hey what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance out of California we're gonna
do another breakdown here today on Johnny Manziel this is gonna be eight for four and
after breakdown so we're gonna do a bit of a comparison to where he was at before I had
when he was at Texas A&M that's what we see here and his pro date back in 2014 and compare that
to his pro day that he did a couple weeks ago at I think it was UC San Diego and just kind of look at
the differences in the mechanics the one thing that stands out to me as a big differences it
looks like that offhand he tried to work a little bit on that offhand so notice how he allows that
thing to kind of extend that elbow to extend and come all the way around and he doesn't you know
you use that left arm to really pull all the way through I was going through the throw and this is
really gonna be primarily a comparison to from a out route on throwing it to the left here in
2014 and then on the right just because of the the camerawork and everything in the San Diego one but
and so a similar type of throw and just looking at the pros and the cons and also the similarities
and the not similarities I'd say throwing to the less is definitely the harder throw so we can go
a little bit more into the actual breakdown here and also see some things that I think as
a quarterback you could take away from and learn from so first I'd say notice how he's stepping and
when he is stepping how his foot is all the way to the outside there right in and out when he's
going to take that that and I'm done with the left foot so the left foots going all the way outside I
think that's actually a good position the issue is is that you got to maintain a good position
like the balls of your feet so he pushes off and he doesn't get very much movement there and he
also ends up kind of pushing himself off balance and now his weights kind of falling backwards in
a sense there and notice when he pushes off out it doesn't really have very much of an impact on his
body which makes it so then when he goes through the throw he doesn't end up using very much of
his legs he has to use much more of his spine and much more of his arm so from here you could see
how his left hip it continues rotation but it's not going towards the target so then he has to
end up bending over the side with his spine and another reason why he has to do that is because
when it goes in these steps and makes it so he he gets a little bit off-balance now that ball gets
a little bit more back behind his head and from this position in order for the the bulk is of the
limited range of motion in order for the ball to get back through he's gonna have to bend over the
spine because that's just the lack of shoulder range that the body has not necessarily that
Johnny Manziel has just that the body has you're just not in a good position to be able to get that
throw effectively so then he has to lean off to the side and and deliver the throw from there no
matter what and we'll go to the other video here not to either one he ends up having kind of a that
that right arm kind of snaps all the way through now we'll see the right side and won't be able to
see as much foot wise but what I like about his initial load here is notice how he keeps that
hip closed right that's not already opening up um and then another thing is notice how he has the
ball like this most guys have the ball more up and down he's gonna have the ball a little more
side-to-side which makes it so he gets to that position a little bit quicker I'm not necessarily
a bad thing or a good thing just this is what he does right this is just say a general breakdown
of showing you what are the different ideas where the different techniques I think Aaron Rodgers did
this too I went to use in college had that ball kind of facing more here rather than been straight
up and down so anyway you can still see with that left arm how he does still get a get him out of
extension there at the beginning but then notice how he pulls back and he locks it in I'm a lot
tighter compared to what he was doing before where he kind of lets that elbow kind of come back and
all the way through that front elbow on this one now he's trying to lock that thing up and maintain
a really what that does it makes it so your your mid back ends up being a little bit taller as
as you end up coming through right you can't bend over to the side as much you have to keep
everything nice and stable but it does limit your ability to get full rotation in the thoracic spine
so now he's gonna have to do a much better job of being able to utilize his hips which it looks
like he does right so notice how he sets and then as he's pushing off in his getting rotation he's
doing a good job pushing off that back leg and creating rotation in that left hip right you have
to be able to be stable in that left hip and come all the way through in order to fully maximize the
the throw he does kind of end up leaning out to the side a little bit there which is something
you could probably work on a little bit there to help long term look there's one more here tonight
we can see more from the side it's going back he does a better job see if not and this isn't
as intensive a throw but he does a better job not going and leaning straight back now and he pushes
straight through but I think his overall ability to get as much just natural force out of the ball
is gonna be a little bit compromised because of how stable he's gonna be with that left shoulder
unless he can really start gaining a lot more out of those hips because I mean he does a good job
notice how he does how he he's balanced in those hips and he loads and he transfers onto his front
leg but the front leg is really not that stable and is not really driving down which makes it so
there's only a limited amount of force that you can really get downwards into the ground which
if you couple that up with you know now not being able to kind of stopping rotation with that front
arm and not using it as they it's a force producer like you did before notice what he does with his
left arm before whereas he's really driving all the way through there and using that left arm
to really create a little bit more force it's not gonna be because that gonna end up having the same
overall output so I'm just yeah just a comparison there from the before Johnny to the after Johnny I
do think there's a lot of christmas' that he has sorry crisp miss that he has now that I think is
gonna be really really good but in terms of arm strength I mean you know it obviously has a good
arm it's not like he's lacking arm strength but some of that that big arm natural ability
you had come out in college my last fight by someone do the mechanic things that were that
we're seeing so yeah I mean we'll see with how this whole offseason continues to progress and
if he ends up getting a shot it's definitely a definitely an interest to everybody out there
so I thought I would make a video and kind of to add a little bit of opinion to the whole thing
so yeah guys as always thanks for watching these videos let me know if you have any questions you
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