Name: Should Drew Brees be considered a top-tier QB of all time? First Take debates
Uploaded: 2021-03-15T18:46:47.000Z
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The superlative

one of the best ever do it is calling it quits.

Drew Brees retiring after 20 seasons in the NFL.

Past simple

First all time in passing yards, completions and completion percentage and second to only Tom Brady in passing touchdowns.

What a career Pleased to be joined by our guy Booger McFarland.

But Booker, I want to start with Max on this one.

Do you think Drew Brees deserves to be in the top tier of best quarterbacks all time?

But when you say the first tier, I'm thinking Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Aaron Rodgers.

We're talking about the best of the best, certainly regular season.

Peyton Manning and Peyton Manning does have two Super Bowl championships.

I'm talking about the guys who year in and year out you looked at the said that's the best player in the league where the best quarterback in the league or one of the two best quarterbacks in the league, that hasn't been Drew Brees.

His beautiful family gives him the send off the whole thing, and any time Drew Brees is in a room, you can see why he's a leader.

Why he's a guy people want to play with and play for you makes everyone want to be the best versions of themselves.

I'm a huge Drew Brees fan, but this is my honest opinion.

I mean, we're talking about the best of the best.

All those records because Number one is the most accurate ever.

But he also played in a passing era in a dome and he had great longevity and he was with a great head coach for a long, long time.

So there's no taking away his greatness first ballot Hall of Famer.

But if we're talking about the inner sanctum among the inner sanctum of quarterbacks all time, he's not quite there.

Top 10, Maybe not top five, but I don't want to take time away from my man Booger McFarland, who's been waiting anxiously to get on this airwaves and get at Max for that ridiculous decision.

Well, I mean, Max on one side of his mouth.

He say he doesn't belong in the room, but then he said, Yes, he's very accurate.

From a quarterback standpoint, there are a couple of things that you have to be.

You have to be a great decision maker, okay?

And you have to be accurate with the football.

Drew Brees has done that at the highest level since we've been keeping statistical data at the position.

Now you can talk about talent and you bring up Patrick Mahomes and some of the other greats like Elway and Manning.

Okay, Drew Brees is not the most athletically gifted guy ever.

But if we're talking about the best quarterbacks to ever play the game.

How can you not put Drew Brees in that category?

He's done something that no one else has done.

When you can do something better than anybody else has done it better than Montana.

So, in my opinion, not only is he up in the top tier category, if you want to start ranking them right now, I got him at six.

Brady, Montana, Manning, unite us, Elway.

Drew Brees will be right there at number six.

You can't take away what he's accomplished, and you can talk about the dome.

I can name 20 quarterbacks that's played in the Dome in the passing era, and they don't hold.

Drew Brees is job, so let's not make excuses of why this man has been great.

Regardless of whether he's retiring yesterday or today or a year from now, he is great based on what he has done and what he's accomplished.

I respect the fact that you say he is there and then have him six because a lot of people who say he is there might have 89 10, 12 guys in front of him and then also say that No, no, no, He's in that category.

And again, I take no joy in saying this today.

I'll be that guy, though, since you're asking directly, Um, he was normally not the best quarterback in the world, in fact, usually not top two.

And by most lights, maybe you feel differently, and you can back that up in an argument.

Brady, Rodgers and Peyton you take ahead of Drew Brees.

And then, later on, some of the younger guys took his place.

In fact, when I think of the all time great based on what Max well based on based on winning based on who you'd rather have under center based on by the way Drew Brees was great.

You know, how many times did you consider him a top three player in the world at his position?

Or how many times top to I don't know if I ever looked at reason, said.

He's one of the two best quarterbacks in the world.

But ahead of Rodgers ahead of Peyton Manning ahead of Tom Brady and then in recent years, By the way, it is he ahead, or will he be ahead when all is said and done on the all time list of at their best, Steve Young or Russell Wilson, let alone of guys like Elway and Marino or Brett Farve?

Uh, I mean, listen, I'm looking at all of these guys, John, that you want to throw them in there.

Uh, I got Drew Brees right outside the top five because I put I agree with Dan Orlovsky is list, with the exception of, uh, I think who did he have in there instead of, uh, uh or Montana?

He had somebody in there other than Montana.

So, yeah, he had breeze at number five and without Montana No, it would be Montana first, then breathe.