hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we have the best video to help you
improve in your overall quarterback mechanic so we're gonna start the video right now
okay so big thing that i wanted to do here in the video is to just really give a great perspective
of seeing what are the key parts of being able to improve as a quarterback to make it so you
have a great understanding of where it is that you can make improvements within your own throw
from drop back to the release time to transition phases to lower body upper body core everything i
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into the video here so we're gonna start off with luke wilson i do like luke wilson's uh overall
throwing mechanics and sorry about the background here we do have i think my neighbors are doing
something with the jackhammer hammer next door you know doing some remodeling or whatever but
anyway we'll try to block that noise the best that we can but here in in the throw we could see you
know it really does a good job here and being able to shift his weight you know not cross this
leg over too much land in a controlled place with this back leg and that's really one of the common
things that i see guys is that i see a lot of guys when they get to the back of their drop just not
be able to control through that back leg so make sure when you're landing whether it's a three-step
drop or a five-step drop you're landing with your yourself nice and controlled and where you could
just step right into the throw okay because i see a lot of guys then who can't go through
the three and the five step drop who will try to hitch or you know will end up really struggling
and being able to drive their weight straight through because there is a inability to kind of
sink through that back leg so when you get to this part you want to make sure that you bend that knee
and really sink into that hip right allow that hip to kind of sink back there to make it so then you
can transfer your weight forward and kind of keep your your body to a you know good degree what i
notice is such a common thing um even for myself personally is that my balance is something that i
think throws off quarterbacks more than anything else right when you end up getting yourself in a
position where you're throwing you're just not on balance that ends up being something that really
has a negative impact on um throwing in you know games or 707 or live situations right because i
think a lot of us end up having a great ability to be able to throw one-on-ones or you know just
playing catch or just doing some of the the regular stuff but then when you get into a
you know game situation struggle a little bit more in you know some of the routine type throws
that should be really easily and that we can do very easy in more of like a you know route
versus our situation but then struggle and more of the line stuff and i've had that issue as well
and a lot of it has to do with your balance right and where your body position is so once you start
like standing up really early right you get here and then as you start to shift he does a good job
of staying low but i see guys that pop up a lot i also see guys that you know when they're throwing
regular have a good position with that front arm right and then all of a sudden when you're getting
into more live type throws that front arm ends up you know flying open and getting themselves in
in a not great spot there now you know one of the things that's important here to notice is that as
he's stepping with this back leg right his weight here or his foot down um here we could see
where his body position is right i mean it looks like you know maybe 50 50. i always tell people
that you want to have a goal of having 60 of your weight back and 40 of your weight forward
when you get this front foot down right that wants to be your goal because i see so many guys
that as soon as they get this front foot down they immediately shift all their weight forward
right and so you want to do is that you want to be able to land with this front what front foot
and still have weight back on your back leg and that's a hugely critical part because now
as you come through you then have force that you could put into the throw right so you see
how as he's coming through he's able to get his hips all the way through because he keeps
his weight back as he gets his front foot down right so now he has still more behind it as he's
driving through with his hand and with his you know elbow and shoulder and everything like that
okay and the best way to be able to do that is that as you're you're kind of twisting here you
want to be twisting and keeping your level low right when we go and we we twist off that back
leg and you know really get our weight to come upwards or again get our weight to press forwards
that's when we're going to end up having too much weight on our front foot but if we're able to
twist off that back leg because we do want to create what's called that hip and shoulder
disassociation which is when that hip gets all the way around and we keep that front shoulder closed
right so that what that does is that creates a huge stretch here in your oblique line which is a
set of muscles like in your pec and then into your serratus and your obliques through your abs
then into your your other side obliques and then into this outside hip so all these muscles
have like a specific line where all the fascia actually connect to each other so
by this turning itself open it's loading this half of that oblique line or that muscular line
and then by us turning up the upper half right if we cut this in into two parts us turning here
stretches this part right and then that goes into the whole science of the stretch shortening cycle
in order to create power we do need to be able to stretch out the muscles first that's why we load
when we are jumping you know you obviously load here you load when you're gonna hit a golf ball
you load when you're in a ball you know everything you always are loading first then you go through
so this is our load and we really want to be able to master the load a lot of these guys that are
great with their release time right like a kyler murray type and we have a video of him too um he
does such an amazing job being able to load very very efficiently which is why he's able to get
the ball out of his hand so quickly and you know a lot of these guys end up doing that's why they're
playing at such a high level you got to be able to not only have efficiency within the load or
be able to do it in itself but you have to be able to do it quickly right and so a lot of guys i see
spend just too much time loading or they just don't even understand this concept of being able
to you know really do a wide variety of different things at one time right it's a simultaneous
movement where you're stepping right so first you're taking this this three step drop you're
stepping you're landing and controlling through that back leg you're taking a step you land with
that step right you have 60 percent of your weight on your back leg the goal is to have 60 of your
weight on your back leg 40 on your front leg right simultaneously we're loading the ball and getting
a pullback within our front arm you know getting our elbow in a good position maintaining a good
quality wrist position and also getting our hips to open okay and we're also reading a defense
right and we're also trying to anticipate what's going on right so that's why the quarterback
position is such a unique position it's a highly valuable position there's no other position in
football that is prepared paired even paid even closely to what a quarterback has paid and the
reason is because you have to be able to do that very very well and that's why you know the top
college programs have the top quarterbacks the top nfl teams have the top quarterbacks because this
is not a simple thing to do and it's something you have to be able to practice replicate every single
