re: Drew Brees omitted from NFL’s all-time team

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The thing the committee might actually think Brees is a top 10 QB. If you look at these lists and the fact that’s a celebration of the league’s history, then you can see that they were purposely trying to include only a small number of players from each era. So Brees and Rodgers were essentially competing were Brady and Manning for the 2 spots of this era.

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The committee did whatever the frick it wanted. Deion and Rod Woodson were the only players to make the CB list who sniffed the 2000s, and both retired in 2003 (Deion came back for a season).

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Can saints fans stop slobbing this guys knob? Joe Flacco has just as many Super Bowlz as Drew brees, I’d rather flacco

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Might be the dumbest comment in a thread full of dumb. GM John Elway would disagree instantly with this stupid take.

Favre>Brees

Actually, on 2nd thought, Elway might actually take Flacco over Brees still since he clearly has no idea how to actually pick a decent QB. Hard to say.

Yeah. Staubach and Favre over him is pretty nuts.

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Young people forget Brees is playing in the easiest time for an NFL QB in history.

In the 70's and 80's it was normal for the entire defense to try to knock the QB's head off.

Now it's a penalty if a defensive player hurts the QB's feelings and can't even think about laying out a receiver.

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Nothing against Brees, he can't control what bullshite world he lives in...but he can also ONLY be compared against his peers and in this era.

And the Committee has said, we think Brady and Manning were better.

Remember that sack where Brees fumbled against the Niners a few years ago...and it was called roughing the passer because the guy sacked him with a forearm in the upper chest and the Saints went from losing the game to winning.

Try telling that bullshite to Ken Stabler, Bradshaw and Staubach.

Nothing against Brees but you can't touch these frickers. No wonder all the career leaders and highest QB ratings are all from the last fricking 15 years.

So to judge Brees vs. Brady and Manning, fine.

To judge Brees vs. Staubach is absurd. I just don't see Brees thriving in a game 40 years ago when it wasn't basketball on grass.

People love to hate on Elway but that fricker could play in any era...thick, strong, fast.

There are only a few QBs that could survive a real pass rush.

Elway was one, Staubach was one. Doubt Brady could...he could make a sandwich back there most of his career

I think all time QB lists should be about could they play in any era...and how much better were they than their peers.

Brees then, has to be seen as equal to Brady and Manning...which the selectors did not see it that way. Those are his two top peers...and who knows what they thought of Rodgers despite the slobbering the last 10 years over him.

And anybody saying Marino doesn't belong on this list is fricking retarded.

He invented the basketball on grass Brees/Brady era...WITHOUT dinking and dunking like them and with a real pass rush.

Dude couldn't move if you pushed him but he was one of the most impossible QBs to sack because of his release.

So accurate, throwing the ball downfield.

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He invented the basketball on grass Brees/Brady era...WITHOUT dinking and dunking like them and with a real pass rush.

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He only averages about a yard more per completion on a substantially lower completion percentage, but sure, let's act like dinking and dunking is how Brees and Co operate.

This debate will lead nowhere if people don't agree that football was fundamentally different in the 60's/70's than it was in the 50's and fundamentally different in the 80's compared to the 2000's.

That's just a fact.

You can only be measured by your peers and the era you played in.

And for whatever reason, good or bad, people have said, Brees is not as good as Brady or Manning.

That's why he's not on the list I guess. He can't be compared to Staubach or Marino.

I think the committee rightfully so, determined the question was, which quarterbacks dominated their eras.

You could argue Brees did but the consensus is that it was Brady and Manning...that define this era.

And you can't compare eras. So once Brees doesn't win his era, he's out. That's the committee's reasoning and it makes sense.

Holding records, when the game was so different across the eras means nothing really.

It's what did your contemporaries think of you, that's the only question that matters.

Sure Brees is going to be statistically earth shattering than Unitas...but you know what, Brees didn't play football in 1955.

He played the QB position in the easiest time for a QB in the history of football.

Current QBs get watered down in the public's view when everyone is putting up huge numbers and the career best QB ratings are all modern players, even the ones who totally sucked. Frankly you don't get punished for making bad decisions in today's games, you have to be awful to throw a pick.

I agree w/ the selections. Those were the same 10 I chose on the website predictor. This just gives a better insight of how Brees is viewed on a broader spectrum, outside of Louisiana. Like it or not, most experts/historians would pick Elway over Brees. Truth is, he needs another ring to solidify himself in the Top 10.