Dan Marino says he'd throw for 6,000 yards in today's NFL

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Dan Marino was the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5,000 yards in a single season in 1984.

The Miami Dolphins legend accomplished the feat in 1984, and it took 24 years until someone else did it again – it's happened 15 times ever, and it has happened in five of the last seven seasons.

The current record is Peyton Manning's 5,477 yards in his MVP-winning 2013 campaign in which he also threw an NFL record 55 touchdowns. But Marino says if he were playing today, he'd blow that number out of the water.

"The best part about this is I'm retired, and I don't have to prove it," he joked.

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NFL Legend Dan Marino visits "FOX & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on September 8, 2022, in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

But then he made the claim: "Yes, we'd throw for 6,000 yards."

"Defenses, in the middle of my career and then toward the end, they got a little more complex, and guys do a lot more things now as far as blitzing and changing personnel and all of that than I did earlier in my career. … It would be a lot of fun. I wish I could," he said. "That's why we're trying to unretire here – so I come back and throw for 6,000 yards."

Of course, Marino didn't even mention that the NFL season is now 17 games as opposed to the 16 that he played.

Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino became the first person to throw for 5,000 yards in a single season in 1984. (Chris Bernacchi/AFP via Getty Images)

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However, Marino did give a bit of a disclaimer, noting that he'd