Which Drew Brees record is most likely to stand the test of time? (1 Viewer)

[Infoman]

Consecutive games with TD pass (54)

 

[Clintonrebel]

Any season record will stand forever, if anybody ever breaks one it will have an * due to 17 games

 

[RaginCajun83]

It’s got to be the consecutive games with a touchdown pass streak

 

[Optimus Prime]

Any season record will stand forever, if anybody ever breaks one it will have an * due to 17 games

That didn't happen when the season went from 14 games to 16

**It would actually be interesting to look at all the season records and either break them down to a per game average and multiply by 14 or see where the numbers were after 14 games and see what the leaders list looks like then

 

[Complex Kid]

**It would actually be interesting to look at all the season records and either break them down to a per game average and multiply by 14 or see where the numbers were after 14 games and see what the leaders list looks like then

Profootball Reference has it to where you can pull it up by per game averages for most stats.

For someone to top Brees/Manning for single season yardage they will have to throw for 5820 yards.

NFL Passing Yards per Game Single-Season Leaders | Pro-Football-Reference.com

1. Peyton Manning (342.3/2013), 1. Drew Brees (342.3/2011), 3. Ben Roethlisberger (328.2/2015), 4. Tom Brady (327.2/2011), 5. Drew Brees (325.5/2016),

www.pro-football-reference.com

OJ is still tops for rushing yards per game with 143.1, I don't see that getting topped any time soon. They'd have to put up 2,434 yards rushing in a 17 games season.

NFL Rushing Yards per Game Single-Season Leaders | Pro-Football-Reference.com

1. O.J. Simpson (143.1/1973), 2. Jim Brown (133.1/1963), 3. Walter Payton (132.3/1977), 4. Eric Dickerson (131.6/1984), 5. Adrian Peterson (131.1/2012),

www.pro-football-reference.com

 

[saint_drago]

The completion % records are going to hard to top. The consecutive games with a TD is going to be hard to beat as well. And it's hard to imagine a QB throwing for 8 TDs in one game so that record of 7 in one game might last a while.

It's still hard to believe that of all of the great QBs to ever play the game, a Saints QB is at the top in so many categories. Basically he broke every meaningful passing statistic. Game, season, career you name it.

 

[parlorcitysaint]

All will fall. The competition committee, the owners, and the fans all like to see records broken. It improves ratings.

The power's that be will play with the rules until they get what they want.

Otherwise Sonny Jorgensen, Terry Bradshaw, and Otto Graham's names would still be spoken with the same regard as Peyton Manning and that cheating hack, Brady.

 

[VPCajun]

Any season record will stand forever, if anybody ever breaks one it will have an * due to 17 games

The number of times he brought the Saints back late in the 4th qtr to take the lead only to have the Defense lay an egg and cough up the lead yet again???

 

[MV2]

Single game completion % . That's just nuts!

 

[LoE]

I think his most impressive record is the number of records he's accumulated.

Is that a record in itself?

 

[Complex Kid]

The thing that is most impressive to me about that Brees record was that after it was snapped at 54 he then went on the fifth longest steak in NFL history at 45 games immediately after that. If he had managed to get a TD in garbage time against Atlanta that day in 2012 the streak would have lasted exactly 100 games almost double the next longest streak. Instead he has to settle for having the 1st and 5th longest streaks in NFL history.

And I just went back and looked and totally forgot about this play:

Brees had thrown a touchdown pass in 54 consecutive games, breaking Johnny Unitas' long-standing record earlier this season. He had an apparent scoring pass to Darren Sproles late in the first half, but it was nullified by a penalty.



Now I'm mad all over again.

 

[Clintonrebel]

That didn't happen when the season went from 14 games to 16

**It would actually be interesting to look at all the season records and either break them down to a per game average and multiply by 14 or see where the numbers were after 14 games and see what the leaders list looks like then

It was a run game back then. I won’t recognize a 17 game record without an * but you can.

 

[Saint Kamara]

I think that QBs playing at a high level for 15+ years will be the norm. Hitting 20 years won't be commonplace but it won't be rare either

People were saying that Mahomes could be the first career 100K QB, first 6K 60TD season QB and people were saying that before they added the 17th game

Which of Drew Brees career marks do you think will still be standing 25 years from now?

Here are a few of the notable career marks that Drew holds:

• Most career passing yards: 80,358
• Most career completions: 7,142
• Best career completion percentage (at least 2,000+ attempts): 67.7%
• Most seasons with 5,000+ passing yards: 5
• Most completions in a season: 471 (2016)
• Best completion percentage in a season: 74.4% (2018)
• (Tied) Most passing touchdown in a game: 7 (Nov. 1, 2015)
• Most games with 300+ passing yards: 123
• Most games with 4+ passing touchdowns: 37
• Most games with 5+ passing touchdowns: 11
• Most seasons with 30+ passing touchdowns: 10
• Only player in NFL history with consecutive 40-plus touchdown seasons (2011, 2012)
• 4 of the top 5 all time season completion percentages
• Consecutive seasons with 30-plus touchdown passes (9)
• Most 5-plus pass-touchdown games (11)
• Most 4-plus pass-touchdown games (37)
• Most games with 5 TD 0 INT (7)
• Seven seasons leading the NFL in passing yards
• Consecutive games with TD pass (54) - and one dropped TD against Atlanta from a 90+ game streak (dammit Lance Moore!!!)
• Consecutive games with 20+ completions (61)
• Most games with 30+ completions (63)
• Highest single game completion percentage (96.7%)

Barring a preseason, or very early season career ending injury to Tom Brady he'll break the yards mark pretty early on this season so that's off the table

I think it's the 74.4% completion mark. I think that's the one most likely to still be the record decades from now, and on that note I wouldn't be surprised if the 96.7% is a forever record as well

The completion % in one game, you would have to either go 29-29 or 30-31 to break it.

Or the consecutive 20+ completion games, just think someone has to essentially go over 3 1/2 seasons to break it. At some point you play a game in which you're not asked to throw it as much or just have a difficult time completing passes against an elite defense.

 

[Saint Kamara]

The thing that is most impressive to me about that Brees record was that after it was snapped at 54 he then went on the fifth longest steak in NFL history at 45 games immediately after that. If he had managed to get a TD in garbage time against Atlanta that day in 2012 the streak would have lasted exactly 100 games almost double the next longest streak. Instead he has to settle for having the 1st and 5th longest streaks in NFL history.

The streak should have lasted 163 games with the Atlanta (2012) and Houston (2015) road games stopping streaks. We all know the TD mistakenly called back against Atlanta plus the Moore drop. Then in the Texans game Drew threw one of the most beautiful passes in coverage you'll ever see and Ben Watson dropped it.

That gets him to 163.

 

[HobBeh]

Completions % single season is probably it.