Drew Brees has been around long enough to know there’s no point to trying to replicate days like last Sunday.
A day like the 505-yard, seven-touchdown, record-tying performance Brees turned in against New York last week is more like a comet, brilliant and fast and hard to predict when it might come around the next time.
Brees, even in an era of passing in the NFL, realizes how rare a performance like that comes for an NFL quarterback.
“I mean there are a lot of things that have to come together for that to happen,” Brees said.