hey what's up everyone! Morey Croson here and today we're going to be going over how
to throw a professional level deep ball and we're going to start the video right now
all right so as many of you guys know it is super important to be able to throw the ball
further and that's really what we're going to go into here and the big reason is because you could
really add a lot more problems for a defense if you're able to throw the ball 60 65 yards
just because now the defense has to be able to cover that amount of distance even if you're not
able to throw it accurately and i understand the frustration because i was in your shoes when i was
in high school and i thought i was able to play at a really high level you know 45 yards and under
and you know to me i was like man i could play a lot better than all these guys that could throw
the ball a lot further than me but they are getting more overall looks and you know just
getting more kudu more at the next level and i get it now because when you have that next
level of arm strength now you could really stretch out a defense and then as you progress up through
you know how different coaches you're then able to get trained on accuracy and timing
and things like that but the big thing is is that can you throw the ball 60 or 65 yards so
that ends up being a big part of really being able to get yourself from the next level whether you're
in youth trying to go to high school high school going to college college going to pros whatever
the case may be you got to have the arms right there so we're going to go over really the deep
ball here and what ends up being some of the key mistakes that i see that are really causing issues
for quarterbacks to be able to get the ball to um go further okay the first thing is going to be
you know the the longer step right so when you're when you're taking this step here it is going to
be a longer step out in front okay and because you're going to take a little bit longer step
this additional time could take somewhere between you know 500 to an additional tenth
of a second okay which is again that's normal right when when we take when you take this step
though we do want to go towards the target okay or towards where you're trying to throw
and the thing that ends up happening though is just because you take you know an extra 500 is
really closer to where you would want to be now a lot of people end up taking an additional 10th to
2 tenths of a second in their loading right and that ends up really throwing up off the
sequencing and that's really the big thing the big mistake that i see is the sequencing is off
right so you're you're throwing the ball 25 yards you're used to a certain type of sequencing you're
getting the foot down in the ground you're getting the ball to be able to rotate and come up and
through but now when the front shoulder ends up being raised you got to load the ball a little bit
lower the foot takes a little bit longer set the sequencing is off right it's not on the same time
that you were beforehand and now we got to be able to really work on being able to get
a sequencing time that is able to get you to have you know a far throat 55 60 yards so the
big thing is we want to be able to take a longer step but still get that foot down quickly okay
we want to take a little bit longer load but we still want to be able to drive that elbow through
quickly all right so that ends up being you know the big thing is that with the longer step
we still want to be able to drive our arm through quick we don't want to get
lost with that longer load right we don't want to end up having the ball drop down i see that happen
a lot right where the front shoulder gets high and then the ball drops way down okay we don't
want to end up going through the double load right because if you go and load and bring the ball down
and then lift the ball up a lot from there then again that's going to take a lot of time you want
to be driving that elbow through quickly you see how how fast josh allen is able to get this foot
down and then drive the elbow through so when he's opening up here he's really quickly driving that
arm through so now by the time he's you know ready to to get that full rotation that front shoulder
and that front hip the elbow is coming through as well and he's able to release from that standpoint
right he could probably even release a little bit earlier in the throw right he might be a little
bit delayed here but he's still throwing the ball you know 70 plus yards i'm gonna quickly interrupt
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below and we're gonna hop right back in the video and i would watch this from the side
right watch this from the side watch it from the back make sure that you're getting that foot down
you're rotating first through the hips then you're rotating through the spine
you're keeping your weight back at this point to then be able to drive that elbow through
and make sure that everything is opening up simultaneously and that you're getting that elbow
through right after you're opening up you don't want to end up really i see this a lot where they
land and immediately open up this front shoulder okay and that really ends up making a big impact
on your ability to generate a lot of force in this whole kind of trunk uh arm area right it doesn't
take away as much on the lower body you can still create a lot of lower body activation we could see
how he's loaded and see how his weight is back right now even though the front flips in the
ground he's got a lot of weight back i see a lot of guys that when they take this step
they're already over here where their head is like almost over their front foot at this point which
is going to have a big impact on the ability to transfer all your weight onto that front leg all
right the next thing is going to be that weight shift which we're going into now and what happens
here is that as you get this front foot down we want to be able to get our weight shift coming
forward and through and it wants to be a continual weight shift it doesn't want to be where you're
you're end up stopping at the release right that's the most common thing i see is that when you end
