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Chip Brees played basketball for the Texas A & M Aggies men's basketball team, and his grandfather, Ray Akins, had the third-most victories as a Texas high school football coach.
Brees ' college success led to projections that he would be a mid-to-late first round draft pick in the 2001 NFL Draft, but he slipped due to concerns about his relatively short stature for a professional quarterback ( 6 ' 0 "), a perceived lack of arm strength, and a sense that he had succeeded in college in a spread offense.
Brees became a free agent after the season and was not expected to return to San Diego, which had already committed a large sum of money to Rivers.
In 2008, the Saints again missed the playoffs but Brees had a strong year statistically, finishing 15 yards short of the NFL record for passing yards thrown in a single season set by Dan Marino in 1984.
Brees had a poor outing, but provided two crucial rushing touchdowns, one just before halftime to narrow the deficit to 24 – 10, and one in the third quarter to give the Saints their first lead of the game, 37 – 34.
In 2009 he appeared in all 16 games as the holder on the Saints place-kicking unit, and saw his first playing time at quarterback in 3 years during a week 17 loss to the Carolina Panthers, as the Saints had already clinched homefield advantage and rested starter Drew Brees, as well as many other starters.
Similarly, during the 2011 Saints 63-7 victory, while the margin of victory was very large and the game was almost beyond doubt at half-time, Drew Brees had thrown a below his average number of yards.
Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington, who suffered two tears to his rotator cuff and has undergone as many surgeries to repair it, is often compared to Cook because their injuries are so similar ; his injury was also similar to that suffered by New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who had surgery on his rotator cuff after the 2005-06 season and finished the following season as an All-Pro quarterback.
After a close win in San Francisco, they went 3-3 down the stretch as Drew Brees threw several interceptions and Garrett Hartley ( the hero of the 2009 postseason ) suffered multiple missed field goals that resulted in his being temporarily benched in favor of John Carney, a former kicker who had first played in the NFL back in 1988.

Brees and productive
Brees continued his productive play in 2005, as he posted a career high in passing yards with 3, 576.

Brees and first
As a senior, Brees was named the Academic All-America Player of the Year, the first Purdue player since Bruce Brineman ( 1989 ) to earn national academic honors.
Ultimately, Brees was the second quarterback selected in the 2001 draft, chosen by the San Diego Chargers as the first pick of the second round.
Brees played in his first professional game on November 4, 2001 against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Under the terms of the franchise player contract, Brees was eligible to be traded or sign with another team, but the Chargers would receive two future first round draft choices in return.
After the season, the Chargers offered Brees a 5-year, $ 50 million contract that paid $ 2 million in base salary the first year and the rest heavily based on performance incentives.
On January 5, 2007, Brees was named first runner-up behind former teammate Tomlinson for league MVP by the Associated Press.
On January 13, 2007, in his first playoff game for New Orleans, Brees was 20 – 32 in passing attempts with 1 touchdown and no interceptions against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Louisiana Superdome.
Brees then dislocated his left elbow during the first quarter of the Pro Bowl.
In the first game of the 2009 season against the Detroit Lions, Brees set a career-high and franchise-tying record with six touchdown passes, ( NFL record for opening week ) going 26 / 34 for 358 yards.
After close victories over the Washington Redskins and Falcons in successive weeks to start 13 – 0, Brees and the Saints lost their first game of the season to the Dallas Cowboys, 24 – 17, after DeMarcus Ware caused a Brees fumble in the final seconds, ending a fourth quarter rally.
In week 2, Drew Brees defeated the Chicago Bears during the Saints's home-opener for the first time in his career as a starting quarterback, with 270 yards, 3 touchdowns and zero interceptions.
With his first win over the Bears, Brees has defeated all NFL teams except the Baltimore Ravens.
Brees ' performance gave him 4, 031 yards on the season, making him the first quarterback in NFL history to eclipse the 4, 000-yard mark in the first 12 games of a season, and the first quarterback to reach 4 consecutive seasons with 4000 + yards and 30 + TD passes.
Brees became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5 touchdowns, 400 + yards, and a completion percentage of 80 % in a game.
In a Week 1 loss to the Redskins 40-32, Brees extended his streak of consecutive games with a touchdown pass to 44 games with a first quarter pass to Jimmy Graham.
After starting Chargers quarterback Drew Brees went to the New Orleans Saints following the 2005 season, Rivers came off the bench to lead the Chargers to a 14-2 record in his first season as a starter.
On December 27, on Monday Night Football against the New Orleans Saints, Abraham recorded his first career interception after deflecting and catching a Drew Brees pass attempt.
In the second quarter, Brees added two more touchdown passes, one to Henderson on a flea flicker and the other to Colston that was set up by a Will Smith interception, giving them a 35 – 14 first half lead before adding 10 more points in the second half on a Hartley field goal and Bush's 83-yard punt return.