day every single day um or you know at least multiple times a week right and so what we can't
do though is we can't underestimate how important each part of these little processes are systems
are okay because then what happens is that if we start to underestimate these now when we get into
game situation that's what throws our body off now all of a sudden you know we're not able to get
into balance we're not able to have consistency we're not able to you know make the same type
of throws and a lot of it has to do with that initial load right getting into that back foot
loading properly maintaining a good position within the body not immediately popping back up
right so we've got to be able to maintain balance is 100 the most important part of being able to
maintain consistency as a quarterback once we come off balance now everything else is going to be you
know but it's going to come off course right now we're going to see guys that end up leaning back
too early they're going to bring that front foot up or that front arm open they're going to shift
too much of their weight forward too early you know there's so many things that are going to
end up happening once you start coming off balance that's where all the compensations happen so when
you watch yourself throw and it doesn't compare to the patrick mahomes the drew brees or tom brady or
or anybody you know the reason is because you're just not able to stay on balance right that'd be
the biggest thing that i'd say you want to make sure that you're able to effectively do okay
now now that he's loaded right so he's gotten himself into this position
where he's got that front foot down he's i mean i would say again his weight's 50 50 which is
is fine okay he's got those hips around he's got that front back so he's got that disassociation
he's got the ball slightly back behind him now it's all about how we can optimize the body to be
able to get the ball out of the hands the second that the system is ready to actually deliver the
throw right which means that we want to allow our weight to shift forward and as our weight is
beginning to rotate through and we start to bring the arm through the exact moment that we're in
the position where our hips are starting to fully externally rotate and our arm is starting to open
up that's when the ball wants to come out right and so i would even say he might be a little bit
behind here right like right here boom is right when that ball wants to come out he might be a you
know a half of a frame behind but still he's able to really optimize turning all you know i see guys
that get into this position and you know the ball is way back here all the time or the nose of the
footballs facing up right they're just not in the right position so when you get to your load now we
want to be able to really fire that elbow through and use that torque right we don't want to end up
wasting this motion by then driving the ball way back behind our head um and getting in a position
where we're just not firing the arm all right i think that ends up being the thing is that you get
to this load and then all of a sudden guys want to bring the ball so far back behind i mean that's
obviously the most common thing i talk about all the time and so when you and a lot of it has to
do with the load right that just means that when you're loading you're really not putting stretch
on the muscle so now when you go through and start to transition now you have to try to re-stretch
the shoulder which is why guys end up getting the ball so far back behind his head their head
you can see him he really goes and he gets that ball a little bit further away
really to make sure that he's able to stretch out that pec so now as he drives the elbow through
he's able to do that with the correct amount of force and velocity that really translates into
him delivering with a lot of force behind the ball okay and then as he delivers he really wants to
finish all the way through i'm gonna go and do patrick mahomes as well just to show you guys
another example i know there's a lot that's going into this ryan i might end up having to break
this into a few different you know series because now that i'm really breaking it all down i'm like
man this ends up being a lot but okay so let's see again here so for him he's getting
all that weight on his back leg right so look at how much weight he really transfers through
he gets that front foot down i think he does a really good job when that front foot is on the
ground here because he's like almost ambidextrous in the inside part of his knee it's like crazy how
much he's able to like bend his knee inwards like that um but you could see how he has all he's got
to see i always talk talk to people about the c where you want to get in this position and he's
further into the throat right so when you're loading you've got to be able to understand
what works for you right so he knows that he is going to generate a lot of force really early
within those hips and so because of that he already has that ball up okay so he's in this
position where he's ready to get those hips going through bow and then drive through the arm he's
like crazy in terms of his timing where as soon as those hips open his elbows coming through in the
throat like that timing is so perfect you can see the difference between him and luke wilson where
luke wilson was just a second behind or right when that you know he was starting to rotate through
the ball was coming out where you could see that patrick mahomes here loads through that back leg
right he's controlled through that back leg notice how he sits back and steps and when he steps
notice how he's not getting off balance notice how he keeps that head level in a great position so
now as he drives that leg forward and and drives off that back foot he's able to generate rotation
through the hips and has a lot of mobility through the spine so then as that elbow comes through
he's able to have a ton of force behind his throat right he's just so naturally able to
generate so much force there because of his balance here we'll go one more josh allen all
about balance here guys right look at how balanced and controlled he is right so now all he has to do
is he has to just flip that hip right so notice that how he loads himself up in that upper body
right and now and he's staying back when he first loads up here i know we have the different um
view but now as he's coming forward and rotates all he has to do is just drive that elbow through
and he's just getting a ton of zip behind it right he's a bigger guy so it's a little bit easier
but point being is that you want to be able to understand how to keep that weight back
so then once you decide to fling that hip open and fling that arm open you're going to be able
to just generate a ton of natural force through the arm through the shoulder through the wrist
that is generated from the body and not through the arm right and so really understanding how to
control through that back leg and making it so you can create stretch here through the core and not
leaning back and losing balance back here because at the end of the day josh is just in great
balance right there right that's why it looks so effortless too well for a lot of you guys that
end up making it look very difficult it's because you're off balance and that's where the difficulty
comes from so the better you can control your body the better you have uh understanding of how
to to have that ground force reaction the better you're going to be able to be within your throw so
i hope this ends up making a lot of sense to you guys i think that there's a lot that we went into
i would love to get you guys feedback we'd love to hear what you would want me to expand more on
based off of this video because i'd be happy to be able to make this into maybe a three or four
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