hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going
over quarterback mechanics for beginners i'm going to start the video right now
okay so i've been getting this request a lot to be able to make a video that's specifically
for people that are just starting off to be quarterbacks and what are some of the key
things to be able to focus on so i thought while i'm out here in seattle might as well go ahead and
create that video and i have this video here of me this is taken about two or three weeks ago now
but i just wanted to be able to show both the back view and the side view and i do think these
are probably the two most important views to be able to actually analyze for yourself because if
you're getting going here as becoming a better quarterback i think it's really important for
you to be able to understand that you're gonna want to work on your mechanics by looking at
these two views to be able to get a great understanding of what are some of the key
things that you can work on in order to improve so the first thing that we're going to talk
about is going to be the grip here and we'll really look at this one a little bit more so
and we can see here with the grip i can i'm going to zoom in as much as i can
you can see how high my index finger is and i do think that is a little trick
that i've recently discovered just by watching a lot of the top quarterbacks you know brady
aaron rodgers a lot of these guys they they hold the football pretty high up and i do
think that helps them being able to really flick the ball well which helps with the spin rate of
the football so that's just a little trick that you want to be able to have i don't want to go
too much in the actual grip i'm going to focus a little bit more on you know what are some of
the key things we want to think about within the actual mechanics so when i'm first loading here
and getting set up and we'll go from from both views here you do want to be able to keep that
ball pretty close to your chest right it wants to be you know and and more of that position it could
be you know the ball could be more straight up and down it doesn't have to be at an angle like that
but it doesn't want to be close to your body you don't want to have it too far away from your body
you also want to have your hips behind your head you don't want to be too upright in your position
here i see a lot of people that are upright and then when they first start the actual motion
end up really kind of falling back there with their initial step you want to keep yourself
in an athletic position where you have those hips behind your head and one of the the things that i
do that i think helps that out is just push down into the ground so when i'm loading before you
know i get started right here i'm really pushing down into the ground with my feet and that helps
me engage my core and helps me get into overall good position to be able to throw the football
so now the next thing that is super important is going to be the actual step and when you're going
through this step again you know you want to be able to load that hip here so you can see how
i'm going from you know having that hip back to really even pushing it back a little bit more to
really be able to load that hip and initialize pushing off that back leg i could actually
you know get better here in being able to get my lower body to be a little bit more active a little
bit earlier on in the actual movement right i'm a little bit late on being able to actually get this
lower body to get all the way around and through and that's something that i would say you really
want to focus on right and so i wanted to show myself just because you know sometimes you see
some of the top quarterbacks and you know there's a lot of great things that they're able to do
but they're also you know at the highest level so it's sometimes harder for you to be able to start
off from where you are where you really have a lot of things you need to be able to work on to really
be able to understand you know how to go from there to you know drew brees or tom brady or aaron
rodgers or patrick mahomes all these guys that are able to do it really well so there is going to be
a big process learning process you need to be able to go through and so just be patient with it just
keep on working on it and it's something that i still work on even though i'm not a you know and
if a quarterback it is something that you're going to want to continue to work on and develop and and
get better at big thing is you know you want to be able to drive off that back leg and be able to
create rotation as soon as you can in that lower half right and and the the goal is to be able to
create what's called hip and shoulder disassociation which is the ability to
get those hips to open up right while being able to keep that front shoulder closed the best you
can so you can see right here is probably my my point of the most hip and shoulder disassociation
my hips are starting to open up and i'm keeping my my front shoulder closed here after this point
you know i still have my hips coming through but i also am starting to open up my shoulder a little
bit there as well so really trying to work on it and this is something that you just have to kind
of rep out and drill out is being able to you know work on that load right and and in your
lower body and really being able to push off and create rotation uh you know within both your upper
body and lower body okay and so we'll go from here into the actual load of the football um you know
i would probably recommend to not drop the ball like how i do right it's probably better just to
go straight back into the load but there is you know there's going to be three really main parts
of the throw there's going to be that loading phase there's going to be the transition phase
and then there's the the release phase right i mean there's also the kind of follow through so
there could be four phases all together but these are really the the three that we want to focus on