Brees and year
That year Brees also set NFL records for highest completion percentage in a season – 71. 2 %, most 300 + yard passing games in a season – 13, and most completions in a season – 468.
In week 16 against the Atlanta Falcons, on 12 / 26 / 2011 at 10: 35 pm New Orleans time at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Brees broke Dan Marino's long standing record of passing yards in a year of 5, 084 with a 9-yard touchdown pass to Darren Sproles with just under 3 minutes left in the fourth quarter of the game.
In week 17 against the Carolina Panthers, Brees closed out the season by setting 6 NFL records, finishing the year with 468 completions for 5, 476 yards, edging Tom Brady of the New England Patriots who also surpassed Marino's record with 5, 235 yards.
On July 13, the Saints and Brees agreed to a 5 year, $ 100 million contract.
That year, only his second season in the NFL, Gates became quarterback Drew Brees ' favorite target, finishing the season with 81 receptions for 964 yards and 13 touchdowns.

Brees and with
Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.
" Brees immediately issued another statement to clarify, " My WMD comment has nothing to do with politics or our brave military.
The Chargers would go on to lose their season finale to the Broncos, with Brees suffering a dislocated shoulder to end the Chargers ' 9 – 7 season.
Brees, whose contract expired at the end of that season, left the team and would sign with the New Orleans Saints.
Rivers threw for 4, 254 yards ( 8th ), 28 TD's ( tied-6th ), 8. 8 yards per passing attempt ( 1st ), 64 completions of 20 + yards ( 1st ), only 9 INT's ( 4th with a minimum 400 pass attempts ), and a 104. 4 passer rating ( 3rd – only beaten by Drew Brees & Brett Favre ).
He threw for 3, 969 yards, a then-franchise record 35 touchdown passes with only 10 interceptions, completed an 70. 28 percent of his passes — the highest completion percentage of the 1990s, third all-time, and at the time, the best completion percentage by any quarterback with more than 400 attempts ( later eclipsed by Drew Brees in 2009 ).
In the regular season finale against the Buffalo Bills, Brady became the fourth quarterback to throw for 5, 000 yards in a single season, finishing with 5, 235 ; it surpassed Dan Marino's longstanding record of 5, 084 passing yards, but finished the season second behind Drew Brees ' 5, 476.
For middle school, he attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School, where he was friends and teammates with future Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees.
In 2010, Dawson presented the New Orleans Saints and another Purdue quarterback, Drew Brees, with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after their victory in Super Bowl XLIV.
Brees has been selected to the Pro Bowl six times in his career – with the Chargers in 2004 and the Saints in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
During his Super Bowl victory in 2009, Brees tied a record for most completions in a Super Bowl with 32 ( Super Bowl XLIV ; tied with Tom Brady ).
Brees holds the NFL single-season record for most passing yards in a season by a quarterback, with 5, 476 yards, which he accomplished during the 2011 season.
Brees has the highest career completion percentage among all quarterbacks in NFL history with at least 2, 500 + attempts – 65. 94 %.
Brees is currently tied all-time with consecutive games with at least 1 TD pass – 47 ( 2009 – present ), with Johnny Unitas, who threw a touchdown pass in 47 consecutive games ( between 1956 – 1960 ), a record which has remained unsurpassed for 52 years.

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