Quite a night for Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints -- a almanac and a rout.
Brees set the NFL almanac for yards casual in a season, breaking a mark that Dan Marino had captivated for 27 years, and the New Orleans Saints clinched the NFC South appellation with a 45-16 achievement over the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night.
Brees threw for 307 yards and four touchdowns, the aftermost a nine-yard bang to Darren Sproles that set the almanac with 2 account 51 abnormal to go.
"Honestly, I was absolutely aggravating not to anticipate about the almanac or anything," Brees said. "I knew we were close. A brace guys mentioned being to me on the sideline. I didn't appetite to apprehend it. It's like a bullpen with a no-hitter, I guess."
Brees' final canyon of the bold gave him 5,087 yards casual -- with one bold still to play. Marino accomplished with 5,084 yards for the Miami Dolphins in 1984.
"Great job by such a appropriate player," Marino wrote on Twitter, congratulating Brees.
Brees' four touchdowns gave him 276 for his career, affective him advanced of Joe Montana (273) and Vinny Testaverde (275) for ninth all-time. He is the aboriginal quarterback in NFL history to canyon for added than 5,000 yards twice
Brees' aboriginal scoring canyon went for eight yards to Marques Colston and the additional for nine yards to Jimmy Graham. Graham's TD bolt was his 10th of the season, a authorization aerial for a bound end. In the third quarter, Brees hit Robert Meachem for a account from 24 yards, giving New Orleans (12-3) a 28-10 lead.
Atlanta (9-6) is headed to the playoffs as a agrarian card. Matt Ryan had 258 yards casual and one TD, including a 21-yard scoring bang to Julio Jones for a 10-7 Falcons advance backward in the aboriginal quarter.
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