hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today
we'll be talking about how to hold the football or start the video right now
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break down your video let's make you into the quarterback i know you can become
all right so this is something that you know in some of the recent breakdowns like always we've
been going a lot more in detail about just because you know i think when it comes to being able to
really add a lot of distance into your throw you have to be able to understand where you want to
have your your wrist as you are releasing the ball and you know there's a lot of guys we do different
types of wrist drills wrist exercises things like that to help you in you know getting to the right
position with the wrist but you know i think some of the times what ends up happening is you know
guys don't really understand exactly how to be able to hold the ball in order to make it so they
could have some consistent success and so we'll go over some of the things that i've been seeing here
recently that i think are contributing to you know not being able to put as much consistency within
their the throw distance or you know maybe making it so it's harder to be
able to get your wrist into you know the correct position and the first thing that i would say is
you know when we're going in and trying to grab the football we want to be able to be as a neutral
position of the wrist as possible right so you don't want to end up especially you don't want
to end up being too much here because once we're here with the football so these are going to be
the guys that are going to have a little bit lower thumb position and a little bit higher
index finger position right so i'll get a little bit closer so if your thumb's a little bit low
or your index finger is too close to the tip now what that's going to do it's going to make it so
you're holding the ball like this so that's going to make it more difficult to be able to get to
that neutral position you know overall and there's a lot of guys especially that have you know maybe
bigger hands that could feel comfortable with at first but i'm saying like you know as you're
coming through and going through that throw i see where you just end up being here and you release
the ball here right where we want to be able to get more on top of the football here and be able
to get you know that release position when we're throwing the ball 20 yards and even when we're
throwing the ball deep because now you know when you re position your wrist and you're able to get
you know here you can still you know throw a deeper pass like this but when you are stuck
like in this position then when you try to throw that deeper throw you're gonna end up getting just
way too much air under it right you want to be able to get a you know a lot of velocity behind
it as well as some height to it so you know getting in that neutral position or maybe even
slightly you know again guys with bigger hands you could be a little bit more you know kind of
forward with your wrist which is just going to be you know that pinky almost being a little bit
you know down away from the laces i do think it's important overall though to be able to have that
that pinky somewhat close to the laces you don't want to end up being too turned here where that
pinky gets really really low so you also don't want to be too high with that thumb where now
that pinky ends up being really low overall on the football right because now that's going to also
do the same type of thing you could be in you know somewhat of a neutral position there but
if that pinky ends up being too low just based off how you're spread out now you're going to end up
having some some more of a grip issue and not be able to have that same type of gap that you want
to have you know in with your hands and you're going through the actual throw i mean you know it
could work out to some degree if you have really big hands but for the most part you want to be you
know again with some degree of a neutral position and you also want to make sure that that wrist can
go and and fully uh flex or get into a somewhat flexed position you'll be able to maintain the
you know grip when you're doing that right so when you're here you don't want to have any you know
too much flexion here or you know feel like you have to you'll hold in in this position too much
we want to be neutral right with that that wrist and then you know from there that is going to end
up being a great solid point where you can then you know take everything and and apply it into
the underneath rows the mid mid throws and and the deep throw so just make sure you know that you're
getting you're able to consistently get a wrist position where the hand is is neutral i really
try to spread out my fingers the best that i can to make it so i could really get a good grip on
the ball you know most of the gap that's happening here you know is going to be kind of index finger
base right it's going to be here there's not too much gap that's happening there right and and then
from there you know make sure that you have a good grip on you know this part of the knuckles
right so you can see you know i think that there ends up being sometimes where you don't have as
much pressure on you know that like last you know third or half or you know for your thumb you'd
say half for the other fingers that's going to be the third so that last third wants to have a good
connection with the football right you don't want to have an inability to feel in those areas right
so you have to have a good feel that that top part of the thumb because sometimes i'll see
people kind of come off with the thumb or come off with some of their like index fingers not
have as much grip with those index fingers you want or the top of the fingers right
you want to have a great connection with that top part of the finger to really make sure that
