Drew Brees beat five Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks this season on his way to the championship.
Just the way they Drew it up
’10 QB Rankings
Metro ranks the league’s best quarterbacks heading into next season:
1 Drew Brees (NO) — The Super Bowl MVP celebrated his title in Disney World yesterday.
2 Peyton Manning (IND) — We saw him at his best and worst on Sunday. He’ll bounce back.
3 Aaron Rodgers (GB) — The guy has a straight-up cannon. All he needs is a little more protection.
4 Matt Schaub (HOU) — He’s helped by the league’s best receiver in Andre Johnson.
5 Ben Roethlisberger (PIT) — If the Steelers stayed healthy, they would have made the Super Bowl.
The biggest butt around the Saints never belonged to Kim Kardashian. It was always the ‘but’ surrounding Drew Brees.
Oh, he’s good, but he doesn’t have a defense. Oh, he’s good, but he throws too many interceptions. Oh, he’s good but not clutch.
After beating — and perhaps claiming the throne as — the best quarterback in the league, Peyton Manning, in Super Bowl XLIV, the summary of Brees suddenly got a lot shorter.
Oh, he’s great. Period. End of story.
“It’s one of the most dominating [postseason] performances I’ve ever seen,” said Colts general manager Bill Polian. “We never doubted how great [Brees] was, but now it’s pretty clear to everyone else, too.”
Perhaps no one more so than Manning, who was nowhere near as dominant as Brees when he won his first Super Bowl three years ago. Manning threw three touchdowns and seven picks on the way to beating the Bears in Super Bowl XLI. Brees tossed eight scores without an interception on the way to shocking the favored Colts on Sunday.
