A good look at Cam's new throwing technique compared to last year

[SmittysLawnGuy]

On 6/12/2019 at 2:46 PM, xav8tor said:

I'm really surprised (well, no...not really. It is the Huddle, after all) at how many posters are negative in some way or another about the recent efforts to improve Cam's mechanics, whether it's even feasible, or if it could have any lasting effect. Drop the irrational hate for a moment and consider another QB, one Mr. Tom Brady - along with a half dozen other marquise NFL QB names (Ryan comes to mind). Brady routinely works to improve his most fundamental of fundamentals to this very day, and has for his entire career.

Look up his work with Tom Martinez before that particular private "tutor" died, and Tom House since then. Brady incessantly still tries to improve his game, going all the way back to the very basics. Does it help? Check his stats, or ask him yourself (figuratively). According to him, it's a no brainer. Do it...or fall behind. Alternatively, you can make the choice to have a shot at populating yet another finger with a ring of all rings.

By way of example, aside from what every single NFL player should be doing in terms of a healthy diet, off-season maintenance training, and so on, it's irrefutable that, as time goes in one direction, and raw physical ability moves in another (often, opposite) direction, changes must be made in order to have any chance of maintaining peak performance. Again, check the stats, or just watch some film. Brady has done that...unquestionably, but how? The answer is complex, but simple: There's always room for improvement.

Teaching an old dog new tricks is possible by, like so may issues, attacking it head on, whatever it takes. One (of many) ways Brady and other top tier players do it is via seeking out, and inundating themselves with the proven advice of others who, unequivocally, know what they are talking about. Interestingly, well thought out coaching from scientifically oriented former baseball pitchers is a source of knowledge that directly translates to becoming a better, more accurate, and more efficient, NFL passer.  Although he has a track record of almost two full decades working on it, guess what Brady was doing this year during the bye week before he set out to win another SB?

Yep, throwing mechanics 101, e.g., using the hips to advantage. It should not have taken another injury to trigger it, but regardless, we should embrace it, as should Cam/the Panthers, and find optimism in the fact that #1 is again working on the basics, and trying to perfect them, tailoring them to his own (present/future) capabilities as he ages. Those who are skeptical have said that it's pointless: He'll only revert to the same ways of doing things that he's done for years when under "real world" pressure. No, that isn't true, or at least, it doesn't have to be. Train the correct way often enough with requisite repetition and focus, and then the desired results will follow, a fact proven time and time again in the NFL, and elsewhere. In another discipline, more than one in fact, we had a mantra, "When the sh*t hits the fan, you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to your training."

If Cam or the coaching staff has (finally) acknowledged the need to fix a few long-standing fundamental problems that almost anyone can see, I'm all for it...and have been for years now. What is finally being done doesn't require all that much effort, especially considering the potential returns on little "investment." The only knock on the changes recently mandated by his injuries is, why they were not implemented much sooner? The need was patently obvious (years) long before Watt (arguably illegally) hit him last year in week 10 against PIT.

Thanks for breaking the internet. Peace!

[GoobyPls]

1 hour ago, TheMostInterestingMan said:

You are exactly right. It’s much more difficult for a guy who throws a ball 100 times a game at 100 mph into a tiny window to change his throwing motion. 

If they can do it after several seasons, I’m sure Cam can as well lol 

Yep that’s why it happens so often. Oh wait it doesn’t....

 

 

QBs just don’t change throwing motion after throwing on certain way for 23 years. At best he tweaks it a bit but completely change it, that’s laughable. If that’s the case The Golden Calf of Bristol would still be in the league.

[IGSaint]

On 6/14/2019 at 12:02 AM, GoobyPls said:

Yep that’s why it happens so often. Oh wait it doesn’t....

 

 

QBs just don’t change throwing motion after throwing on certain way for 23 years. At best he tweaks it a bit but completely change it, that’s laughable. If that’s the case The Golden Calf of Bristol would still be in the league.

 

It's not a big change. All Cam is doing is holding his off arm tighter to his body.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Just now, IGSaint said:

 

It's not a big change. All Cam is doing is holding his arm tighter to his body.

exactly 

[Rubi]

Watching the 2015 offense play and watching Cam throw absolute laser beams all over the field was the most fun I’ve ever had while watching football. 

God that was a sick team