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Prior to the snap of the football, the quarterback goes through a process. Some quarterbacks do very little prior to the snap. Some direct receivers or analyze the defense. The leadership provided pre-snap can instill confidence in a football team, or it can be a precursor to imminent doom (see the 1985 Patriots circa the Super Bowl). No matter a quarterback's pre snap routine, he only gets 45 seconds. One quarterback does more with those 45 seconds than any other I have ever seen. This is the pre-snap routine of Peyton Manning. The first thing Manning does before the snap is to call a gro...