-0 | W | Chicago, IL | Soldier Field | 24052 | |
| Sat | 3/3/2001 | H | Los Angeles Xtreme | 7-22 | L | East Rutherford, NJ | Giants Stadium | 27479 | |
| Sun | 3/11/2001 | A | San Francisco Demons | 20-12 | W | San Francisco, CA | Pacific Bell Park | 33522 | |
| Sat | 3/17/2001 | H | Memphis Maniax | 16-15 | W | East Rutherford, NJ | Giants Stadium | 22269 | |
| Sun | 3/25/2001 | A | Orlando Rage | 12-17 | L | Orlando, FL | Citrus Bowl | 19641 | |
| Sat | 3/31/2001 | H | Chicago Enforcers | 18-23 | L | East Rutherford, NJ | Giants Stadium | 29713 | |
| Sun | 4/8/2001 | A | Birmingham Bolts | 22-0 | W | Birmingham, AL | Legion Field | 10749 | |
| ROSTER | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | No | Pos | Ht | Wt | Age | College | GP | GS |
| Leo Araguz | 2 | K-P | 5-11 | 190 | 31 | Stephen F. Austin State | 10 | 0 |
| Mike Archie | 28 | RB | 5-8 | 204 | 29 | Penn State | 10 | 0 |
| Joe Aska | 38 | RB | 5-11 | 240 | 29 | Cisco JC; Coffeyville CC; Central Oklahoma | 9 | 5 |
| Mike Barber | 65 | LLB | 6-1 | 247 | 30 | Clemson | 5 | 5 |
| Tim Beauchamp | 90 | LDE | 6-2 | 271 | 24 | Florida | 10 | 8 |
| Michael Blair | 27 | FB | 5-11 | 245 | 27 | Ball State | 10 | 8 |
| Chris Brantley | 1 | WR | 5-10 | 175 | 31 | Rutgers | 10 | 0 |
| Fred Brock | 81 | WR | 5-11 | 181 | 27 | Southern Mississippi | 10 | 6 |
| Lamont Bryant | 91 | LDT | 6-3 | 260 | 25 | Notre Dame | 10 | 2 |
| Butler By'not'e | 31 | S | 5-10 | 190 | 29 | Ohio State | 10 | 0 |
| Donnie Caldwell | 21 | S | 5-11 | 185 | 24 | Northeastern Oklahoma A&M JC; Western Illinois | 10 | 0 |
| David Camacho | 50 | LOG | 6-7 | 310 | 25 | Los Angeles Harbor JC; Oklahoma State | 10 | 6 |
| Ben Cavil | 63 | ROG | 6-2 | 310 | 29 | Oklahoma | 10 | 10 |
| Eric Cole | 51 | C | 6-5 | 310 | 24 | Penn State | 10 | 8 |
| Ryan Collins | 88 | TE | 6-6 | 259 | 26 | St. Thomas (Minnesota) | 10 | 0 |
| Obadiah Cooper | 3 | WR | 5-8 | 163 | 31 | San Bernardino Valley JC; Eastern Illinois | 2 | 0 |
| James Cotton | 92 | LDE | 6-2 | 249 | 25 | Cuyahoga JC; San Francisco CC; Ohio State | 10 | 0 |
| Vernon Crawford | 62 | RLB | 6-4 | 245 | 27 | San Francisco CC; Florida State | 8 | 3 |
| Lou D'Agostino | 23 | FB | 6-0 | 235 | 28 | Hofstra; Rhode Island | 1 | 1 |
| Jerome Daniels | 79 | ROT | 6-5 | 350 | 27 | Northeastern | 2 | 0 |
| Kirby Dar Dar | 85 | WR | 5-9 | 192 | 29 | Syracuse | 10 | 2 |
| Zola Davis | 80 | WR | 6-0 | 185 | 26 | South Carolina | 10 | 10 |
| Anthony DiCosmo | 84 | WR | 6-2 | 194 | 24 | Boston College | 10 | 2 |
| Keith Elias | 22 | FB | 5-9 | 203 | 29 | Princeton | 9 | 5 |
| Joey Eloms | 26 | LCB | 5-10 | 182 | 25 | Indiana | 10 | 10 |
| Dan Falcon | DT | 6-2 | 295 | 25 | Western Michigan | 1 | 0 | |
| Haven Fields | 52 | RLB-LLB | 6-0 | 219 | 23 | Auburn | 10 | 5 |
| Harvey Goins | OT | 6-5 | 300 | 24 | Louisiana-Monroe | 5 | 0 | |
| Ben Hanks | 58 | LLB-RLB | 6-2 | 222 | 29 | Florida | 9 | 5 |
| Marcus Hinton | 87 | TE | 6-4 | 265 | 30 | Alcorn State | 10 | 6 |
| Robert Hunt | 60 | LOG | 6-3 | 290 | 26 | Virginia | 5 | 2 |
| Chris Maumalanga | 78 | LDT | 6-2 | 300 | 30 | Kansas | 10 | 10 |
| Curtis McGee | 77 | LOT | 6-4 | 285 | 27 | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 |
| Corte McGuffey | 11 | QB | 6-0 | 206 | 24 | Northern Colorado | 10 | 2 |
| Ron Merkerson | 57 | MLB | 6-2 | 247 | 26 | Colorado | 10 | 5 |
| Bronzell Miller | DE | 6-4 | 245 | 30 | Eastern Arizona JC; Utah | 1 | 0 | |
| Dustin Owen | 55 | C | 6-2 | 315 | 23 | Mount San Antonio JC; Hawaii | 1 | 0 |
| Tyrell Peters | 54 | MLB | 6-0 | 235 | 27 | Oklahoma | 6 | 5 |
| Dino Philyaw | 24 | RB | 5-10 | 205 | 31 | Taft JC; Oregon | 7 | 1 |
| Jeff Pilon | 66 | ROT | 6-6 | 300 | 25 | Syracuse | 3 | 3 |
| Juan Porter | 61 | C | 6-3 | 295 | 28 | Ohio State | 9 | 4 |
