started off very poorly. You’ll remember early in the season he dropped a number of passes and got holding calls, missed assignments. His GPA was so low early on it was almost impossible to salvage. 2.41 is actually a testament, believe it or not, to how well he’s performed of late. Through 3 or 4 games he was under 2.0. Once he came to understand the playbook and got in better rhythm with Brees he started to improve drastically. I agree with you. Unfortunately, his low GPA is a function of a brutal start to the season.

you get a 3.4 to 4.0 for a near perfect game. brees had a handful of off games this year, 2.4 to 2.8. that hurts your grade. i dont think its implies he is not a great qb, but you would have to have a near perfect season to get any higher than a 3.4.

3.18 is a high GPA. Believe it or not, I was criticized more times than not for being too generous with Brees on individual game performances. A couple of C’s/C-’s brought down his GPA, and those grades were well deserved based on his performance in those games.

if I was grading Ryan and/or Campbell all season, I can promise you their GPAs would be infinitely lower.

Drew is the only single player where we would KNOW for certain what would happen if he wasn’t on the field during a playoff game. We could and have overcome the loss of any other single player. However, after watching Manning’s backup the last couple of weeks, it’s pretty obvious the same is true for the Colts.

might seem nerdy but in madden 10 players are just that, average, only the elite are 87+(ie manning, brees, fitzgerald). we forget how good these players are and how good the players are they go against. a b+ in the nfl is great considering brees got a 3.18. whats the difference if brees gets curvered to a 4.0 if everyone elses grade moves up as well. brees is still that much better than everyone else behind him. and for that matter everyone else is still that much better than everyone else behind them…so on, so forth

at 3.18, Brees’ OVERALL grade through 15 games is between B and B+. Keep in mind that’s the average. So you’re getting that kind of average every game from him. To average an A based on this grading system, he’d need to basically get more A’s than anything else, and almost no C’s. It’s just not realistic. Any player above a 3.0 has had a fantastic season. That doesn’t mean Brees hasn’t had A’s this year… in fact twice I gave him A+. He’s just had some bad games where he got a C and a C-. Brings down the overall grade. At the time the grade I have him for that game was fair. I’m sure some of Brett’s games the last few weeks would destroy his GPA. So here’s what I’d guess GPA’s would look like: Manning, 3.25, Favre, 2.97, Warner 2.80, Rodgers 2.78. That’s just a wild guess, but you get the idea.