“Do I think people can have any grasp of just how productive he has been? No, not at all. What you see and hear in this city is a year like this year, where Drew throws for 240 and that’s like an, ‘Oh, he didn’t do great.’ Because we’re used to 385 and 400 and all of these crazy, video game numbers that he’s put up here over time. And the reality is, those numbers have often times led to losses. They’re a result of situations that we’d rather not be in – sometimes when you throw for a lot of yards, you’re trying to catch up.

“So it’s great to have stats, and I think that Drew has always been very quick to point that out, that the stats aren’t just him, either, they’re the result of a lot of different people and a lot of different scenarios that are occurring within a game. I think what you’re seen this year is a tremendous amount of unselfishness and not caring what he’s throwing for.

“You’ve never heard the guy say, ‘I only got 30 pass attempts this week.’ He just wants to win games and I think from a fan standpoint sometimes, it’s easy to look at a stat line and try to take out of that the production of that player. And yet, it doesn’t say in that stat line – against the Falcons, he threw for 240 yards but what it doesn’t say is, he got us into the correct run. He got us into the right look, changed the play, and Mark Ingram scores a 26-yard touchdown run. And that ends up reflecting on the running back and the offensive line and yet without Drew, that never occurs.

“And so, he’s doing so much more than what is in his stat line, that I think it’s hard to appreciate everything that the guy does. It’s very easy to get used to 5,000-yard seasons until you realize that he’s one of five people that have ever done it and he’s done it five times. You lose track of that.”

You lose track of the avalanche of consistency, and relentlessness required to attain it.

You don’t see the effort required to sustain it. But you appreciate that it’s there.