hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over
the keys of a great throw and we're going to start the video right now
okay so the first thing i want to talk about is going to be the upper body just because i think
that the way that you utilize the upper body has a direct impact on how well you're going to
be able to utilize the lower body so we do want to get the upper body intact and have something
that is consistent that we can use to be able to really perfect the throwing mechanics the best
of our capabilities we are going to use patrick mahomes and i've been seeing a lot of stuff on the
internet lately talking about how patrick mahomes does not have great mechanics you know going more
towards tom brady and through towards drew brees and you know it's not that i don't think that drew
brees and tom brady i don't have great mechanics i think they also have great mechanics but to say
that patrick mahomes who has one of the strongest arms in the nfl and you know is one of the most
talented quarterbacks in the nfl does not have good mechanics to me is just ridiculous uh just
because you know if you think about anything that you could be great at um if you can be
actually great at it you have to have great mechanics in order to do that right you can't be
a great jumper and not have great jumping mechanics you can't be great at pitching
and not have great pitching mechanics yeah patrick mahomes can get better with his mechanics but to
say that his mechanics are terrible or are not good to me is ridiculous so you know want to be
able to just guide you guys in a direction to actually look at this in the most sensible way
that you can right like it doesn't make sense for somebody that has one of the strongest arms
in the nfl to have not good mechanics that just doesn't work right uh and so make sure that you're
just able to kind of decipher the information that you're getting and so we'll get started on
some of the upper body mechanics now there's so many different ways that we could really
utilize the upper body and how we're throwing we have a couple different options here a big
thing that you know i would say is we don't want to end up dropping the ball too far down right as
we're initially loading back okay we want to keep that ball at least to belly button height i see a
lot of guys will end up dropping the ball below that which ends up impacting how quickly you're
able to get the ball out of your hands right the other big thing is we want to just be able to go
and load the ball back you know different guys do that in different ways in terms of you know
how they load the wrist we see you know like zach wilson here goes and brings the nose of
the football more backwards where more homes keeps the nose the football more downwards either way
you can end up obviously having a lot of success but now from there we really want to be optimizing
the elbow drive right so one of the big things that i see is that from this position really a
lot of just pure movement going back with the ball and that just ends up making it so where you end
up generating the force from becomes much more of a sagittal motion right just like forward straight
forward and and backwards in that plane rather than a rotational motion right and that where
is where you end up having a lot of difficulty because what we want to be able to do is make
this as much of a rotational movement pattern as we can because that's where force production
comes from so if you end up going really far back with the ball now when you end up coming through
you end up having to basically just come right up over the top and that you know can work if you're
six seven six eight you know if you're a big guy that could work but really it's about optimizing
rotation and that's what you know patrick mahomes does really well here is he keeps that ball
really away from his head right so this ends up being where force is being generated around
it's like if you were trying to chuck you know like a a giant maybe i mean trash bag or even like
a golf club or something like that you know you'd want to wield it away from your body you'd want to
make sure that it all stays you know far away and then you would chug it like that you wouldn't be
all close with here and then try to throw it like that or you know up over the top whatever the
case may be and that is what ends up happening to a lot of you guys is that you have the ball
so far back right next to your head right and i'll show josh allen here in a second so you can see
you know what he does and then when you end up throwing there just is no force being created
on that rotational plane so the further away that you can keep the ball then the more you could use
the rotation happening within the hips and within that upper body in order to make it so then you
could create a lot of force on the actual throat right we're going to see the same thing here where
you know there ends up being a quick movement back right zach wilson is a little bit different
in that he goes back and really brings that elbow back a little bit more right where you can see
that patrick mahomes keeps that elbow in front of him more but both of them are very efficient
in driving that elbow through like wilson does a little bit more of you know bringing that ball up
close to his body right and that ends up being a big difference in terms of force production right
arm strength you know patrick mahomes has very very natural armstrong because of how far away
from the body he keeps the ball same thing we'll go to josh allen here same thing here okay does a
great job of and he really loads the ball a little bit more like zach wilson and then really drives
the elbow straight through okay and the key ends up being how well can you keep that ball away from
your body as you load the elbow and the shoulder right so you get to this position we want to be
able to keep that ball away from the body we don't want to bring that close to our spine or towards
our midline we want to be able to keep it away so then we're able to generate more stretch within
the core within the shoulder within all those different muscles there in order to really fully
