what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lap of California and we did
another breakdown here today on Philip Rivers got a couple people that requested for Philip
Rivers he done break down the path of him but this one is from a couple weeks ago a little bit
newer plus I like the game game pass where we can get a couple new angles so I thought I'd go ahead
and rake them down just because in terms of his overall mechanics are just really interesting I
mean how he's able to have a lot of success with the technique that he throws it's definitely
something that is a little bit unorthodox that that we don't see very often so we'll go ahead
and get right into it here so one of the things that that stands out is you know in terms of his
body and how he moves his body it's really not that far off I mean it really it's pretty good
I would say with with being able to really start get good rotation with that that front hip you
see always that that attorney he really pulls hard with that front leg and then from there you
know really drives through that elbow when he finishes the ends up getting a lot of internal
rotation turns out that the arm in a lot and then he also comes kind of across during the throw a
good amount which is not obviously a super optimal thing to do when when you're throwing is hard to
be consistently accurately when you're doing a lot across your body but you know again that's that's
really we're going through and like I said a big part of what he does actually goes much more to
the you know how he moves well in his body again we'll go here and you can see I'll go fast speed
for this one you see how he does I mean when he gets the ball out he gets the ball out pretty
quick he when he starts he does kind of drop the ball a good amount so he goes and he starts and
he drops the ball pretty low and then transition that's where he gets the power from is he just
has a long release and then from there he really gets up puts a lot on that elbow to come through
so he's here and then he brings that elbow through but but how he goes by keeping that that ball down
he does a good job of not letting the the ball get too far back this way back behind the head one of
the things that we talk about a lot he does a good job of just kind of going back he does raise it a
little bit that way for a second but really does a good job coming straight through and has its
really stable on his front leg so as he's pushing off it's a lot of rotation very stable on that
front leg it's full rotation within the trunk and that's one of the reasons why he's able to have
access now again I'd say one of his areas that he has he has problems would be much more on the
accuracy side than on his overall throwing power and velocity if he's able to put a good amount
of velocity here's a good example of why you know yeah it goes into why the motions just not great
right so you could see again he's doing a good job pushing off that back leg doing a good job
creating rotation really these if we just take the arm out of it we just look at what he's doing with
his body these are things that we would want him to do push off that back leg great rotation pull
hard with that front shoulder rotating through now well you just want to have happen is like
elbow to be closer to like right there rather than all the way down there and you could see
how by coming across I mean I don't know exactly what that is on his on his arm but that's like I
see harder or if it's just like it's something for his elbow but I wouldn't be surprised because he
put so much range on that elbow if he does have some some problems there and you could also see
as he's coming through he's kind of you know that ball is really far away from his actual body as
he's throwing he's throwing it the ball like that rather than like a Tom Brady here and Rogers who's
doing the Baltimore kind of right over the top as they're coming through so he's coming across a lot
as he throws but I mean that hit Antonio Gates right in the gut so it's not like you know he's
super and accurate when he's throwing but you know that's that's kind of surprised that you see with
him again I mean good twist off that back leg you getting a lot of rotation look at his stable years
on the front front leg I mean in terms of again the the body that he he the things that he does
there and he does an excellent job and that's why he's able to have the success is you know
the the body really it's a big part of the throw and that's why I didn't mind doing the Phillip
Rivers once again just because if there's people that could see that and really understand like
wow I can move my body better then I'll be able to become a lot better quarterback and I think
that's 100% true I think that you know that's a very very underutilized skill and under dr. buck
skill is the the proper ways of shifting your feet the proper way is rotating in your and your hips
also the the proper way isn't rotating within the spine and pulling with that front shoulder
all things that don't even have to do with the actual throwing motion are critical parts of
the throw and these are parts that Phillip Rivers obviously does good he's a great example of that
he pushes off that back leg is well he shifts from the inside foot to the outside part of his foot he
does a good job rotating within his hips he does a good job rotating within his torso he pulls that
front shoulder down hard all things that are are crucial to become a really good quarterback and
also playing the NFL so yeah as always thanks for watching these videos guys if you have any
questions please reach out my emails morey@your performancelab.com also check out some of the
stuff below about our throw program getting going into the to the end of the year and beginning of
the offseason so looking forward to getting some new guys started and helping you become better
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