hey what's up guys this is Morey Croson and again from the performance lab of California
doing a QB breakdown here today we're going to do Bryce young Bryce young is actually coming to the
lab before really I mean just has a good way of throwing the football that's why he's had a lot
of the success that we had we got a request to actually do the breakdown of Bryce young so I'm
going to go through that today the the big thing that we want to focus on is really you know what
makes him his throw a little bit different than you know some of the other throws that we'll see
are any of the the quarterbacks you see and then also some of the things that we think we could you
could work on so one of the things that stands out to me when he gets ready to throw the ball
is and I've started to try to teach this more and more with quarterbacks with pitchers and even with
sprinters is we need to be able to create more force into the ground use the ground more as a
way to generate power and that's one of the things you see with Bryce is watch how he loads and he's
going to push down hard in the ground especially with that back leg watch that back leg really cork
and get ready to begin the motion of him starting to transfer the ball forward I know that you know
like people do single yeah he's just got a great natural arm strength I think he I mean I've seen
him I've been around him uh you know suit his arm to do his there's some strength in his arm and he
has a good overall positioning of the shoulder but there's also some areas that you know are
very I guess you know not as strong right so there's parts of the shoulder that they could
definitely get better and we went through some of the things that he can improve on there but to me
what I think is really what makes it seem like he has that superior arm strength it's really
his superior ability to create forts with the ground again watch him load up into the ground
he also has that kind of Patrick mahomes style kind of foot step see how his knee is actually
inside of the foot and we'll see that better I want to get into the deep ball but then from there
now he has plenty of room to rotate in the hips and get everything through and you can see does
a great job of and using the ground as he throws watches his front leg he elbows a little bit watch
his front leg watch how it's on toe and then as he transfers through he pushes down on that heel
okay a lot of times we see the other thing where or the other way where people have their foot
flat on the floor and then their heel comes up as they go all right that's different than how Bryce
does it how he's pushing down with the heel and that's one of the things that we try to talk to
people all the time about is pushed down with that heel okay so that's one of the good good
and interesting things that Bryce young does that we want to be able to really try to replicate okay
this is more the deep ball you'll get to see more what I was talking about the step so see what he
does how it kind of turns and points that heel towards the towards the target what that does
this is actually a pitcher a pitcher hack is if you point the heel at the catcher or points the
heel at the target it makes it so your hips end up becoming more neutral okay and he really does that
naturally again so he just goes and points that heel kind towards the target and that's going to
make it so tips become in a neutral position and now he's going to step down with that toe you're
going to turn that that knee out as is coming through to make it so he gets a lot of motion
into the into that hip rotation and he also pushes down with that front heel to generate
that great ground force as he does a good job of just thinking up the whole throw so you can
see how that the hips come through right when the shoulders are coming through and then that
really propels the arm forward which makes it so he can make the throws that that he does okay so
again the big point to understand here is that it's not as much about the his arm strength is
his ability to really create force in the lower body and create force with the ground you can even
see - I mean he has great athletic legs he's got strong athletic legs I know he's not as tall but
he's still able to create a lot of force I mean if you look at them these in terms of height in terms
of weight there's not anything that's like crazy about them looks like man this guy should you know
is bred to be a great quarterback instead he's just I think wants it a really bad you want to
be a great quarterback really bad and because of that he's figured out ways to be able to utilize
his body to to achieve what he wants to achieve okay that's I think that's a big part of kind
of the developmental process got to figure out you know how can I use the foot better how could
I use the ground better how can I use my hips better what are the parts of my body that I'm
not optimizing that's why I'm doing these videos in the first place I want to give you guys ideas
for how you can better utilize the different areas you can get more force out of your foot night of
your ankle you get more force out of your your hips and out of your core you can get more force
if you have a good clean release okay just look to see where you could be missing so let's look will
go more into his release here because its release is very very smooth so first you start out good
1990 position is elbow shoulder about the same height then the nose of the ball is playing at
least towards the target right he doesn't just bring the ball straight up that's a thing that
a lot of guys do or they'll just bring the ball straight up this way he doesn't do that he loads
and [ __ ] the ball first and then from there he's gonna go and get that elbow right through ok the
ball gets a little bit behind his head he kind of brings it back right there okay but overall
and everybody's going to do that it just makes it so he could put a little bit better stretch
on to it stacked over although it's not very much wasted motion going back when instead he's trying
to get that elbow right through because of how quick his body is moving forward those hips are
moving forward you could see - how much of a shift his body's going through as he's going
through the ball so you can see how laterally is moving from here to here very fast and very strong
so we really have to bring that ball through as quickly as you can that's what increases that that
release timer so I guess decreases that release time is because you get such a great lateral push
and that gives them momentum to then fling that ball right through which is really what increases
that arm strength I also want to say what legality finishes finishes with a very strong front leg you
got to have a strong front leg okay if the front leg isn't strong enough and it doesn't have a good
mobility within the foot it's going to be hard to be the best quarterback that you could be so
I could tell you this is that you need to be able to to really strengthen that front leg and be able
to allow all your weight to shift forward onto them and look at how how much he's getting onto
that front leg but he's able to stabilize and control it because of how much strength he has
there okay very important thing that they want to work on and I would say you know one of the things
that we worked out for him because he I mean he has a little bit more broad shoulders and I would
say the average you know person would have and so one of the things that we try to work on with him
is to really retract in those scapula's because you can see when he finishes he kind of has that
kind of slumped over position he's a little bit of a rounded thoracic spine so we try to push
to get a little bit more thoracic spine overall activation also wanted to make sure that he keeps
good stability or good controlled core because he's coming up overhead he gets into a little bit
of a hyperextension that low back right here but it really wasn't too bad something that we just
wanted to address just to make sure there wasn't any future low back problems but you know we
just wanted to so did that as more of a you know precautionary measure but yeah overall yeah I mean
he was very very impressive when he came into the lab so bright so if you like this I hope you liked
what we talked about here we please appreciate being able to use your stuff to hopefully try to
help out other quarterbacks and we'll be watching you at Cathedral this year seeing how you do and
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