When A Strong Arm Is A Curse
So I'm watching the the Artist Formelerly Known As
the World's Greatest Outdoor Cocktail Party (UGA-FLA for you uneducated ones),
and Matt Stafford's been outstanding the entire game. Georgia was down because of
missed chipshots and bad luck, and were driving. Matt, who has the strongest arm
of any active QB today, saw AJ Green on the sideline, and decided to zoom it to
him on a rope. But the CB got in the middle of it and picked it, and then returned
it to the 1. The right decision would've been to put more air under it and put it
over Green's outside shoulder, where only he could get it. Stafford's
overconfidence in his arm caused this INT. Jets and Packers fans know this as the
Favre phenomenon.
Share Your Thoughts
Rahul | November 10, 2008, 8:51pm
Strongest arm of any active
QB today? I'm not so sure you can make that
claim.
bhe3@cornell.edu from WVBR | November 2, 2008, 11:49am
That is why college Quarterbacks sometimes take a
while to develop when they enter the NFL. In my opinion, Stafford
has better tools than anyone to translate into the NFL but he
needs to show more consistancy. Just a few years back, Florida
State had a quarterback by the name of Chris Rix who all the
experts said was "by far the most talented QB in the country."
And he probably was. But too often he'd "trust his talent" and
throw bullet passes into unnecessarily small windows that would
lead to costly INTs. Some QBs simply cannot get that mindset out
of their heads. Whats strange is I didn't feel that Stafford did
that last season.
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