Tom Brady poised to top 100,000 passing yards, regular season and postseason combined

Posted by Michael David Smith on July 22, 2022, 4:36 AM EDT
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Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is about half a season away from an extraordinary achievement: 100,000 career passing yards.

Brady enters the 2022 season with 97,569 career passing yards, 84,520 in the regular season and 13,049 in the postseason. That puts him 2,431 passing yards away from 100,000, a total no other quarterback in NFL history has ever come close to achieving.

Last year Brady averaged 313 passing yards per game. If he averages 313 yards a game this year, he’ll top 100,000 yards in the Bucs’ eighth game of the season, which is a Thursday night home game against the Ravens on October 27.

The 100,000 total has never been approached before and may never be reached again. Brady’s combination of productivity and longevity is unequaled in NFL history.

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41 responses to “Tom Brady poised to top 100,000 passing yards, regular season and postseason combined”

  1. …and then his entire body will convert to pure light, and he will ascend to the Heavens to watch over us, and keep us safe ; ) Happy Friday!

  4. Just volume stats – it’s what happens when you play until you are nearly 50.

  5. Interesting that he is expected to reach 2431 yards against the Ravens in game 8 as that is likely an entire season of passing yards for the Ravens’ QB

  7. He’s also the only QB in NFL history to defeat a Blake Bortles lead team in the playoffs!

  9. Godzilla says:
    July 22, 2022 at 5:17 am
    That’s almost 19 passing miles.

    ————————

    Closer to 57 passing miles @ 100k 🙂

  11. Good thing he was drafted 199 and has the luck of the Irish or this may have never happened.

  12. Well if they keep adding more games to the season, this record will be shattered in 20-40 years

  13. One hundred thousand yards is roughly 57 miles or about the distance between my home in a Cleveland ‘burb to Canton where Brady, as the unquestioned greatest of all time, should have a separate alcove, a shrine if you will, to honor his transcendant career. To place his bust with all the others just wouldn’t seem right.

  14. Just volume stats – it’s what happens when you play until you are nearly 50.

    ——————

    Just like the Superbowls … just volume stats !

  15. After finishing this coming season, he will have completed 21 starting seasons, not counting his rookie season and the lost injured 2008 season. If Kurt Warner could be in the Hall of Fame with only 5 or 6 good seasons with 3 Super Bowl appearances and 1 ring, Brady should have 3 Hall of Fame careers with each spanning 7 years.

    First period, 2001-2007, won 3 rings in 4 appearances with a record setting undefeated MVP season.

    Second period, 2009-2015, his physical and statistical prime. Won 1 ring in 2 SB appearances and 2010 MVP season, the start of his partnership another Hall of Famer, Gronk.

    Third period, 2016-2022, his astounding autumnal years with 3 rings in 4 appearances, 2017 MVP season. Greatest SB comeback for 2016 season and win another in Bucs uniform! And he night not be done after this season!

  16. 57 passing miles… “You can throw a football over that mountain? I’ll take the entire mountain range, one season at a time”

  17. Inside the Hall of Fame should be a Hall of Fame within the Hall of Fame, a room for the top 100 or so of all time.

    Then inside that room should be another room, just for the GOAT, Tom Brady

  18. 2 yards per pass.. 50,000 completions.. thats gotta be some kind of record..

  19. Panthers & Ravens fans will say…b b b but how many rushing yards and TD’s does he have?

  21. TLIM,

    Tell your favorite QB to throw 2 yards on first and 10, or 4 yards on 3rd and 7.

    Let us see if he can score even 20 points.

  23. Brady gets credit for his receivers yards after catch (YAC). It’s kind of not fair.

  24. 90,000 yards are after catch.

    ++++++++

    Again, watch Brady’s 700 TD in OT against Bills, see how the receiver got YAC.

    It was all Brady. (Listen to Tony Romo’s comment) Belichick had no clue at all, thought it was because of design. That is why he didn’t appreciate at all, like his fans.

  25. But but but Peyton was better! Brady was just a system quarterback! It was all Belichick! If Rodgers had a better coach he’d be much better than Brady! Brady’s footballs deflated a bit in cold weather! I know in this day and age, facts don’t seem to matter. But I sure care about them. Tom Brady is unquestionably the best QB of all time and almost surely the greatest player of all time. Over a career that long, the stats tell you the truth.

