What does Drew say when he hikes the ball?

Nah, he def says a shortened version of "READY, SET," so that it does indeed sound like "REH, SET"

What I hear is him first calling out the numbers of the mike linebacker
“Mike 5 1 (or whatever number), ready!
Yellow 80! Yellow 80! and/or
Blue 80! Blue 80!
Ready, SET, Hut!!” But he says it really fast so it sounds a little weird but I still hear a “Hut” at then end, especially when he’s doing a hard count.

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Just curious, because nobody says “down-set-hike” or “hut-hut” anymore

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it part of keeping them guessing so it sounds just like the chatter and isnt a clear "go" signal to give the offense a fraction of second head start rather then the defense

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Personally I miss some Omaha in my life

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I noticed he pulled out an Omaha against the Falcons when the play clock was about to expire. (Omaha means snap on the next sound.)

In the SNF game, Kirk Cousins is snapping often with the "reh-set".


Rodgers on the other hand will say something like:
"Hut" then pauses
"Red 18"
Then makes an unintelligible one-syllable grunt, and the ball is snapped. lol

The reason hut is used almost universally is because it is a very harsh one syllable word and works much better than anything else that has been tried at drawing people offside.

Go is a very weak one syllable word. Don't know who decided to use that where you played, but it was a poor decision. One would also be a terrible choice.

Set is decent, but not nearly as harsh as hut. One syllable words ending in t are very good for snap words in general.

He says "STSDB!"

halle berry

They don't always mean the same thing. A word could mean one thing one game/half/series and something else the next, not mean anything at all.

Like the example with Omaha. Sometimes it means snap on the next count or sound, and other times it means nothing but teams know sometimes it means snap on the next count so they jump.

Eagle could mean watch the nickel blitz one game, and something else entirely the next.

If you notice a team has picked up on it you change it up, or even use it to trick them.

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But you are correct in that sometimes these words correspond to a direction, but not always the same one.

Rarely are you changing whole formations after getting set (unless the shift was designed into the play). So you don't really hear those getting called out.

More often it's about protection, or pointing out alignment to receivers so they know to adjust their route.