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The 5 Best 3rd-Down Quarterbacks of 2015
Third-down offensive situations can often times make or break a team's chances of winning a given game. Which quarterbacks came through in 2015?

2. Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are one of the most vividly-illustrative cases of what happens when you combine a highly-functional offense with one of the worst defenses of all-time.

The Saints finished second in overall offensive efficiency while finishing dead-last (by an enormous margin) in total defensive efficiency, according to our schedule-adjusted metrics. The fact that Drew Brees finds his way onto this list largely explains how the Saints managed seven wins with such a putrid defense.

Brees completed 68.3 percent of his 3rd-down pass attempts, second behind only Josh McCown. While he threw just 3 touchdowns to 4 interceptions, he finished with the third-best Success Rate (48.85%).

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