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Drew Brees rocks
New Orleans Saints vs. Minnesota Vikings - Recap - December 18, 2011 - ESPN
Drew Brees throws for 412 yards, 5 TDs to inch closer to Dan Marino's record
MINNEAPOLIS -- Drew Brees is breathing down Dan Marino's neck and has the New Orleans Saints looming in Green Bay's rearview mirror. Brees threw for 412 yards and five touchdowns to lead the surging Saints to their sixth win in a row, 42-20 over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
Brees completed 32 of 40 passes to help the Saints (11-3) overcome a slow and sloppy start to stay two games ahead of Atlanta in the NFC South. They turned the ball over twice deep in their own territory in the first half, botched a surprise onside kick and had a 40-yard TD pass called back because of a penalty.But Brees threw two touchdowns to Lance Moore and one each to Darren Sproles, John Gilmore and Jimmy Graham in just over three quarters of work to keep the Saints steamrolling toward another NFC South title.The 412 yards gives Brees 4,780 yards for the season, putting him 304 away from Marino's single season record set in 1984 with two games to play.The much-maligned Saints secondary held the Vikings to 94 net yards passing. Ponder completed 14 of 31 passes for 120 yards and two touchdowns to Toby Gerhart, but most of that production came in the final six minutes of garbage time.The Saints outgained the Vikings 573-207 and Brees had his fifth TD pass and was out of the game before Ponder had his fifth completion.Adrian Peterson rushed for 60 yards in his return from a three-game absence, but the Vikings dropped their sixth straight game. Their depleted secondary lost cornerback Asher Allen to a concussion in the first half and they had no chance once Brees and the Saints got rolling.The Saints stumbled out of the gates, with Graham fumbling a first-down catch, Sproles dropping what would have been another first down and Robert Meachem's 40-yard touchdown catch wiped out because of a holding call on fullback Jed Collins.
After Brees hit Moore for a 5-yard touchdown, the Saints turned the ball over again when Brees wasn't ready for a shotgun snap from Brian De La Puente that squirted right past him. Everson Griffen scooped the ball up and gave the Vikings great field position at the New Orleans 21.The Vikings only went backward, settling for a 49-yard field goal to make it 7-6. Brees threw a 1-yard fade to Graham for a touchdown midway through the second quarter, but coach Sean Payton's decision to try a surprise onside kick backfired and let the Vikings back in the game.Griffen recovered the kick to give Minnesota good field position, Peterson ripped off a 39-yard run and Gerhart scored on a 10-yard shovel pass to make it 14-13, breathing a little life into a stale Metrodome crowd.After losing to the lowly St. Louis Rams on Oct. 30, the Saints weren't about to drop another one to an overmatched opponent with the second seed in the NFC playoffs on the line.Brees put his foot on the gas and didn't let up.He threw a 13-yard touchdown to Sproles toward the end of the first half, then started the third quarter with a 2-yard TD to Gilmore and hooked up with Moore on a 47-yard score.
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I'm growing very tired of all the qb stat's. It's so easy to be a qb in the last decade. D's cannot touch WR's, and we all know they cannot touch the QB. Everything is set up in the QB's favor now, passing stat's during the first decade of the 2000's should have an asterik next to them w/the note stating "This was the era where the NFL decided qb's and WR's should be able to do as they so chose w/out the D being able to do anything in response."
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Originally Posted by
Riczaj01 
I'm growing very tired of all the qb stat's. It's so easy to be a qb in the last decade. D's cannot touch WR's, and we all know they cannot touch the QB. Everything is set up in the QB's favor now, passing stat's during the first decade of the 2000's should have an asterik next to them w/the note stating "This was the era where the NFL decided qb's and WR's should be able to do as they so chose w/out the D being able to do anything in response."
Aint that the truth. while i DO agree with the NFL on protecting the QB, especially while in the pocket...i think they need to make changes to the WR/CB conflicts. Im getting damn tired of WRs more worried about getting the ref to throw them a PI flag then actually catching the ball.
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yep any non catch, even if there wasn't a DB around him he's looking for a flag
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I think he sucks because I faced him in FF and he lit me up for 64 pts. lol
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Yeah, i think our garbage wrs have benefitted from that for a little too long. Other than Bennett, would any of them have been able to play for Marino?
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They couldn't play for Brady or Brees or Rodgers, let alone Montana, Marino or Elway.
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Congratulations Drew! Still got another regular season game to crank it up.
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Maybe he should organize the Saint's offseason workouts every year.
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I lost a lot of respect for Brees and the Saints the past few games. They were 100% stat whoring to get Brees the records, it was very blatant. It's not hard to get that much yardage when you do nothing but bomb it the entire game, even into the 4th quarter of a game you're destroying the other team in already. Had we allowed Rodgers to stay in games instead of pulling him we could have easily gotten him the TD, yardage and QB rating records too.
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