"Tom brady has the strongest arm in the nfl.."

"You have to be able to knock the gloves off a receiver...I've trained Michael Vick and Donovan McNabb...and Tom Brady has the strongest arm in the NFL, bar none..."
-tom shaw


Tom Brady has a stronger throwing arm than Mike Vick? Tom Shaw says so... | May

Nicest smile, too.

Hogwash. 10

Another article (on QB hand size) linked at the bottom of the strongest arm article was also an interesting read; although hand size itself appears to be pretty non-correlational to success.

[URL]http://www.eagleseyeblog.com/qbs-hands-does-size-really-matter.html[/url]

When did Michael Vick enter the equation for strongest arm in the NFL? Surely that's a piss take.

um, ridicules , I think everyone knows I'm a Brees and Brady homer. But as much as I love Brees, he has no arm, but the most accurate in the NFL., maybe ever..and as much as I love Brady, amazing arm, perfect, but not Brees accuracy.
hmm then theres Rogers, better arm than both of them, but not as accurate as Brees or Brady. Brady is a better clutch player than Brees. But id be really surprised if either QB beat Rogers or Bradford for arm strength.

ausbacker said:

When did Michael Vick enter the equation for strongest arm in the NFL? Surely that's a piss take.

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i dont know who has the strongest arm in the NFL but vick is known to have a strong arm

i disagree

cutler does

it's just that cutler's touch sucks ass

pre prison, vick EASILY had the strongest arm, and one of the strongest ever

but like cutler, he was lacking in the touch dept, and like cutler, he's not too bright

brady doesn't even have the strongest arm on his team.......that goes to mallett


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0uBItsSJI

I doubt it but who actually cares? It's all about accuracy.

I don't know who has the strongest but some of Brady's 15-20 passes over the middle are thrown with stunning velocity, even watching from TV you can tell. Can he throw it the furthest or does he have the least arc on a 50 yarder ? Probably not. But when it comes to firing it into a tight spot 20 yards downfield I do think he can throw as hard as anyone.

Didn't Brady win the longest throw competition at the NFL QB Challenge a few years back?

I think his arm strength is probably a little underrated.

jcdavey said:

pre prison, vick EASILY had the strongest arm, and one of the strongest ever

but like cutler, he was lacking in the touch dept, and like cutler, he's not too bright

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patsfan-1982 said:

i dont know who has the strongest arm in the NFL but vick is known to have a strong arm

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I don't agree that Vick has one of the strongest arms in the NFL. I would have put Cutler and Rodgers up there before even contemplating Vick.

BelichickFan said:

I don't know who has the strongest but some of Brady's 15-20 passes over the middle are thrown with stunning velocity, even watching from TV you can tell. Can he throw it the furthest or does he have the least arc on a 50 yarder ? Probably not. But when it comes to firing it into a tight spot 20 yards downfield I do think he can throw as hard as anyone.

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Exactly, there's a big difference between raw arm strength and functional/situational arm strength -- i.e., how much you can put behind a throw without loss of accuracy. (Heck, JaMarcus Russell had an amazing arm, as long as you weren't too picky about where the pass ended up.)

Brady is able to thread a needle at top velocity, which gives him the "arm strength" to make throws that most QBs couldn't. They'd have to take something off the ball to hit a spot in tight coverage 15 yards downfield, which might give the DB that extra tiny fraction of a second to get a hand in.

Randy Moss SB 42 almost catch - YouTube

Painful but, 68 yards on a line, throw was effortless.

It's actually more yards if you consider he threw it from the right hash to the left side of the field.

That's an 80 yard fastball with little air under it.

Brady doesn't have the strongest arm on the team, that would be young Mr Mallett, however he has a strong enough arm to be the best QB in the NFL, ever.

I think even here where we see evidence to the contrary year after year, Tommy will always be viewed by some as the dink and dunk sixth rounder with the tepid scouting report... First impressions no matter how ill conceived are hard to shake. Some QB's are born with a freakish arm...Favre, Bledsoe, etc. They tend to become over reliant on it, like the WR with freak speed or height. But arm strength and accuracy are skills that can be developed with conditioning and mechanics and Tom has made it a focus of his career to maximize his natural ability which was never less than adequate to begin with via maintaining almost slavish attention to both details... Same way he honed his intangible or less quantifiable skills through atttention to detail.

Receivers who come here are often stunned with the velocity of the Brady ball. If you watch closely he throws one stunningly tight spiral at any distance.

Brady does..but thats only because JP Losman doesnt currently play in the nfl.

Brady's arm strength is attributed to his excellent technique. With good throwing technique a little goes a long way. However, there are videos from back in the day of Michael Vick winging it 50 or 60 yards from his knees.