To recap: from their age-39 seasons onwards, Manning lost 326 DYAR, while Brady has gained over 6,500 DYAR (and won three more rings, if you care about that sort of thing). Then he nearly tripled that total the next season in Tampa Bay, finishing third with over 1,500 DYAR. Even in 2019, his last year in New England when many observers thought he was done, his total of 550 DYAR ranked 16th-by definition, still better than half the starters in the league. Then a funny thing happened: Brady just kept going, topping 1,000 DYAR four times in the next five years. He'd just have to be content with his four Super Bowl rings. Brady was in second place at that point with a total of 19,759 DYAR, but at age 38 himself, he seemed unlikely to get much closer. He left the game with two championship rings and a bevy of passing records, including 26,290 passing DYAR. Manning retired after the championship win over Carolina shortly before turning 40. In 2015, his final season, Manning had god-awful numbers, but the Broncos won the Super Bowl anyway. Brady's numbers moderately dropped off at that point while Manning enjoyed a career resurgence in Denver his 2,475 DYAR in 2013 were a career high. That changed when Randy Moss and then Rob Gronkowski arrived in New England Brady topped Manning in passing DYAR every year from 2007 to 2012 (except 2008, when he threw only 11 passes before tearing his ACL and going down for the year). The arguments started out pretty simple: Manning had better passing stats, while Brady had more playoff wins and championships. It got to the point where we had to create three separate threads for Brady-Manning discourse just so comments under other stories would stay on topic. We would publish an article on the Falcons defense or something and within hours the ensuing discussion thread would be filled with furious bickering about whether the Patriots or Colts had the superior quarterback. Newcomers may not realize just how much the Brady-Manning discourse used to dominate the site. Well, it's time to head back to the halcyon days of flip phones and Blu-ray discs, because after a big game against the Dolphins on Sunday, Brady has officially passed Manning to become the all-time leader in regular-season passing DYAR. Those of you who have been reading Football Outsiders for a decade or more may remember some of the staples of our early days, such as Catholic Match Girl, Robopunter, and irrational arguments about Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
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