primarily and being able to understand you know the follow-through is just something to be able to
understand if there's if there's issues with your throw you're going to be able to see that a
lot with the follow through and just make sure you have good balance and control and things like that
is important but really we want to understand how to do the load the transition and the release i
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the video when we're loading the ball uh one of the key mistakes that i'll see is just allowing
the ball to get too far away from the body uh sorry this way right so you want to keep the ball
fairly close to your body here and we just want to be able to have a load there's you know ways where
you can go and get the nose of the football to face back a lot or you can keep the nose
of the football facing more down there's a lot of different ways you could load the football
but you do want to have some degree of load the concept behind it is that for every action there's
going to be a reaction right so you can't just go and just try to throw a punch and make it really
harder or you know have a really strong vertical jump or really create any type of power without
first loading the muscle first and so you know that's the whole concept of being able to generate
power is first the muscle houses stretch to then be able to contract with a lot of force behind
it and so that's what we're doing here is we're stretching the body stretching the muscles so as
we're loading again we want to try to as quickly as possible get those hips to be able to rotate
right and i need to continue to even work on my own flexibility to do that but we want to be able
to get those hips to be able to rotate we want to be able to open up within the you know core
and then we also want to be able to stretch the the shoulder to make it so then we're
able to be as efficient as possible as we're elbowing and wrists to come forward all right
so now that we got the the load down being able to understand we know we need to bring the ball back
slightly you know it doesn't have to be a ton one of the things they talk about with dan marino is
like up and out where he didn't load the ball you know hardly at all he kept it really high but he
did have some some load to it right everybody needs to have some load and the most important
thing is to be able to you know get that ball going back to some degree and then being able to
make sure your your hips are behind the head and then push off and create rotation within the
lower body as quickly as possible to generate the load out of the lower body as well so then we're
going to go into the transition phase and the transition phase is going to be when we start
you know basically when the ball starts going forward right so now is going to be the transition
phase after we're kind of in that loading position and now we're going to start bringing the ball
forward here uh you could see some of the key things that are are really important so you know
one one of the things that you want to make sure that you do with that initial step is you don't
want to end up cutting yourself off so you don't want to be stepping too far here or you don't want
to be opening up yourself too much to the side either you want to be stepping basically straight
ahead so then as you're transitioning your weight forward your momentum is going towards where it
is that you're going to be throwing if you step too far off to the side your momentum will go
to the side if you step too far over here then you're you're really won't be able to get your
weight to come through and also it'll end up like stopping your momentum going forward so you want
to be able to kind of play with where you actually step with that front leg to make sure that you're
able to generate all your weight forward as you're going through the actual throw now
as we're transitioning forward what ends up being important some of the common mistakes that i see
is that people will end up bringing that ball really far back behind you know the head and
you can see i i get the ball back behind me for a little bit here uh but then i'm able to get it
back around you know as quickly as possible and so what what ends up happening and what ends up
being the big mistake is just by you know once you get to this level of where you're loading
and i'm about at the same position on both sides here really being quick and being able to rotate
the the hand so you can see that immediately right here i'm rotating my hand so the nose of
the football is facing here and not upwards or you know not facing back or anything like that
and so the the quicker you can go and start rotating your wrist forward the better off
you're going to be in terms of where the ball will end up going so you don't want to end up
just lifting the ball like this and not rotating the the nose of the football facing forward so the
as soon as you get to this position you got to be quick and being able to rotate the wrist and and
making sure that the the elbow's going forward the nose the football's going forward everything needs
to be very very quick in the reaction it doesn't want to be slow right you can kind of load slow
you don't have to be too slow with the load but it could be you know a little bit slower but then
once you start getting the elbow going forward all that momentum has to be fast you want to be very
very quick with the elbow with the wrist because that's how you're going to end up generating force
on to the actual throw now when you you load here and you get this this front foot down you do want
to keep about 60 of your weight onto your back leg just to make it so then as you shift your
weight forward and through you're able to properly transfer everything onto your your front leg so
what i commonly see is when people take this step they'll end up with a lot of their weight already
onto that front leg so then as they start bringing the ball through now they end up having to like