| Charles Puleri | 7 | QB | 6-2 | 205 | 32 | Westchester CC; Scottsdale CC; New Mexico State | 10 | 4 |
| Israel Raybon | 93 | RDT | 6-6 | 300 | 28 | North Alabama | 10 | 10 |
| Nakia Reddick | 40 | S | 5-11 | 211 | 27 | Central Florida | 1 | 0 |
| Wally Richardson | 14 | QB | 6-4 | 225 | 27 | Penn State | 10 | 4 |
| Bob Rosenstiel | 86 | TE | 6-3 | 240 | 27 | Shasta JC; Sequoias JC; Eastern Illinois | 8 | 4 |
| Bernard Russ | 55 | RLB-LLB | 6-1 | 238 | 28 | Arizona Western JC; West Virginia | 7 | 2 |
| Dwayne Sabb | 95 | RDE | 6-4 | 248 | 32 | New Hampshire | 10 | 10 |
| Jason Sadler | OT | 6-5 | 296 | 26 | Desert JC; Nevada-Reno | 1 | 1 | |
| Tawambi Settles | 46 | CB | 6-2 | 191 | 25 | Duke | 10 | 0 |
| Henry Slay | 70 | RDT-NT | 6-2 | 290 | 26 | West Virginia | 10 | 0 |
| Troy Stark | 64 | ROT | 6-6 | 308 | 28 | Georgia | 7 | 4 |
| Eric Stocz | 82 | TE | 6-4 | 265 | 27 | Westminster (Pennsylvania) | 3 | 0 |
| Jim Stull | 71 | ROT | 6-6 | 318 | 24 | Delaware | 6 | 2 |
| Ty Talton | 35 | SS | 5-11 | 201 | 25 | Northern Iowa | 10 | 10 |
| Mark Tate | 34 | CB | 6-0 | 185 | 27 | Penn State | 10 | 0 |
| Brad Trout | 36 | FS | 6-2 | 209 | 26 | Valdosta State | 10 | 10 |
| Damen Wheeler | 19 | RCB | 5-9 | 179 | 24 | Colorado | 10 | 10 |
| TEAM STATS | TOP | 1ST DOWNS | Rush | Pass | Pen | 3RD DOWN | Att | Pct | 4TH DOWN | Att | Pct | PEN | YDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 29:07 | 124 | 42 | 75 | 7 | 34 | 114 | 29.8 | 4 | 14 | 28.6 | 77 | 648 |
| Opponents Totals | 30:53 | 153 | 42 | 88 | 23 | 44 | 121 | 36.4 | 3 | 10 | 30.0 | 65 | 475 |
| SCORING | TD | X1 | X1A | PCT | X2 | X2A | FG | FGA | PCT | SAF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zola Davis | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |||||
| Mike Archie | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||
| Leo Araguz | 0 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 43.8 | 0 | 21 | ||||
| Joe Aska | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |||||
| Kirby Dar Dar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Marcus Hinton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Donnie Caldwell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
| Joey Eloms | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
| Ron Merkerson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
| Ryan Collins | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||
| Dino Philyaw | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| (Team) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Team Totals | 17 | 7 | 17 | 41.2 | 7 | 16 | 43.8 | 1 | 132 | ||
| Opponents Totals | 18 | 7 | 18 | 38.9 | 10 | 11 | 90.9 | 0 | 145 |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Aska | 82 | 329 | 4.0 | 42 | 3 |
| Wally Richardson | 26 | 148 | 5.7 | 24 | 0 |
| Keith Elias | 37 | 115 | 3.1 | 28 | 0 |
| Dino Philyaw | 32 | 69 | 2.2 | 14 | 0 |
| Michael Blair | 16 | 61 | 3.8 | 19 | 0 |
| Mike Archie | 17 | 42 | 2.5 | 7 | 2 |
| Corte McGuffey | 8 | 33 | 4.1 | 8 | 0 |
| Kirby Dar Dar | 4 | 31 | 7.8 | 21 | 0 |
| Leo Araguz | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| Fred Brock | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Charles Puleri | 8 | -35 | -4.4 | 3 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 232 | 800 | 3.4 | 42 | 5 |
| Opponents Totals | 235 | 932 | 4.0 | 56 | 3 |
| PASSING | ATT | COM | PCT | INC | YDS | Y/ATT | Y/COM | LG | TD | TD% | INT | INT% | TS | YL | NYP | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wally Richardson | 142 | 83 | 58.5 | 53 | 812 | 5.7 | 9.8 | 33t | 6 | 4.2 | 6 | 4.2 | 17 | 107 | 705 | 71.1 |
| Charles Puleri | 64 | 29 | 45.3 | 33 | 411 | 6.4 | 14.2 | 77t | 2 | 3.1 | 2 | 3.1 | 4 | 39 | 372 | 64.0 |
