hey what's up everyone Morey Croson here with the performance lab of California here to do another
breakdown today on Jimmy Garoppolo I've got a lot of people that have asked me to do this breakdown
here so I thought I'd finally decide to do it thing grubbé blowing it up thrown a touchdown
this past weekend a place for the 49ers this is gonna all be film from when he was playing for
the Patriots this stuff from what he what he did this past weekend I mean it was just not a good
angle to be able to truly break down his throwing form great but you know the the Patriots are so
good can kind of see really you know what looks like is that he either works with who whoever Tom
Brady works with in terms of mechanics or their quarterback coach has a lot of the same type of
ideologies and what they're trying to do and the first thing that stands out to me just because we
Tom Brady write down recently as well is they got that early kind of pivot off that back leg
and you could see as it begins throwing how he really pushes forward really pivots bends that
back knee which is something that is actually not super common I mean there's a lot of people
that go with more of an extension with that back knee rather than the pivot and bending the back
knee so and Tom Brady does the same similar type of thing now I think that one of the things that
that Garofalo can work on is he has a little bit of a wasted movement where he's kind of just kind
of lifting the ball here rather than going through rotation so he ends up getting that ball kind of
stuck behind a little bit and doesn't allow his shoulder to get into as much external rotation
so if he was here you know how so he's coming up and if he was able to kind of bring it when he
originally loaded if you brought that elbow up a little bit higher and was able to start rotation
with that pinky from that elbow being in higher position said the ball being above the elbow then
he wouldn't have to lift up that ball and that's where where he's getting that straight lift where
he's kind of just going straight to the side with the ball he wanted to kind of stay away from that
and then from here he goes into that rotation he still does a good amount of external rotation of
the shoulder it could just be a little bit better if he just was able to spin that ball right here a
little bit sooner and also start with getting that elbow up a little bit more so just a little thing
that you could probably do within his release that probably affects a little bit on how his
overall throwing power is so I don't think he's gonna have as good of a deep ball as you know
like the Joe Flacco's and Aaron Rodgers the Tom Brady type of guy just because that elbow stays
a little bit lower when he's coming through and throwing but he does get a good amount of force
out of his lower body and that you know pivot and pushing off that back leg really helps them
getting everything all the way around I think that's a key thing that really all quarterbacks
would want to incorporate the more of the top guys I see the more guys that I see that are doing that
that pivot there so here's more of a deep pass here you can see here he does a better job of
loading and kind of sitting back there and then really UNK working that those hips and turning
gets a really good disassociation so notice how he goes and he pivots off that back leg
he spins that hip first and that's where that disassociation comes from so Joe so that what
I'm talking about when I say that is how well are you able to move your hips towards I guess open up
your hips around the throw and also be able to keep your shoulders loaded back so you can see
how his hips start to rotate open but he's able to at the same time kind of keep those shoulders
closed so the shoulders are kind of facing this way while his hips are facing more I'd say more
probably like that way okay so he gets those hips open before he has to get the shoulders open I
know that that seems pretty natural when you're watching it but there's a lot of quarterbacks
that really struggle and being able to achieve that now when he comes through you know when he
throws the underneath balls he also does a better job of getting those hips all the way through here
he kind of ends up with his hips back you can see how he's at a bit of an angle here as he's trying
to come through rather than getting those hips all the way up and through during the throwing that
again I don't know if he's gonna be as successful from the deep ball perspective because he doesn't
get that elbow up as well during his loading phase and then also you know the whole thing
with not getting his hips all the way through he kind of gets gets stuck in extension and doesn't
doesn't as effectively push off that back leg to get everything moving forward so he doesn't get as
much force into the actual throw the ball ends up being a little bit under thrown and I think
that you know that could end up being a big thing when it comes to you know what comes down the road
Megan so viens up being really successful but we'll see I mean you know he could be cleaning
up those mechanics as well so it's tough to say but you could see here the difference right so
now this time he gets his hips through really well see how he drives that knee all the way through
and it gets all around you that looks like you starting to avoid getting you know hit a little
bit but that's more of what you want to do there is you want to get that hip all the way through
even before he tries to avoid right here you know that hip isn't far back behind I'll go back to the
last one real quick you can see how he's at a bit of an angle as he's releasing the ball where it's
kind of the foot is back or out in front and then it goes in an angle back to the hips and then he
got you got to go back out and to where the ball is released which boom release right there so
there's kind of like an angle and how his body is Gabe do you want to try to avoid that you want to
have everything much more straight more similar to this throw or you could see how he's rotating
you can see how the foot is right underneath the hip and then the hip is gonna be right even with
the ball as he's releasing so he doesn't get a good job I began getting those hips forward and
being able to continue thoracic rotation and his upper body I'm just gonna really want to work on
that that elbow load and also work on you know that that good ability to you could consistently
get the hip through during the deep balls got to be able to get the hip through not just on
you know these these under night underneath passes but you know either way he's still got really good
accuracy still you know really good quarterback he still does a great job getting those hips through
pushing off that back leg you know just gonna be what's gonna make his mechanics elite compared to
you know somebody that is you know just I guess average or I would say probably above-average but
had average within the NFL which is I think where his mechanics are right now uses a little bit too
much arm strength and and utilizes a little bit too much rotation which could end up getting into
a little bit of trouble when it comes to - from an accuracy standpoint yeah that's the breakdown
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