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Quite a bit of cherry picking going on here.
You leave out all SIX of Drew Brees 70% completion seasons as if they didn't exist just to bolster your argument.
Chad Pennington never reached the 70% completion mark in his entire career, rotator cuff injury or not.
Drew Brees completion percentages Age 31-41. 71.2, 70, 72, 74.4, 74,3, 70.5. And those bolded percentages indicate he led the entire NFL in completion percentages 5 times.
Another factor you don't consider is pass attempts. The less times you pass, the easier it is to get a higher percentage. With larger volumes of passing you usually tend to get a lower pass percentage. Consider that Brees made over 500 pass attempts in 8 of his age 31-41 seasons. Meanwhile Chad Pennington never made over 500 pass attempts in a single season his entire career. Brees ended with a career pass completion rate of 67.7% in over 10500 pass attempts while Pennington ended up with 66.0% in just 2471 attempts. Both in terms of sheer volume and overall accuracy, Brees is far more impressive.
70.6 4388 34 6.6 11 2.1 210 75 8.5 8.9 12.1 292.5 109.6 82.0 20 135 7.96 8.31 3.7 2 4 16 2010* 31 NOR QB 9 16 16 11-5-0 448 658 68.1 4620 33 5.0 22 3.3 238 80 7.0 6.5 10.3 288.8 90.9 70.8 25 185 6.49 6.01 3.7 4 5 14 2011* 32 NOR QB 9 16 16 13-3-0 468 657 71.2 5476 46 7.0 14 2.1 279 79 8.3 8.8 11.7 342.3 110.6 82.3 24 158 7.81 8.23 3.5 3 4 20 2012* 33 NOR QB 9 16 16 7-9-0 422 670 63.0 5177 43 6.4 19 2.8 266 80 7.7 7.7 12.3 323.6 96.3 68.7 26 190 7.17 7.17 3.7 1 2 15 2013* 34 NOR QB 9 16 16 11-5-0 446 650 68.6 5162 39 6.0 12 1.8 246 76 7.9 8.3 11.6 322.6 104.7 69.1 37 244 7.16 7.51 5.4 2 2 17 2014* 35 NOR QB 9 16 16 7-9-0 456 659 69.2 4952 33 5.0 17 2.6 259 69 7.5 7.4 10.9 309.5 97.0 74.8 29 186 6.93 6.77 4.2 2 2 16 2015 36 NOR QB 9 15 15 7-8-0 428 627 68.3 4870 32 5.1 11 1.8 228 80 7.8 8.0 11.4 324.7 101.0 66.8 31 235 7.04 7.26 4.7 1 2 14 2016* 37 NOR QB 9 16 16 7-9-0 471 673 70.0 5208 37 5.5 15 2.2 265 98 7.7 7.8 11.1 325.5 101.7 66.8 27 184 7.18 7.27 3.9 2 4 16 2017* 38 NOR QB 9 16 16 11-5-0 386 536 72.0 4334 23 4.3 8 1.5 203 54 8.1 8.3 11.2 270.9 103.9 62.5 20 145 7.53 7.71 3.6 2 2 17 2018* 39 NOR QB 9 15 15 13-2-0 364 489 74.4 3992 32 6.5 5 1.0 223 72 8.2 9.0 11.0 266.1 115.7 79.2 17 121 7.65 8.47 3.4 6 7 16 2019* 40 NOR QB 9 11 11 8-3-0 281 378 74.3 2979 27 7.1 4 1.1 159 61 7.9 8.8 10.6 270.8 116.3 73.3 12 89 7.41 8.33 3.1 1 2 10 2020 41 NOR QB 9 12 12 9-3-0 275 390 70.5 2942 24 6.2 6 1.5 149 52 7.5 8.1 10.7 245.2 106.4 74.6 13 89 7.08 7.60 3.2 1 3 9
Playing indoors skews the numbers