There was a game in the 70's against SF where Richard Todd threw the ball a tons of times for a ton of yards and lost. Id be curious to see, in the NFL (just in the last 25 years) -- the top passing performances and how many times that team won.
The performance of a player is a matter of perspective. Not to quote Herm, but you play to win the game, and Brees lost the game. Therefore, it was a bad game, personal statistics aside.
I didn't follow the guy in coll. Only saw all the high-lite film of him but what I saw(and people will b***h and moan) was a lot of what I saw of Favre a few years back. With a bit more mobility. Liked what I saw and I am looking forward to the day we can get the guy in there to see what he CAN do instead of watching what our QB CAN'T do.
Doesn't anyone besides me see how ridiculous this statement is? BREES did NOT lose the game, the SAINTS lost the game. It's freaking unbelievable how quarterbacks get all the credit or all the blame. In this case you could make a case that Brees' three interceptions were one of the main reasons why New Orleans lost, but your statement suggests that without looking at stats, you can determine that a QB had a bad game because his team lost. Aside from Andrew Walter, Jake Plummer is probably the worst starting QB in the NFL. Yet, his team is 7-4, largely due to one of the best defenses in the NFL and a strong running game. So is Plummer 7-4? Is he, by record, one of the best starting QBs in the NFL? The bottom line is that TEAMS win and lose games, not quarterbacks.
I think we need 2 years of play out of him before you can really pass judgment. Palmer had like a 77 qb rating his first year starting then it went to 101.
Picture Pennington. Add some zip, take off some deep accuracy. http://www.nfl.com/draft/profiles/2006/clemens_kellen
