Redskins Acquire QB John Beck (for CB Doug Dutch)

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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Also consider that if he was a 26 year old throwing at the combine with 21 and 22 year olds, you'd expect the 26 year old guy to have a fully developed arm, while the 21 and 22 year olds would have mostly developed arms. So the 26 year old could light up the gun at the combine, but at this point, might have the 8th or 9th best arm in the class.

I don't agree with that logic.
He's 27 not 40, he's at his physical peak right now.
I don't see how it makes sense to speculate that he has less arm strength now.
(True story army buddy(29) who hasn't thrown a baseball since (in earnest) since he was 19 threw 77 mph by gun at a fair)

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Just odd that coming out of
college one of the knocks on him was his arm strength. Could have been overblown, but saying he's got a rocket arm might be overstating things as well. I'm just going off of what my buddy said who's a Dolphins fan. He said his arm strength was adequate but nothing special.

I kinda consider a radar gun test done at the combine to be factual evidence of arm strength. I'm sure you have good reason to trust your friend's opinion but for me its kinda hard to deny that Beck has a strong arm,an above average strong arm.

But that doesn't mean that he'll be a good QB just that he has above average physical tools.
But so did Kyle Boller, JaMarcus Russell and from this draft class i'm pretty sure the kid out of Fordham and Jarrett Brown have the strongest arms.

Arm strength isn't the end all be all, that's not the point i was making.

I just wanted to bring it to light since most fans don't know much about Beck.
I thought it was a cool nugget to know about the kid.