hey everyone Morey Croson here for another quarterback breakdown this is going to be for
Dan Marino recently got a request to do Jim Reno I thought that would be a good idea so I'm making
the breakdown here the unfortunate thing about doing the the older quarterbacks it's just harder
to find good quality video so I apologize in fourth hand about any type of quality issues that
you see within the video but you know we could still see some good stuff and I think it'll be
a valuable valuable breakdown for everybody okay so what Dan Marino does what any one of brought
to the table is a very very fast release well just something that was pretty new and if we looked and
this is really a good angle here is we could see a couple things that he does that it's very very
unique and and the primary thing is that he does a good job of not getting into him to get to look
at other angles as well but you could still see if on the front he doesn't do a lot of extension in
his back case when he's coming through he gets to this kind of range here he doesn't necessarily go
back into that 9090 position he kind of has kind of a different way of uploading there but when he
transitions forward he is going to really go more of a side than first to make it so it doesn't get
into a lot of extension and then he's going to rotate from there then this rotation is really
where to get to all that power from so you can see he ends up in a very different position than a lot
of quarterbacks do very bent over to the side and then very much on the the left leg as a lot
of force on his left leg and so that both of those are really different things that that you see with
the kind of early side Bend as well as and they have really far leaned over case or one where he
just drilled it again apologize for any quality issues but what he does you can see he does a
good job of getting those hips to really open up and drive the throw without getting into too
much extension so a lot of times what will happen is if you get your hips that far ahead you're the
ball will get too far behind you and it'll end up really getting your back and not a good position
but because he does that early side then where he leans over the side and then rotates from there
he's able to really negate that and also it makes it so we could really have a really fast
release so it's something to really think about as a quarter value we're trying to improve your
relief maybe get into a side Bend a little bit earlier within the throw well make it so then you
can start bringing that arm fullest and a lot of times that comes from the lack of shoulder range
of motion and really then probably had some some shoulder range of motion you know wasn't perfect
in the shoulder range of motion it basically everybody is but because of that it seemed
like he was able to compensate and make it so his throw is one of the faster releases at least at
the time for for any quarterback so I definitely interesting the thing to see it also to he has
kind of a baseball pitcher type of finish and that's he still does a good job of getting that
arm kind of straight through and really flipping that hand over but it kind of leans over the side
a little bit with that with that right with that right leg and I think what really helps out with
the the baseball style finish is that baseball holders are really good at being stable on that
front left leg and so you can tell how strong he is there and how stable he feels there which is a
very very positive thing to do as a quarterback you have to be stable within that front leg if
you're going to have very much success okay here's the last one we can again see that rotation those
hips Ted's coming through and he does still a good job pushing up that back way but then rotation of
the hips and again the way that he doesn't make it till we get into too much side bending here is he
kind of leans over to the side during it and then a large amount of rotation afterwards it's more
of a deep ball so he had to release it a little bit earlier but still it was able to see really
the the rotation that he's able to generate in the lower body as well as the stability he's able to
create within the left leg and yeah I think he had a strong arm or strong shoulder and strong muscles
within the the mid-back but I don't think that was really the big thing that made it so he had
as much arm swing that he got as he did I think it's really his ability to rotate the way that
he did and sync that up with his upper bodies as well as he was able to so and just another
example of somebody that really was I'm considered to have a lot of arm power and arm strength when
you know you had ball came out really hard but that doesn't necessarily mean that he had a ton
of overall arm strength it was really just very very efficient with how he moved his body more so
than any shoulder strength there's probably guys that are playing in the NFL now that had to have
more shoulder strength than he does but couldn't throw it the way that he get throwing so really
it's about body efficiency it's being able to time up when you're rotating in the hips when
you're rotating the core when you're releasing the ball of the arm those aren't coordinated
correctly then you're not going to have the power you're not gonna have the accuracy you're just
going to struggle as a quarterback so really trying to time those up and focusing on how to
get to the right rotation right areas and also be very stable on the left field leg is really
the key commit to your great quarterback so yet another great breakdown here today let me know
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