Drew Brees Breaks Dan Marino’s Single Season Passing Record

27 years ago Dan Marino set the NFL single season yards passing record and now that record has been passed along to New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees during his NFC South title clinching 45-16 victory over the Atlanta Falcons

To capture the record Brees threw for 307 yards and four touchdowns, setting the record on a 9-yard pass to Darren Sproles with 2:51 left to go in the game.

That final pass of the game for Brees left him with 5,087 yards on the season, 3 yards better than Marino’s 5,084 yard record. Brees in the meantime still has one game left to play.

After the Superdome erupted it was Dan Marino who congratulated Brees, taking to Twitter where he tweeted:

“Congrats to @drewbrees. Great job by such a special player.”

The four touchdown passes also gave Drew Brees 276 career touchdowns which allowed him to pass Joe Montana (273) and Vinny Testeverde (275) on the all-time passer list where he now sits in ninth place overall.

Falling just short of Marino’s record in 2008 with 5,069 yards this special occasions makes him the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for 5,000 yards two times.

On route to his record Brees also helped set a club best with 6,857 offensive yards, beating out their 2008 club record of 6,571 yards. If the Saints can rack up 504 yards during their final game they will beat the NFL record set by the St. Louis Rams in 2000.

While his feat is none-the-less impressive Drew Brees also holds another recent record, since the start of 2010 through week eight of the current season Drew Brees has managed to turn over the ball 32 times in 24-games, a record that not even Jay Cutler or Eli Manning can match in their own disasterous outings with their respective teams.

Are you surprised that Drew Brees was able to topple Dan Marino’s 27 year old record?

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