okay what's up everyone so we are going to break down the one and only Michael Vick today
got a couple requests to break down Michael Vick which is obviously a legend for the quarterback
position just because of his arm strength and just athletic ability so thought I'd break it
down we'll talk about some of the strengths some of the weaknesses what makes his throw what it
is so first this one is a throws about 65 miles an hour's is what they said as a sports science video
so that's what they said on sports science and from the front part of the throw what you could
really tell is how much rotation that is able to create in his body there's a big thing that they
talk about a lot in baseball not as much in the football ground but having the ability to have
hip and shoulder disassociation that's something that he does really really well which makes me say
that you know he had to play baseball at some time because he does such a great job being
able to open up his hips being able to keep his shoulder back and we'll be able to see that from
the other end a little bit better but at least from here you can see where his arm angle is and
it's a little bit lower than some so it doesn't necessarily have great scapular positioning but
he has so much force generated from his obliques and his core that he doesn't really need a lot
from from the shoulder and he creates you can see how when he comes through all that force is just
automatically just absorbed by that right leg because it for him is lefty by that right leg
so easily so a lot of times when you're coming through also you guys have to lean all the way
over to the side or not be able to just keep that spine nice and straight he has the ability to
keep that spine very very straight and you know when it comes to his hip it just goes right on
to transfers right on to his right hip very very easily and is easily absorbed so one of the big
things that I talked about with both quarterbacks and pitchers is how strong is your is your leg and
it needs to be in order to generate more force you have to have a lot a lot of strength there
here we could see another good picture so you notice how his hips are getting going and his
shoulders still all the way back and his hips all the way open here and his shoulders still
you know he started moving a little bit but it's all the way back it's so unbelievable ability to
disassociate from the hip and the shoulder from quarterback and it does create a little bit of
hyperextension here in the back but but not bad and another thing that he does is I talk
about this a lot too is where you step and when he lands he still has his weight usually I say more
of 60/40 you want to have most your weight back I would say his was probably be about 50/50 so it's
not all the way forward yet so he can really get a big push off that back leg as he's coming through
boom big push off right there to get that hip through and then he just coils all that up into
the arm and then just lets it rip which makes it look so smooth and one of the big things that they
talked about on in the sports science is that he throws it in point three seconds which is one of
the faster throws the last one here is just right from the side which is another ability to see how
fast he can how well he can open the up those hips one thing that I also think he can get better on
but you know I think this also makes him so good is he doesn't get that hip all the way through
it's almost kind of back a little bit but it's just because that right leg could just absorb
that force so well it's unreal how well he could just transfer all that way you could see so much
power getting pushed into that right leg right here and he just has no problem just absorbing
it and allowing it to come all the way through so that's what makes his throw so good again I would
say the things that you'd want to improve on is not having you know getting that hit through I
think that would be good I'm not having as much of the hyperextension in the back as he's coming
through which again isn't bad both those two are not bad the biggest thing would just be getting
that shoulder or arm and a better position better slot it's a little bit low compared
to some of the better releases but you know it's not a thing that's going to end up - you know make
them not able to succeed I think everybody has areas that they can improve on but you know if
you had a little bit higher shoulder positioning then it would just make it so he could you know
generate a little bit more force and maybe have a little bit more controlled velocity wise right
here how he throws he's basically only going to be able to throw deep balls and you know very
hard slants or you know line drive stuff like that you have a little bit of harder time with
like touch passes you know the 25 30-yard touch passes but yeah in terms of rocking it in and
throwing deep balls you'll be able to do that just fine based off of how his mechanics are so
that's a quick overview of Michael Michael Vick and his mechanics and you know what he does well
what he can can work on as always thanks for watching and see you guys some times next week