hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California I'm gonna do
another breakdown here today on Johnny Unitas got a couple guys that that in the past have said to
to do Johnny Unitas is kind of tough because the level or the quality of video back then
is a little bit different than how it is today so you know they're being able to get good stuff now
is tougher but I think we'll be able to get some good stuff from here and we'll go ahead and just
start out the the breakdown so join Unitas there's some things that he does that are that are very
good that are very transferable to you know the current game and there's also some things that
he does that just would right so one of the big things that he does is he definitely dropped that
ball right so you can see he has the ball up and a good place here you know right kind of at the
numbers and then as he starts his throwing motion he definitely drops it down as as he initiates and
then from there what he does do really well is he loads onto that back leg I mean you can see
how much weight here is on that back leg and and you know he's kind of you could tell he's
come torquing it up there that right leg right he's not like you know just letting all of his
weight just shift on that side it's like he's loading onto his right leg but he's also almost
letting his right knee kind of come forward and kind of twist and be able to endure some of the
the weight like that and then from there he really goes and gets a lot of verticality in the push off
so notice how he when he pushes off he makes it so it raises his body upwards as he's going through
and then he goes from that upward motion to then or like a lateral motion so now he's shifting his
weight forward onto that front leg and notice how nice and stable that front leg is I mean there's
a slight knee bend going on here and you know is his whole torso and knee and everything is
all very well aligned as he's coming forward which is exactly what you want to do as you're you know
transitioning forward from in the throat another big thing is I mean overall shoulder range of
motion he must have been a great picture as well I don't know if you have you ever pitch but well
you know much external rotation he gets in that shoulder I mean the ball is right here and he
has that elbow high his spine looks like it's in a very good position but he's getting that
ball way back behind the most I could add you know they'd like what we saw with with Josh Allen and
when Josh Allen through I don't know if he had that had the same you know overall strength and
velocity but he definitely for his time was one of the better throwers or I guess in his time
he was the best roll around in terms of you know just overall effectiveness so anyway going going
into watching his his mechanics the next thing that stands out to me is how he uses his front
arm so notice how his front arm he led to kind of extend out first and then from there he goes into
the goes into turning that hand to the side or you know kind of twist that arm and then pulls
that elbow straight back okay so we'll do one more time he goes he starts out kind of straining that
arm out in front of them and because usually I would would not really recommend this but you
can see how he does it well cuz usually when guys go and they pull that arm away and they straighten
it out like that they usually let it get way out in front of them and it makes it really open open
up the shoulder too early for him he just kind of lets it get out in front then he does a great
job of pulling that elbow straight back as he's bringing that arm forward that really helps him
get like this really strong release as this coming through and really helps generate a lot of force
and power in the in the throat here's another good one where you can really see some external
rotation here so again notice that when he loads onto his back leg how he almost like pivots his
leg inside as he does it I think that's a very interesting move because then when he pushes up
it basically gets a really good force off that big toe and that's well something that that with a lot
of guys to struggle with is getting good push off that back that back big toe is there coming
forward and you can maybe take some information for how he's loading back there and twisting his
legs and then when he pushes back now he's got a lot of force and a lot ability to get rotation
within that that front hip now the the big thing though that take into consideration or the kind
of counter that is that one of the things that helps them out a ton is this external rotation
so so yeah he's able to get a lot of rotation the hip there but notice what as he's rotating
the hip that ball is able to get so far back behind him then he uses this snap that he also
generates with that front arm to really pull that back arm through and and deliver the throw right
right on the money and really gets a good amount of pronation of the wrist and also snap at the
elbow and that's what you know is really really a high level what makes his throw a high level
especially for you know when when he was playing it's very very effective mechanics for for that
time undoubtedly okay last throw and this one is just really showed like the the release point of
it so we're looking at the front again notice how how he uses that that arm and also notice I used
that front hip so he goes and he detaches the arm we let's that on get out in front of him a little
bit and then as he pulls back he pulls back with that elbow and it also knows how the the weight is
going upward have iz1 upward so he's going he's pulling pushing himself off the back back leg
letting his body rise up and he's pulling back with that elbow and using the the force of that
front elbow to really drive through with the back elbow and he's also making it so that hip look at
how that hips opening up hips already open here and you could see that disassociation right so
his hips are facing over in this direction while his shoulder is facing more right towards us right
towards the camera so he's already twisting there and then watches a continual twist see
that's the outer hips keeps on twisting keeps on twisting keeps on twisting even as he goes
through the throw it's still already - all the way twisting through and so he's very stable on
that front leg as he he's I'm going to throw it I mean even even look at at him from this far away
I mean look at how big of a lower body he adds he's using so much of his lower body to create
force and I mean he really had to because look at I'm how he's built right he's not built where he
has a tremendous amount of body straight now he has everybody strength it's not like he doesn't
but he he's getting a ton out of the lower body and you can just tell by how his dimensions are
in his overall you know where he has a lot of strength and where he doesn't what is Anatomy
needed a he's had to get a lot out of lower body and that's you know really in order to to succeed
in and succeed long-term as a quarterback you've got to be able to create force out of the lower
body that is so so crucial yo-yo creek ground force you got to be able crave look force a
little volume you ought to be able to do a great job of sinking your lower body lift your upper
body as you're going through the throw in order to maximize your overall potential as always
guys thanks for watching these videos I hope this connects with you I think there's a lot of great
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