I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading this thread. Either this sub has got a bad case of recency bias or let the jokes about Peyton get to their heads. Coming out of college, and well into his prime (see: 2004), Peyton had a great arm, definitely better than Brady's. To say that 37 year old Tom Brady has a stronger arm than Peyton is ludicrous.

I dug up this article which is an excerpt from Bill Polian's book.

"I began to focus on every pass in his career that traveled more than 40 yards and what I found out was that, once the ball got beyond 60 yards, he started losing accuracy."

"[The trainer] has an arm-strength drill whereby he stands the quarterback on the goal line and has a receiver facing him five yards away. The quarterback has to throw to the receiver using only his arm; he isn't allowed to step into his throw or use his feet in any way. And after each throw, the receiver moves back in 5-yard increments until he eventually reaches the 50-yard line....

[The trainer] put Peyton through the arm-strength drill, and his pass to the 50-yard line was on a rope. Peyton's arm was among the strongest I have seen. It maybe was not quite as strong as Jim Kelly's, but certainly strong enough. Interestingly, Peyton threw what we call a 'heavy ball,' meaning it has a lot of rotation on it, which was quite interesting because guys with weaker arms usually don't throw a heavy ball. When you catch a heavy ball, your hands sting because it comes out with some heat on it."

"I remember turning to Tom Moore and saying, '[Leaf's] arm is not as strong as Peyton's.'

'I think you're right,' Tom said."

Am I the only one that actually remembers watching Peyton in his prime? He is literally the prototypical quarterback, physically.