hey what's up everyone! Morey Croson here and today we're going to be going
over what's going on with dak prescott and we're going to start the video right now
all right so many of us have been watching hard knocks and you know the big thing with it being
the dallas cowboys and dak prescott coming back it was a big surprise in that first episode to see
that he's already out with some arm issues and since i'm a quarterback coach worked with a lot
of quarterbacks i thought i would make a video that would go into at least my opinion on what's
going on and you know potentially how to treat it i'm not a doctor at the end of the day i just
work with a lot of quarterbacks and a lot of them have signed up for our throwing program with the
intention of being able to correct different parts of their shoulder elbow you know wrist whatever
having pain and wanting to be able to address that pain through the program and so you know i
just really quickly wanted to go into what i would say are some of the issues here so we're looking
and to me uh there's like a brachialis muscle that is like right here on the arm and when we
heard them actually talk about the injury and the issue it ended up being it seemed like when he was
releasing the ball and you know it wasn't he said it's not really the bicep uh which is more on the
front and it's not the tricep uh it seemed like it was a little bit more of the middle and he also
said it could potentially be the lat which would be a little bit more on the back part of it too so
hard to be able to 100 speculate i think both from the athletic trainer perspective
you know looking at and seeing all the the data they've been talking about just kind of more
of a shoulder injury is how they're describing it and you know hearing about it i've actually
worked with a quarterback recently that had a similar problem where you know he's like i've
been been trying to figure out how to address this brachialis issue and you know i just really want
to go in depth about what we did right some of the things that i think stand out to me in terms
of his throw i don't want to go too much into what the dallas cowboys could potentially doing wrong
but i do want to say that biomechanics is an important part right and understanding what's
going on within the shoulder when going through the throw i think is a critical or when you're
running or doing anything i think it's a critical part in being able to actually create a diagnosis
that makes sense right so if you're having hamstring issues and we don't look at you when
you're sprinting right then it's hard to be able to correct what's going on with the hamstring or
if we you know have a shoulder issue and we don't know what's going on when you're throwing the ball
it's really hard to understand exactly what to do in order to correct it and you know it seems like
what they're doing is just like hey let's just shut you down and to me uh i would say that's
not the the grace approach to it just because i think that the issue is something that can
be corrected by having a controlled environment in the actual throat right so if we look to see
this at the beginning you know where the kind of intro part and we could see him coming through and
we could see just not as much internal rotation right so we talk a lot about getting that pinky
all the way up and all the way around right being able to really turn that hand there and it looks
like he just doesn't do that very much as he's actually finishing the throw he more comes across
the body which is going to be something that activates more of the lat ears from from behind
he has that high release he has a great position of the wrist the wrist looks really neutral i like
the position of the ball compared to the head you know he has a lot of things that he does really
really well in the throw but again he just doesn't get great internal rotation here's another view
so you can see how he's coming a little bit more across the throat so uh and you can see stays with
that elbow bent too so it doesn't fully extend that arm and so it ends up happening here you know
if you're coming more across on on the throw right you're going to be activating a little bit more
of your pecs and the muscles that are going to also have to assist in deceleration are going
to be your kind of lateral stabilizer so when you activate the pec you have to do horizontal
adduction when you're coming in and the opposite muscles or abduction coming out are going to be
active in that that part and the brachialis medial delt those end up being big parts of being able to
really slow that down and so i think because you know again this is my opinion i'm not a doctor
i'm not somebody that that you know is nearly as qualified as the people that are actually in the
show but the only thing that is a difference is that i work with so many quarterbacks and look
at so many different types of throws and and try to be able to assess and analyze and give you the
most amount of information that i can based off of my background in exercise science and biomechanics
and what's happening here is there's a reliance on the the pec right and what happens is when
you're going through the throne you're relying so much on that lateral movement and and not really
creating any type of internal rotation which the patch also does as well it just ends up not only
being a pec movement it's internal rotation of the shoulder where you know really the pec is
primarily the only muscle muscle that's going to be activating on that horizontal high doctor
so when you're coming across that really puts a lot of stress there if you can get into a little
bit more internal rotation in the arm it'll take some of that pressure off the lateral part of the
