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Big Ten Quarterbacks Don’t Get Drafted in the First Round
Maybe it’s unrelated to the sad state of Big Ten football these days, but it’s been almost 20 years since a quarterback from the conference was drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft. Kerry Collins back in 1995 was the last, going on to have a career that last 17 seasons, making it to the Super Bowl once.
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Seattle Seahawks – Russell Wilson is Part of the Elite Quarterback Group
Is Russell Wilson an elite quarterback? Over the last three or four seasons, that exclusive group was usually a four man group: Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Tom Brady. However, the Seattle Seahawks have a 6-0 record against their teams since Wilson entered the NFL.
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Falcons Over Saints – Always the Best Game to Start With
The NFL loves putting the Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints together to open the season with and the fierce NFC South rivals rarely disappoint, as the Falcons dug themselves out of a 13-point hole to come away with a 37-34 win that didn’t feature a whole lot of defense on both sides, giving Matt Ryan and Drew Brees the opportunity to put up big numbers.
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Oldest Starting NFL Quarterbacks Heading into the 2014 Season
The top 3 of the oldest starting quarterbacks in the NFL list doesn’t change this year. Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning aren’t just the elders of the game, they’re still at such a high level that’s very hard for much younger guys to reach on a consistent level except for maybe a player or two.
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Saints Over Colts – Not Everyone Gets Rusty
The New Orleans Saints have the privilege of a quarterback like Drew Brees, who doesn’t need long windup in order to feel confident and sharp as he heads into the new season, leading his team to a 23-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts, getting a far from similar performance out of Andrew Luck.
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New Orleans Saints – Debunking Road & Weather Myths
They said that Drew Brees can’t throw in the cold, They also said the New Orleans Saints can’t win on the road, not in the playoffs. People forgot how good of a head coach Sean Payton is, and the defense the Saints have. Maybe the Philadelphia Eagles forgot too. They weren’t going to forget Shayne Graham knocking down a game winning field goal as time expired.
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New Orleans Saints – Still Kings of the NFC South
The hype from what Cam Newton and Ron Rivera are doing this season with the Carolina Panthers isn’t over, but it’s been put into prespective after a 31-14 loss against the New Orleans Saints, as Drew Brees put on quite the impressive performance, throwing four touchdown passes.
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NFL Passing Leaders Never Win The Super Bowl
Many people think that paying any attention to yard numbers in statistics as a measurement to a team’s success is simply being blinded by numbers. In support of that opinion, comes the whopping fact that no team with a quarterback that led the NFL in passing yards that season has ever won the Super Bowl.
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Saints vs Falcons – This Used to be a Fair Fight
Wins for the Atlanta Falcons in their rivalry with the New Orleans Saints have been quite rare over the last seven years, but this year was the return to sweep form, as teams with mirroring records looks like they don’t belong in the same sentence. It wasn’t so easy for Drew Brees and his defense in a 17-13 win, but it’s hard to think of any other longstanding division rivalry looking so empty of parity and fairness at the moment.
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Saints vs Jets – Destroying Drew Brees Makes Up for Awful Geno Smith
This season it seems that as long as Geno Smith doesn’t throw interceptions, the New York Jets have a shot of beating anyone. That theory was proven correct once again as an awful game from the quarterback didn’t stop his team from beating the much better New Orleans Saints 26-20 as Drew Brees struggled through the very sound beating he took the entire game.