By Jeff Duncan, The Times-Picayune

December 03, 2009, 11:50AM

Words fail to describe how masterful Drew Brees’ performance against the Patriots was on Monday night.

But numbers do.

The folks at Cold, Hard Football Facts have crunched the numbers and produced an argument that Brees’ five-touchdown manifesto was “the greatest regular-season passing performance in modern NFL history.”

And researchers at ProFootballReference.com support the contention.

(Warning: These sites aren’t recommended for the “math challenged.”)

Read more of the story here.

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