Threads from the Enemy week 13: Chargers

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(11-30-2021, 03:56 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I was reading those articles during the off season wondering "hmm...is this just fluff? Can you actually meaningfully increase your arm strength as a QB? And, if so, why is not every QB in the NFL doing this?" but man, has it paid dividends so far. Obviously, drafting Chase had a lot to do with that as well, but I think his arm strength has increased across the board from 2020 to 2021. He's going to be the best QB in Bengals history as long as we keep him upright .

I think it might have been The Athletic. I'm not sure if you saw the article but what Palmer explained was that Joe was lifting his back foot, which was robbing him of velocity. After a couple exercises, they saw a very real, measurable increase in velocity. 

I'm not sure how much of that mechanism he's retained this year, but i have noticed him on occasion lifting his back foot on intermediate and deep balls this year (i'm kind of tuned into it after reading that article) and i always wonder just how much it's taking away this year. You're basically re-writing that muscle memory that you've done your whole life, so it's probably going to take him another off season or two to make it second nature.