hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California we're gonna
do another breakdown here today today it's gonna be on Tom Brady and really more of a focus on
the deep ball we just recently released a PDF that it's going to really focus on how you how to throw
you know the football just in general more of kind of a you know 15 to 30 yard pass but then we want
to get more into the deep ball and so and we're gonna have a PDF for that as well but I thought
I'd also start off with having a video that goes more into the you know deep ball and what are
the key mechanics that you want to have there so there's a lot of similarities here with with the
deep ball there's some things that I think they were going to be really really important and and
I think the the biggest one is the load and making sure that when you load you have plenty of weight
on that back leg so you could see how in Tom Brady loads here how much weight is back he takes
kind of a big a bigger step when he's getting ready but you could definitely tell he's got
some baseball background just because of how he gets that rotation going in in the back leg as he
begins the throw and you could also see how much disassociation he has and by that I mean how much
his hips turn open before his upper body doesn't and that's different and the deep ball than it is
and just like the regular pass so usually he does a better job of you know getting that upper body
going faster when when you're talking about a you know maybe 20 25 yard throw but when you goes with
a deep ball he's creating a lot of torque thereby rotating really early in those tips and Megan so
that backs or that shoulder stays back and then when he comes through you could even see has a
big whipping action with the head and with the side and then he also has even that ball away
from his body okay and we can't see that a hundred percent here just because the angle but you could
just tell that how much external rotation he gets in that arm so you can see kind of that arm angle
and how that balls way back behind but he's still able to stay pretty straight up and fine so that's
gonna be I mean that's really a great effective way to throw as he gets through and another big
thing is gonna be you want to be able to have a good amount of force coming out of that front leg
as well so he really does a big straightening of that front leg guys like Aaron Rodgers will almost
like press off the ground as they're transferring to that front the to the front leg so when he's
going and transferring all his weight forward he's actually generating force upwards into his and
through his front leg so you know a key difference would be is usually as you're transferring forward
a lot of guys will kind of go forward and up okay but what he's doing is he's actually for the deep
ball he's rotating and almost maybe thinking down a little bit and then as he gets ready to release
and as that ball is coming up overhead now is when that race happens and now is when he really drives
those hips through and extends through that front leg as he's you know getting ready to leap release
the ball I have another example here of this throw with that that does it pretty good all of
them were basically from the side here so you know what I mean just a little bit more the definitions
a little bit cleaner here but you could really see how he does a good job getting those hips
all the way through okay what I commonly see when people go through their throw is they end up with
their spine not being well lined you can see how straight everything is when when he's releasing
and really what I mean primarily the spine is the hip so if your hips are still back and then your
your shoulders away out in front but that's just saying is that you're using all your your arm in
order to throw rather than using the lower body and you can see how his trajectory changes as he's
transferring forward what I mean by trajectory is how is he's kind of lower down here in kind
of where his body's all situated where is it most of his momentum is or most of his you know body
mass is is going to be lower and then as he gets ready to throw now it rises up and again that's
just because he's pressing down hard with that front leg as he's turning with that upper-body now
one important thing I'd say that you want to make sure to do is you don't want to be you don't want
that front leg to stop your ability to rotate so it's something that's very unique with Tom
here is as he's rotating and his hips he and also straightening with that knee he's keeping rotation
in his shoulders and his T spine and also in his hips as he's coming all the way through and and
really driving off of that back leg so what will happen is as people start to straighten with that
back with that sorry front knee their hips will stop rotating so then they'll end up with their
hips stuck more kind of back here and then they'll get into too much extension that in their lower
back Tom is getting close there and that he you know is getting a little bit of extension his back
but he forgets those hips all the way through and continues rotation you could see I was rotating
here and the shoulders as he's getting ride the ball and he also has a really high release okay
I'd say the last thing you want to really focus on is make sure you're getting your hand on top
of the balls you're throwing okay try to get it socially for those deep balls if your your hands
not doing a good job you don't have good wrist stabilization then you're not going to be able
to get that ball to to tail over and drop back down so another another big thing to focus on okay
yeah don't don't let that wrist wrist break keep that wrist stability make it so everything stays
neutral there as you're getting ready to throw so as always guys thanks for watching these videos if
you want to learn more about you know how to throw the deep ball with a you know with more individual
video you can go and check out our membership page we have a video there we also talked about how to
throw on the run how to you know throw from a lot of different positions so that's a good thing to
check out also you know reach out to us we have a whole offseason program that we're making that I
think is gonna be super very beneficial if you haven't checked out our PDF you know go ahead
and download that you can go you can find it on our website it's really gonna be a great thing
and learn all the ins and out of how to throw a football last thing if you want to look more
into the offseason program which is will give you exercises to do well do breakdowns for you
just make it so you could really spend the next you know five to six months or it off season on
really honing in on your mechanics and how you can be the best quarterback that you can be so we're
really trying to do a good job this offseason of getting some some really good mechanics out there
all around the world and making this so people can really get to their the next level and their their
ability to perform some as always thanks for watching these videos and we will see you soon