hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be breaking down
patrick mahome's wrist flick and we'll start the video right now
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all right so we just did a video on aaron rodgers and his wrist flick i think he has
one of the best wristlets in the game i also think that patrick mahomes is just able to do
and make some incredible throws and so what we want to be able to do is just take a look at what
he's doing with his hands what he's doing with the wrist be able to understand how he is able to
accomplish some of this just so then we can apply it and also for me to help you in being able to
teach it right help me be able to teach it to you guys right so some of the things that i always end
up looking at when i am trying to help somebody understand what we want to be able to do when
getting the most out of the ball right where we want to be able to have our hands our fingers our
grip in order to throw the ball as far as possible is how is it that the we're holding the football
right and so i know when we watch aaron rodgers i'm a little bit more similar to him and where
i have my pinky a little bit further out right but you can see he has a good amount of separation i'm
almost like halfway between both where you know like patrick holmes i think he or sorry aaron
rodgers i think he has bigger hands than me so my index finger's a lot higher than my other three
fingers here similar to what patrick holmes is doing here right where aaron rodgers was more of
pretty even within the front three and then his pinky was really far away right so for me i have
like my two fingers here and then i have a lot of space in my pinky a lot of space in
my index finger so everybody's going to hold it you know probably a little bit differently there
but what we do want to be able to see is that as he's loading it and this is common for everybody
that we see able to throw the ball far is he's able to maintain a really strong position within
the wrist and what it's kind of unique with him is he does have a good amount of like bend
in in that pinky right a lot of times i see guys with the the nose of the football go a
little bit more either straight back uh or maybe slightly behind where it seems like he's holding
the football going more downwards okay and what we want to be able to see and i'm just
going to go ahead and go into the this other view here is you know when he's going back
right i don't want you to end up getting confused and thinking that he might not be
you know creating a good amount of external rotation right so you could see
where he's at with his elbow right he's got a ton of external rotation there in his arm
okay and so what that does is that gives him the opportunity to now be able to get back on top of
the ball as he's finishing right so you can see why uh it took me a long time to be able to find
this video right but i'm really committed to being able to one teach the wrist flick because i think
when you go to camps i think when you go and you try out for a team you could really stand out as
a quarterback if you have just that that ability to get the ball out of your hands it's just unique
right something that that packed my homes has and aaron rodgers has and so i want to be able
to teach that i want to be able to make it so you can actually learn how to do that because
i don't think anybody really knows how to and i don't think anybody's really talking about it
and i i certainly know nobody's talking about it to the degree that i am right and so you can see
from here where he's at with the the ball and what we're going to do is we're going
to actually go i have found another good view i literally watched at least three hours of video
yesterday to be able to find two throws okay so we can see the front right we can see the back
so what we want to be able to see is you know how he's he's initially rotating right so we
talk a lot about that the importance of first creating rotation in the football right and
using that rotation to then create a great amount of external rotation within the arm right this one
on on the left he doesn't create as much external rotation he's not trying to throw the ball as far
right but we can see that he is very diligent in creating a lot of rotation within the throw and
really utilizes just like full amounts of rotation to be able to get all the way around right so we
saw with uh with aaron rodgers and he does have a bit of a time period looks like here on the right
where he does get the nose of football to come upwards right but we can see this one on the left
where he's throwing to the side where he's really just creating full rotation as he's releasing the
throw okay so he loads right gets that keeps the ball more downward during his load and then just
rotates creates extra rotation in in the elbow and uses that to flick the football right and what's
important here is where is the wrist as the ball comes out of the hand right because what we want
to be able to get consistent right because we see a lot of guys that get into this type of position
right and then from here end up just kind of driving the elbow and keeping
their hand underneath the ball so what you have to be able to do is figure out how to get your hand
into this position as you're releasing right so see how he's driving with the elbow
as well as with the hand as well as with the wrist so then he can sync up everything so as
the ball comes out of his hand it ends up being a flick forward instead of a push okay we so we
don't want to be pushing the ball we want to be flicking the ball through right so see that there
where we get the nose and football up and you can see that there's two
even for him right he has a couple different ways so this one knows the football all the way up
okay pinky all the way up knuckle all the way up and then from here
drives the elbow gets that wrist on top okay and then comes through from there or rotates okay and
