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Dan Marino's 1984 passing record for yards in a season is amazing. Unfortunately it is in jeopardy of falling this year, by not one but two players.

Dan Marino: 5,084 Passing yds in 1984. 317yds/game

Drew Brees: Currently 4100 yds passing. 315.38yds/game. On pace to finish with 5046 yds. 38 shy of Marino's record. Games Remaining: Chicago, Detroit, Carolina.

Kurt Warner: Currently 4020 yds passing. 309.2 yds/game. On pace to finish with 4948. 136 shy of Marino's record. Games Remaining: Minnesota, New England, Seattle

Lets hope Danny Boy keeps the record.

Regardless 1984 is the greatest season by a QB ever.

I'll give the update on this every week.
 
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Its going to be tough for them. Their actually playing decent defenses on their last few games.
 
JimToss said:
Dan Marino's 1984 passing record for yards in a season is amazing. Unfortunately it is in jeopardy of falling this year, by not one but two players.

Dan Marino: 5,084 Passing yds in 1984. 317yds/game

Drew Brees: Currently 4100 yds passing. 315.38yds/game. On pace to finish with 5046 yds. 38 shy of Marino's record. Games Remaining: Chicago, Detroit, Carolina.

Kurt Warner: Currently 4020 yds passing. 309.2 yds/game. On pace to finish with 4948. 136 shy of Marino's record. Games Remaining: Minnesota, New England, Seattle

Lets hope Danny Boy keeps the record.

Regardless 1984 is the greatest season by a QB ever.

I'll give the update on this every week.
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ROOKIE QB ... WAY MORE IMPRESSIVE
 
phinfan13/34 said:
Its going to be tough for them. Their actually playing decent defenses on their last few games.
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Brees does have a tough schedule. Although the bears pass defense has been pourus this year and he may throw for 500 against Detroit.

However, Warner has a cake walk as far as pass defense goes.
You don't run against the vikings (unless the Williams end up being suspended) but everyone passes. New England's secondary is gereatric.
Seahawks have a terrible pass defense because they have zero pass rush.

Plus Warner has 2 all-pro recievers and a pretty good #3.

Don't want it to, just saying it could happen.
 
wow both guys face 3 teams with bad secondaries.. carolina aint bad, but they can give up 300+ yards in a game...

wow, its gonna be soo close... just another thing to root for come week 17
too bad those guys are my fantasy QB's...
 
Meh, the rules have been changed since 1984 to allow for high powered passing attacked. Whether Brees/Warner breaks it or not is irrelevant.

Marino in 1984 > Brees/Warner or Brady breaking the TD record last year or Manning breaking it before that.
 
Drew Brees has no chance of breaking the record, so i won't worry about him. Not that i care anyway.....

Kurt Warner certainly has a chance with New England and Seattle on the schedule (Minnesota has a pretty strong defense). But he might not even play that final Seattle game, why would he the Cards already clinched the division and the winner of this Sunday's game between the Arizona-Minnesota probably locks up the 3rd seed in the NFC anyway.
 
SpaceMountain16 said:
Drew Brees has no chance of breaking the record, so i won't worry about him. Not that i care anyway.....

Kurt Warner certainly has a chance with New England and Seattle on the schedule (Minnesota has a pretty strong defense). But he might not even play that final Seattle game, why would he the Cards already clinched the division and the winner of this Sunday's game between the Arizona-Minnesota probably locks up the 3rd seed in the NFC anyway.
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Not so sure if they bench Warner. If you have a shot at one of the all time records, especially one many considered unbreakable when it was set, you may play him all game.

Don't count out Drew. The Lions game could be a 400+ yarder, and the Saints are still fighting for the playoffs.
 
JimToss said:
Not so sure if they bench Warner. If you have a shot at one of the all time records, especially one many considered unbreakable when it was set, you may play him all game.

Don't count out Drew. The Lions game could be a 400+ yarder, and the Saints are still fighting for the playoffs.
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I don't know why they'd put his playoff status in jeopardy for a record though. Especially if he's like 350-400 yards away from the record, which i believe he will be at that point.

Brees isn't going to throw for 350 on Carolina or Chicago. So he's out IMO.
 
This will be the second time Warner is chasing that record. Marino's record has never been seriously challenged (IMO, anything more than 100 yards off is not a serious challenge). There have been a few guys who were on pace for it and fell off late. All of those guys ended up going into the last week of the season needing a MONSTER game (500+ yards) to break it. If you have one off game, you can forget about getting the record. I think it will be safe this year.
 
Update on Brees:

12/11/08 Against Chicago:
232 yds

Season Total:
4332yds, 309.4 yds/game
Puts him on pace for 4950 yds on the season
This is 134 yds behind Marino's 1984 mark of 5,084
He would need 752 yds in the 2 remaining games or average 372yds/game

Watch out for games against Detriot (deplorable) and a Panther's vulnerable secondary, but that is a lot of ground to make up

Ill update again when Mr Warner plays. Maybe I'll even start a new thread if I'm feeling sassy.
 
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