straighten out this knee and end up almost like catapulting the ball because their weight ends
up kind of going backwards and they end up like having to push the ball forward and that ends up
being a big mistake because as you shift onto this front leg and are driving the leg through
you want to have plenty of ability to rotate the hips as you're actually releasing the ball you
don't want to be stuck in your movement pattern where you don't have any ability to continue
the the movement forward really as the elbows coming through the more ability you have
to move the the body forward the more force you're going to be able to have on the actual throw so
just make sure that you don't end up stopping your rotation as you're going through on that
transition phase right where that's where the phase we're in within that transition phase and
that's going to be an important thing to be able to look at and you'll be able to see that here
and then from this back view you know again you just want to try to avoid spending too much time
with the ball back behind the head and we also want to avoid our weight going backwards to the
side we want to be able to see our weight going forward and then try to maintain as much of an
upright position as we possibly can and then when we release the ball we want to be releasing the
ball with the forearm pretty much straight up right we want to have the hand is in as much
of a c position as we possibly can right i could probably get a little bit more of a c position you
just don't want to be in a u position with the hand right you want to be nice and neutral with
that wrist as you're releasing the ball and then you also and some of the mistakes that we'll see
is that we'll see people really get the the ball off to the side here and if that ends up being
the case and that means that you're just loading the ball backwards too much here right again every
action you're going to get a reaction so if you're loading too far back here then it's very common
for you to be releasing the ball really far off to the side as well so if you have more of like
that sidearm release as you're coming through that's just because of how you're you're loading
the actual football okay and then again as you're releasing the ball we just want to make sure that
we're maintaining a good upright position as we follow through the actual throw so you don't want
to end up leaning off to the side you know too much as you're going through and then you know
once the ball comes out of your hand you want to allow the index finger to be the last part of the
body that's actually touching the ball so right you can see how my index finger is like the last
thing and that helps in generating a little bit more speed and then once you release the ball you
really want to be able to extend that arm and continue to move the elbow all the way through
and extend the arm as you come all the way down in in the movement right so you don't want to end
up being here and as you release the ball make it so that elbow stays like slightly bent i'll
see that issue a lot where people will maintain kind of like this elbow bending position and
or you know when they release the ball they end up stopping the elbow so notice how here i come
all the way through the throw and i i stop it a little bit here right like i can do a better job
of getting my elbow all the way through but that's something that you really want to put a focus on
when it comes to developing really great mechanics right this is in the video that we want to go into
you know basic levels of mechanics this is giving every little part of you know your throwing
mechanics and making sure you have a clear understanding of what you want to be able to do
to maximize all phases and then when you follow through you know obviously we want to bring that
that ball down to you know that opposite side you know the opposite side hip could be a place
that you could aim for but it definitely wants to come down and through and then you also want
to continue on to that front leg and you want to be nice and stable within that front leg if
you're off balance on that front foot as you're transferring your weight forward that's definitely
a good indication that you're really not doing a great job of being able to generate all the force
going through the throw and going forward through the throw so just some things to be aware of there
when it comes to you know really understanding mechanics i know there's a lot of information
that we went into there and so you know i would say rewind it see some things that you might
be able to really focus on start off with you know just going in understanding the load and
then transition into you know understanding that the transition how to shift your weight forward
and then really getting into the release and understanding the release i will put up a video
right here to be able to show you a few drills that you could do to be able to work on your your
load your transition your your follow-through and just to make sure that you have a great
understanding of how to do those and continue to work on those and then you just want to end up you
know doing the the three step drop the five step drop and starting to work a little bit more actual
technique into it but watching this this video and replaying it and getting a few of the main
parts down will make it so then you're going to be able to apply it to your throw and see significant
gain over a period of time things will also change a little bit for the deep ball so i'll also do a
video on that just so you're able to utilize that in your training as well so there's this is going
to be more of you know if you're trying to throw 20 25 yards and under and then we'll also do a
video for if you're trying to throw like a deep ball which is going to be like 45 yards or you
know 40 yards really anything above 35 yards will be able to go into more of a deep ball type of a
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