hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a few different thrill breakdowns that we're
going to do for you today i have a few different videos on youtube i really don't even know which
videos that they are where you can actually submit a breakdown through the actual link within the the
video so over the last few months we've been able to get a good amount of people that have sent in
breakdowns of them running and then throwing and stuff like that so i just thought i would go ahead
and get a few of the actual throw breakdowns that um are have been sent over and do a little bit of
a breakdown for you guys just to see some of the main things that we look at when we do the
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into the future so here we have tom brady here on the left and novice quarterback here on the right
and you know the big thing that i like to do with these types of breakdowns just get a comparison
of you know what's going on from one side compared to the other i think this guy does a really good
job of being able to get the hips into the actual throw here right we can see that but one of the
things that that he does um that that tom brady doesn't do is he really opens up that chest really
early during the actual throw so you can see how quickly he immediately kind of gets that foot down
opens up the the hips great but doesn't keep that front arm closed and and the the spine closer you
can see tom brady he's going and opening up those hips but then he keeps that upper body a little
bit more close and then from there is able to come back through also a big thing that stands out to
me is there's a difference between the stability within that left foot right so you can see is
all the weight is getting transferred onto the left leg there's a little bit of wiggling going
on here um and he has cleats on as he's going through it as well where you can see tom brady
as he's going through and as the weight is coming on to the front leg very very stable
within that front foot not too much wiggling at all going on there uh where you can see here as
the whole thing's happening there's a lot of side to side movement within the ankle that i think is
impacting the throat all right so here's another example we have patrick mahomes here on the left
and then we have novice quarterback here on the right and we're just trying to get like a behind
angle here on the left just to be able to get that comparison again so you know you can see
that you know one of the big differences it stands out to me is the stride right when we look at the
stride length you can see this guy is very very quick and getting that foot down doesn't have
very much of a stride where then we see patrick mahomes who's known for actually having a pretty
long stride so you can see he takes a pretty good step as he can go and then that allows him
to get a lot of his weight shifting forward so it seems like with the quarterback here on the right
is that he's able to you know he pushes off that back leg pretty quickly but because that that step
is so short he doesn't really get very much of his momentum being able to go forward he has to be
very very slow with his hips very controlled with his hips in order to make this throw so he's going
to naturally end up using a lot more of his upper body where we can see patrick mahomes it really
takes a step out so now he could drive off that back leg and because he could drive off that back
leg now he could use the whip and the rotation within his spine to really be able to easily put
a good amount of force on the actual throat where you know again on the guy on the right
because he's not taking as big of a step he doesn't get to drive off that back leg as much
right a little little bit of a drive but not near as much as as back of homes you can see
back from homes really kind of flings that leg off to the side where you know he's coming off
to the side and there's not very much of that that motion that's happening within the back leg and so
now what's going to end up happening is that the arm ends up being a lot more of a factor when the
quarterback on the right is throwing in comparison to mahomes who's really using a lot of his body
in order to generate the force within the throw okay so here i'm just going to use my own throw so
you know the big thing that that stands out to me with with this particular throw
is you know you can see that initial load and i think that initial load gets you gets them into
a pretty good position here and then what happens is that you know there ends up being kind of like
a short arm movement within the actual throw so from here you really want to be able to get that
elbow up and drive that elbow up and through you can see what he just does he just kind of lifts
that ball kind of straight up so as you're lifting the the ball you want to be able to get that elbow
coming up and through as well as starting to get that wrist going right so you can see for me
i'm starting to get the wrist to turn a little bit and getting the elbow to start moving forward
so now here as the elbow starts moving forward for him he's a little bit late he's really not
getting very much of a push off from that back leg hasn't really created any rotation
within the hips where again you can see me i'm starting to rotate within this the hips
starting to open up there uh we're here he's now he's starting to be able to get the hips opened
up but now you know that elbow is really really short in the overall movement of it you want to
be able to consistently get that elbow going up um as well as coming forward and through so the
fact that he stops for a little bit lifts up the arm really has an impact on the overall velocity
and the actual movement that the shoulder is going to be able to go through to generate force so now
you know as the arm's coming up and through here ends up really you know staying stuck in flexion
within that arm so once your your elbow starts coming through you want to get to a point where
you're starting to extend within the arm right so you can see once my elbow gets out in front of my
head now my elbow starts to extend basically right away or you can see here once the elbow gets out
in front of the head doesn't really go through very much of an extension at all um and just
really tries to like push the ball forward rather than being able to use that extension within the
arm right through here is where you want to be extending through that arm because the extension
happens then internal rotation so that one of the first thing that happens within the arm is
extensive you can see here he's getting internal rotation first and then extending within the elbow
which is kind of throwing off the sequencing and the ability to generate as much power within the
throw there's a few things that i would say within this throw so first thing when you're going in
you're hitching you don't really want to cross over your feet at all you want to keep your feet
very wide you want to have a good wide base when you're playing quarterback i mean that hitch works
when you're playing baseball but it really doesn't work for uh when you're playing quarterback the
next big thing is that when you're actually are going through and stepping here you want to be
stepping towards your actual target right wherever you're going to be throwing the ball to you want
to be stepping towards that position you don't want to be you know getting your weight going off
to the side so you can see here the step is really far off to the side so then the momentum ends up
carrying yourself that way um and so the the end the force here within the body within the hips
is going this way but then the actual throat is going that way so now you're fighting yourself a
little bit um in the actual throw you can see like drew brees here he's coming all the way through
and gets all of his momentum going you know down and through as he's throwing the arm comes forward
you know towards the actual target but the whole body is going in sync with each other all the way
through the actual throw which makes him very stable within that front leg where you can see
here you know not really getting all your weight onto that front leg first of all has a lot of your
your body kind of shifting over the side and then as you actually throw you're like falling off to
the right here and and don't have that front foot down in the ground very stably um and you know
are coming around in somewhere away the reason i brought up drew brees is because he has both kind
of come around with that throw with that that back leg but you can see the tremendous difference in
where the body position is where the the stability of the front leg and just where the overall um
momentum is going during the actual throw so you know there's a lot of things that can be worked
on within this throw to be able to make it so you can really generate a lot more force into it this
is the one you're basically using all arm and all wrists in order to throw the ball here um instead
of being able to get the momentum to be able to shift your weight forward and then get your hips
all the way through and your spine all the way through during the throw so being able to see
you know debris should be able to help you better understanding what that should look like okay so
those are examples of how our throat breakdowns work and i highly recommend you get one of those
right now i know there's a lot of people that are not able to you know practice or get much overall
coaching and so even though the the season's getting closer and closer you really got to be
able to hone in on your mechanics and make sure that those are all set up for the season really
be able to ensure that you're you're maximizing the efficiency within the throat because
being a quarterback is not only about being able to throw the ball far but it's also being able
to be consistent and be able to be very very efficient in your overall movement patterns and
that helps with your you know accuracy and your ability to throw the ball further so i hope you've
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