hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we're gonna do
another breakdown here today we've gotten Joe Flacco as a recommendation a few times so I
thought we would go ahead and do the the long waited breakdown on Joe Flacco really the big
thing with Joe is his ability to throw the deep ball I mean just guys and absolute cannon the the
big throw that he had against the Broncos a few years back to go to the Super Bowl and abundance
of wool was was probably one of them will probably go down as one of the best plays ever so yeah I
mean I think it's time to to get a breakdown on Joe Flacco you know of course we got to start
out with the deep ball so we got good good angle here I mean does a lot of the same things that we
see with with the deep good deep ball thrower so you can see where his position is of his body and
then how he goes and turns makes it so the elbow or sorry the shoulders are facing more upwards
when he when he gets going he also has much more weight here on to the back leg okay he's really
loading onto that back leg now he gets that front leg down okay still has a good amount of weight
on the back leg now he begins the shift in the rotation forward so we can see how that rotation
happens there I'm also real quick notice how when he goes to load how he kind of lets the ball drop
a little bit lower here in comparison to what you'd do if he was gonna be throwing just like a
regular pass maybe like a 20-yard dig or something like that now he's kind of letting the ball go or
let the ball drop gets that big rotation the hips he's very much of a spine guy so he uses
that very long spine of his to really generate a lot of force notice what he's doing with the
left elbow too he's not really going too far back he starts off with some rotation there but then
he locks it in he has a lot of control and now he just slings that ball uses a lot of that external
rotation in the shoulder and a lot of momentum that he's getting from that disassociation right
there so notice how he was able to rotate all his weight here and still has that ball so far
back behind his head now from there he's gonna go and really sling it and let it rip and take
a shot at the same time excellent job of little delivering the ball there because another one here
the same type of thing notice how he does a good job of you do was like he's in the back
of like a three-step drop here I sent her to any hitches into it kind of drops down into this row
here you can see he doesn't drop the or drop the back shoulder or lift the top shoulder there's
a better job tube going straight back with that arm is loading and then notice how much he loads
onto that back leg kind of drops his height now I initiate the rotation with those hips
okay gets a good amount of external rotation there in the arm look at how stable he is in the front
leg - very stable very locked in excellent job there he's much more like I said he's much more
of a kind of a mid spine rotator so like right below the 5 there and up you can see how that's
what he's getting a lot of his floors from so he's using a lot more of his obliques in order
to get the throw the knee is his legs but he has the the size and the stature in order to
make it so that ends up being a useful part of his throw he's able to make it all work yeah I
notice again notice his height here sits back on that back leg initiates the weight forward and
as he's initiating the weight forward with from back leg to front leg he lets those hips open
then he really puts himself in the best position to make it so now his upper spine can rotate I
like this throw just because now it shows me being a quarterback you can't only just work
on being able to make the the nice easy throw all the time because when you're playing the position
a lot of times you're not going to be able to you know just sit back there and and throw the
ball with your feet nicely planted so you can see here you kind of stepped off to the side
had too or did a good job still of being able to transfer his weight from his back leg onto
his front leg and then get the rotation that he needed to still be able to deliver a 30-yard ball
ball really accurately as well okay I was able to squeeze it right in between a defender that sorry
about 20-yard ball really accurately in order in order to make the throw so yeah I mean you
got to be able to adapt I think really the good thing to take away from here is that deep ball
and how he's able to get so much rotation there in his spine when he was going to to throw that
deep ball I mean that seems to be a big thing that happens with guys as they are trying to throw the
ball further is they get caught up in trying to move and trying to use their arm too much which
makes it so then they don't get those those hips through first I mean what Joe Flacco does he does
good job getting those hips through first we can go back to that original one again one more time
he does a good job of getting out those hips through first and then allowing the spine to
rotate okay he does a good job here watch him here boom hips going through first then he rotates and
really doesn't allow that upper body to get really too far out in front of his knees or
hips notice how his body's back behind his hips back behind him the whole time he never ends up
where all of his weight is really far forward I see that all the time with quarterbacks where
their weight ends up way out over that front foot so definitely something to take note up
there to see how Joe Flacco throws one of the best meatballs in the game it is able to to
make it all work all right as always guys thanks for watching the video you can go ahead and check
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