| Corte McGuffey | 48 | 25 | 52.1 | 21 | 329 | 6.9 | 13.2 | 54 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 4.2 | 5 | 38 | 291 | 56.7 |
| Zola Davis | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 74 | 74.0 | 74.0 | 74t | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 158.3 |
| Mike Archie | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 | ||
| Kirby Dar Dar | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 | ||
| Dino Philyaw | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Team Totals | 258 | 138 | 53.5 | 109 | 1626 | 6.3 | 11.8 | 77t | 9 | 3.5 | 11 | 4.3 | 26 | 184 | 1442 | 66.8 |
| Opponents Totals | 296 | 149 | 50.3 | 133 | 1740 | 5.9 | 11.7 | 70 | 12 | 4.1 | 14 | 4.7 | 29 | 198 | 1542 | 62.3 |
| RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zola Davis | 29 | 378 | 13.0 | 26 | 4 |
| Anthony DiCosmo | 26 | 268 | 10.3 | 30 | 0 |
| Kirby Dar Dar | 22 | 405 | 18.4 | 77t | 2 |
| Fred Brock | 15 | 155 | 10.3 | 30 | 0 |
| Mike Archie | 12 | 125 | 10.4 | 33t | 2 |
| Michael Blair | 10 | 73 | 7.3 | 14 | 0 |
| Marcus Hinton | 6 | 116 | 19.3 | 54 | 1 |
| Joe Aska | 6 | 24 | 4.0 | 12 | 0 |
| Dino Philyaw | 4 | 33 | 8.3 | 16 | 0 |
| Keith Elias | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 0 |
| Ryan Collins | 3 | 38 | 12.7 | 23 | 0 |
| Bob Rosenstiel | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 11 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 138 | 1626 | 11.8 | 77t | 9 |
| Opponents Totals | 149 | 1740 | 11.7 | 70 | 12 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey Eloms | 4 | 78 | 19.5 | 76t | 1 |
| Damen Wheeler | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 23 | 0 |
| Donnie Caldwell | 2 | 63 | 31.5 | 46t | 1 |
| Brad Trout | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 21 | 0 |
| Tawambi Settles | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
| Israel Raybon | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dwayne Sabb | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ty Talton | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 14 | 208 | 14.9 | 76t | 2 |
| Opponents Totals | 11 | 68 | 6.2 | 28 | 0 |
| PUNTING | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL | TB | I20 | RYDS | NYDS | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Araguz | 44 | 1788 | 40.6 | 58 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 404 | 1364 | 31.0 |
| Corte McGuffey | 1 | 51 | 51.0 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 51.0 |
| Michael Blair | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 28.0 |
| Team Totals | 46 | 1867 | 40.6 | 58 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 404 | 1443 | 31.4 |
| Opponents Totals | 46 | 1607 | 34.9 | 55 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 361 | 1226 | 26.7 |
| PUNT RETURNS | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirby Dar Dar | 26 | 287 | 11.0 | 40 | 0 |
| Brad Trout | 2 | 21 | 10.5 | 21 | 0 |
| Fred Brock | 3 | 29 | 9.7 | 18 | 0 |
| Ty Talton | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
| Mike Archie | 6 | 16 | 2.7 | 17 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 38 | 361 | 9.5 | 40 | 0 |
| Opponents Totals | 41 | 404 | 9.9 | 95t | 2 |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler B'ynot'e | 14 | 310 | 22.1 | 41 | 0 |
| Kirby Dar Dar | 22 | 485 | 22.0 | 37 | 0 |
| Ron Merkerson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 37 | 795 | 21.5 | 41 | 0 |
| Opponents Totals | 33 | 682 | 20.7 | 95 | 0 |
| SACKS | NO | YDS |
|---|---|---|
| Israel Raybon | 5.0 | |
| Chris Maumalanga | 4.0 | |
| Dwayne Sabb | 4.0 | |
| Tim Beauchamp | 3.0 | |
| Ron Merkerson | 3.0 | |
| Brad Trout | 2.0 | |
| Mike Barber | 1.0 | |
| Lamont Bryant | 1.0 | |
| Haven Fields | 1.0 | |
| Ben Hanks | 1.0 | |
| Bernard Russ | 1.0 | |
| Henry Slay | 1.0 | |
| Ty Talton | 1.0 | |
