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Originally Posted by Rain Man
He's very underrated.
But here's something interesting I didn't know about him. NFL Network has been showing ancient reruns of the quarterback challenge, and they had one on last week that was from 1994 or so.
One of the events was simply a long-throw contest. The quarterbacks just heaved the ball as far as they could.
And man, Steve Young was a pipsqueak. The winning quarterbacks (can't remember who) were at 73 to 74 yards, and they commented that Vinny Testaverde held the record from a previous year at 80. All of the quarterbacks were clustered from about 67 yards to 73 yards except Steve Young, who was at 54 yards. And apparently this was normal, as he'd participated before with the same result.
He was a big strong guy so I was shocked that he would have not only the weakest arm, but the weakest by a long shot.
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Funny you mention it because I saw a similar (or maybe the same) clip the other day. IIRC, I saw Favre, Bledsoe, Kordell Stewart and Steve McNair. What a blast from the past.
But, yeah. Just goes to show that arm strength isn't required to be an elite QB. Young and Brees have relatively weak arms. Peyton and Brady in their old age lost some heat. I don't think Montana had a particularly strong arm either but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.