what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we have another
breakdown here today on Andrew Luck I want to give a shout out to Braden Hegel because he brought to
my attention that I haven't really done an Andrew Luck breakdown they did a comparison of Andrew
Luck and Aaron Rodgers but I've never gone into really the Nitty Gritty of Andrew Luck and I think
this is long overdue one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL we got to see what his mechanics are
like so we'll hop right into it and I'd loved that in it was the top 100 we were able to get a front
view of his throat looking super pumped up about that so little things in life you know so let's
go and take a look so you know when when you're looking at Andrew Luck obviously one of the big
thing that stands out is he's a very very strong guy very compact guy so it's all about how is he
using his his body and and generating forces in his body and I would say the big thing that I
was able to notice is that his front hip he does a great job of being able to get onto that front
hip and in creating rotation through that front hip so as we go through here we'll see how he's
pushing off of that that back leg there and that's a big thing that I think people in general can do
a lot better as a quarterback is being able to shift from their back leg onto their front leg
and actually get all of their weight on the front leg and that's it's a big thing it's
either you got a push off of that back leg in order to get that that really good shift from
the back leg to the front leg or you just use your momentum I would say Andrew Luck doesn't
do as good of a job pushing off of that back leg he just uses his momentum because of his
big frame to get going forward and as he's coming through notice how he continues rotation all the
way through that hip and how he completely gets all the way around that throw as he's releasing
another thing that that I think he does really good is as he's coming through he doesn't spend
much time with that ball back behind his head but then he also straightens up that out that
elbow so look at how that elbow is coming straight ahead and then that forearm comes right up over so
it's like basically at a 90 degrees I'd say the ball and the elbow right at 90 degrees when he's
coming through the throw which makes it so he can maintain a much better level of accuracy by being
able to do that and I might actually show you this one first and then we'll go to the deep ball so
here you'll see him sitting back stepping up in the pocket I think he does a good job with that
initial 1990 release little bit of an over stride for sure that that he has going on and when you
over stride what happens is now it's gonna be a little bit more difficult for you to transfer
that weight from that bat back leg onto the front leg so what he has to do is he has to really rely
on that rotation of the hips in order to get all of his weight forward and by doing that that makes
it so now his momentum ends up going out to the side so it's really critical for him to be able
to have a nice and straight arm here so being able to keep that forum at 99 degrees or I guess really
a straight position is a big reason why he's able to maintain a fair amount of accuracy but what I
want to compare here is as he's coming through and this is like a about a 20 yard route so you
can see what his mechanics are here very straight leg very bent in the in the spine and also leaned
over a lot as he's coming through sorry about 25 yards throw there and again you can see though
that all the way through look how much rotation gets all the way through the throw you can see
the other one on his back because of how much he's rotating and then we'll compare that to what he
looks like when he's throwing the deep ball so now he's going to deep ball same type of thing
gets a 99 position not as big of a stride right so definitely shorted that down and then from there
as he's transferring on that front leg look at how much more vertical he is right more of a bent knee
here very very vertical as he's going through the throw and from there he still gets that rotation
though right so he's not really relying on how his spine is moving forward or moving up or you know
what going on there he's relying a lot on how that front hip is rotating as he's generating
force and in the throne I think the reason he's able do that again it's just because of how big
he is as a person right so he's able to transfer all that weight and as long as he can continue
that momentum and and and fourth generation then he's gonna be able to really maximize his you know
ability to put the most power on the ball and then the the key thing that they really gotta
have in general but I think it's really important in terms of accuracy is being able to have that
four on it that's pretty much straight up there's a lot of guys that have that forearm kind of off
to the side more like a 45-degree angle and when you do that you just put yourself in a much more
much bigger risk for for nothing is accurate and then also much bigger risk for having things like
elbow elbow problems and really problems at the back of the shoulder as well when you're throwing
to the side you have those two areas you're gonna put a lot more stress on all right so that's they
enter like look right down here let me know if you guys have any questions you could reach out
to me at Morey mor e Y at your performance lab dot-com if you haven't checked it out already out
check out our blueprint to the perfect throw our free ebook you can go ahead and click below and
go to that also if the if you like the ebook and kind of like the information you've seen within
our breakdown you could also go and look into our three month online throat program really a
lot of personalization a lot of value we have all exercises that we do or personalized exercise that
we do for you and then we also do six individual braids now just like we were doing here for a new
luck so that's something that you're interested in we also have a link below to go ahead and access
that as well some yeah guys there's always thanks for watching these videos and we will see you soon