as you're going through you're able to maintain a consistent grip right once when you lose
a grip it's because one of these fingers start to come off right so you've got to be able to push
well through those and again extend right extend through those fingers extend through the thumb
so you can grab as much of the football that you can and then the pressure ends up being there
and that makes it so then you can get that gap right that's what allows there to be the gap is
the pressure within the the fingers right so the more i grab there better position within
the football right so if you're if you're going and you're just grabbing and not putting very
much pressure in the top part of the fingers then that might will that will end up making
it so then you're going to try not to grab as much of the football to be able to get
more of of a grip which isn't good you should be trying to grab as much of the football as you can
but still maintain that grip by being able to push through you know that top third of the finger so
that should be really really beneficial for some of you guys that might be you know struggling with
getting into consistent wrist position because now it'll be a lot easier to be able to feel
how your wrist is going when you can start to be able to connect i think a little bit more with how
you're actually grabbing the football and making sure that you're able to you know have a great
um again grip connection those are the things that you're looking to try to get here and and
being able to establish what is the you know best way for you to hold the football and i would say
you know for a lot of you guys you can make some some small tweaks into you know how you're holding
the ball and it could really make a big difference to you know how far you're throwing it or how much
velocity you're adding onto the football so just be aware of you know that particular part of
you know how you are picking up the ball every single time right there wants to be you know as
much consistency there and you want to be able to utilize some of that those concepts to make sure
that um you know you are adding distance to your throw so if there's things that are happening here
where you know you're not able to consistently feel maybe your index come off of the football
or maybe you know you're throwing with more of you know your ring finger or you know you're really in
this u position there could be realignment of your grip that could really make a big difference here
um you know as you're continuing to move forward so i hope that makes sense to you i hope it ends
up being beneficial if it is go ahead and click that thumbs up down below subscribe the channel if
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that 360 program guys i really think that that's going to be a great thing for you you to be able
to you know utilize to help you in improving your throwing distance at the end of the day
being able to throw the ball 60 yards is going to be a critical part of your overall development as
a quarterback if you can't get to you know above 55 you know into that 60 65 yard range and you are
a sophomore junior or something like that you know put more focus on your mechanics put more of an
emphasis on you know really trying to understand how to be able to properly syncquest your body
we're getting guys that are getting really really good results i'm going to post a video here in the
next couple days for you guys to be able to see some of those results and you know really get an
idea of what you could do in your in your training overall because you know if you are not putting
the time into actually throwing the ball further i think you're doing yourself a huge dessert i think
that was a big mistake that i made when i was in high school was you know not focused enough on
how i was how far i was throwing the football and was putting too much of a focus on like accuracy
and you know timing or or you know being able to three step drop that stuff's important for sure
but what's going to get you onto the biggest stage it's going to get you exposure to on on
the highest levels is going to be your throwing velocity is going to be your throwing distance
and so you want to make sure you're putting some time into that this is not something that's going
to take away from what you're doing in in terms of you know quarterback development this is only
going to add to your overall exposure so you know don't think that by doing this you're not going to
be able to work with some of the other you know quarterback coaches or do the things that you
might be doing you know on the weekends or things like that this is only going to help you get more
exposure and help you be able to throw the ball with more consistency and understand what is
it you need to work on and and those breakdowns really make a big difference with it i get that
all the time where it's like it helps so much to be able to see it slow down in a few different
angles and i do this all the time guys so it's not like something i'm going and guessing at
it's something i'm constantly doing so you can really get a lot of great information
and get a lot of great understanding and a few simple tweaks could easily add you know
five yards on the throw you know just getting guys to get going within the first week or two
they're already talking about how they're adding yards already talking about adding
distances so you know as you continue through over 12 weeks you know if you can gain another
you know yard or two every single week think about how about how much farther you can throw
the football overall so i wouldn't be talking so much about it if i didn't believe in what the
results are and how much better it can make you as a quarterback so go ahead and check out the
link down below in order to find out more about that and looking forward to talking to you soon