alright everybody welcome to another QB breakdown what's up coach fish is in the house like always
sup guys today we're not learning about this time so yeah this is this is coach fish just take away
10 years well we're gonna break down Blake Barnett right Alabama University freshman quarterback he's
a five-star and also from Canada I guess South southern LA area Corona Santiago is where I went
to school and so on he has a very interesting Anya west coast yeah what's ghost exactly he's
got a very interesting release and we just kind of wanted to give you give some input on it and you
know we love doing these videos yeah let's start it right into it yeah so first thing I noticed
with Blake is that he gets a really long is up he's got a really interesting long motion and uses
a lot of shoulder he really gets that hand and reaches it all the way back and it's interesting
because he doesn't necessarily get a ball stroke what I mean by ball strike I talk a lot about
ball stroke is getting that ball fell out of the ground before liftoff he just kind of reaches it
and then kind of just palms it through and it's a lot of shoulder and not a lot of wrist action of
what's interesting is that he gets it turned right around there with a really nice hi extension and
release so he's able to catch up um it's kind of a merino esque throw Moreno was probably dan Marino
is probably half of this length when it came to getting a ball out but marina was similar with
just kind of how we brought it back and shot it out um Blake has a little bit more of a longer
longer stroke and it's interesting there's not a lot of guys I see throw like that i'm not sure
if that's the throw that's going to either give you more or less power when it comes down to you
know rotation through the zone but what I do see is that what he does get through the top of the
throw he's in a good spot that's a good spot to be right there that if we look back right there that
the elbow and and bicep without me they meet its close to the ear that's kind of where we want it
those shoulders you got a little bit more level on that right shoulder which is pretty normal
and pretty pretty legit he squared his head's not moving his body's lined up really really nice and
you can see by the way he rotates and flicks his hand that that uh that ball spinning out
nicely um roll tide Blake roll tide yeah I mean and this was one of the reasons that I wanted
to do it as well as I trunk like to try to talk two quarterbacks a lot about trying to get that
supination writing I mean we talked about last time more pronation supination is now bringing
that pinky through shoulder rotating in words and you could see in what he has a very unique
throw is that he starts to get that supination way earlier than what most guys do or his ball as he's
coming across he's already started super date here and it causes for like coach says it's so
unique release but I think that's where he builds a lot of power from and maybe he does put more on
the shoulder but it looks like to me just by the stopping of where the the video here you can see
that his scapula is very far back and so he's got a lot of mobility a lot of range of motion in the
shoulder and it's still staying very posterior in the socket which i think is always well it's a
interesting thing as what it is and I think that's where it gets that that extra juice is being able
to allow that scapula to get so far back I think that's a very unique thing that you know I can do
that what's that what is the scapula because the scapula is the shoulder blade here on the back
yeah yeah no problem like it um and so being able to get that going is uh it's definitely unique
thing and truthfully coach I actually like it I don't know if you you know if you don't like it
if you do like it but I think that that helps him get a little bit more action in the arm I think
that it is a very unique thing for him to do and so I don't know if necessarily everybody should
just start trying to do this early supination but I think that it works for him and his release the
ball out of the hand quickly as possible so now we got the back view yeah and here's another really
cool view of just him using using that shoulder to really you know get get the ball through um
you know I most of time when you get to the back of the stroke when you go back at this
point you'd like to see his his backhand looking towards us as a viewer so he just isn't rotating
the wrist and this is just a very interesting throw but every guy's different every guy has a
little bit different change of their game I like his face you know I think he could probably stay
a little taller you know looking at legs you know you want to don't want to sink in your throw you
want to try to be up a little taller so I think that also could be a little more improved but it
looks like he's really getting a lot of spin on the ball and he's getting through the zone with
a lot of rotation so that's great this balance is fantastic overall he's good there's no concerns
a greasy a lot right there yeah you can see why he's got a lot of power behind the ball
and I think in order for him to get a little bit quicker on his release it would be to get that
ball to start coming through faster and get that transition to start happening at a quicker rate
so he's down he gets that leg right down into the ground rather than just kind of sitting back on it
and then transitions forward and gets that ball rotate all the way through we want to see his
by that point that ball should already be facing straight ahead he still has one more frame until
he does so it's all the way out in front which one again he was so far ahead in this position there's
guys that aren't even close to having that ball that far rotated and from this angle you could
really see how his scapula here is so far back but now instead of just keeping the ball there let's
transition through and get that and you can see that how those kind of happens synchronously is
he turns transition pushing out that back leg that's the same time as when he starts to get
that ball back spinning around again I think you could probably even get a little more power if he
was able to get a little more wrist and shoulder turn at that point so right here you want to get
that ball east and west had that ball on the top of the shelf this way to turn it up here this way
he's getting here and carrying it and then gets to turn at the last moment and I guess could kind
of close it out another thing too is he opens up I think he opens up that front hip a little bit
too early here is he's transitioning for it i think you get a little bit more of kind of that
straightaway shift forward more of that kind of you know working in the frontal plane you know
being able to transition straight forward with that hip instead of beginning that rotation so
early I'm not I think it also helped out with that power but those little small parts of the
throw that could end up being very very important when it comes to you know sec football or you know
NFL football so we'll see I mean we're rooting for you um yeah man yeah real tight yeah it's
always say it's always a pleasure doing this stuff and then we both figured out more about different
peoples throws how they can be successful and so yeah don't like yep go Blake Sam and I eat
alright so for this video only wanted to do is a couple exercises that can show Blake how we can
get better in his release I think one thing that we want to work on is getting a little bit more
serratus stabilization overhead and what that'll do is it'll allow him to get this hand coming
through a little bit faster and so for that what we do is you can just go up and can get like a
foam roller just like this and just go ahead and turn those pinkies facing towards the wall you
want to get your body in a pretty good position maybe about a foot away from the wall squeeze the
glutes get the rib cage in a good neutral position and then from here you're just going to go in lift
up as far as you can and come back lift up as far as you can you'll feel that run and meet the
armpits here put the hand in that same position by your neutral position but come back down
okay and then another one that we wanted to do or I want to show you would be to help him with
that transition we saw in the video how he kind of actually rotates that hip a little
bit early so we want to be able to work on getting some more like lateral movement in
the hips and so for that you can go and take like a ball softball I'm using an orb here
you can go just kind of press up against the wall here takes the closer leg and bring it
backward and then from this position I'm trying to do is just hike that hip come
back down like the hip and that will activate the opposite side we need as well as the same
side ql so really for that side doing it with the right side up against it would be the best
forum but i think getting both sides would be beneficial so thanks for watching the video