Drew Brees, The Casual Almanac He's About To Break, And What A Monster Division Looks Like

Drew Brees, The Casual Almanac He's About To Break, And What A Monster Division Looks Like

After 27 years, Dan Marino's single-season casual almanac assuredly appears acceptable to fall. So how is Drew Brees accomplishing it? And how does his division analyze to the monster quarterback seasons that accept appear before?

Dec 20, 2011 - In 1984, as a 23-year-old, second-year quarterback, Dan Marino burst the NFL almanac for casual yards in a individual division by throwing for 5,084 ticks. In the 27 years since, we've witnessed some of the greatest quarterbacks of all time  Joe Montana, John Elway, Steve Young, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady. And yet, that almanac as of this moment, anyhow  still stands.

This season, an NFL quarterback assuredly appears acceptable to displace the mark. With two of his 16 amateur larboard to play, Brees has accumulated up 4,780 casual yards, and needs alone 305 to breach the almanac (he'll apparently charge alone one bold to bandy for as many). Brees, of course, is no drifter to monster casual stats; on the best account of accomplished single-season casual yardage, his name appears in the top 40 seven times. In fact, he came aural 15 yards of the almanac in 2008.

These are the top 5 single-season casual marks of all time.

Dan Marino (5,084 yards, 1984)

Drew Brees (5,069 yards, 2008)

Kurt Warner (4,830 yards, 2001)

Tom Brady (4,806 yards, 2007)

Dan Fouts (4,802 yards, 1981)

So, what does this array of monster division absolutely attending like? How does Brees' 2011 achievement assemblage up adjoin those of these added dudes? I took a attending and fabricated some charts, and afore I did, I absitively to about-face out Brees' 2008 accomplishment with his in-progress 2011 campaign

This blueprint illustrates the week-by-week about-face of casual yards during the players and seasons in question. As you can see, Brees and Fouts put up the a lot of constant casual yardage anniversary afterwards week, while Marino, Warner, and Brady accomplished a brace of peaks and valleys.

I acquisition Brady's Weeks 15 and 16 decidedly absorbing here. Attending at that dip. If he had managed to advance his division casual boilerplate over those two contests, he would accept bankrupt Marino's mark by over 50 yards. Whether that should accept even been a cogent antecedence is addition altercation entirely, but it's account canonizing that this is the division in which the Patriots went 16-0 and had clinched the top all-embracing playoff berry eons afore these games.

Back to Drew Brees, who has a acceptability for distributing the brawl almighty appropriately a part of his receivers. How candid is he, and how does he analyze in that attention to the added guys at the top?