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Morey Croson here from the performance lab of california and we have another new breakdown
for you today on gardener men shoo the man the myth the legend everybody loves him right now I
mean just the his overall personality the whole thing with the stache I mean just exactly what
the Jaguars need exactly what the NFL needed just really seems like a really fun guy and has
been doing a great job as a quarterback I'm sure everybody knew this is coming because he's the
talk of the NFL right now so I will go ahead and just get get going here with the the breakdown the
first view that I want to show is really a cool view of him throwing and from here you could see
you know when you when you get this this angle you could see what he's doing when he's loading see
how he goes from having his his shoulders facing square here to really twisting his body and really
putting a load and you can't see it within the the view here but putting a load on his core to
make it so now as he comes through he's able to put just that much more rotation in this part of
his body so if he's when he's going back and he does a little twist he's loading up this part of
the of his core the part that we're seeing here okay is what was getting more loaded as he gets
that little rotation there okay so that's a very important little thing that you can do that'll
help make it so you get that hip and shoulder disassociation that we talked a lot about where
that hip ends up rotating more this way you can see how it's kind of pointing this way where the
shoulders are pointing more that way and so when you can create that that puts a certain stretch
on the core that helps you generate overall more force so a cool thing to be able to see the other
thing is as you can see is the elbows coming through one an excellent job of keeping that
nose of the football facing straight ahead I see a lot of guys in this position where that nose
is facing straight up but look at the amount of force and torque that he uses within like
his tricep muscle look at that arm you know right here okay activation he's getting through there as
he's coming through the throw and and point being is that you know there's a lot of guys that you
think that you're gonna be able to throw the ball a lot more effectively by not practicing throwing
the ball harder right you want to be able to maximize your velocity part of it what does that
is actually practicing throwing the ball with more force behind it and so doing that more effectively
by utilizing your trunk and also your arm is what ends up strengthening those muscles so if you are
throwing the ball you know 75 to 85% a lot and hoping to increase your overall throwing velocity
or think you're gonna be able to throw the ball significantly further you know it's just it's just
not gonna gonna happen eventually even when you're lifting weights you have to be able to go over 75
to 85% all right you got to be able to go in to those higher numbers that ninety-five hundred
percent in order to end up building long-term strength so it's the same type of thing when we're
thinking about your throwing you got to be able to actually put some some force behind the ball
and work on doing that effectively and you can see you know how he's doing that here okay we'll go to
this throw next the the big thing that you know stands out when you see this throw this in this
corner route is how nice and stable those hips are so he takes a pretty big stride there okay
you can see see that but then when he's striding out look at how those hips really became become
locked in and he gets all that movement through those shoulders and really finishes through that's
I've been really trying to preach this a lot to athletes lately where you got to finish through
you got to follow through as you're throwing those NFL guys do a great job of when they're throwing
they get that hand all the way through the pocket where I see a lot of novice quarterbacks not get
that ball your that hand all the way through that pocket they kind of stop right here with
that hand rather than really driving that hand all the way through and he does a great job of
really finishing his throw which is one of the big reasons that he has the arm strength and power
that he does again you could see here and and look notice that rotation to that he gets into his hips
it's really to get into this position right here look notice whether the ball how far the ball is
back how much he's totally turned within that that back hip and how he's all the way in extension
within that back hip so he's totally turned that that foot and he's his hip is all the way facing
straight ahead his trunk is all the way facing straight ahead while he still has that ball back
behind you can just work on getting yourself into this motion into this position and you could will
work on your core and you'll work on your shoulder range of motion by just getting yourself into this
position practicing you know bending that back to me like that pivoting that foot all the way
through keeping that that front part of your chest facing towards the target keeping that hand locked
into the right position and then really stretching that arm back behind you even using like a band or
something like that you'd be able to get a lot of overall benefit through there I don't love how he
really locks that knee out I think he'd actually probably get a little bit more out of his hips
as he's going through but the sacrifice that he makes within his hips he's able to balance back
out with how much rotation he gets through that that trunk notice how much he's really twisting
through as he's finishing the throw which makes it so he's able to really generate a lot and where
he gets all that arm swing through or from notice again notice that follow-through right notice how
he brings that arm all the way up and all the way through and that's just something that he's really
trained his body to be able to do and why again he's having at the success that he's having at the
at the next level is because the amount of force that he's able to generate you know see again it's
that hip that back leg going twist in that hip and notice how much of a stretch he's putting
in his arm and in his back and that makes it so now when he finishes all the way through look
at me get such a nice rotation through there and again gets that full fall through and and that's
what the name of the game is you got to be able to stretch your body out as you're loading and
we talk about this a lot as well stretch your body out have the right load and then the right
finish if you can have the good load and you have a good finish you're gonna have a lot of success
as a quarterback those are gonna obviously be some things you could probably or maybe do within
the actual throw but really understanding within your body how you can my's your load how you can
maximize your finish and by doing those two things you'll make a big big difference on your throwing
gardner minshew does a great job of doing those two things good said excellent stretch within his
his shoulder during his loading sequence and then as he finishes through comes all the way through
gets full rotation within the spine and finishes all the way through at the arm and that's where
he ends up really becoming a quarterback that can put a lot of force behind the football all
right guys as always if you have any questions you can go ahead and reach out to me and would
be happy to answer any of your questions there and doing a lot more breakdowns lately so if your
if you're interested in doing that quarterbacks sprinters anybody that is interested in improving
their overall performance would love to be able to help you out we have links below that you can
click on too I get a breakdown we also have the throwing program I know there's a lot of guys
that are going through the season right now so I understand it that there's probably not great
time to do the throwing program but you know we do offer it and it's something that I still
think we couldn't provide a lot of value for you so if you have any questions on that you
can always reach out to me Mori and m-o-r-e-y at your performance lab dot com or you can call me
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