tom brady was the all-time passing leader in the nfl, including the playoffs.
tom brady was the all-time passing leader in the nfl, including the playoffs.
who is the all-time passing leader in the nfl, including the playoffs?
tom brady
the next week, brady completed 16-of-32 passes for 188 yards in a 16–3 road victory over the denver broncos. with this victory, the patriots clinched an eighth consecutive afc east title and a seventh consecutive first-round bye in the playoffs, both nfl records. on december 20, 2016, brady was named to the pro bowl for the eighth straight season and 12th time overall. in week 16, brady threw for 17 of 27 passes for 214 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions as he led the patriots to a 41–3 win over the jets. in week 17, brady completed 25-of-33 passes for 276 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions in a 35–14 victory over the miami dolphins in the regular season finale that gave the patriots home field advantage throughout the afc playoffs. brady's 276 yards against miami moved him ahead of former miami quarterback dan marino into fourth place on the nfl's all-time passing yards list. brady's three touchdowns against miami also gave him 28 passing touchdowns against two interceptions for the regular season. this broke the previous record of nick foles's 27:2 td:int ratio which was set in 2013 with the philadelphia eagles. brady was named to the ap all-pro second team, behind matt ryan of the atlanta falcons, who was named to the ap all-pro first team. brady was also ranked first on the nfl top 100 players of 2017 as the best player in the league, becoming the first player to be named as #1 twice since the listing started.
tom brady
before the development of the passer rating, the nfl struggled with how to crown a passing leader. in the mid-1930s, it was the quarterback with the most passing yardage. from 1938 to 1940, it was the quarterback with the highest completion percentage. in 1941, a system was created that ranked the league's quarterbacks relative to their peers' performance. over the next thirty years the criteria used to crown a passing leader changed several times, but the ranking system made it impossible to determine a quarterback's rank until all the other quarterbacks were done playing that week, or to compare quarterback performances across multiple seasons. in 1971, nfl commissioner pete rozelle asked the league's statistical committee to develop a better system. the committee was headed by don smith of the pro football hall of fame, seymour siwoff of the elias sports bureau, and nfl executive don weiss. smith and siwoff established passing performance standards based on data from all qualified pro football passers between 1960 and 1970, and used those data to create the passer rating. the formula was adopted by the nfl in 1973.
passer rating