shoulder and put it a little bit more into the actual rotator cuff which you want to be using
as you're throwing and i'm sure he does a lot of rotator cuff exercises as well i'm gonna quickly
interrupt this video just to say if you like the information so far go ahead and click that thumbs
up subscribe the channel down below and we're gonna hop right back in the video and again so you
can see how he's coming across he's not getting all the way up over the top and getting that pinky
all the way through and i think that ends up in and he has a great wrist flick you know it's not
an issue of the wrist it's not an issue of i think the load right his loading how he's going through
the throat looks really good he works a lot on the disassociation i know he works with the 3d2b guys
and i know he works on disassociation he has a really good disassociation in that lower body and
gets those that lower body into the throw well it's just how he ends up decelerating
here's a good another good view of how when he's coming through he really doesn't get all the way
over into that internal location that we like to see keep that elbow bent and and doesn't get
to pick you up and i think that's causing that overuse there and to me just getting into you
know i i've talked about this with people where you can just get you know empty can exercises
right here and then getting to that position just going here lifting up right and and being able to
strengthen that uh laying on your stomach and and doing like light dumbbell presses i even taking a
dowel getting full range of motion so you know that would be to me the way to correct this and
then also when throwing you know just seeing if getting a little bit more internal rotation would
be a possible thing and just doing it again in a very very controlled environment right so not
something where he has to throw the ball 60 yards but throw it 10 yards and make it so he has to
or you know just have them start to get controlled internal rotation controlled extension you know
just be able to work a little bit on the actual arm because obviously this is coming from an
overuse issue within the shoulder right if you it was only thrown for um you know one or two
practices before this started happening and so obviously it's the overuse thing right there's
something happening within its mechanics that are creating an overused situation that if it's not
addressed it's not going to be something that'll just go away by heat and ice and
things like that it has to be addressed in the mechanics and that's why i put a huge emphasis
on correcting mechanics whether it comes to improving your accuracy your throwing distance
your you know ability to get through an injury all of that really goes into what are your mechanics
and how can we correct and adjust the body to be able to assist you in the throw and i think that
you know really getting some clarity there could be very very beneficial for you know dak moving
forward and understanding you know what it is that he could do to make sure this is an issue moving
forward now you know i don't know if there's going to be something that he can watch and see and even
think about but um if you do have something that is bothering you up here think about
getting more internal rotation in the shoulder right just being able to work on that even doing
like the towel stretch we have the the hand back behind i'll put a little video here right now um
where we're doing that and that ends up being a great way to build up internal rotation as well
all those small things end up really being a huge benefit when it comes to improving something like
you know brachialis issues or even medial delt issues in the throw so as always guys if you like
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able to help you in understanding what you could do within your mechanics you've seen some great
improvements by guys that send in their videos and really staying consistent with at the end of
the day guys if you're consistent as a quarterback and can send me in videos all the time or at least
like two to three times a week we're going to be able to make significant improvements within
the throw because we'll be able to get you some drills some exercises some ways to be able to get
some clarity on what are the differences between your current throwing motion in comparison to what
your throwing motion can be and should be in order to maximize efficiency at the end of the day guys
the reason that the top quarterbacks are who they are you know talking about josh allen
tom brady patrick holmes even dak prescott is somebody that i would say from an efficiency
standpoint is very efficient but if you have one little thing off it could end up causing pain it
cannot end up affecting your performance it could end up making it so you're inaccurate
and so really trying to control that the best that you can is the name of the game and i think
the throwing breakdowns are a great way to be able to do that just to be able to connect and we can
connect on zoom as well to ensure that you're going to get the most out of your performance
and i just have seen how the process is working if you worked with so many quarterbacks and know
that in terms of value you're going to get so much value working with my program and my process that
it'll be unmatched compared to either whether you get the the breakdown the program whatever
i'm going to deliver your results i guarantee it everything is guaranteed if you don't like the
results you can always get your money back but you know big thing is let's get you get
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in order to get started and as always guys thanks for watching we'll talk to you soon