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below to the right for updates to new videos hey what's up everyone morey croson here from
the performance lab of california and we have another new breakdown for you today on footwork
and timing and i figured who better to do a footwork timing video
on than tom brady just because that is what he's made a career out of is throwing on time
and having excellent overall footwork within the pocket um you know not at somebody that's
super fast overall or super um naturally gifted from an athletic standpoint but
somebody that's been able to really perfect the ins and outs of having the timing and the good
footwork to make it so he's able to be successful in the nfl so um we'll start here and this is just
an excellent example of great timing where you could see it's a like a play action pass here
and then from there he gets three steps plants that that front leg down the ground and then
delivers the the throw there puts a lot on the overall ball just what is great about this is
one two three gets that foot down and is you know seeing what he wants to see
gets that foot in the ground and is able to deliver right on time
something that is really really underrated in my opinion being able to do that effectively here's
one where it's only a three-man rush so it's not as much going on here but we could see him do a
great job of go through his progression on the left side not like what he sees on the left side
progress back say in rhythm same timing always keeping his his feet underneath him right he's
always his head's always kind of in the middle of his body always keeps gives a wider base
keeps the feet underneath them has a nice hitch to be able to climb the pocket climb the pocket
still keeping his feet underneath them though still couldn't keep a great
control of his overall body and is able to deliver the throw i mean just such a
excellent overall example of how to do it the right way
cool there's another one
here's one where he feels the rush again the three-man rush
climbs up in the pocket here so excellent job keeping all of his
keeping his feet underneath him notice how he climbs the pocket like that um and is able to
keep his eyes downfield right there's a lot of guys where once they start getting feeling
there's a dress right here they're going to try to go this way or they're going to try to go this way
but he does a great job of going right down the center climbing the pocket and keeping his head
head downfield just using the hitch instead of just trying to run forward there's a lot
of guys that just put the ball down and start running as well and he does a great
job being able to keep everything in front of him as he's able to adjust to the throw
that ball was a great ball just so you guys can see it
this wasn't necessarily a great timing route but this is just an abs
so here's a great example where he has to react right so it's a bit of a trick play
boom boom he notices oh shoot this guy's going to get around really quickly flips his hips look at
how good he does that flips his hips really quick starts climbing the pocket delivers the throw and
is keeping his head downfield the whole time i mean that's the big thing that separates him
is that he does such a great job of being able to keep his eyes down field all this
chaos is going on and he's still able to keep his eyes downfield and deliver a great ball
you know he also does a great job of being able to influence how the line is able to pick up
the blocks based off of what he's doing here's another one goes back has to be able to adjust
and delivers the ball right instead of having to run get around here he does a good job being able
to really quickly go from oh all of his weights going backwards has to react really quick keeps
his the spine angle going forward climbs up in the pocket boom boom hitch twice keeps his
head aligned with his in the middle part of his legs and is able to deliver a great throw so
um what what i think what is a great takeaway here is you know being able to to utilize your
alignment to be able to improve the job that the that i'm sorry you use your footwork to improve
the job that the alignment are doing i mean you just got to do that by being able to be very very
active with the feet active with the eyes active with how you're feeling everything going on around
you and you know the big thing is just not you know not being too quick to just drop the ball
down and start running to take off and if you feel pressure coming from the outside or around the
tackles to be able to step up and keep your eyes downfield you know those are the two things that i
see a lot is that if there's pressure coming from the outside guys either you know drop the ball and
start running forward or they'll try to run the opposite way um you know the best thing to be
able to do is be able to hitch up into the to the pocket there and then if you're feeling if there
is you know some some running space sometimes it's better to just hitch into that hitch up into the
pocket rather than just dropping and running the ball uh as soon as you start to feel a little
bit of pressure so you know that's i obviously i know that's easier said than done as a quarterback
you know i know that it's a yeah there's a lot going on in there so you know so it's easier
to sit here and watch and say how good tom brady is doing than it is to actually get in there and
do it yourself so um i understand that that it's a it's a difficult challenge but it's something that
if you want to get to that top level some of you got to be able to improve in your actual game so
yeah guys if you have any questions let me know you could reach out to mo morey morey m-o-r-e-y
your performance lab dot com this would be you know we have football footwork
stuff in our programs we have mechanics headquarter programs we have uh workouts
in our programs drills in our programs we have a lot of things that we offer for your
quarterbacks now that you guys are going to the off-season let me know if you guys
have any questions about the throw program or anything like that and we'll talk to you soon