what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab of California I'm gonna do
another breakdown here today on Peyton Manning I feel like I I mean I've even done Eli Manning
and I haven't even done Peyton Manning one of the best quarterbacks of all time I mean got
to be in the top ten and he you know one of the things that you know I just wanted to see was
what makes Peyton Manning Peyton Manning I mean I think he's a very underrated arm
passer but obviously he was a very technical quarterback I mean you could almost see that
in his progression in how he does things I mean even with this throw I feel like he did a great
job of being aware that you know that there's pressure back there behind him stepping up in
the pocket and delivering this throw you know you just tell he's what a guy that was just very in
tune with all parts of the game and he really you know from a mechanic's expect perspective
we'll get right into it you know what was one of his keys as is a key for a lot of the top
guys as he's able to use his lower body very very effectively I mean he gets that push off
that back leg gets those hips rotating he ends up getting a large amount of early rotation in
that upper body as well and kind of leaves that ball back behind him this is probably what ended
up given make it so he wasn't able to you know when he when he started falling off he started
falling off they're pretty fast just because of all the stress that puts on the shoulders once
you get injured in the shoulder here it's hard to come come back oh really you know nothing
to being neck and neck as well but you know it does put a lot of pressure on the shoulder there
had to be some type of shoulder strain that he ended up feeling at the end of his career just
because you know that's a lot of a lot of stress there you know he he does a great job of creating
momentum and getting things moving forward but that also is what creates the whip right so
he's he's rotating so much here in his lower body upper body that that his PEC has really got to to
stretch and then from there you know he delivers the ball I mean this is actually a really nice
throw here you know just a very well on a line I guess we could watch the whole thing real quick
you know so you can see he's got a ball and so what what really stands out is you know ability
to really have a quick release as well so he doesn't waste very much time going back here with
the ball and he gets it right up and then right out again the the whip dude it's it really comes
from his big rotation the upper body will let you ends up kind of extending in that lower back
and this you know probably is another thing that it's all connected right so you put a little bit
more pressure in and you're back then that gets transmitted into and you're in your lower back
which would what is the case here then that gets you know then you have to extend more in in the
thoracic spine than when you have to extend more in the thoracic spine I'm what puts more pressure
on the neck stabilizers and so you know the the the amount of pressure we put on that lower back
and on on the extension and his mid-back and on the muscles are supposed to say boy than simple as
the neck is what ended up probably impacting him in in terms of the the injury side but it's also
what made him really good you know that's he was able to get rid of the ball quickly and he still
had a lot of power in the arm I mean you could see how much rotation he gets out of that upper
body and that's fine when he's throwing in and you know again he's one of the best quarterbacks ever
so it's hard to say that he's doing something wrong there ok this is a little bit earlier on
in his career but he goes in and really also leans over to the side a lot here you can see
you know he has a little bit of a baseball type of a throw when he when he goes through here and
so what ends up happening is when this happens it's because of a stiffness in the left hip so
he's not able to get all the way through onto the left hip you could see where he runs out of
a range of motion right about here right there he runs out of range of motion which makes it
so now he ends up having to lean over to the side rather than you know fully rotating through I mean
really it ends up being a lack of range of motion within that knee and ankle you could even see how
they stopped rotating they start to just go into extension which makes it so now when he gets the
ball he has to lean over and use more of the the mid-back and more of the shoulder you know he puts
that bigger stretch on the shoulder when he throws and obviously impacts the you know the overall
mechanics I mean from this this is supposed to go into what he how he throws the football right what
makes him different than the football he obviously you know he generates a lot of force he's able to
create a lot of rotation he's a big guy he has a big levers and he has a long a long torso and so
he creates a lot of levers in that in that torso you can see again here you know how much he starts
rotating in that upper body and really makes it so he could use that arm to slingshot forward I
mean it's a that's what his quick release came from you know that's that's how he became the
quarterback that he was because of how well he could transfer his weight forward right he
starts off and he you could see the big weight shift right and see the weight shift in that
lower body and he starts to rotate there and then right after he starts to rotate in the lower body
now he lets that upper body come through and he lets that arm stretch that pecs stretch and then
boom slingshots it forward and and you know yeah that to the core that's how Peyton Manning throws
that's what you know he does well you know there's some things like we talked about it he got himself
into some trouble with the in terms of the spine but you know he also played I don't know exactly
how many years you played twelve thirteen years he's one of the top quarterbacks like I said of
all time you know definitely in the top ten and and so you know do you take some of these things
away you know it's tough to say tough to say I mean you could probably bend a little bit more
efficient he probably could have rotated a little bit better probably could have made it so he he
got more on more through his left ankle and you know didn't have the stiffness there but again he
achieved a lot more than than high sheet and a lot more than a lot of other quarterbacks achieved so
no part of what makes him him is the way that he threw and at the end of day he had a great
release he had a very quick release because he rotated so quickly and so virally through that
made back and put such a stretch on that pack it really made it so he could slingshot it out of
there and and helped him in his way in his ability to die at the throat so overall a very effective
quarterback and and so it just goes into all the different mechanics that are out there and what
will you try to do in terms of you know all of our breakdowns and all the informations we want to try
to help you become more effective right just like with Manning uni could have been more effective
and what he does and I think the next general quarterback next generation of quarterbacks are
going to be very very technically sound because the game is only going to get faster and as the
game gets faster there's gonna be a bigger focus on mechanics which is why you know our our whole
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breakdowns are all about is helping you learn more of you know what are the the differences
in quarterbacks and you know how you can apply these different areas of or these different
techniques to achieve throwing the football into your game I mean you can you can use some of that
rotation especially if you're a bigger guy got a longer torso to make it so you can throw the
ball further or get rid of the ball faster and you know maybe you're a shorter guy then you're
more you can watch more of the michael vick or more the russell wilson or maybe if you're you
know don't have as long of a torso then you can look more of like a Aaron Rodgers type of
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