Dan Marino made it and others did not. Now, some in the second tier mainstream media want you to decide of Dan Marino or Drew Brees is the better pure passer. That is Marino.
The sooner you realize that the better you as a person will become. Dan Marino or Drew Brees? ThrowdownThursday pic. See back then, you could hit a quarterback. You could break his leg as Lawrence Taylor did to Joe Theismann. You could hit them in the head, you could knock them down after the ball was gone, and guess what?
They took the hit. Imagine what it must have been like to stand in a pocket with Bruce Smith coming off the edge? Imagine trying to look downfield knowing that the cornerback and safety were going to knock the hell out of your receiver because pass interference needed to be blatant to get called.
Imagine Manning and Brees playing under those rules. Imagine Tom Brady with his quick release on a TE slant or a pick having that taken away by a much more physical defensive player who was going to make little guys like Julian Edelman pay for being on the field.
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It is highly recommended that you use the latest versions of a supported browser in order to receive an optimal viewing experience. The following browsers are supported: Chrome, Edge v80 and later , Firefox and Safari. As a note, Dan Marino retired after the season. Brett Favre was drafted in , but did not see regular playing time until his sophomore season. In , the pass interference rules were changed by the league in order to do away with intentional contact by a defender against a receiver downfield.
According to John Clayton, after the rule change, passing yardage went up 26 yards per game to The number of completions and attempts rose and so did the number of passing touchdowns. Favre has played 14 of his 17 seasons post-rule change; Marino only played the final 6 of his 17 seasons in that altered environment.
Then, following the playoffs, the NFL again looked into its pass interference rules in order to further open up offensive scoring. Clayton again predicted the same kind of statistical results that occurred after the rule change, and he was proven right.
From , only one team Oakland threw for more than 4, yards. In , five teams Favre's Packers being one accomplished the feat. For more information on these rule changes, and their statistical results, see these sites:.
Football Outsiders report , John Clayton report. With that historical context in place, it should be quite easy to see that Favre's accomplishments do not add up to Marino's. In his 13 previous seasons, he had only 3 such seasons. In a recent article on ESPN. While I hope to have shown you how such counting statistics as TDs or passing yards can be deceiving in some instances, there are certain rate states which can be helpful when comparing players.
Getting away from QB stats now, I want to address the popularly held notion that quarterbacks, apart from all other positions, are judged based on the number of Super Bowls won. That is just patently ridiculous.
Yes, the QB is the single most important position on a football team, but he is indeed part of a team - a team that employs three distinct and equally critical phases. Well, those five examples prove how absurd that "logic" really is. Teams are judged on winning; individuals are not.
Throw the number of rings a guy has out the window when judging quarterbacks - it's that simple. Rather than rings, I think Steve Grogan pointed to an excellent way of determining who the greatest QB of all time is. He recently said that the truly great quarterbacks are the ones who succeed in spite of their surrounding cast.
He went on to say that he knew of no other QB who did more with less than Dan Marino. As far as defense goes, Favre consistently benefited from having better defenses protect his leads and get him the ball back.
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