Drew Brees has proven this year definitively that he is a better QB than Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers and Brees have been grouped together for over a decade as two quarterbacks in the class right below Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. He has separated himself from Aaron Rodgers as easily the third best QB of his generation.
Drew Brees is currently having what is arguably the most efficient season in NFL history. If he can finish out his last four games at this pace his season could very well be in the argument for the greatest individual season of all time. Drew Brees holds the highest completion percentage in NFL history sitting at 67.3% and this season he his throwing at an insane 76.4%. He is blowing his league highest career average out of the goddamn water. He’s also currently throwing it for a whole yard more per attempt than his career average so you can’t dismiss his completion % as coming from check downs and short safe routes.
Compared to Rodgers?
Aaron Rodgers best season was most likely his 2011 MVP winning season. In 2011 he was praised constantly for his amazing accuracy and ability to win football games. During that season he averaged a career high completion percentage of 68.3%. Let that sit for a second, a career high that was 1% higher than Brees’ career average. In 2011 Drew Brees arguably had a better season than Rodgers, the Packers just happened to be the better team. Going 15-1 with a QB playing at the top of his game will win you the MVP ten times out of ten. Brees averaged a completion percentage of 71.2%, while throwing for 46 touchdowns compared to Rodgers 45. So in a season that isn’t Drew Brees’ best, he threw the ball 155 more times than Rodgers. He had a better completion percentage while only throwing 0.4 yards less per attempt and he threw for 5476 yards compared to Aaron’s 4643.
Brees is better
The craziest thing is that Brees this year has kicked it up another notch. Brees is currently sitting at 3136 yards with four games left to go including one against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the worst team in football. He has thrown 29 Touch downs on 356 pass attempts with ground breaking accuracy. Brees is at a career high TD% of 8.1 and a career low for INT% with 0.6. All while averaging a QB rating of 127.3, a full five points higher than Aaron Rodgers in 2011. And he’s doing all of this while averaging 285 yards a game, his lowest in over a decade. Brees has, in the past, put up the crazy volume throwing numbers. He’s doing it this season with precision and efficiency the league hasn’t seen sine Peyton Manning in 2004.
A club for three
Drew Brees has totally separated himself from Rodgers this season, showing that he belongs in the same conversations as Manning and Brady. He has done more with less. He has thrown for more yards than Rodgers with the highest completion percentage. I’m sorry Green Bay its no longer a discussion Brees is just better than Rodgers.
