Over the last few seasons, we’ve enjoyed healthy debate over which of the league’s 32 signal-callers was the best quarterback in the NFL. Today, the debate is over: Drew Brees stands alone on the mountain top, yelling random combinations of colors and numbers before taking the snap and decimating his opponents. Last week, it was a shootout with the Lions. Yesterday, it was an asswhipping of the McNabb-less Philadelphia Eagles.
As Eagles defensive back Joselio Hanson put it, “Drew Brees is an animal.”
And now Brees has plenty of help, with running backs Mike Bell and Reggie Bush, wide receiver Marques Colston, tight end Jeremy Shockey and a solid offensive line. This won’t be the last time these guys drop 40 points on somebody. via.
Tom Brady lost against the Jets and Pey-Pey waddles into Miami tonight. But Brees, in this fantasy-obsessed football universe, is making all the idiots that drafted him in the first round look like geniuses. Oh, and I guess the Saints look pretty good as well at 2-0. Too bad they couldn’t have done this right after Katrina hit. Because what those people really needed was some good football…
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Picture taken before the start of a serious make out session.
they are kinda lovingly gazing into each others eyes, UU
I’m hoping they mate and create some sort of super-human QB offspring bent on NFL domination.
Idiots? You can have your DeAngelo Williams or some other mediocre running back while my QB is dropping bombs on everyone else.
I hear you EP, this idiot got him, and in one of my leagues I have Brees, Chris Johnson, and Andre Johnson….
I am beating my opponent by 100+ points this week with still my TE to play tonight
lol, I also have Brees, CJ and AJ in one of my drafts as well. That same team also has Mario Manningham, Fred Jackson and Jason Witten. Not losing this week.
Drew Brees: great for fantasy, but not in the real world. Ya, he’ll roll over teams that already suck, but he won’t make the big play when it counts. Watch when he’s 8-8 again this year… He’s got no will. (The best in the league: Philip Rivers.)
How did this story from 2008 get pushed to the top?
@slybacon – The best in the league is Phillip Rivers? How high are you right now? I’m just curious, because typing with a herion needle in your left arm and a crack pipe in your right hand, has to be tough. You realize that he guided the Chargers to an 8-8 record last year in the worst division in football (CFL included) and if not for sneaking out of Oakland with a win last week(thanks to Sproules), they’d be 0-2 this year. You may wanna re-think that one.
Eli’s obviously the best. He’s paid the most.
BL. Yes, I am high as a kite right now. That being said let me help you out, as i know the much hated chargers don’t get much national coverage thanks to ESPNs continous slobbing of the east coast’s knob. Philip Rivers: highest passer rating in 2008. 36-18 at home total, 22-5 at home. In his first two seasons as a starter he had more wins than most any top quarterback you could name. He has never lost a game in December. If you watched more than highlights, you would realize that Philip got Sproles to the end zone, and yesterday we got fucked once again by refs who don’t know how to work a playclock. All this, AND he still manages to win under the leadership of Norvulous Turner and an offense centered around a limping rb named LT. Did I mention he rattled off 10 straight wins last season to get us into post? All heart, baby. Drew fails when it counts… trust me.
Maybe I was a little harsh with the whole “high” thing, meant it more to chirp than as an insult…but I guess the 10 straight wins to end last year confirms it. Losses to the Steelers in week 11, the Colts in Week 12 and the Falcons in week 13 would contradict that statement.
Talking about how many wins he has as a starter, I’m pretty sure a guy named LT has been the major reason for success. Let’s look at 2006, River’s first year as a starter. LT only rushed for 1800+ yards and an NFL record 28 rushing TD’s, was named MVP and the Charger’s finished. 14-2 only to choke against the Pat’s.
2007, was a down year for Rivers wouldn’t you say(21td, 15int) but thanks to LT, Gates and the Chargers defence forcing a league high 48 turnovers, they made it to the Conference finals. A game where Rivers couldn’t get the Chargers in the endzone even once.
While I can’t argue that 2008 was a breakout year for Rivers, an 8-8 record in a division that has a combined .347 (50-94) win percentage since 2006, hardly elevates Rivers to the top of the elite QB’s in the NFL.
While the guy does have talent, he’s not at the level Peyton, Brady, Brees (last years offensive player of the year) or Roethlisberger (who actually wins the big games) are at. Even early in 2009, Matt Ryan and Eli Manning look more impressive than Rivers as well. I’m not saying it can’t happen, but it hasn’t happened yet.
BL… sorry, my morphine dripped when i made the 10 straight wins comment. Saw it after the submit. Wrong season. All the numbers aside though, and I’m not sure what criteria we are talking about (Peyton’s our bitch, Brady with or without videos, Brees can’t win anything that matters, and Ben has the defense of the gods), I will take a quaterback that throws 4 interceptions and still finds a way to win over a guy who throws 400 yards and can’t make the one pass he needs to any day. Rivers wills wins (perfect example last season). Unfortunately we have a coach who calls for a field goal on third down with 10 seconds left to play in the half (amongst a laundry list of other things). Anyway, bottom line, plenty of better Qs technically, not many who will get the job done when they need to. (And I’ll thank you in advance for not putting Cutler on your list, because I think we can all agree that he smokes pole.)
Who would you take with the 7th pick in a draft of 12? Brees baby!! No way in hell I could have gotten him in the second round.
Why is his home record something to hang his hat on?
Well you know what Sly, I guess we have to just agree to disagree…cuz Brady has 3 Superbowls, 2 Superbowl MVP’s and 1 reguler season MVP, Peyton has one Superbowl with the game MVP and 3 league MVP’s and Roethlisberger has 2 superbowls and drove them down field when it counted after his god like defence blew that game in the 4th last year. n all those merits, I can’t put Rivers ahead of them.
All that being said, I’ll agree that Cutler smokes poll. I couldn’t even find it in myself to pretend to add him to that elite list just to piss off a Chargers fan.