Leftwich in Red: The Scoop From a Jags Blogger

Chris, the lead blogger from SB Nation’s Jacksonville Jaguars blog “Big Cat Country”, was nice enough to give us his opinion on Byron Leftwich potentially joining our Kansas City Chiefs. Chris is a fellow Springfieldian — who I’ve gotten to know through my other site Pacman Jonesin’ — and a great guy. Additionally, since he [...]

CBS Sportsline Last Fan Standing Tournament: Vote for The X-Factor!

Our buddy Ty, AKA The X-Factor, is currently facing a Denver Broncos fan in the quarterfinals of the CBS Sportsline “Last Fan Standing” Tournament. Thanks to Chiefs fans, Ty defeated his first-round opponent cupcake by the widest margin of the entire round. Now it’s time to help X make a jackass out of this Donkeys [...]

QB Casey Printers Cut by Chiefs

According to TSN, the Kansas City Chiefs have cut quarterback Casey Printers. The Chiefs offered him a spot on the practice squad, but he declined. Reportedly, Printers will attempt to sign with another NFL team within the next week. If that doesn’t happen he will likely return to the CFL. What happened? This move was completely [...]

Bills close with a W

My apologies for the lateness of this post.  I’m sure you’re expecting some very profound post regarding last nights victory but truth be told my job has kicked my but this week.  I watched the game last night and dare I say I enjoyed it.  The Bills did come away with a 16-13 victory but [...]

Rumor Mill: RT Trade In The Works?

Could the Vikings be in the market for a new starting RT?  Earlier today, it was revealed that the team will be cutting both their back-up centers, Norm Katnik and Kyle Cook.  Unless the team plans on rolling with nothing behind Matt Birk - a guy who’s had injury problems in the past - they [...]

Friday Flicks: Footballs of Fury

I’m almost ashamed for using this low-brow comedy as the basis of this week’s Friday Flicks post, but Balls of Fury is the biggest release of the week. What’s a brother to do?

As for the film, don’t go see it. Please! Just because Christopher Walken stars in it, that doesn’t mean anything. That guy is a role whore. His acting addiction rivals Courtney Love’s drug habit — he’ll take any part in any film to stay working. If you need more convincing, Rotten Tomatoes has the film rated as a 27% on its “Critics Tomatometer”. For all of you R.T. rooks, that’s somewhere in between The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Daddy Day Camp. Not good.

Enough about the film already — let’s get to it.

Which current NFL starting quarterback has the strongest arm out there?

This wasn’t an easy one, so, even though I had pretty strong opinions of my own already, I surfed the Web and looked for answers.

There seemed to be a consensus on which former NFL gunslingers had the strongest weapons: Bert Jones, Doug Williams, Drew Bledsoe, Jeff George, John Elway, Randall Cunningham, Terry Bradshaw, Vinnie Testerverde, etc.

There were even quite a few back-ups and out-of-the-league QBs who I saw mentioned repeatedly, i.e. former New England Patriots hailmary specialist Michael Bishop.

Things weren’t as cut and dry with today’s rocket-armed quarterbacks, though. Especially now that Michael Vick is about to start slinging the pigskin for the Virginia Penal League. Here’s my top five:

• The Top Five Strongest Arms in the NFL

• JaMarcus Russell -The only thing I haven’t heard about Russell’s throwing power is that he can hit the moon with his non-throwing arm. He’s a genetic freak of a quarterback. And, yes, he is for all intents and purposes the Oakland Raiders starting QB. Daush McCulpepper is just a temporary quick fix, and maybe even a negotiating ploy by Al Davis to lowball J-Russ contract wise.

• Carson Palmer - Palmer can straight sling it. Last season, Palmer had only five games where he didn’t complete at least a 40-yard pass. Four of those outings occurred during the first six games off the season, while he was still recovering from about as major of a knee operation as one can undergo. If he’s not the one, then he’s the prototype.

• Brett Favre - The old school cannon arm — call him Megatron. I can’t tell you how many time’s my brother and I used to debate whether Elway or Favre had the better rifle. I still can’t decide. He’s a forty-something-year-old man with graying hair who’s still out-throwing most of the young punks playing QB in the NFL today.

• Jay Cutler - Cutler’s arm is straight ridiculous. I had always heard about it since his days at Vandy, but never really experienced his true throwing power until last season when he hit Javon Walker with a perfect 54-yard touchdown strike (the pass went about 65 yards in the air, probably) against the Arizona Cardinals. He might not have Elway’s rocket launcher, but he’s about as close as anybody can get to having that kind of arm strength.

• Donovan McNabb - Maybe Aaron Rodgers, Chris Simms, Jason Campbell, Kyle Boeller or Tarvaris Jackson will bump McNabb out of this spot soon, but, as of right now, No. 5’s mighty right is way more proven.

Chiefs Interested in Jacksonville’s Leftwich Leftovers?

If you haven’t heard the breaking news yet, the Jacksonville Jaguars will either release or trade ex-starting quarterback Byron Leftwich. David Garrad has been named the starter, and Quinn Gray — yeah, the guy who came into that Week 17 game at Arrowhead last year and carved the Chiefs up pretty nicely — will serve [...]

Rams Review: Preseason Week 4

Last night at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri the Rams took home the governor’s cup with 10-3 exhibition win over the Kansas City Chiefs. Ryan Kitzpatrick sealed the deal in the third quarter with a 20 yard touchdown pass to Marques Hagans that put St. Louis up 10-0 on the scoreboard. The Rams [...]

Update: Cuts

Sean Jensen of the Pioneer-Press reports that TE Richard Owens has been cut. Owens’s agent calls this development a surprise - I’d call it a mild surprise, but nothing anyone is going to be too upset about. It appears now that the team will only be carrying two legit tight ends - Visanthe Shiancoe and [...]

Preseason Finally Over

The Vikings wrapped up the preseason in mind-numbing fashion last night by defeating the Dallas Cowboys 23-14.  The starting offense played only the first series and did nothing.  The starting D also got one series, without the Williamses, E.J. Henderson or Antoine Winfield.  Probably the biggest news coming out of the game was that Brooks [...]

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