Dan Marino: I Could Throw for 6,000 Yards and 60 Touchdowns in Today's NFL

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Dan Marino: I Could Throw for 6,000 Yards and 60 Touchdowns in Today's NFL

Dan Marino: I Could Throw for 6,000 Yards and 60 Touchdowns in Today's NFL

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Dan Marino: I Could Throw for 6,000 Yards and 60 Touchdowns in Today's NFL

Dan Marino hopped on First Things First yesterday and the inevitable question came up. How would the Hall of Famer fare in today's wide-open, offense-friendly game? The obvious answer is even better than he did when he was dominating in the 80s and 90s.

And Marino, smartly understanding that it's impossible for him to put his right arm where his mouth is, threw out some gaudy numbers.


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60 touchdowns and 6,000 yards would certainly be a good season. On first blush those numbers seem impossible. But you know what? If any quarterback is capable of such a feat, it is Marino.

Look at the numbers he put up without the blessing of an elite receiving corps and an offense unaware of the coming aerial revolution. In his first full year of starting (1984) Marino threw for 5,064 yards and 48 touchdowns. That's an average of 9.0 yards per attempt. In Peyton Manning's record-setting 55-touchdown campaign, he threw 105 more passes than Marino did. Applying Marino's rates, that puts him at 6,009 yards and 57 scores.

Sadly, modern medicine is not at a place where 58-year-old Marino can get back on the field and put up video game numbers, so we'll have to settle for the what-if.

 

[Corbin]

I believe it. He is probably the best most pure passer of all time.

 

[jjab360]

He's not wrong

 

[ozarkram]

Yep I agree. He would have done it.

 

[den-the-coach]

That's okay Dan the Dolphin defense that they surrounded you with would have given up 8,000 yards and 80 Touchdowns.

 

[Karate61]

Brett Farve said he'd one-up Marino and add 60 interceptions to that total!

 

[dieterbrock]

Brett Farve said he'd one-up Marino and add 60 interceptions to that total!

And 2 more retirements!

 

[IowaRam]

On this year's Dolphins team .?

 

[dieterbrock]

On this year's Dolphins team .?

Yeah, and at 58. Back in 84 with these rules he'd throw for 8000 and 80 td!

 

[Mister Sin]

I agree with most of you...he ain't wrong.

 

[fearsomefour]

He is correct.
What could Elway, Montana, Young, Warner do with today’s rules?
Nearly every hit Warner took in the Titan Super Bowl would draw a flag today.
Plus, DBs could play defense back then.

 

[Soul Surfer]

How much was Dan drinking when he said this?
He sounds like an old guy telling war stories.
And he actually was fired from CBS for his drinking problem.
I actually met the man at a Hootie and the Blowfish concert and he was drunk as hell and extremely full of himself.

 

[Karate61]

Curious. What are the main rule changes from Marino's days to today's NFL???

 

[Dodgersrf]

.......and still not make it to the playoffs.

 

[FrantikRam]

Lol...no.

Take out Brees, Manning and Brady and look at what QBs have done in this "offensive friendly era".

Dan is worse than all three of those guys and once you remove them, there's nothing really extraordinary about passing numbers the past 20 years. One random 40 TD season from Stafford, one great season from Rodgers and one from Mahomes - just like Dan had one.

 

[Tano]

However, if he did put up insane numbers like that, he would probably be sitting by midway in the third quarter for half of those games which would drops his totals quite a bit.

 

[Psycho_X]

Curious. What are the main rule changes from Marino's days to today's NFL???

just off top of my head, stricter/tighter enforcement of defensive pass interference. Just think about the Patriots mugging us in SB 36 and that was 15/20 years later than Marino’s heyday. Can’t breath on a QB without getting penalties. In Marino’s day you’d get flat out speared/leveled if defender given the chance.

I can’t disagree with Marino.

 

[Pancake]

He probably could put up some crazy numbers in todays NFL. But how can people say he never had any WR's? The Marks brothers were pretty damn good players.

 

[RamFan503]

Think of what kind of numbers The Dutchman could have put up with this logic. He threw for 400+ in some games in the 50s. That would be like 800 in today's game. He'd throw for 8,000 easy. And that would still be in a 12 game season.

 

[Zodi]

But can he throw a ball over them mountains?

How much was Dan drinking when he said this? He sounds like an old guy telling war stories.

They asked him the question and he answered.