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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Dan Orlovsky came back to Detroit this offseason in part to try to rectify some previous memories about him with the Lions. Once the starting quarterback here, he hasn’t taken a snap this season as the backup to Matthew Stafford.

And he knew that would likely be the case coming in.

As he prepares each week, he also preps for life after football -- which we discuss along with some of the best and worst moments of his life in this week’s Ten(ish) Questions With...

The broadcasting thing is something we’ve talked about a lot, so let’s start there. What attracted you to that, in that? Did you see a broadcaster growing up?

Dan Orlovsky: No, not at all. The first thing is, it keeps me close to football. I love the game, for one. The game has been very good for me. And so I want in some capacity to be able to give back to the game. The immediate ways to be able to do that is to coach, to broadcast, to be part of the PA, maybe, so there are a lot of thoughts going through my head of what I would like to do. Broadcast is something that when you’re around football at the quarterback position, you’re forced to talk about it. You learn it at a deeper level than any other position, and you talk about it a lot. So as I get near the end, people have always said you should look into this, post interviews or whatever, that you could be good at this. That’s what sparked the thought process of it. Just believing that I know the game at a pretty good level and I like talking about football and not necessarily scared to share my opinion on some stuff. That’s probably the driving force behind it, but we’ll see where it goes.

Do you want to coach?

Orlovsky: Coaching is high on it, but I also understand, from being around a while, what coaches go through. I’ve moved around a lot in the last decade and my family has, too, so I don’t know if that’s high on my list, the ramifications of choosing to coach. When the bridge comes, we’ll cross it. But I would definitely love to coach. It’s just, does it work for my family?

You’ve talked about the travel. What’s the toughest thing about that?

Orlovsky: I’d say the hardest thing is we are creatures of habit and you develop a routine once you get into your everyday week. If you have to do it solo, it’s difficult. If you have to do it with a wife, it’s harder. Once you have to do it with children, because you’re forced to make a decision of, do I uproot my whole family? Especially if you’re a person who you’re not guaranteed to make teams or get cut. Do I uproot my whole family, my kids from their comfort, my wife from her comfort, from doctors, from schools, from friends, from gymnastics class and music? Do I uproot them and take them with me and we have to find a place to function as a family? Or do I do long distance? That’s equally, if not more, difficult. And then go do your job at a high level. So other people have to deal with it in their jobs, too, but that’s the most difficult, when it affects people other than yourself.

What’s the best day of your life?

Orlovsky: When I married my wife. Then certainly the second, 1B, when we had my kids. But without my wife, I don’t have my kids.

What’s the worst day of your life?

Orlovsky: I could honestly say, I’d say one of the worst days was when I got cut by Houston because I had, and my wife had, made lifelong friends and that was our first time, at least my first time, we were young in our marriage, our first time catching a kick in the face from the reality of the NFL. The uprooting. The is, it over? The, you no longer get to spend and share your life with these people. That’s one of the first things that comes to my mind. You make these lifelong friends and you go from watching them start their families, sharing your life with them on an everyday basis to saying you’re gone. It literally stops that moment. That was a moment.

How long did it take you to get over that?

Orlovsky: Shoot, I’ll be honest. When that day happened, I cried because I knew what the ramifications were when it came to that. When it came to those friendships and that lifestyle. How long did it take me to get over it? A long time. I would say months. My football career had picked up within a day, but you just have to readjust yourself. Change your routine, your creature-of-habit world.

A lot of people know you. What’s the most common misconception about you?

Orlovsky: I could throw a lot out there. Football-wise is that part of the gig is you get labeled for one play, and I get that. That would be the one thing I would say is that I’m dumb or [stink] at football. So I’d say that would be high on the list. But I don’t know if people have a misconception of me or not.