Second String

Synopsis

Eleven years. Four starters. Marcus Reyes has been paid extremely well, for a very long time, to know the entire playbook and never once run it. He is good at the part of the job nobody watches. Three of the four men ahead of him learned the offense sitting beside him on a Tuesday, and two of them have said so publicly, which he appreciated a great deal more than he let on. In April the team drafts a nineteen-year-old with a better arm than any of them ever had, and asks Marcus to teach him.

Who this is about

Marcus Reyes has been a backup for eleven years, which means he has been paid extremely well to know everything and do nothing.

What goes wrong

The team drafts a nineteen-year-old with a better arm than any of them ever had, and asks Marcus to teach him.

What's at stake

Doing the job well ends his career. Doing it badly ends it faster, and worse.

Why it keeps going

Each episode is one more thing he could withhold and does not.

Takeaway

The measure of a man is what he teaches the person hired to replace him.

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