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Originally Posted by maven
They don't. Some apparently think that the movement described in the OP is equivalent to the QB dropping under the snapper, which by interpretation IS a shift.
The QB moving his hands under the snapper is a shift because his whole upper body moves and because it's akin to a lineman dropping to a 3-point stance.
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More broadly, you can do some things in that position that you're not doing otherwise. The idea of a shift is that you give up one position for another -- or at least you threaten to do so, in some shifts that bring you back to where you started. Rolling your hands isn't like that.