hey what's up everyone Morey Croson here and today we're going to be going over
some tips and tricks for quarterbacks we're going to start the video right now
all right the first thing we're going to go in depth into is going to be the wrist and i've
really been able to make a lot of big improvements within the wrist lately and it's really easy to
make some fast improvements if you're able to understand what it is that you want to be doing
with the hand and with the wrist in order to get the most out of your throw and really to
be able to optimize the wrist flick which is many quarterbacks to talk about is the most important
part of being able to generate force within the throat and so you know one of the the things that
i do is i do try to keep my index finger a little bit higher up in general and that lets me get my
thumb a little bit lower on the ball which i think helps me in being able to have a little bit more
action through the arm which has been beneficial for me obviously we're going to all hold the
ball a little bit different but i just wanted to show you that first and then from there with the
the resistance of doing and it's different for depending on the load right so for me you know
i go more here and i get that nose of the football facing back or get the ball to be parallel to the
ground and then from there i i rotate here but some guys just kind of come
up and through which is not a bad thing as well you know you could really do either one
but when you go and you load and then come through what ends up being the most important part here
is how well we're able to transition the pinky to coming and facing straight ahead right so
uh what you know the the guys that just kind of come up right in through do is allows them
to get that pinky to get face to head a little bit sooner where when you go and you load back
here and then come through from there it takes a little bit more time but that additional movement
makes it so you can have a little bit more force onto the actual throw so here it's going to be
a little bit more optimal for speed right where here's going to be a little bit more optimal for
power production okay we're going to quickly interrupt this video just to say if you like
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in the video now while that's important part to be able to understand with the throw what
really ends up being the most important part is as you're getting that pinky to go and fade straight
ahead and whether you're throwing the deep throw where you know you're going to have the nose of
the football a little bit more upright but we still want to be able to get to a point where
you know the the forearm ends up being pretty even with the elbow during the release you don't want
to be releasing here even during the deep ball we want to be more in that position so then we can
allow our wrist to actually get some action on it if we release here we really don't give ourselves
much opportunity to get very much wrist behind the throw or again getting to that position where
we're in a straight line there really makes us so now we can actually finish the throw with a little
bit more force behind the actual wrist obviously we need the lower body and the core and all that
as well but to focus primarily on the hand here that ends up being a super important part
is making sure that we're able to you know get that wrist all the way to a position where it's
right even with that elbow so the next thing that we're going to go into is going to be the ability
to actually flick the ball right so we get to the point where now our the pinky is facing straight
ahead and then from here we really want to be able to point the ball and as we're pointing with that
that finger we also want to be able to flick that wrist down right so simultaneously it goes
from an action where we're in neutral right some people go here some people just kind of come up so
maintaining a neutral wrist either way we don't want to end up you know doing any type of these
movements at that point we want to just maintain a neutral wrist position and then from here we're
going to be rotating right rotating the wrist making sure it's facing straight ahead still
maintaining a good neutral wrist position right i'm not bending side to side here as i'm trying
transitioning there's a little bit of a time where i end up going through some some bend but i wonder
right away get right back on top of the ball and make it so my pinky's facing straight ahead
and then from there i want to really be able to allow that index finger to be the last part of
the ball that my hand is touching and then i also want to be able to really put a big emphasis on
flicking the ball i see a lot of people that end up kind of being here as they release instead of
there right so we really want to make sure we're getting to that position boom right and we're also
rotating creating internal rotation within the shoulder as we end up releasing the ball i'm gonna
give you a few different examples here with a few different angles to be able to help you in seeing
it really being able to understand how you want to be able to initially load the ball right what what
position your wrist wants to be in there whether you go here or straight up or you want to optimize
for speed for power and then also making sure that you're able to very fast and efficiently get that
pinky facing straight ahead and then we want to be able to flick the wrist hard and get that rotation
all through those phases are really important to work on and if you could do those really well
