hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we'll
be going over how to throw a football for beginners and restart the video right now
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quick we break down your video let's make you into the quarterback i know you can become
all right so if this is the first time you're watching my videos i do breakdowns on quarterbacks
to be able to get a better understanding of how to throw the football and really be able
to do it at the highest level today we're gonna go really into some of the basics that are critical
when it comes to throwing the football further or just being able to throw a spiral
and what are some of the key mistakes that end up being made with quarterbacks i'm all the
time getting breakdowns and watching videos and really comparing top quarterbacks in comparison
to you know youth quarterbacks or people that are struggling from a mechanic perspective
whether it causes short shoulders or too long of a release or not being able to the ball further
a lot of those things those key concepts we're going to be going over today so we'll go ahead
and hop right into the video here so this is myself throwing a couple days ago and really
over the past like six weeks i've been able to make some adjustments within the throw that has
really helped me out a lot and i do that just to be able to make it so i can constantly get better
at being able to coach it so you guys will end up getting better yourself so the main thing that
i've been trying to do is really limit the amount of uh time that i go through the release a lot of
problems that i see with quarterbacks ends up happening from one how we're gripping the ball
okay so it's important when it comes to gripping the football is we want to make sure that we have
plenty of width on the ball right we don't want to end up having our fingers really close together we
want to be able to spread those fingers out you can see my index finger is getting close to the
top my pinky finger is past like the middle part of the laces there and that just allows me to
have more grip more control of the football but at the same time i don't want to end up getting
a position where my wrist ends up breaking you can see how my wrist is flat here i see a lot of times
when quarterbacks are getting into this position they're already broken within their wrists which
means they're like bent here all right and one of the things that's important to notice here
is i actually tried to keep the nose of the football straight down here so in my mind this is
how i was trying to throw was really more like a dan marino type of throw right so you can see here
how he goes back see how he keeps that nose of football down that's really what i was trying to
do here is just try to keep my that wrist nice and clocked and keep that nose and football down the
best that i can and then be able to come right up and through from there right and one of the things
that he talks about is being able to just come up and out right that was a big concept for him
and while that is important to understand there is a loading process that we have to go through
and when you do that it's a quick action of being able to get that elbow up and getting the hand
away from the body to be able to stretch out that pec so this is an important part of being able to
throw the football well is we have to be able to load the football effectively right and when you
watch and i recommend if you're trying to learn how to throw the football you want to take some
video to see what it is that you're doing and be able to compare it to you know some of the best
guys you can compare to this video if you want because it's going to be pretty slowed down but
you can see here the nose of the football wants to be facing either straight back or straight
up or slightly off to the side we don't want that nose of football to be going up and we also don't
want the nose of football to be going out okay so we can go back here we can go down right we
can't really go do it down right here and then we could also go slightly here all right so those are
the main things that we want to do when it comes to the upper body we're going to be putting a a
focus on the upper body at first here and then from this position right so we load the ball
right and then from here we want to be able to get the wrist around quick okay the next common
mistake that i see is people want to lift this ball up right without having any type of rotation
happening within the wrist which then really makes it so that ball gets far back behind all
right so this is for a video for beginners but what you don't want to do as a beginner is you
don't want to end up giving yourself bad habits okay and a big bad habit that i have to correct
all the time with quarterbacks is they're lifting the ball too far behind here without keeping any
type of rotation so the nose of the football at this point is facing straight back rather than
rotating around okay so then once we start this process of rotating the wrist we want to continue
that all the way through the throw so that makes it so then we can end with the the football being
in a neutral c position right so my wrist wants to be neutral it doesn't want to end up being bent
as we're throwing the ball of releasing the ball and we want to be coming down on the ball okay so
you don't want to be pushing it right so what i had i see a lot as well is another way to be able
to know if you're not in a good position with the wrist is when you get to that release point
if you're throwing the ball straight ahead right which would be like 15 yards 20 yards if you
start to throw the ball deeper it's a little bit different but if we're throwing the ball straight
ahead when we release the ball so when all our hand all the fingers are on on the ball we need
to be able to see that the ball is in a neutral spot right so we don't want to see the ball
facing upwards at this point we want to be seeing the ball at a neutral spot and then
we release from there that's how we know we're going to be able to come down on the football okay
and then when we release it we want to be able to release it and the first thing that happens
when you release is you should see that thumb going down okay so it's here boom thumb coming
down you want to be coming across but that thumb has to turn all the way over okay so quick load
right we don't want to be long with our load during this transition phase which i i define that
transition phase is as soon as that ball starts coming upwards right so we start off with going
back it's different for everybody in terms of how far back they need to go all right so we define
that as going back as soon as we start going up we need to get that wrist to start rotating
right then we need to be able to rotate all the way through so then that ball ends up in a neutral
position so then we can come down and through when it's a deeper throw the nose of the football is
going to be facing a little bit more upwards but we still want to have that same concept of being
able to get that wrist around quickly it just ends up being a little bit longer load the ball gets
gets a little bit lower and that front shoulder gets a little bit higher during that initial load
okay next big thing that we want to be able to go into is going to be that lower body right what's
important about the lower body is one get that front foot down right so we don't want to spend
a lot of time with this front foot off the ground we need to get that front foot down on the ground
we need to be rotating off of that back leg okay rotate first within this back foot
right so it's not really about pushing it's about rotating the best we can and we want to be able to
keep as much weight back as we can here so that means we want to have more weight in the heel
we don't want to have a lot of weight in the front of the foot we want to have most the weight in the
heel just like on the golf swing right we want to be as we're shifting our weight onto the front leg
when we're doing a golf swing we want to be in that same type of thing with our hips or with
our front leg here we want to be pushing through that heel to be able to drive our weight all the
way through so what ends up happening here is a lot of times people land with this front foot and
i usually tell guys you want to have 60 percent of your weight on your back leg and 40 on your front
leg when you land with this foot it's impossible to keep all your weight back but the best that you
can you want to be pushing down so i'm pushing down hard through that like inside part of
the foot to keep my weight back here right and then i'm trying to twist within that lower body
keeping that weight back and then as i rotate this hip through and as this ball comes forward
i want to have a lot behind the football is what i say which means that i want to be able to put
a lot here and then shift my weight forward after i release which means i have a lot behind it right
instead of being way out in front which is what i see all the time guys land all their weight shifts
all the way forward from the second their front foot hits the ground so then as they come here
they end up pushing their weight back and they don't have anything behind the throw we need to be
able to keep that weight in that back leg as long as possible so then when we turn and rotate we can
pull with that front elbow right open up with that front hip and drive with that back leg to make it
so we could add some velocity into the throw okay we control the ball with our hand and control the
velocity control the power with our hand with our wrist right we want to be able to add more
power more velocity with the lower body right the lower body is where we're going to be able to get
consistent velocity as long as we can work out the timing and understand how that all works we'll be
able to throw the ball further and that's really going to be the beginning steps right so we got to
be able to understand how to how to utilize that lower body we want to be able to understand what's
going on within the wrist okay and then that front shoulder we got to be able to understand like that
ends up being a part of the follow-through so we don't want to be opening up that front shoulders
the main thing to to think about there similar to how we want to be able to keep the weight back
as long as we can on that back leg we want to keep that front shoulder closed right or back for
as long as possible we don't want to be flinging open that front shoulder keep that thing closed as
you're coming through and that'll make it so then your weight comes forward rather than leans too
far off to the side you can have a slight lean but we don't want to be leaning off to really fast and
really early off to the side or else that's going to really throw off your ability to throw the
ball further right that's going to go a lot more into your deep balls than it is your underneath
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