“Dan Marino is arguably the greatest pure arm talent in NFL history. Period. Full stop.
To call his right arm a cannon is an understatement. And in an era when 4,000 passing yards was a big year, Marino did the unthinkable and threw for 5,000 yards. It’s legitimately the equivalent of 6,000 passing yards in a season today.
Not only was Marino the first quarterback to hit five grand, but it was over 25 years before Tom Brady and Drew Brees did it again—in 2011.
During that historic season (his second), Marino won both Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year. It was the first of three straight seasons that he led the league in passing—a feat he would accomplish five times over 17 years.
Marino tallied a gaudy 61,361 passing yards over a career that got him inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005. At the time, that was the most passing yards in NFL history.
Brett Favre didn’t pass him until 2007.”