| Team Totals | 29.0 | 198.0 |
| Opponents Totals | 26.0 | 184.0 |
| DEFENSE | SOLO | AST | TT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Merkerson | 62 | 51 | 11 |
| Brad Trout | 47 | 41 | 6 |
| Damen Wheeler | 42 | 39 | 3 |
| Chris Maumalanga | 37 | 27 | 10 |
| Ty Talton | 35 | 26 | 9 |
| Israel Raybon | 33 | 24 | 9 |
| Tim Beauchamp | 27 | 19 | 8 |
| Dwayne Sabb | 26 | 19 | 7 |
| Haven Fields | 23 | 15 | 8 |
| Joey Eloms | 23 | 22 | 1 |
| Ben Hanks | 17 | 14 | 3 |
| Tawambi Settles | 11 | 9 | 2 |
| Donnie Caldwell | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Tyrell Peters | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Henry Slay | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| James Cotton | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Michael Blair | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Dustin Owen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mike Archie | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryan Collins | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Zola Davis | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dino Philyaw | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Troy Stark | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Eric Stocz | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Leo Araguz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Aska | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Barber | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Brantley | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fred Brock | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lamont Bryant | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Butler By'not'e | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| David Camacho | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ben Cavil | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Eric Cole | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Obadiah Cooper | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vernon Crawford | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lou D'Agostino | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jerome Daniels | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kirby Dar Dar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Anthony DiCosmo | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Keith Elias | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dan Falcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvey Goins | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marcus Hinton | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robert Hunt | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Curtis McGee | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corte McGuffey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bronzell Miller | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeff Pilon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Juan Porter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Charles Puleri | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nakia Reddick | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wally Richardson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bob Rosenstiel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bernard Russ | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jason Sadler | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jim Stull | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark Tate | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 453 | 368 | 85 |
| Opponents Totals | 458 | 355 | 103 |
| PENALTIES | Called | Declined | Accepted | Yards | Nullified Yards | First Downs | Stalled Drives |
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