hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we're gonna do
another breakdown here today on Russell Wilson this was a couple weeks ago against my Carolina
Panthers he threw for three touchdowns one of his better I think like 300 something yards one of his
better overall games of the of the season so far so that I would go ahead and do a breakdown of it
unfortunately it's against my team but want to be able to help out everybody watch and so one
of the big things that stands out with Russell Wilson one of the reason why I did it break down
to him as well as a breakdown on Drew Brees is you know these are the guys that are much more
like the you know the I guess the the average guy out there right these they're not crazy tall
they're not crazy I mean Drew Brees good athlete Russell it's a good athlete but they're not you
know over-the-top athletic they just have good clean you know the performing games they have
good clean mechanics they're very efficient and so I know there's a lot of guys out there that
want to be able to better replicate what these guys do and I and I think by being able to do
these breakdowns you could really connect and see what it is that that makes these guys really
NFL quarterbacks and topper for me and I felt quarterbacks at that so we'll go and hop right
into it from there so seeing Russell Wilson here you know one of the things that that's
unique to him specifically is you know and maybe not unique to him but is a unique thing compared
to a lot of the time quarterbacks is that he's very very stiff on that front leg and he's very
dominant and moving his trunk so notice as he's coming through you know he goes and he drops that
ball pretty low he has really well a really long release and it's interesting I was talking to one
of the our pitchers that we work with and he was telling me he no plays professionally and I was
asking him you know another not not very tall guy but I was talking to him about how as a picture
what do you think makes it so even though you're not as tall you're able to still create a lot of
velocity and he said well you know really two things that I think is that even though I'm not
very tall I'm able to create a pretty long stride right and the other thing is that I also have a
pretty long release so I go through a pretty big range of motion so watching really drew brees to
Drew Brees kind of drops the ball as well and watching Russell Wilson you know they kind of
drops that ball a little bit as he starts you know brings that ball pretty low but then as he
comes up he really puts a lot of emphasis into bending with that that trunk get he's giving a
lot of movement going with the truck he doesn't do as much as we see a lot where they push off that
drive that back leg leg really hard and really you know get a lot a lot of rotation within their hips
he's much more on the side of just being very stable he has a pretty long stride overall very
strong very straight leg here but as he's coming forward he's also getting a lot of been there in
in the spine and he's also creating a lot of pull back with that front arm he really pulls back hard
there and the more I see quarterbacks and more it's like that front arm is very very important
for you to overall succeed as a quarterback so I'm going here now we'll go to the next throw this one
he really had to drill it in this one is a really good one because he were able to see a good angle
here and he had to create a lot of force here so notice what he does he goes in and he [ __ ] and
he really opens up that shoulder good amount in and we can still see that he drops that ball at
the very beginning so he really puts a big load in there and then from there he falls over the
side a big a good amount and really rotates all the way through you can see how like he gets that
his whole body into that throat rotates that that back leg off the ground and really drives through
with with that front leg so notice how he really is pushing off hard with that front front foot
in his overall throw and then also creating a lot of rotation a lot of side warded side movement as
he's he's throwing and he's using both of those things said to generate a lot of force which is
very overall interesting to me because it's a lot it's very unorthodox I would say from what a lot
of quarterbacks do and really a lot of a lot of the coaching that I see we're here with in the
the quarterback community and you know someone's like the long straw and really the long release
man also you know even with me I'm not a huge guy with you having that that front leg to lock
down you see he he's able to obviously succeed by having that front leg locked out and the reason
he's able to do that is because he gets that a lot of forward movement see how much he really
bends forward with that spine so he's creating a lot of rotation with that upper body and by doing
that he get up creates a lot of whipping and by letting that ball really go through a lot of range
of motion this whole time right here he's putting a huge stretch on that on that PEC and and really
making it so that muscle has to work very hard he has to be really really strong in his chest and in
his pecs and he also has to be very stable within his ankles and his hips in order for him to throw
like this because he's really leaning over the side and really has to create a lot of stability
within those areas in order for his spine to be able to rotate and create as much force as it
does and him to be able to really react off of that or absorb all of that overall torque that
he's creating here's the last one here for this one because we haven't done this yet let's have
let's go through the full the full throw this is a deep ball okay kind of skin in the area getting
that safety to get out of the way and then makes the decision and goes and and that's you know last
thing that I want to talk about here on this one is really just the effectiveness of the being able
to scan through see somebody that's open make a decision and get the ball out of his hand so as
soon as he makes that decision boom drops you know gets out that front foot down again a little bit
longer stride but now is able to generate a lot of overall torque in how he does that without
creating a lot of force off the back leg again just has to do with how much movement he's able
to create with the spine cuz he goes and steps out as far then when he's coming through looking how
much he's rotating in his body and not also from you know rotating to the left and his spine but
also bending forward with this point so when as he's coming through he's not ending up you
know super over the side here he's coming through and his body's coming out coming forward a lot it
spines moving forward a lot as he's transitioning through so look at how much his body really comes
from here all the way forward all the way through and so he does he uses a good amount of his arm he
uses a good amount of his spine as he's doing he has a lot of again stability within his
lower body's right thinking his lower body but he doesn't create a lot of full you know like patrick
mahomes creates a lot of force out of lower body and rogers do breeze those guys create a lot of
force out of their lower body russell wilson he's very stable in his lower body and really creates
a lot of force out of his his upper body and you know knowing that his hand side is really big you
know I'd say he creates a lot out of his shoulder elbow and hand and how he does that is he just
kind of drops that ball he's a little bit longer release and then most but he's still very quick
and getting the ball out you know it's not like he you know you can watch him be like his oh wow
he has a really you know takes a long time to get the the ball of his hand he's just very efficient
you know what we talked about with all all these top quarterbacks is you know he's not getting the
ball back behind his head that's really the big thing is you know we can't have you don't want
to lift that ball at all don't let that ball get back behind your head keep it all in front of you
not really in front of you but right to the side of you you know you don't don't let that ball get
too far back behind your head you got to be able to get that elbow back and get that elbow right
back through or else you're gonna lose a ton of efficiency in the throw and it's gonna also mess
up your timing I mean I think that's a big thing that we see with guys that end up having that kind
of that elongated movement pattern where they they lift up the ball is you end up just throwing off
the timing of how your body shifting and being able to sync all that up is crucial in order to
maximize your overall performance quarterback alright guys so as always thanks for watching
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handling doing well and not well I think will work wonders and your ability to really maximize your
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