Vince Young and How He Throws the Football
By Bryce Martin

The first thing you notice about Vince Young throwing the football is that he has an odd delivery.

The beat writer for the Titans, Jim Wyatt, was the latest (today) to describe it as a "sidearm delivery." That's not the first time Wyatt and a host of other journalists have used the same description.

And it is obviously wrong. I say obviously because anyone who knows anything about baseball (something you would think sports journalists would know) can equate and compare it to a pitcher's delivery. Wyatt, and the others, are seeing something, but they do not know what.

Young does not throw sidearm, or even three-quarters, which is between straight overhand and sidearm. His release point is early -- too early. Brett Favre, on occasion, threw the closest I have seen to sidearm. It's an obvious difference.

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