hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we'll be going over the biggest mistakes
i see when training youth quarterbacks and we'll start the video right now
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alright so as i've been doing this more and more i've had more people reach out to me who have
you know quarterbacks that are younger in their age and i understand it just because they want
to really start to train with their kids before they start to you know get bad habits within
their throwing so you know a lot of times when quarterbacks are you know seven eight years old
you can make sure that they just ingrain some of the things that are correct when it comes
to throwing and so i do want to go over some of the things that i see when working with these
quarterbacks that are mistakes that you know honestly i think they're made with the best
intention in mind uh but most like and most likely you're actually making these mistakes
and it's really having a negative impact on the development of you know the quarterback and so
the first thing and the biggest thing here is just trying to progress the size of the ball too early
right so some people think that you know oh yeah they should go up in the size of the football
because they're going to be throwing a bigger football when they're you know whatever age and
that is true uh you you are gonna end up having to use a bigger football but when you do that
you end up actually putting the quarterback in a bad position because now if his hand isn't
growing enough he will end up having to suffer with his mechanics because he's holding a ball
that is bigger than what he should be holding and is still trying to go through a you know proper
wrist flick or get the wrist in a good position or grip the even the ball correctly and so what
i would say and what i recommend for people is try not to go up in the size of the ball try to stay
lower with the the size of football for as long as you can even for me personally
i like throwing with those smaller footballs with you know the younger quarterbacks because it helps
me with my wrist flick and even using a smaller ball so i'll even tell quarterbacks that are you
know in those younger ages those youth ages use the smaller football and you know when you have
to go into games or practices or things like that then you could use the bigger football or you know
whatever size he's currently playing with but you know for as long as you can keep the ball
small so then you can really work on the wrist position and having a great wrist flick that's
the biggest thing that i would say second thing that i would say is try not to get too caught up
in throwing a lot of passes timing routes deep passes when the athlete is younger work more on
drills i'm big on doing the wrist flick right making sure that the wrist gets on top as we're
throwing the football we don't want to get too stuck in doing drills that'll make it so now your
wrist ends up getting in not a good position right so this is not where we want to be we want to have
the wrist and more of a see i've done a lot of videos that talk about this and you really don't
want to be in this position here when when you're releasing the football and you know a lot of times
you can work on being able to improve within this pretty quickly you know when you really start to
get a good understanding of what that risk should look like this is a better position right here
and so you know make sure you're putting a big priority on drills right getting the lower body
involved pushing off the back leg being stable within that front leg getting that wrist on top as
you're flicking the wrist and coming through the throw and and really trying to get the ball out of
the hand fast right so the second mistake would be putting more of a focus on throwing routes
and timing and stuff like that and not as big of a focus on the drills and get working on the correct
mechanics so you know that ends up really having a negative impact especially when it comes to
you know throwing the deep ball i see a lot of things going on within the spine and you also
put a lot of stress on the arm when the mechanics are not correct and so just make sure that you're
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see that i think is a common mistake is really just not training the upper body right there's
been a lot of evidence recently that has come out that has talked about how weightlifting
resistance training strength training is going to help promote growth for younger quarterbacks
right there's a lot of people that think oh man if i you know have my kid train at too earlier in age
or get him you know strength training too early it's going to make it so his growth is stunted and
the person that ended up making that study this was like 20 or 30 years ago and maybe even more
really didn't have very much scientific data that really backed what he was claiming if you go and
you research more about it and it ended up blowing up the information blew up and now that it has
just been repeatedly told over and over again and it's really not true right now not that you want
to start you know throwing hundreds of pounds on you know young kids and trying to get them to like
squat or dead lifts or things like that but two and a halfs you know five pound weights ten pound
weights that's going to promote growth within a young quarterback that's not going to stunt the
growth and so start doing strength training core training balance training things like
that at a younger age because that will help in creating that stability that they're going to need
when going into you know high performance training and so you know those are really i think the three
biggest thing that i see i think the big the the biggest thing is going to be the ball size right
making sure that you're uh have the the correct ball size or even work with a smaller ball to
make sure they get the wrist flick oh actually number four i would just say be patient right i
work with a lot of different quarterbacks a lot of different you know dads that are coaching or
coaches that are coaching you know younger kids and you know the big thing with that is
just overall patience right when you're working with them they're trying you know sometimes they
get distracted they don't always do it the right way i always tell guys where it's like
you know if you can get a little bit better at this within the next two months or three months
that's going to be a huge improvement when we talk about a you know two to three year development so
if you're willing to commit to actually seeing development and growth then you know you want
to be able to see that over a long period of time not that you know we want to get results that are
you know take a long time to be able to get but you know sometimes you really have to be patient
in the development within that individual session to make it so the the quarterback
stays engaged because what you don't want to have happen is you know there not be a love
for you know playing quarterback for the game of football or for you know trying to be better at a
particular skill or particular sport and you know i see that a lot i see the love kind of to get
sucked out of the kid because there's just too much pressure and you know the the standards are
get too high too soon right at the end of the day you know when they're eight they're just trying
to have fun right and you know while we do want to be on the same track of you know make sure they're
doing it correctly you know a lot of them are doing the best that they can and so um just trying
to take that for what it is right i'm not trying to um you know say this is how to parent a kid
or this is what you have to do in order to coach i'm just saying you know there's some people that
i think might get too caught up in how well a quarterback doing at eight and not as focused
at what they're going to be like when they get to 16 18 you know 20 years old so um just a little
bit different thought process i think is always good to you know think about long-term stuff so
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really make a lot of big results again over a period of time that to me has been you know my
big goal right if you really look at you know you know for for me advertising or business or
you know overall growth and speed and weight it all is going to take time i don't want to see
you know huge improvement within a week you know i used to think that when i was younger
but now i know that it's like this is something's going to grow it's going to get better it's going
to get better it's going to get better and really just building the habits of being consistent
with doing it will make it so now i can control my results a lot more in comparison to just thinking
oh i'm going to get a lot out of you know this particular session and put a lot of you know
focus on and pressure on the kid to be able to perform within an hour an hour and a half right
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