so this ends up being why understanding just the positioning of how you're holding the football
really makes a big difference and how you load the football makes a big difference okay because
that ends up being the two similarities here okay so he loads the football similar
okay but then from here this one he gets to this position
this one he gets to this position okay maybe we'll go a little bit further
okay so we see the nodes of football here right and comparison knows the football here okay and
then from here he turns to get it around okay and here this one he's throwing a little bit more
i guess both of them are swinging to the left this one he might be throwing it more straight slightly
to the left right where this one he i mean he's throwing it straight to the left you know on
on this is going to be like a slant or something like that right so he's coming up and and through
the football there okay and so being able to understand how to be able to get to that position
right we'll see another one here okay this is going to be more of a loft on the ball right we
can see how good of a job he doesn't being able to get that elbow through how good of a job he does
keeping that hand away from his shoulder right and that's where he creates the arm strength
that's why he has the success that he has okay and so what we have to be able to do and this is again
similar to what we see with the sprinting okay but what we have to be able to do is be diligent in
our training of this particular part of our throw okay this is going to be something that you're
going to just be able to figure out you know after watching this video okay you're going to
have to do this and replicate it multiple times okay be able to throw it 10 yards to the right
right 10 yards to the left okay we have to be able to throw 25 yards to the right and to the left
right 40 yards 60 yards okay straight on the run
okay
and and so what happens when you get further into the throw
it's harder to be able to generate the same type of rotation because now you want to be able to
create a faster rotation within the arm you want to open up with more with that front shoulder
right so even when we i'll go back into this right so we'll see
uh this video here where he's throwing the ball 62 miles an hour right look at how open he is
with that front shoulder right how bent over to the side he is how much he's like sinking into
he looks like a pitcher here as he's releasing the ball okay and he's coming up over the top
okay but still he's coming up over the top right there right so that ends up being the
thing he's like he's getting such good position that now he could generate a ton uh you could
use all these muscles down here and that's what i'm trying to help you guys do because i to me
you know like the lower bodies is critical obviously we need to be able to understand how to
shift our weight from our back leg under the front leg how to be able to stabilize within the front
leg and i've made a bunch of videos about that right but that is a little bit easier to teach
okay i i think that as a quarterback coach right being able to teach mechanics and how much i've
been doing it for the past five six years i i don't think there's anybody better than me
that can really improve your throw and you know especially in person right like if you come in
and i work with you in person you're going to see a lot of improvements by just being able to
understand some of these key concepts right so being able to fill them out but even online
right being able to send in video and me being able to break it down
and do the same thing really right be able to give you the opportunity to educate yourself understand
what it is that you are doing in comparison what you should be doing right going over the drills
going over the exercises because if you can really start getting the drills down then you can make
the changes okay that ends up being the biggest thing is people being able to understand the
drills which is why now i have you actually sent in video of you doing the drills in order to make
it so you can make a change okay so if you are still struggling as a quarterback watching this
video and you're struggling as a quarterback you need to be able to throw the ball further you need
to be able to improve whatever you know velocity accuracy all those things that come with the wrist
okay spiral consistent spirals right just consistency and act overall right it all
comes with the wrist okay so i highly recommend you guys join the program it's it's either
you go through this year right it's june you don't have very much more time left okay so it's either
you go through this year continue to struggle or you can start to make a change or you can start
to see some improvement or you can start throwing the ball further or you could start to be able to
get the ball out of your hands quicker or you could start to improve your mechanics okay if
you're not focusing on this you're just not going to get the results if you're not and if you are
16 years old and you're not throwing the ball over 55 yards then you're not going to be able
to go d1 okay that's just the fact of the the situation okay it's the same thing with
uh you know guys that are looking to go play in the nfl right if you're looking to play in the nfl
and you are a running back receiver defensive back and you don't run sub four five you're not going
to play in the nfl right unless you are really big dude you know and if you are you you had need
to already make a name for yourself you're trying to you know get yourself in by being an undrafted
free agent and you're running four or six i mean it's just going to be very very difficult
all right and i don't want to get too much into that the focus is on improving your throw
improving your wrist okay invest in yourself invest in your future quarterback university
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or anything like that i'd love to talk to you as always thanks for watching i'll talk to you soon