(03-17-2018, 12:06 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(03-17-2018, 08:40 AM)JUNGLE CAT 2017 Wrote: I watch a lot of Wyoming games. As for why you draft Josh Allen, I can count the number of QBs I've seen over the past fifty years with a comparable arm with seven fingers. Doug Williams, Jim Kelly, Brett Favre, Dan Marino, Jeff George, Terry Bradshaw, and Johnny Unitas. 

Josh Allen's elite arm strength makes him a Super Bowl contending quarterback automatically. He will need some grooming to learn a pro system and how to make plays within such a system. A team may decide that he is too valuable to bench and want to teach him on the fly.

Seriously?

You clearly never actually watched those players. Jeff George and Terry Bradshaw had elite arm strength. Kelly, Favre, Marino, and Unitas didn't. I'm not sure about Doug Williams.

There have been plenty of QBs with elite arm strength who have failed in the NFL. Once a QB's arm strength is sufficient, then any more is immaterial.

Or am I missing something? Was your post sarcasm?

Jim Kelly had one of the best deep balls in the business. That takes arm strength. Brett Favre broke a lot of fingers. Dan Marino threw the ball with great velocity and he featured a wickedly quick release. 

Add Bert Jones, Elway, Stafford, and Randall Cunningham to the list, as well. QBs like Johnny Unitas and Troy Aikman never really are noted for their arm strength because their accuracy dominated the conversations about them. It's called the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, BTW.

I personally watched Doug Williams a lot in 1979. Tampa Bay was typically a territorial game. If I recall it right, CBS Sports carried all NFC games and NBC aired all AFC games. CBS made a lot of Redskins' fans mad. Prior to the 1976 expansion, Washington was the predominant territorial franchise. Was for a lot of the south. They lost fans in Georgia when the Falcons entered the league, but to this day, Washington still has a following in the deep south despite Carolina, Jacksonville and Atlanta.

Williams played for both. Never know. He might have ended up in Washington cuz so many Redskins fans knew everything there was to know about him. 

Doug could throw a forty-yard pass to a crossing receiver with zero arc on it. The thing traveled 40 yards in the air, never higher than eye level. 

The QBs with elite arm strength that didn't make it in the NFL didn't wash out due to elite arm strength. They fail for many other reasons, but I suppose a few never managed to discontinue bouncing fastballs off of their intended targets.

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