maximize the amount of rotational force we could put on the ball so what josh allen is doing here
is he's shaping that ball away from him so now as he pulls through with those hips and through that
upper body he's really able to create a large whip on his arm right you can see how he just
flicks that wrist and flicks that arm in order to really generate all the force so really the way to
do that is is more so in how he loads right how he sets himself up with his force production so right
now he's just loaded the shoulder he's loaded his core and then from there drives the elbow through
and and just flips the wrist and that's where all that that force and that's the the snappiness that
you see that a lot of those elite quarterbacks have it goes into how well you can actually load
the arm and load the shoulder in order to maximize the force production and then we just gotta work
on the wrist flick right so you got to be able to work on this load here to make it so you can
really do this effectively every time whether you're throwing it to the right throwing it to
the left throwing a deep ball you know you really want to be able to really make sure your arm
motion and your arm mechanics are very very consistent because once that gets off right if
you can't consistently move your arm correctly then it's going to be impossible for you to
utilize the lower body correct next we're going to go into the lower body but before we do if
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time changes the three-man option is going to be the one to go with and that's going to be in the
description down below we're going to go into the lower body okay so there's a few things that go
into the lower body in order to really maximize that and the first thing and i think the most
critical part is going to be the step right if we look at these guys what they're doing is they're
just going straight out with the step okay what you can't end up doing is having too much
you know additional rotational movements going on within that initial step you want to just get that
front foot down right and if we don't have that front foot down then we're not going to be able
to effectively transfer our weight onto that front leg and what i see and really i would
highly recommend you guys it take this angle right get this back angle because you can see so much
with your load in your arm right and you can also see so much with your front foot and how you're
landing with that front foot and you know so big thing you can see is he just goes and reaches
and gets that front foot down and now from there allows himself to be able to create rotation and
allow all the weight to shift onto that front leg so a lot of you guys what you do is that there's
additional rotational movements happening within that foot adds a touch in the ground which limits
the ability for your back leg to be able to push off and really for your weight to be able to come
forward and through as you're throwing the ball and that ends up being the biggest problem that i
see with the lower body you know there's a lot of guys that are able to push off the back leg well
uh you know are not necessarily you know loading into that back leg so you know zach wilson's in a
great position right here where he's got that knee bent right and he's very vertical with the posture
and that's going to be important i see a lot of people that are a little bit too straight up don't
load into the hip properly and that's something that you know it's a little bit easier to address
but the biggest thing is going to be the step right so we do want to have a bent knee we do
want to be able to shift back into that back leg and really understand how to load the hip and we
do have a video right here that will help you in understanding how to load that back kip if you
want to check that out but you know big thing is we want to make sure that we're going to be able
to sit back and load properly in that back leg to then make sure that we're able to shift the
weight forward okay so if we're not loading into the back leg then what will happen is that you'll
a lot of times just get just a forward kind of push and not very much of a rotational push
or you'll also i'll see sometimes guys that just like rotate really really early on in the throw
within the leg and then when they are shifting their weight onto their front leg end up really
leaning over the side with the hips and with the body instead of being able to really rotate during
the actual throw right so there it's a lot that goes into how to properly utilize the hips and
there's so many mistakes that i'll see it's like impossible to be able to go over everything within
you know this one video so i want to be able to give you guys some understanding and some clarity
with it but big thing is you know loading into that back leg so you make sure you have a slight
bend in the knee okay making sure that your your head is slightly out in front of you know
your hips right so you don't want to end up being too upright and tall you do want to have a slight
forward lean and keeping this knee bent so you're essentially in just like a good athletic position
here okay as if you're going to have to like move side to side quickly that wants to be really the
the framework that you're thinking about we're stepping we're landing with that front leg and
you can see from this position if we go back here we draw a line here how he kind of drives
those hips forward right so he's already starting to get hip extension which is like
when you're jumping and you're driving your hips through like you're like a thrusting motion so
you can see that he's he's getting that out of the hips but he's also starting to move the hip
the head back a little bit okay as he's loading but now what's happening is that he's shifting his
weight forward and rotating through as he drives that elbow through he's not leaning over to the
side his hips aren't going this way and upper body going this way everything is going forward towards
the target and it's all set up because of how he got his front foot down on the ground so you know
there you don't want to end up getting too much weight when you're landing with this front leg you
