QBs with howitzers, QBs with popguns
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As Brady and Manning have shown recently and Montana and Tarkenton in the past, great quarterbacks don't always have A+ arms. I think Brady is well- above average but he replaced and turned out to be superior to a guy who had a much bigger arm in Bledsoe.
Some other Guys with howitzers
Elway
Favre
Marino
Then there are some guys that defied logic by being pretty good NFL quarterbacks with popgun arms:
Sonny Jorgensen
Bernie Kosar
Chad Pennington
Okay who do you put in those categories? The current MVP is too easy (hey I am a long-suffering Chiefs fan!)
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QB's with hands around throat:
Romo
not my favorite QB, but he did win a Super Bowl and has a howitzer......Joe Flacco
for a QB with a smallish arm, but accurate as hell.... Ken Stabler
Jeff George had a bazooka
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I don't know if he qualified as a QB...more of a thrower
Unitas and Starr didn't have cannons. So far Joe Namath had the best arm I ever saw.
The 1st 3 mentioned come to mind also as great throwers.
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Patrick Mahomes has a howitzer
rex grossman and rich gannon had pretty weak arms. Late career Payton Manning had one of the worst arms I remember seeing.
Randall Cunningham, Mike Vick, Bledsoe, elway and marino all had very strong arms. but the best arm I ever saw was...
Uncle Rico. man, that guy could throw a ball right over those mountains...
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
That guy could make INCREDIBLE throws, so could Favre, big difference in toughness though. I think Jeff fumbled every time he got touched. prolly figured if defender was going after the ball, he wouldn't get hit. ;-)
Plus he had two first names , but that was his idiot parents fault
Late career Peyton Manning arm was better described as a mortar.
??? If you have a first name for a last name...how do you avoid having 2 first names???
You go to court and have your last name changed into a proper last name
There's a Basketball player that needs to do the same thing.
No actually because his first name is not a first name. Bron is dutch for source , Le is french for the . also italian , in spanish I think it means you
His parents were idiots who scrambled 2 languages together to invent a new name. then attached that to a first name. so thats barely ok.
I was thinking of the guy with Paul as last name.
Warren Moon and Bert Jones had cannons!
I think we are surrounded
Whether you like them or not Aaron Rodgers and Matthew Stafford have great arms
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forgot about warren moon. that guy threw lasers.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
You beat me to it on Moon. Right behind Marino on the bionic arm list.
Houston (I think) use to have a QB that could stand in one end zone and throw it into the other end zone. Was it Pasterinne(sp)
There's a video of Lamar Jackson doing that. In high school.
50-60 yards in the air is considered long.
Video or it didn't happen.
Must not have happened....I couldn't find it with google. I did find where Roman Gaberal(sp) threw an incomplete pass 90 yards in the air. Also Vinny Testraverde threw one 80 yards.
Pastorini had a canon but I don't think there's any video proof or documentation of a pass even going 90 yards in the air.
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google does not work, anymore timewarp back to 2011 and try again
except uncle rico
The 100 yards I am thinking about was not in a game. He was just trying to throw it as far as he could.
next time i go to Olive Garden i'm ordering Pasterinne
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
It's pretty good ....... I have it all the time.
I would have to see evidence of any ball thrown over 80 yards. even that would be a monumental throw. maybe akin to a 500+ foot home run. I am sure there is a little "Paul Bunyan" thrown into some of those old stories like with the Babe's 600 foot home run.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
One thing seems to be clear here. You don't need a "cannon" to be a winner!
The 90 and 80 yarders were in games so they should be accurate.
If my memory is correct, Billy Kilmer (I remember him playing for the Redskins) had the worsttt arm I've ever seen in a QB. He couldn't even consistently throw a spiral.
there's a third category, the "touch" pass that some QB's just cannot master. Brady showed a few of those in the SB. one went to Gronk down the right sideline for about 20 yards in the air, a floater that was about as perfect as anyone could throw. some QB's never master that even with a strong accurate arm.
one QB that comes to mind who had a strong arm but no touch was Doug Williams.
another with a purportedly strong arm is Andy Dalton. back in 2014 in the hype leading up to a Thursday night game with the Browns vs. Bengals the media was stuck on Dalton being the "Red Rocket" because of his arm. a Browns player dubbed him the "Red Ryder BB Gun" and it started a big fuss.
Cleveland won and Dalton finished with a QB rating of 2.0!!
One thing seems to be clear here. You don't need a "cannon" to be a winner!
The Bears use to have a QB that threw so hard that his receivers could not hold on to the ball.
Rudy Bukich!