hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're gonna be breaking down what happened to cam
newton i'm sure there's a lot of people out there that are wondering what has happened to cam newton
since he was really one of the best quarterbacks in the nfl until now where he's really having a
hard time throwing a simple out route or comeback so we want to go a little bit more into his
mechanics to see what are some of the differences between when he was one of the top quarterbacks in
the nfl in comparison to now so as always if you like the information go ahead and click the thumbs
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so on the right we have a video from cam newton's mvp year and then here on the left we have some
video from earlier on in the year and i just went into cam newton's highlights and so this isn't
necessarily uh bad throws that he's he's making but you know the difference between when i've seen
them skip some of the balls into the ground in comparison to you know just as general mechanics
i see a lot of the same similarities so i didn't think that we necessarily needed to look into
exactly what are a bad ball in in particular all right so anyway we'll go ahead and hop into or
we'll start the video here so you know one of the big things that is just to me not right with the
mechanics to start is you can see when he steps he really steps off to the side a ton when he
goes into his throwing motion so he's all the way kind of face over to the left and then he tries
to throw back across the body and even this one is in a very accurate you know he has a receiver
that's pretty wide open he throws it so he has to kind of dive and and in order to catch it and one
of the things that you know looking back i'm a big panther fan so when he was playing for the
panthers you know obviously i'm a fan of everybody that plays for the panthers and looking back
you know when he had that mvp season he had devon functions to throw to he had kevin benjamin
kelvin benjamin he had greg olsen he had a bunch of big targets that were able to pick up a or or
had a big wingspan so we had a lot more area to be inaccurate and these receivers would bail him out
where now for the the patriots he has a bunch of really small receivers and so he has to be
a lot more accurate and i think this kind of exposes him a little bit uh with his accuracy but
you know because when he goes back here he still ends up stepping off to the side a good amount
even on this throw right you can see his feet over here they're basically straight
uh but what happens is you know and he's he has that that bad habit of dropping that elbow down
as he's going through the throw but here he does he gets a little bit more extra rotation
right so he lets that arm get full range where here he's not able to get as much extra rotation
within his throw right so he just doesn't have the same bendability as he did before but overall you
know what i think is his biggest issue is he just immediately opens up right so in this position
he's already he never gets any disassociation within his hips and his shoulders right we we
talk a lot about being able to open up through the hips first keep those shoulder closed and then
use that rotation within the the upper body to take some of the pressure off of the arm as well
as to help you and honing in exactly where it is that you're throwing you're trying to throw it
makes it so you can more effectively get your elbow facing straight ahead right but you can
see for him what he has to do is like basically turn all the way out to the side and then as
he's extending that arm you can see his body's going this way and then the arm is going that
way so he's basically moving in two different directions he he did this a little bit before
but he was able to get that that wrist around so he can get everything facing straight ahead
and he had a little bit more external rotation and again he also had bigger targets so i think
there's a combination of a few different things that happened here that made it so he was able to
maybe get away with a little bit more right because again you can see here
look at how he immediately just kind of opens up in his his whole front shoulder
right and this one is as an example where he's throwing more to the to the right here but i just
wanted to show you another example he's basically using all his arm right so notice here he turns
open his hips right turns open his upper body so you know in this point he really can't create
very much force from the body the only momentum that he ends up really getting is that like lean
over the side and that's why when you see him really try to create a lot of force on the ball
he really just like falls over a ton with his head right he almost like looks over to the sideline
or or you know way over to the side as he's trying to throw and put a ton of velocity behind a ball
which is not going to be effective right i mean he is one of the biggest overall athletes in you know
the quarterback position and so he's able to get away with a lot more just because of his pure size
but you know in terms of being able to to really make a big difference in improving his mechanics
you know i would just start with being able to just get his his hips and his shoulders to be
able to create some level of disassociation some level of rotation in the lower body while keeping
that front shoulder closed to make it so that he's able to
generate some type of first hip extension right we talk about that a lot with like patrick mahomes
he does a great job of creating hip extension so he pushes off that back leg really well you can
see here you know camden is not really pushing off at all right he's getting rotation but he's
not pushing off here once he already opens up now he kind of pushes off and tries to create
this rotation at the very very end but by now it's too late what he just does what his body does is
uses that that kind of rotation that last movement to help push his body over that way more right so
he's getting that push but that's still leading his body to go over to the side while he's trying
to throw the ball over here right at least here he's able to kind of turn and get his whole body
all the way through and rotate through so you know i think what ended up happening is by by trying to
stop his momentum right so so before he would go and get his whole momentum into the to the throw
and really get full rotation onto that front leg where now that it's like he's stopping his
momentum or rotation as he's coming through and he starts to kind of do that hitch step like
an aaron rodgers type hip hitch step but that stops his overall momentum as he comes through
and i think that's one of the big things that really impact his overall accuracy before i
think he would come all the way through with his arm all the way through with his body and
so i think it would make it so he could at least maintain a good amount of force
within his his overall momentum of the body where now he's just using basically all arm
and you know real or his his neck a little bit his head and his neck a little bit kind
of falling over to the side but other than that he's not really using very much of his you know
um core lower body you know hip extension anything like that to be able to really maximize the throw
so yeah i was thinking that a lot of people would probably curious in a video like this just because
you know obviously we've seen a lot of cam newton's successes and then we're now we're seeing
a lot of uh struggles with cam noon so i want to be able to just provide some insight on why that
could be happening this isn't you know 100 uh of the reason but just some things that we could see
that you can potentially change and hopefully if you guys see some of these mistakes within your
own mechanics you would be able to adjust that yourself so as always guys thanks for watching
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