Dave Brown (quarterback)

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Dave Brown
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Position: Quarterback
Personal information
Born: (1970-02-25) February 25, 1970 (age 54)
Summit, New Jersey, U.S.
Height:6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Weight:230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High school: Westfield (Westfield, New Jersey)
College: Duke
Supplemental draft:1992 / Round: 1
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Passing attempts:1,634
Passing completions:892
Completion percentage:54.6
TD–INT:44–58
Passing yards:10,248
Passer rating:67.9
Player stats at PFR

David Michael Brown (born February 25, 1970) [1] is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and Arizona Cardinals. He played college football for the Duke Blue Devils.

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Brown grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, and played high school football at Westfield High School, graduating in 1988. [2] [3]

After his career in football, Brown went on to become a director at New York Life Investment Management. In 2008, he joined Lehman Brothers where he served as a Senior Vice President of Lehman's Private Fund Marketing Group. Brown left Lehman Brothers in 2008 to become the Co-Head of Greenhill's Private Capital Advisory Group. In 2015, he joined Moelis & Company to lead their new private equity fundraising business.

College

Brown had a successful career at Duke University. In his November 4, 1989, starting debut he threw for 444 yards against Wake Forest University, including a 97-yard touchdown to wide receiver Clarkston Hines to establish Duke's longest play from scrimmage. [4] Later that month, Brown set a school single-game record with 479 passing yards against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, upending Duke's rival, 41-0, to finish the year with seven straight wins and a share of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship. The Blue Devils subsequently received a bid to play in the All-American Bowl, Duke's first bowl game in almost 30 years. In 1991, Brown was chosen as the recipient of Duke's Carmen Falcone Team MVP Award. [5]

Brown ranks in the top ten in the following categories for Duke football quarterbacks: pass attempts in a season (#4, 437), pass attempts in a career (#5, 845), pass attempts in a game (#8, 54), pass completions in a game (#5, 33), pass completions in a season (#5, 230), pass completions in a career (#5, 463), passing yards in a game (#1, 479), passing yards in a season (#5, 2,794), passing yards in a career (#5, 5,717), touchdown passes in a game (#2, 4), touchdown passes in a season (#3, 20), touchdown passes in a career (#4, 42), 300-yard passing games in a season (#2, 4), 400-yard passing games in a career (#3, 8), 400-yard passing games in a season (#1, 2), and 400-yard passing games in a career (#2, 2). [5]

Brown ranks in the top ten in the following categories for Duke football offensive players: total offensive yards in a season (#5, 2,851), total offensive yards in a career(#5, 5,770), total offensive yards in a game (#2, 470), and two-point attempts in a game (#1, 3). [5]

NFL

Brown was drafted by the Giants as the top overall selection in the 1992 Supplemental Draft. [6] His first appearance came on December 12, 1992, when he was forced into the lineup due to injuries of Phil Simms, Jeff Hostetler, and Kent Graham, dropping a 19–0 decision to the Phoenix Cardinals. To make matters worse, Brown himself was injured during the game and didn't play a down the rest of the season.

Following Simms' release [7] after the following season, Brown won the starting job in 1994 and helped guide his team to a 9–7 record, including a season-ending six-game winning streak. However, the Giants won only a combined 11 games in the next two seasons and their offense finished statistically worst in the league in 1996. This finish led to the firing of Dan Reeves, and the hiring of noted QB guru Jim Fassel.

After injuring his chest during a game against the Dallas Cowboys, Brown lost his starting job in 1997 and was never able to re-claim it. Jim Fassel went the rest of the season with Danny Kanell at quarterback and had an unexpected run to the playoffs and division title. In the off-season Brown was signed by the Arizona Cardinals to play primarily as a backup, and he ended up finishing his career in 2001 with Arizona.

Following his career in professional football, Brown moved on to investment management.

NFL career statistics

YearTeamGamesPassingRushingSacked
GPGSRecordCmpAttPctYdsY/ALngTDIntRtgAttYdsY/ALngTDSckYds
1992 NYG 20—4757.1213.080062.22-1-0.51049
1993 NYG 10—00—00.0000—3-4-1.3-1000
1994 NYG 15159–620135057.42,5367.253121672.5601963.321242248
1995 NYG 16165–1125445655.72,8146.257111073.1452285.123444206
1996 NYG 16166–1021439853.82,4126.137122061.3501703.418049276
1997 NYG 763–39318051.71,0235.7625371.117291.7711367
1998 ARI 10—2540.0316.2190061.2122.02016
1999 ARI 853–28416949.79445.6712655.913493.810018130
2000 ARI 620–2406958.04676.8442370.1100.0001053
2001 ARI 10—00—00.0000——————00
Career736026–348921,63454.610,2486.371445867.91926693.52371811,005

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  1. ↑ Freeman, Mike via The New York Times . "UNDER PRESSURE GIANTS QB BROWN MUST COME THROUGH FOR HIS NEW COACH", Rocky Mountain News , April 13, 1997. Accessed February 20, 2011. "Brown is a native of Summit NJ and it can indeed be a curse to play for the team you watched growing up."
  2. ↑ George, Thomas. "FOOTBALL; Giants Sign Dave Brown", The New York Times , August 13, 1992.
  3. ↑ Pennington, Bill. "Expectations Are High, and Giants' Brown Hopes to Live Up to Them", The New York Times , August 31, 1997. Accessed October 26, 2015. "When Giants General Manager George Young was deciding if Brown was worth a first-round supplemental draft pick five years ago, he liked that Brown was local, from Westfield, N.J., less than 20 miles from Giants Stadium.... Brown, 27, was married in June to Katy Lynch, whom he met and dated at Westfield High School, and they have moved to a house in rural New Jersey."
  4. ↑ Duke Sports Information Office. , June 28, 2006."
  5. 1 2 3 Duke Sports Information Office. "Duke Football Media Guide", 2008."
  6. ↑ "1992 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Giants Release Simms : Pro football: Team cites salary cap, player's age and injury. Quarterback says he's angry, won't retire". Los Angeles Times. June 16, 1994. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
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