hey what's up everyone this is another breakdown here for Patrick Peterson Patrick's one of the
the best defensive backs in the NFL so I wanted to do a breakdown of him my name is one of the
best overall athletes that we have on the planet and we want to see some of the things that he
does well some the things that he can improve on and you know just again see what makes him
such a good athlete I think he's a good choice just because of how big he is so it really shows
where he can get away with a few things and also where did he end up having to compromise and maybe
not get into a good position we'll start out with that acceleration just because you know for him a
big shoe that a lot of people give is when you start out to begin that sprint like this is to
really keep that head down we can see when he pushes off what type of position that puts on
the spine you can be very very rounded within the spine which is not a good Tyler position we always
talk about posture we always talk about keeping good alignment with the spine and we could see
that when he pushes out here how he's just not in a good position I mean he's a very very good
athlete he has a very very strong leg so he's able to get away with it but that doesn't mean that he
probably could have ran a faster time and the 40 but if he would have had a better position of his
head in order to make the spine line of veterans right here I mean he's still getting the knees up
and everything but he's just not able to produce as much power just because the spine it's in a
good position to be able to produce power another interesting thing that I saw with him is that you
know from the first kind of eight or until he gets up to about 15 20 yards when he's pushing off he's
doing a very good job of creating horizontal force where he's kind of you know getting all of the
weight going more side-to-side here which is what you want when you're beginning that acceleration
but the idea is to get up to eventually be able to be very very vertical in the movement pattern and
he's still stuck in horizontal just because one of the things was his spine if he got that spine
is in a position he'd be able to be out of that acceleration phase a little bit faster but what
I wanted to show was the difference in kind of the asymmetries in his body here so we can see
when he's going with his right we'll wait until you get closer to being right parallel but if we
look at his right leg and how he pushes off again very horizontal but he gets that heel to the butt
very very fast so and that's a key part of what you need to be able to do to generate a lot of
speed is get that heel to button be able to hold that and also get it there before this knee the
the back knee crosses that that front leg and I think he's doing that well as well but what you
really don't want to do and what he can improve on is where the left leg is so the left leg he's
not as good at creating that that big push off acceleration a little bit weaker in that left
hamstring left glute and you can see that he doesn't get that heel all the way up to it but
but what he is very very strong in is its quads it's very very good at coming forward which is
really what a DB needs the receiver is going to be more of a guy that's going to have a lot of
hamstring strength a lot of glute strength and a lot of also lateral you know glute strength so TfL
with me though that's much was going to be very strong now when you're talking about a deep in the
back you need to be able to rotate a lot better within the hips and then he also needs to be able
to come forth so his quads hip flexor is going to be really strong and what she gets into his
top-end speed he does a better job of getting does that gilds but you can tell this on that left leg
he's almost kind of like limping the right side is very strong push off there excellent job left
side you know not as strong pushing off he kind of rounds in the shoulder just not as good of a
position there but then on the left orsolya with the right side push off you could tell how strong
that is so you know the even type of petersen can get a little bit better with in his running form
but you can see what he is very good at though is he's very strong with getting that hip drive
so his legs getting all the way up there and if you watch this break it all down it's all this
movement is where he's getting a lot of his speed from is the ability to get that knee up to his
hip and get that up really really fast it's not as much about to push off and getting the verticality
in the movement he does that well too primarily on the right side but for him it's all about that leg
drive very very strong quads very very strong hip flexors and also wanted to go and show you
guys one of the breakdowns from him getting out of his breaks where you can see that again if we go
into these little cone drills here so there's two reason I wanted to show this one because he does
that t-step where you know there's some there's a little bit of opposition of what's the right thing
to do there and you can see the Patrick Pearse and does that teach that next footsteps getting
a little bit behind them and then he's driving those knees to get those feet out a little bit
we actually teach that to where you bring that knee in you would get those out to the side as
you're starting the acceleration because a good demand again they're a little bit more of those
hip rotators what I think you need to be strong with in defensive backs but it also makes it so
you're able to get a little bit more range of motion within those hip flexors okay so we see
that a lot within the Olympic sprinters where when they're trying to get out of the blocks they're
going to go with those knees coming in foot coming out to really get a little bit more power within
the outside part of the hip as well as within the hip flexor squad and you can see how he does that
in order to generate four so that we definitely did an interesting thing good to look more into so
so yeah that's the breakdown of Patrick Peterson you know obviously one of the best defensive backs
in the NFL if or I would look more into some of our other breakdowns we also do other speed
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