want to land with that front foot and still have a good amount of weight back right on your back leg
we don't want to have our weight back falling over to the side we want to have our weight back here
and then as our elbows coming through our hip is really the driving force behind everything so as
he's driving his elbow through his hips continuing to rotate continuing to rotate continue to
rotate so now as he gets to the point where he's releasing the throw he's in an optimal position of
stretch from this hip to this shoulder to then you know the the actual wrist and hand right because
there's the muscles that go all the way if we're looking at the front side of the body we'll use
that close in here there's muscles that go all the way through you know right here so it goes
from your your hip through your core onto your shoulder there's an actual line of muscle there
and then from your shoulder obviously there's a whole chain of muscles that go all through your
arm okay so this whole chain we want to be able to optimize that in terms of where our stretch
is happening so then when we're releasing the throw we can generate that snap that we need and
to create a lot of force in the throat so where the biggest issue that people have is that they
end up shifting their weight to different sides and and not utilizing the rotational aspect that
the body is set up to utilize right and again this is mostly because of the load and how the arm is
set up to be able to fire and even zach wilson say can get a little bit better with this but you know
then if we don't set up the load properly with the arm to make it so we can we could snap through
then we're not going to be able to ever get there no matter what we do with the the lower body so
then after we start to get the load better and it is something you got to work on you know there's
a lot of guys that don't have great habits with their upper body but as you start to get better
with that then we got to really sync up the lower body with the throw right so the first
thing is you got to be able to get a consistent arm action okay because if the arm action's off
then the lower body's going to be off you can't have a good lower body and a terrible upper body
you could really have great upper body mechanics but have terrible lower body mechanics and i see
that sometimes and you know being able to work on that really makes a big difference but you know a
lot of times once you get off with your arm then it throws off what you're doing within your your
hips and within your front leg and everything like that so those really play into each other a lot
but you really want to make sure that we get the arm arm down you more specifically go after that
lower body and and the rotation within the trunk and the core so that ends up being you know if
we're going to go and stage exactly what you want to do in order to improve your mechanics first
thing's going to be getting that load down making sure we get the front arm in a great position
maintain make sure we're maintaining a great posture a great follow-through all that wants to
be you know something that we can do every single time and that's really a great thing to be able to
rep out and think something you could do at home on your own you know time and be able to really
get great at that and then the next thing is going to be consistently working on
just the front foot getting that front foot down right and making sure that when we get
that front foot down keeping a lot of weight on that back leg that's going to be step number one
okay and then from there as we go through the throw and start driving the elbow through okay we
want to be able to rotate the hips first okay and then bring the elbow in and arm from there okay so
that would be the second thing first thing keep most of the weight onto that back leg right and
as we're landing with that that front foot and make sure that front foot goes straight out so
it ends up being probably the most difficult step is step one right stepping not getting additional
rotation within that that front foot i know this isn't a great angle here to be able to see how
the heel moves but essentially just think of it as that heel just getting straight down on the
ground so making sure that that heel gets straight down on the ground when you're loading we can just
make that step number one step make sure that there's no additional rotation happening within
that initial step step number two is when stepping making sure that we keep most of our weight onto
our back leg i like to say 60 you know zach wilson here i would say when he's landing with
his front foot he's probably like 50 50. you know some people say you could do more weight
on the back leg if you want to try to do more then that's great you know i don't think that is really
what matters you just don't end up landing on that front leg and have all of your weight already onto
that front leg that's the most common mistake that i see with the lower body okay and then from there
when the elbow is coming through we just want to make sure that the hips are leading the way
okay so we don't want to have our elbow out in front of our hips we want to have our hips
leading the way of the the motion to make it so we're continuing to rotate through the throw okay
that would be three and then number four is during the actual release of the throw making
sure that we're able to maintain a good balanced position so we're not falling off to either side
okay so really steps one and two end up being most important in that okay that front foot and
keeping the weight on the back leg that's going to be critical okay once you can get those two things
down if you can get the upper body right and you can get those two things down you're going to be
throwing the ball well then you know you want to be leading with the the hips that's going to be
a really big thing when it comes to the deeper throws and then you want to land balance there's
going to be a big thing with the accuracy but you know if you can get these two you're going to see
big improvements very very quickly within the throw and you know then you can kind of go from
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