By Mike Florio | PFT
Saints quarterback Drew Brees hopes to focus exclusively on registering a win on Monday night against Washington. Try as he might, however, part of his attention will be devoted to a record he’ll break during that game, with only 201 more passing yards: The mark for career passing yards.
He told reporters on Thursday that he’s trying not to think about passing Brett Favre and Peyton Manning in the same game, and that Brees never spent much time during his 18-year career thinking about it.
“I never even thought, ‘Hey, I am going to have to play this many years in order to accomplish something like that,’” Brees said. “[W]hen my first NFL game in the preseason was at Miami back in 2001, and I remember walking in the stadium for the first time and looking up in the Ring of Honor and seeing Dan Marino’s name and every passing record next to it that is in that Ring of Honor there. Just looking at those numbers is mind-boggling. To say, ‘Man, how long do you have to play in order to achieve something like that?’ At the time I was just hoping to solidify the backup position and eventually maybe one day be a starter. So to be sitting here 18 years later within striking distance and that record was broken a few times from that moment right as far as Brett Favre and Peyton [Manning]. So it’s just kind of mind-boggling.” ...
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