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    3 Tips To Beat A Physical DB
    Grant Caraway
    • 2 days ago
    • 2 min

    3 Tips To Beat A Physical DB

    Dont try to hand fight with him. If you sit there and try to play into his game of a heavy jam you will lose. If you are on the bigger si...
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    3 Things QBs Should Do This Off Season
    Grant Caraway
    • 4 days ago
    • 1 min

    3 Things QBs Should Do This Off Season

    Work on your mechanics. QBs who have flawed mechanics will not be as accurate, will not have as much velocity and won’t be consistent. Th...
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    3 Must Do Route Running Tips
    Grant Caraway
    • Jan 15
    • 1 min

    3 Must Do Route Running Tips

    Don’t expose your numbers. If you pop your chest up right before the break, that is an indicator to the DB. You should be like a moving s...
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    3 Tips To Run A Faster 40
    Grant Caraway
    • Jan 11
    • 1 min

    3 Tips To Run A Faster 40

    To run a faster 40 you need a great start. Make sure that you are explosive for the first 10yds and you really focus on being powerful wi...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Jan 7
    • 2 min

    3 Biggest Mistakes WRs Make

    3 Biggest Mistakes WRs make are the following: 1) they do not sell vertical all the way. So many WRs think they are selling fade when in ...
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    3 Things All WRs Need To Hear
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    3 Things All WRs Need To Hear

    3 main things WRs need to know if they want to be successful is the following: sell vertical with everything you do. When it comes to the...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    How QBs Can Stand Out On Film

    How QBs can stand out on film is by doing the following 2 things... 1) I think the QB position has changed a ton over the years but the t...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    How WRs Can Stand Out On Film

    How you can stand out from your competition at WR is by doing the following two things, running great routes is the first thing I want to...
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    3 Ways To Run An Out Route
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    3 Ways To Run An Out Route

    3 ways you can run an out route are the following, using a heavy indicator cut, a no indicator cut or a rocker step. Obviously there are ...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    3 Drills To Improve Your Hands

    Finger Tip Push Ups. This is a great exercise to improve grip strength which in turn will help your hands Anything tennis ball related. H...
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    3 Tips To Run Better Comebacks and Curls
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    3 Tips To Run Better Comebacks and Curls

    3 things that you can do to run a better comeback and curl Route would be the following: 1) you need to focus on selling fade and staying...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    3 Best Exercises For Speed

    Squats. 5 sets of 5 or 4 sets of 6 is the best split you can do. Focus on perfect form and exploding the weight to the top. This develops...
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    3 Types Of Throws QBs Need To Know
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    3 Types Of Throws QBs Need To Know

    The three types of throws QBs need to be able to make are 1 balls, 2 balls and 3 balls. Today we are going to talk about the mechanics be...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    3 Fade Route Releases

    When you are running a fade it’s important to know the situation, if you don’t know what read you are, if the QB is getting pressure or w...
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    2 Major Keys To Playing QB
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 14, 2020
    • 2 min

    2 Major Keys To Playing QB

    For QBs there are a few things that you absolutely need to focus on to be successful. The first thing I want to discuss is extending play...
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    2 Major Keys To Route Running
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 12, 2020
    • 1 min

    2 Major Keys To Route Running

    2 of the most important things having to do with route running is selling vertical and making your cuts/breaks sudden. So many people str...
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    2 Tips To Get A Stronger Arm
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    2 Tips To Get A Stronger Arm

    2 things that QBs can do to improve their arm strength mechanically is the following: produce more ground force and be able to get more t...
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    Tips To Be The Best QB On Your Team
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tips To Be The Best QB On Your Team

    When it comes down to the QB position there are so many talented throwers of the football. In every state, in every city and on every tea...
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    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 9, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tips To Be The Best WR On Your Team

    When it comes to standing out amongst other WRs on your team it’s all about the mental side of things when you get to a certain point. At...
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    How To Win A QB Competition
    Grant Caraway
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    How To Win A QB Competition

    When it comes down to QB competitions there are a few things that QBs need to remember, whether you are competing for a week in camp or t...
    86 views0 comments
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