His locker room speech http://www.neworleanssaints.com/med...l-Moment/a1dae435-1feb-466d-ab0d-787b1594192e Opps. Already posted.
He was mediocre for a mediocre team in 2002. In 2003, his third year (2nd as starter) he was Mark Sanchez-like (read: bad) for a bad team. In 2004, he began to play well. Brees actually had quite a traditional start to his career.
I just saw this on Twitter. Isn't it ironic the pass that Brees threw to break Marino's single season yardage record went to Darren Sproles...Those two players AJ Smith let go lol.
Amazing that he set the record in only 15 games, but also with an astonishing completion percentage of near 71%. Just unreal.
I don't think it is that amazing, or even a coincidence, that he did it in a year that the league really pulled it's cock out and started whacking it to the passing game as far as officiating is concerned.
Congrats but I'd still take Dan Marino in a heartbeat sorry Drew. Marino didn't have nearly the weapons you have now and also threw for 48 TD's which was beyond unheard of at the time. All that said its still a great accomplishment on Drew's part.
Marino had Duper and Clayton - a pretty solid receiver tandem. Nothing great in the backfield, but enough to keep people honest with play action. There's a better point if you want to defend Marino - and, trust me, I have no interest in defending Dan Marino. Illegal contact and pass interference in the 1980's wasn't anything remotely close to what it is in 2011.
Yeah he had decent receivers as well but wow is New Orleans stacked everywhere with talent. That Jimmy Graham kid is just incredible and Darren Sprole's is like the F/A pickup of the year. Either way I wasn't trying to take a shot or anything at Drew Brees he definitely deserves his time to shine.
Really happy for Brees... class act and worthy of this record. Now I hope Graham breaks the record for recieving yds by a TE. He needs 76...
I was waiting for any dolphins fan I was busting on while Brees was about to break the record to make that point. None did. They did show during the broadcast a counterpoint to that though. Brees actually outperformed his peers in YPG by a larger marger than Marino had outperformed his peers. Unfortunately they didn't break it down to a percentage which obviously would have been a better point than flat yardage.
Miami passed over Brees twice. Once in the draft, and then again in Free Agency. We chose Culpepper over Brees cause the doctors were saying he will never be the same and his injury is too serious. Bunch of idiots.
There was a long thread on dolphins forum about this. We know. Marino's achievement is more impressive. Ticky tack garbage rules of today's QB era allowed this to happen. Just remember, Marino broke and set the single season yards AND touchdown record in the same season. Took Brady in 2007 and Brees in 2011 to break 1 each in this pass friendly NFL.
Nothing against Brees (or for Marino), but Brees breaking this record is an absolute fucking embarassment to the nfl. There were several QBs on pace to smash this record, who many of which easily would of smashed it had they not pretty much had to treat the last couple weeks of the season like bye weeks. Fact is the NFL has become embarassing and pathetic with this "nfl is only about passing offense" attitude bullshit, while completely fucking ignoring every other aspect of the game. Rushing game ? Fuck you Tackling ? Fuck You Pass Rushers? BIG FUCK YOU Special Teams ? You mean kicking the extra point after a passing td? The NFLs going in absolute fucking ridiculous direction, and the passing record getting smashed to pieces this season personifies it so many times over. Hope Goodell get hit by Brandon Jacobs fucking helmet next time he chucks it into the stands and has a concussion.
Offensive coaching is better now. Coaches have finally realized that spreading the field horizontally is the way to go. It is a natural evolution. Blaming Brees' record on Goodell is ridiculous.
Yeah because theres no trend or anything that nfl rules drastically favor the offense. Not like theres been a massive massive upward trend of a significant increase in passing yards the last couple of years. There were only like what, 18 300 + yard passers the first week of this season ? No big deal
Again, offensive coaching is better now. Defenses have not caught up yet but they will. There are some rules that are geared towards the offense for sure, but what you wrote earlier today was incredibly knee-jerk.