up releasing the ball you want to be continuing through the throw with your hip rotation and
with your momentum okay so after you release the ball if you stop right you get here and then the
ball comes on your hand then you stop that that movement going forward now that's going to make
a big impact on you know again how much force that you're able to create another thing that i
see and this is where you want to get a view from the back looking in is that a lot of guys will end
up falling off to the side as they're coming through right so when you take that front step
i i'm a fan of taking this the step a little bit over to the side right not taking it straight
through and especially not taking it over to the side here where you're limiting your ability to
get your hips through but taking it enough to the side to make it so you have plenty of hip rotation
and good control the issue with taking the step a little bit over to the side is it does put you at
a susceptible position where you can end up kind of leaning over with the spine so now we're not
getting forward motion going through we're getting lateral bend and now you put a lot of force on on
the spine and that really has a big impact on how well you can transition your weight forward
through the throat and how much you're going to end up using your lower body right when you end
up leaning over to the side you really end up using a lot more of your back and the momentum
of your body leaning to the side where you want to be getting your weight to move continually forward
during the throw all right and then the last thing is going to be the release point right so the
release point is obviously going to be different here i always i'm talking about how you know you
want to be releasing the ball with the nose of the football facing towards the target and at
this type of throw this is going to be facing the target because it's a longer throw so it's upwards
like this and the big thing that happens here guys is that as there's this transition phase
and this really happens in all areas of the throw um as you we go into this transition phase here
you know there's a little bit of the elbow kind of coming down but when you come through really
losing that neutral wrist position right so right and here it's critical to be able to maintain
a strong wrist position in order to make it so you can throw the ball with a lot of velocity on it
okay because if you end up coming through here and the wrist is bent right again we'll
get video yourself doing this it's really easy to get video of yourself just throwing
especially nowadays um you know it's something that is such a reliable source of being able to
really address your mechanics and make sure you're working on your mechanics and getting everything
better but you know big thing is we want to get this wrist to a good neutral position so then as
our body weight is coming through we're able to really create a lot of flick and action behind
it you can see how much force he puts behind his wrist as is going through the throat that ends up
being real really the key part i know this is number three but if your release point is off
that makes it so now the whole entire throat is going to be compromised so you want to make sure
that you're getting that release and really wrist position in the right spot but you can kind of see
you know where the throw is going to be based off of where that hand position is and where
that wrist position is right if the ball wrist hand if any of those are are bent or you know
off track then it it really affects the entirety of the throw and even the elbow i'd say could be
a part of that as well so you know as much as this part of the the throw you know doesn't want to be
the primary you know source of force production it is a very important part of force production you
know regardless of you know how much we want to kind of take away from this part of the throw and
and what i mean by that is we just don't want to be over stressing you know our wrists our elbows
or things like that that's going to end up not being a sustainable part of throwing the ball far
but it is something that we need to be able to sync up with our body right if we're not
we're creating all this force in the lower body and then not able to sync it up with the upper
body which is probably the most common mistake that i see then you're just not going to be able
to throw the ball with the same amount of force and velocity right and that's really the main
reason why i like to do these videos guys and and really provide value for quarterbacks quarterback
coaches you know even dads that are trying to help out their quarterbacks is because i think
there's a lot that could be seen within the wrist and how the release point is during the throw and
once you can really slow it down and see what's going on from that wrist position it really makes
a big impact on the ability to you know throw the ball with more velocity more accuracy more power
more distance everything ends up being able to improve when you can really get a good sense of
what's going on within the wrist and be able to create some drills and some exercises to make it
so you're able to really optimize what's going on within that particular joint because if you don't
get the wrist right as a quarterback it just is not going to be able to work out long term right
you could end up doing okay and doing some good stuff at maybe the high school or even college
level if you have a good enough size but you're really not going to be able to go much further
than that unless you get that wristwick down so it's super important for you guys to be able to
understand how to utilize the wrist and also get video to make sure that you're actually seeing
what it is that you're doing with the wrist because there's no way you could actually see
what's happening within the arm while somebody's throwing with just our eyes you have to be able to
take video of it in order to see the improvements and that's where you know i think that us doing
videos for a good amount of time has really provided a lot of value for people is because we
can really hone in on what's going on within the wrist and how we can address that moving forward
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