hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we're
gonna do another breakdown for you here today on Baker Mayfield we didn't break Baker Mayfield
breakdown back when he was in college and ended up winning the Heisman Trophy and today we're gonna
do another one a little bit of combine and then also some stuff in this year and then also some
stuff with with what makes him you know wood as a quarterback really just in general what makes
it so when you don't have the same mechanics what's then ends up being the result of that
okay so we'll go ahead and get started here really what we're seeing here is the bag just cuz we're
gonna in the actual videos too we're gonna look at the back what what he's able to do here if we look
at at Baker Mayfield you can see how much he's really able to sit back and really sit down just
in general which is really really good he's really bent over there but is that able to still maintain
a pretty tall position with the spine you can see how much he bends his legs here it really has that
that really knee bend and then from there he's able to generate a lot of rotation right because
he's so far back in his hips right he's able to bend so much in the hips and also really in the
knees when he then goes to create force he gets a lot of movement how much room and he gets in his
hips as he's pushing off and that makes it so he really pushes off a lot with that with that back
leg and if you look he does a great job too of as he's pushing off that back leg also then kind of
torquing that up and letting it all go through the arms yeah well it transfers his force all
the way through watch it here in fast motion as well see how well he just is able to sling that
ball just because as he goes back just gets it right out of his hands by generating all that
force all that towards New Jersey it's really a fast movement even though it's a fast movement
though you can see when it slows down there's a lot going on especially in those hips and and
that's what kind of makes it so there's a little bit of a uniqueness to it to his throw when when
he's actually going through it go ahead and take a look here same type of thing though look at
how bent he is and look at how much rotation he creates in that that hip and really uses that
to actually generate the throw he's a little bit overextended with his legs he takes a pretty big
step here as he goes but that's just because he's much more reliant on rotation overall than he is
in in creating a ton of weight shift forward so he's he creates most of his forward press here
boom right there that's where he's gonna move forward and then from there it's all rotation
all rotation really that's where he gets most of his powers he just creates so much rotation
I mean his hips like we talked about her always going through the entire throw just consistently
moving forward I want to take a look at this one here this is a nice throat - this one's to the
right though this one see how he gets a little bit shorter of an overall stride and just kind
of lets it go you got to be able to be quick got to be able to throw from a lot of different stride
lengths you want a lot of different bases you will not be very comfortable and being able to move
around through there but still able to create just stays to what he normally does and still
creates a lot of rotation I mean look at how much overall just torque he's able to get out of that
throw and so really from from here to then there's not a huge difference overall he might have done
a better job of before you know no he's still he still drops that ball pretty low and I say maybe
they tell him to drop the ball a little bit but did not drop the ball as much but definitely not
they're able to continue to put the ball on the line now I think what he ends up doing sometimes
and this might end up you know being an area that I think everybody can can do and maybe he's you
know trying to keep a little bit too big of a base overall or you know trying to change up different
bases you know that could be a part that he's trying to adapt to is being able to throw with it
from a wider base and not as wide base but here we could see play action here he gets that hips going
and he just doesn't get as much of that overall rotation he's used to being able to create a lot
of force and really doesn't gonna push backwards either you can see how he gets a push he kind of
pushes his hips forward and just doesn't get as much overall rotation in the throw as he's coming
through and then that makes us then his spine comes up and he just totally ends up throwing
the ball back behind as he's he's going too low and behind right so you can see a big difference
in in the throws and where he's usually able to drive off that back leg and also stay in a very
athletic position as he throws but as he's going through here you could almost see you like drops
that elbow a little bit too and it just doesn't have that same overall motion and how that ball
just got ends up going right into you know right behind them right into the dirt and really the
point there is just being is to show that when you don't have or when you don't accomplish what
you want to be accomplishing during your throw and you don't stick to those mechanics we're
not able to you know create the same amount of force overall out of out of your lower body or
just stick to the same force regimen that you normally do you can see what the results are
right you can see that you end up not being able to throw it as effectively and even as we talked
a ton about being able to continue your overall hip rotation and when you don't continue that
that hip rotation you don't press off the back leg the right way you're gonna end up having you
know not not good results gonna tone the ball low and also just being inaccurate so you know part of
what helped him get there is being able to drive off that back leg being able to very easily and
very methodically be able to transfer his force up the change from the foot to the hip from the hip
to the core from the core to the shoulder and the shoulder to the hand but when you can see here he
just doesn't do it as well but you could see that also the result of that becomes of that as always
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