Big Ben's arm?

I heard a lot of talk in pre-season about Ben having the best arm strength he had ever displayed. I don't know if it was my imagination or if it was real but I saw a lot passes picked off or off target this year because of what seemed like too much zip on the ball. I saw a lot of picks where Ben threw a ball on a rope and it got picked off by a hovering LB, or balls that if they had a bit of touch, they could have been corralled for a big gain.

Anyone else see this?

 

I saw Ben force feeding AB at some of the most inopportune times which led to several Int's. This team will live and Die with Roethlisberger but he really needs take what the defense gives him instead of trying to inflate someone else's personal stats.

 

Ben's INTs last year were not due to lack of arm strength. They were a combination of mental gaffs, forcing the ball, and bad throws. I agree about Ben forcing the ball to AB.

 

Ben has always had a favorite type target he feels comfortable with and on important plays he tends to go to that target. AB, heath, santonio, plax, now I expect it to be juju or mcdonald. McDonald has already talked about how moving his locker next to Ben has helped a lot. We saw when AB was out the ball was going heavily to juju. We also saw this year Ben was talking about spreading the ball around this year and we did well while he did this. AB got cheesed off about it too. We also saw Ben go back to his comfort zone of AB in many need situations. It's kind of the nature of the beast that is ben.

 

I didn't think it was lack of arm strength, I saw a lot of passes with lack of touch, thrown on a rope, and an LB getting his hands on the rope. It seems like he found this new arm strength and wanted to be Brett Favre.

 

....and his own