Arm strength or accuracy

I am not one to spend much time watching NFL draft coverage. Too many analysts with differing opinions make it difficult to decipher whether a pick is a sure-fire Hall of Famer, or a future bust. However, I like to drop in once in a while to check on what picks my Eagles were making (that is a subject for a different thread). I tuned in to ESPN for a while today, and came into the middle of an argument between Ron Jaworski and one of the other analysts (sorry, I don’t know who it was) on what is more important in a quarterback draft pick, arm strength of accuracy. Jaws was on the side of accuracy being more important, as am I, having lived through eleven years of McNabb’s inconsistency. The other analysts strongly supported arm strength, stating that accuracy can be improved through mechanics and practice while arm strength is something that you are either born with or not. While I agree that you can only sligthly improve arm strength through conditioning and training, I don’t necessarily agree that accuracy can be taught, again falling back on eleven years of zero improvement in that category for the qb of my team.

So, I’d like to make an empirical study, using a statistically sound sampling of football experts on the Comcast forums. I predict that after applying proper statistical techniques, such as Chi Square distribution and regression analysis, we can arrive at a verifiably accurate prediction of a quarterback’s future performance. :smileysurprised:  

Anyway, the question is: When drafting a quarterback, which is more important, arm strength or accuracy?

(You know, it is a lot easier to type tongue-in-cheek than it is to speak that way.  :smileywink: )