it makes a huge difference in your ability to be accurate and be able to put force on the ball
now with that said i have a few quarterbacks that have reached out to me that have been asking about
creating some type of hip exercise and so there's really two main exercises that i like to do
with the hips to be able to help you in better utilizing the lower body one is just being able to
really widen your feet a lot shift onto your back leg and then shift onto your front leg and throw
the ball right and work on being able to really shift that weight through and then the other is
just working on the rotation right and being able to work on the rotation comes from dude i just
like doing this exercise where i'm i'm actively turning and creating disassociation with my upper
body and then actively trying to rotate with my lower body and i really like to go both ways with
this so i get i feel really loose going through this way creating rotation it's not as easy
going this way but i still like to be able to get some degree of movement on both sides
and the idea here is when you're throwing we want to be able to really create a lot of fast rotation
and push out of that lower body in order to make it so we can really maximize the throw
right so we got to be able to get that lower body going quickly to be able to get the hand
all the way through and get the wrist to be able to be nice and active during the throw as well
and then the last one is a question about when we're throwing a little bit more of an underneath
type of route when it comes to like drags or you know arrows hitting a check down right so
a lot of times what that ends up happening is we're looking downfield right we we set up the
underneath routes to be able to hopefully create some type of opening downfield so we're looking
they're defending everything well now we have to be able to check it down quickly and a lot of
times we end up having to throw that off balance because the rush is coming or there's a guy in
front of our face or they're in awkward position and so just being able to throw the ball well
when you know you're not necessarily in a great position from a loading perspective to be able to
get yourself set up to be able to to shift their weight and everything like that and this goes into
the wrist and that's why i wanted to really go deep into that is because a lot of times
you end up having struggling with you know this action doesn't have to do with how restricted
with the lower body you know we should be pretty quick at being able to get our weight going there
but it ends up being the consistency of how we're able to get our wrist through so big thing when
i say when you're throwing any type of underneath route or anything where you're not able to really
step into it make sure you're getting that wrist all the way at the top and able to come through
from there and that ends up being the primary focus of that throw right we don't want to end up
shifting our body weight you know it's not like we're throwing a 15-yard comeback where we need
to be able to really drive off that back leg and generate a ton of force on this we want to be able
to almost make it a little bit more of a softer type of a throw or you know just something that's
going to be able to get there with a good amount of velocity but not a crazy amount of velocity
right and a lot of that time you know not being able to utilize your legs very much
we really have to be able to utilize our wrists and make sure that we have a lot of consistency
in where the pinky ends up facing as we're as we're going through the throat and how well
we're actually able to flick the ball so those two things end up being the primary thing that
will help you in improving that part of the throw so as always guys thanks for watching the video if
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as always i recommend checking out that drill breakdown we've been able to really make some big
improvements with a lot of quarterbacks here and the last few months to be able to
really improve their mechanics in a very fast efficient way obviously if you want to do the
throw program a little bit more commitment we'll be happy to be able to help you out with that but
there's a lot of guys that are in season right now so it's a little bit more difficult to be able to
transition through that or the breakdown ends up being something that is very very easy to utilize
even if you're sending over game film or anything like that i mean i highly recommend you guys doing
that uh just because we could really focus on how you can make improvements and adjustments
within your mechanics and even though it's a season doesn't mean that you still have areas to
improve in areas to focus on especially if you're really struggling and need to be able you know if
you're sophomore junior really need to be able to get some great film out there and need to be
able to really work on your mechanics this is an important time to be able to do that or even if
you're a youth quarterback where you know you just want to be able to really have a lot of success
in your games you know going in and breaking down your film to be able to understand what
you need to be doing off the drop backs off the hitches throwing it to the left throwing it to the
right getting a deeper throw all that will end up being super important and you can find all that in
our throat breakdown you can go and check the link in the description in order to get
started with that as always guys thanks for watching and we'll talk to you soon