I'm not a golfer but can our guys drops be compared to getting the yips and how can it be overcome ?
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No. Way more mechanics involved in a golf swing than catching a football. This is 100% mental. Hopefully the coaching staff has introduced some catching drills that maybe they weren’t doing before. Repetition in practice and I should become natural in games.
The one that Brown dropped in the end zone last week was text book "taking your eye off the ball" when he looked down to see where his feet were before finishing the catch. Dane obviously has it in his head because he showed strong hands last year but has dropped way too many this year that have hit him in the hands.
That was not as easy a TD catch as some claim for Brown. Should he have made it? Ofcourse, but he was tip toeing the end line too.
The "yips" is also mental; that is what the op was saying and he was right. It's mental. The receiver is supposed to practice to the point where he doesn't think about catching a football versus missing it. He is just supposed to catch the ball, not think about catching the ball.
They need someone to tell them enough with looking tk celebrate after every 5-10 yard catch and just get back to a blue collar work mentality for a few weeks and do your job, hustle back to line up and do it again. I’m all about having fun but when you’re struggling you need to cut the extracurricular out and refocus on the actual task.
Secondly, they need to go dark on anything but texting friends and family for a couple weeks. No reading press clippings, social media, tweets about them dropping balls etc. turn the phone off and shut the noise out.
Secondly, they need to go dark on anything but texting friends and family for a couple weeks. No reading press clippings, social media, tweets about them dropping balls etc. turn the phone off and shut the noise out.
The yips in golf however are mechanical issues with your swing, not necessarily mental. Drops normally occur when one is trying to turn up the field too quickly without bringing the ball in. Key is just flat out dropping passes, he’s lost his confidence for whatever reason.
I've never heard the yips being about a golfer's swing, which is one of the most technically difficult things in sport. I've seen the term used many times and always about putting. Unlike a regular gold swing a golfer's putting stroke is not that mechanical. When a golfer forgets how to putt it is not because of some hitch developing in his stroke; it is almost always mental. I would also assert that when a golfer develops a hitch in his swing, a mechanical problem...that is also mental. If it were not mental he'd remember how to do it the way he used to.
Putting yips in golf is not a mechanical issue. It's involuntary muscle contraction that jerks the clubhead.
I have the yips and it causes my putting stroke to twitch occasionally. It happens a lot when guys have too much tension in their forearm muscles from lifting weights and it's a permanent "injury." I switched to the "claw" grip to overcome it.
I golf twice a week, my entire game is a yip. Only thing I can say to compare a golf swing with catching a football is the mental aspect. Personally when I get on a roll I can typically score well but a couple of bad shots makes me tense up and my game goes to hell, possibly the same thing with drops. Coen did say a couple of weeks back he was targeting Key and Brown to build their confidence, if those guys catch a few balls then I think they’ll get on a roll.
When he said yips I thought he was really referring to a shank. Putting yips for certain are definitely mental. Anyone who has ever golfed understands though there are times when that cup looks like the size of a dime even 2 feet out 😂
From the Mayo Clinic.
The yips are involuntary wrist spasms that occur most commonly when golfers are trying to putt. However, the yips also can affect people who play other sports — such as cricket, darts and baseball.
It was once thought that the yips were always associated with performance anxiety. However, it now appears that some people have the yips due to a neurological condition affecting specific muscles. This condition is known as focal dystonia.
Changing the way you perform the affected task might help you find relief from the yips. For example, a right-handed golfer might try putting left-handed.
Symptoms
The most common symptom associated with the yips is an involuntary muscle jerk, although some people experience tremors, twitches, spasms or freezing.Causes
In some people, the yips are a type of focal dystonia, a condition that causes involuntary muscle contractions during a specific task. It's most likely related to overuse of a certain set of muscles, similar to writer's cramp. Anxiety worsens the effect.Some athletes become so anxious and self-focused — overthinking to the point of distraction — that their ability to perform a skill, such as putting, is impaired. "Choking" is an extreme form of performance anxiety that may have a harmful effect on a golfer's or any athlete's game.
To misquote an old dodge ball coach, " If you can catch a wrench, you can catch a ball." Throw wrenches at them.
I think that certainly was the main factor, but that goes back to running a poor route.
If he had been more precise/intentional with the depth & break on his route, he would’ve know where he was and not had to look for the end line.
Yeah Leary floated it too much which caused Barion to have to watch his feet thinking he was running out of space. But one thing I noticed about Barion is he likes to catch the ball in his body and struggle a little more when having to catch out in front with his hands. Some guys just have better hands that others.
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