05-05-2023, 12:58 PM
(05-05-2023, 11:17 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: One of the funny things about Finley is that he didn't really have a noodle arm. His arm was perfectly capable. In fact, you can measure arm strength by just calculating the time the ball is in there and how far it travelled. In the Steelers game back in 2020, Finley had a ball that traveled 75 feet in .867 seconds, equivalent to 59 MPH. The hardest ball that Burrow threw in 2022 was 56 MPH. There was light wind that game, so the ball may have been wind-aided as well but he had an NFL arm.
The boring part of the conversation about arm strength is that most of these guys never, or rarely ever, have to rip it as hard as they can. Most passes you see are between 47-51 MPH for all QBs, including Mahomes and Allen. Both of those guys throw 60+ but they may only have a handful of passes per season that actually end up having that much velocity.
QBs learn early that breaking or spraining your best wide receivers’ fingers only hurts them in the end lol
-Housh
