hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of california and
we're going to do another breakdown here today it's going to be on the alabama quarterback tua
tagovailoa kind of hard to say tua tagovailoa is going to be the the new guy
the the new freshman won the game the national championship game last night for for alabama
came in fourth quarter through a uh uh it stands out with him is the amount of power that he can
can really um create in in his body he's kind of a uh a stockier guy um and when he comes through
he has kind of a uh outward to inward uh movement of the arm and typically what you know we we tell
people is you don't really want the ball to be outside that the elbow when you're coming through
and throwing um but the reason that it works for for him is because usually um what's happening is
the the person's going from kind of back behind here and like allowing the ball to get back
around to the outside and then kind of circling back around and that puts a lot of pressure
on the elbow but that's not really what he's doing he's leaving that arm kind of back there he's not
um allowing to get the ball back behind his head and then he's coming around and kind of cocking
it through and just um i mean flicking the wrists and and rotating his elbow all the way through so
he really has a lot of ability to get great range of motion in the shoulder um and he puts a lot of
stretch on that that peck and that's what you know big part of his throwing motion is that's why it
looks a little bit different is just because you know he starts out with it pretty low down he
doesn't have much of a loading cocking phase it's just kind of raising up that elbow keeping the
ball placed and he has a great ability to supinate in that in that hand you can see he's rotating
through right there and getting that nose of the football facing straight ahead very early on in
the throw and then he's able to create really a lot of power in his arm without putting very
much time and energy into loading the arm right a lot of times what you see especially with younger
quarterbacks is there's a lot of extra time spent in the loading process because the shoulder
doesn't feel like it can create the amount of force as it as it possibly can um and so it
has to go through more more movement more loading mechanisms what uh toe is doing here or it's a two
um yeah two up what he's doing here is he's really not spending too much time in a any type of
loading phase he's just corking that that arm back and then and then letting it rip and um this is
also a big testament to the the strength that he's able to create in his lower body so you can see
he starts and and this is something that um we got to work on overall for for a lot of quarterbacks
is you got to be able to get that front foot down okay and then when you get that front foot down
then that pivot comes and that pivot is so crucial because we see this pivot in quarterbacks time and
time again that are playing at the top level uh but then within the you know more used high
school quarterbacks you just don't see that pivot uh as much and if you do it's too late
okay when you when you're doing this pivot you want to make it so that that foot gets down okay
then you're pivoting that back foot to get the hips to rotate and then that's when also the
um the shift of the weight happens so you don't open up that front leg and make it so
all of your weight shifted forward at the very beginning you want to get that front foot down
okay and then you're beginning that that pivot as that front foot is touching the ground and then as
you're continuing that pivot now your your weight shift is coming forward and making it so you can
create some disassociation in the hip okay and then you know then you're using the core and and
the uh the shoulder to snap through he does a he's really quick and starting to to begin the process
of bringing his spine and arm through which helps him really decrease his release time and also as a
testament to his um very limited loading or or cocking phase so um yeah that's a a quick kind
of breakdown of two of there i got another angle here from the other side more so to see his finish
so from the back you can do a good job you can really see the finish well um it's awesome that
he's a lefty also so when you can see when he's coming through here he gets full range all the
way in into the actual uh movement and that that front leg is very strong all the way through and
and continues rotation okay keeps on going keeps on going um we want to be able to ensure continual
rotation within that front leg in order to fully maximize the throw and you can see that he does
a good job of that there real quick i'm going to go back to that that other one just to show
um kind of how he leans forward as well when he's actually releasing the the ball which is
similar to what uh pitchers do and i think um we've talked about this a few times the more we
do this the more you see the similarities of being a pitcher and also being a uh a quarterback of the
right one so here from the back we could also see that as he's coming through he does a great job of
continuing that arm to rotate through as his back arm so his right arm continues to rotate through
as that left arm is coming forward so and that's a good emphasis to have on because there's a great
relationship between that right arm and the left arm they want to be working together you don't
want that right arm to open up too soon and create a bad separation between your back arm and then
you also don't want it to stay put and make it so you limit the ability for that that um for his
case the left arm or throwing arm to come through so if you stop that front arm it makes it so you
can't get that full rotation there see how that's really important what you have to be able to do is
you want to be able to connect that right and left shoulder really well together so when that right
arm is going back that left arm is also coming through or as the left arm is coming through
that right arm is going back however you want to better understand it in your mind it is fine just
you got to be able to understand that concept of how that right arm or front arm is working with
the back arm so um yeah as always guys thanks for for watching these videos i think we'll get
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