Dan Orlovsky

Now, many are Miami would at times like spin to all around for some of their play fix, which I like, but it's not the defense is very rarely when you're in the shotgun.

playing on their heels like if you could imagine a quarterback under center taking a ball or taking the snap and immediately opening up to his left and giving his the defenses back defenders are constantly thought go to the ball go to the ball go to the ball so like their initial reaction is like i don't see the ball i'm gonna go chase the ball i'm gonna chase the action

Where in the shotgun, you constantly see the ball.

Quarterback catches it right around chest level.

You can see always.

Defensive linemen can see.

Like, if you watch teams – I watch defensive linemen against shotgun teams.

The ball gets snapped, and, like, they're –

engaging with the offensive lineman while also like looking at the quarterback because they can see the ball right so like it's just easier i think and so i don't think it forces defenses to play nearly as in doubt which is should be one of your offensive goals and so um

That's the deep dive of like at least the initial point of why I don't like it as much as under center.

Um, I, I, I just, I love high school football.

My kids are about to be playing high school football.

That is a saying from when I played high school football.

So I played high school football in Shelton, Connecticut.

Um, it's a, it's called the Valley.

It's a little bit of a blue collar town.

And our, our coach and our strength coach at this time was a dude named Chris Anderson, total maniac, absolute maniac.

psychopath in the best way um and so like he had this saying of like creating the identity of what we were going to be as high school football players athletes and it was an animal champion warrior legend and it was like this is yeah dude it was that's great and so like we that was uh and he uh he also had this uh saying called mafu m-a-f-u we used to chant it on the sidelines like um

mental toughness, animal warrior, fanatical effort and unity.

That's what Mafu stood for.