  26. touchback6 says:
    July 22, 2022 at 1:10 pm
    90,000 yards are after the catch.
    —
    You really think it’s that few?

  29. A stat padder is someone who is aging and decreasing significantly in his skill set. Someone who is good enough to play but can’t do much else.

    Brady is still a top qb. Wins, stats, playoffs….he’s still doing it all.

    And all qbs get the benefit of yac. No one else is close to this accomplishment.

  31. Brady threw for more yards in 2021 than any other QB

    Brady
    Herbert
    Stafford
    Mahomes

  32. How come Tommy smashed his cell phone?

    I’ve heard many explanations for this and all of them are complete trash. Let’s hear from someone outside the Tommy fan club maybe I’ll hear a sensible reason why he did that.

  33. GMG,

    If someone accuses you of stealing his money and says that you hide the money under your underwear, are you going to drop underwear to prove you are innocent?

    Stop pulling the “destroying phone” card, OK?

  34. William Lee says:
    July 22, 2022 at 5:42 pm
    GMG,

    If someone accuses you of stealing his money and says that you hide the money under your underwear, are you going to drop underwear to prove you are innocent?

    Stop pulling the “destroying phone” card, OK?
    —-
    Nah. Not until someone tells me a good reason why he did it. Every reason I heard so far is complete garbage. Like your analogy.

    I already know why he did it, it’s that obvious. He was hiding cheating. I want a Tommy defender to show me I’m wrong.

  35. You are wrong.
    Wells report said he cooperated.
    NFL admitted in court they had no evidence of deflated footballs or a deflating scheme.
    Nothing showed up on any team phones.
    He got rid of his phone just like he has with previous phones after getting a new one.
    But you keep believing what you want.

  36. GMG,

    if you think everyone is your father because your father is a man, be my guest.

    And you better drop your pants if someone accuses you of stealing his money or you are a thief.

  37. tb12gronk87 says:
    July 22, 2022 at 7:51 pm
    You are wrong.
    Wells report said he cooperated.
    NFL admitted in court they had no evidence of deflated footballs or a deflating scheme.
    Nothing showed up on any team phones.
    He got rid of his phone just like he has with previous phones after getting a new one.
    But you keep believing what you want.

    —-
    No. They only said in court there was no evidence Brady himself stuck a needle in a football. Nobody said he did. His buddy the deflator did all that work for him. The text messages and smashed phone are indefensible. Sorry.

  38. William Lee says:
    July 22, 2022 at 12:11 pm
    TLIM,

    Tell your favorite QB to throw 2 yards on first and 10, or 4 yards on 3rd and 7.

    Let us see if he can score even 20 points.

    ——————————-

    Why set the bar so low when he has done tons more than that already?

  39. From the court precedings….

    Judge Berman asked the NFL if there is “any direct evidence” linking Brady to ball tampering, to which league attorney Dan Nash conceded there was no text or email.

    With all the egg on its face if the nfl had anything they would have posted it worldwide. They had nothing. So to distract everyone from their own stupidity they painted a picture of Brady smashing his phone with a hammer cause the law was closing in on him when in reality they knew he cooperated with Wells and there was nothing on his phone or the team phones.

  40. “The evidence of ball tampering is compelling if not overwhelming”
    —US Second Circuit court of appeals

    “ Finally, any reasonable litigant would understand that the destruction of evidence (Brady’s cell phone), revealed just days before the start of the arbitration proceedings, would be an important issue. It is well established that the law permits a trier of fact to infer that a party who deliberately destroys relevant evidence the party had an obligation to produce did so in order to conceal damaging information from the adjudicator.”
    —- US Second Circuit court of appeals

    It’s really common sense why Brady destroyed his phone when he did. Only the fan club and other Brady fans in denial would say otherwise. Truth hurts.

  41. With all the egg on its face if the nfl had anything they would have posted it worldwide. They had nothing. So to distract everyone from their own stupidity they painted a picture of Brady smashing his phone with a hammer
    ——
    And yet it’s funny that the appellate court agreed with the league saying the smashing of the cell phone mattered a lot, and the only reason why a defendant would do that is to hide evidence from the investigation. Which is what Brady did.

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