Brett Favre discusses his arm strength

picking it out you had a hell of a arm have uh you're not dead no but my arm's about dead but yeah I did you know I well I wondered how did how did you hone that in or is that just something that when you first thre down football you just had it that's a great question and I I coached High School football here at Oak Grove here in Hattisburg for two years after I retired I was an offense coordinator uh my dad obviously was a football coach for 35 years um me and my two brothers we we were talented I was I was probably the biggest well I was the biggest out of the three but we all were were quarterbacks for my dad we all could throw we all had good arms but and I tell people this all the time like I I'll get a dad or something say look what's if you g could give my son he's a quarterback and he's 13 years old one piece of advice what would it be now if you pulled all the quarterbacks that's played in the National Football League and pulled them for that same question or or with that same question what advice would they give probably all of them would give an answer that would not be like mine I would tell that that kid and that parent throw distance as much as can you can I said and here's what what I did you say you and your son are throwing you just you you just throw 10 yards back up to 15 back up to 20 back up 25 until you get to the point where he is struggling to throw it to you you know with where he's the ball comes out little flutters and it's it lands at 39 yards and then the next one he throws it and it it goes into over in it's at 38 yards when you get to that point you throw about five to 10 balls until he just slowly throwing it short shorter and shorter and then you stop and then the next day you do the same thing and you'll see that where furthest he could throw it the day before was 39 maybe the next day it's still 39 but the third day or the fourth day the fifth day it's 42 44 you know it's slowly get increases and what and that's what I did but I didn't do it there was no when my dad was coaching High School football and I was a young kid I'd be out there you know running balls in practice playing with the big guys throw and I would throw on the sidelines I can barely hold a big ball but I would throw it that's what I would do I want I wanted to be able to out throw everybody I didn't when I was 15 years old I I wasn't i' never thought like this I didn't I didn't uh you know go like I want to know what it's like to read a weak safety Blitz and throw the hot route I my thought was I want to throw it further than anybody in the world and so what I didn't know was I was increasing my arm strength by I I'd have I'd be throwing some of the high school kids I we'd back up we'd back up we back up and you know it was 30 yard or the furthest I could throw it then it was 40 I found it about 15 I was throwing at 65 yards and I never took a day off of throwing even when I played Summer League Baseball in high school I would throw distance and distance and what that ended up doing uh unbeknownst to me was if I the furthest I would throw was 83 which is that's a long ways now I didn't throw it 83 in the game but what what when you have an arm strength that enables you to throw it that far a 50 yard throw is easy now most people go a 50 yard throw is easy I mean I can't throw it 45 yards you saying like for me my game I think for people who follow my career was was really more about making something out of nothing flushed out of the pocket I it rolling to the left theowing it all the way back across my body to the right or you know faking a boot leg and rolling to my left and no way I should be able to throw a dart 35 yards over a Defender right in the the hands of the receiver well you can't do that if you C if you can only throw at 40 yards yeah you know what I mean yeah so can you be successful with an okay average arm absolutely but you have to be everything has to be perfect the timing their footwork your decision making all that has to be perfect because if if you're a little late on throw because your footwork was out of whack it's going to be picked off or it's going to be behind the receiver you know and so for me it bailed me out of a lot of plays and uh you know I I I use my footwork and my legs and I could run early in my career but I would buy time with my legs and then use my arm to make any throw yeah and so yeah early on I knew I could I could throw it in high school I said I haven't come across anyone can even come close to throwing it like me and I'm just talking about velocity and distance so when I when I go report at Southern Miss the first day you know I'm thinking like any kid in my situation you're kind of sizing up the tal tent that you're going against and and I was a little bit intimidated you know before the first practice I'm like maybe I can't throw it like that maybe maybe I'm the best in my County but you know that don't mean that I'm a size up against these guys when I started unleashing it the whole team was like damn did you see that and then I knew I had something that other guys didn't have because now I'm I'm with the best of the best at least in the you know a 200 mile radius and they can't throw it even close I like I could throw it um the the the key was once I really realized that I had something that maybe no one in the world had was now I got to show I I can be accurate with it I can have touch because experts would say you can't have the Velocity and the distance he has and still have touch and accuracy there is just no way it's like a pitcher at throw 105 you know he'll throw three strikes and you go man but then he'll throw four balls that ain't even close to catchable uh but I had to prove that I could do both and and I was able to do that yeah I think about like Happy Gilmore you know he didn't know how to putt how to play the game but he could drive the hell out of the ball yeah yeah just you know you go oh that guy's the longest driver on the tour yeah but he's ranked 85th yeah