Just btoke Marino’s passing record.
He never once mentiomed nor mentoined god in his post game speech.
Drew rules.
That’s encouraging, actually. Not that I have a huge problem with Yay!Jesus! people, but it’s good to know that Brees didn’t have someone whispering in his ear that he’d better mention the big guy at least once. He’s free to say or not say what he likes. As it should be.
Did any of the people ragging on Tebow get EQUALLY as annoyed by Muhammad Ali invoking Allah and Elijah Muhammad every time he won a fight?
Why not?
As for Brees, I’ve always liked him- he played high school football here in Austin.
Of course, records don’t mean as much in football as they do in baseball. When Dan Marino threw for 5,000 yards, that was unheard of. Today, MOST teams pass a hell of a lot more than they used to, which means that, while Drew really is a great quarterback, his record is unlikely to last nearly as long as Marino’s did.
In baseball, EVERYBODY would hit 50 homers a year if he could. In football, the numbers you put up depend heavily on the system and style of play your team emphasizes. As great as Brees is, other quarterbacks could put up similar numbers if they played in his offense. And before long, it will be common to see 5,000 yard seasons.
The answer would be yes.
Why would this matter? Expecting consistency over a gulf of 30-40 years is ridiculous. There was certainly more anti-Muslim sentiment back then. It’s safe to declare yourself a Christian in 2011 in the US. You may get ridiculed for your fervor but your faith itself is going to get a pass. Not so for Ali.
And it’s not really Tebow’s faith but his fervor. If he directed that energy towards a person, it would look more like stalking than devotion. Few people call out Kurt Warner, Aaron Rodgers, or Troy Polamalu for their (equally deep) faith, but they don’t act like lovesick teenagers about it, either.
Brees** IS **god.
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Have you been in a fucking coma for the last 11+ years?
That is the most moronically retarded, completely and utterly ignorant statement I have read on a message board since some right wing whackjob kept insisting that David Duke is a flaming far left liberal.
30-40 years ago the vast majority of Americans had no fucking clue what Islam was or that Ali was a Muslim, they just thought he changed his name and was a commie pinko draft dodger.
What does that make Aaron Rodgers, because he’s even better than Brees.
I really think you need to switch to decaf and lay off the blow. Seems to me every post of yours is full of undeserved vitriol and uncommon jerkness.
“Nation of Islam”. Google is your friend. And I guess you’ll say most people thought Malcolm X was simply a malcontent Christian.
Oh, and back to the thread, good on Brees. Texas Monthly had a recent article about Texas high school QBs who were now making good in the NFL. There was a dearth of them for a couple decades, but the current crop looks really good between Brees, Stafford, Andy Dalton, and others (I suppose we should toss Vince Young in there, too).
Completely off topic, but this post reminded me of a clip from the Critic:
Full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
God’s mentor.
Again, numbers don’t mean as much in the NFL as they do in major league baseball.
As I said, in baseball, any player who COULD hit 50 homers in a season WOULD do so.
But not every quarterback who COULD throw for 300 yards a game does so, or would even want to try. If Aaron Rodgers has thrown for 250 yards and 4 touchdowns, giving the Packers a big lead after 3 quarters, he’ll probably stop passing and start handing the ball off a lot, to run out the clock.
Or, to go back a few decades, a guy like Bob Griese probably would have thrived in a pass-happy system. But when he was in his prime, the Dolphins preferred to run a ball control offense, with Larry Cosonka pounding away at the defensive line. Griese was certainly talented enough to throw for 300 yards a game, but he rarely threw many passes, in the Dolphin offense of the Seventies.
The guy who throws for the most yards ISN’T necessarily the best quarterback.
Is too! I have a frame of Anthony Calvillo in my den that says so! 
With more waiting in the wings; Colt McCoy (one can hope), Andrew Luck, Kase Keenum, Robert Griffin III, etc. Sure is nice having more local boys to follow out there. It serves to both spread your interest to other teams throughout the league and to sustain it for many years to come.
Yeah, but when you factor in the exchange rate …
Its a little surprising that record stood for so long. This year, as recently as 2 weeks ago there were FOUR QBs with adecent shot at breaking it. It looks like Brady will also pass Marino’s mark next week, and though unlikely, it’s still reasonably possible Brees could end up being the record holder for a total of 1 week after Marino held it for 3 decades.
Yes. I posited that had Rodgers not sat out the end of a couple blowouts he may have had a chance at the record two. Or if GB hadn’t gone into running/wear down the clock mode and he’d kept passing.
Brady would have to throw for 191 yards more than Brees to get the record. Both teams are playing meaningful games next week, so that doesn’t seem likely.
Definitely unlikey, though Brady getting 450 vs 250 for Brees wouldn’t be that crazy. Are records only official once the games are finished? Both Games are at 1:00, so it would be funny if a scenario unfolded where later in the game there was a new different record holder with each QB’s completed pass.
I’d agree with these, except for Case Keenum. Went to Rice, so I saw a lot of Kevin Kolb and Case Keenum over the years.
Keenum was very fortunate to get a 6th year of eligibility and to play in a lousy football conference. Not really close to being a top 10 college QB, despite the broken records (helped, largely, by that 6th year of eligibility and lousy football conference).
For what it’s worth, based on college performance, Kevin Kolb was a much better prospect, and I always thought he’d be, at best, an ok NFL game manager (and he’s done nothing so far to disabuse me of that notion).
But it’s still amazing Texas produces so many of these QBs. Those 7 on 7s really work wonders on young QB prospects.