Keep playing Whitaker! There is no one available to be your backup! I don’t care how much it hurts, we are counting on each of you to stay in the game and give it all you have. Full speed. No time to look back and consider the previous play. We won some and lost some but we always kept playing the game the best we knew how.
They called us the dirty dozen. There were only 12 of us on my 8th grade football team. In the sparsely populated Texas Panhandle, we often traveled over 2 hours [one way] to play a game. Each of us played offense, defense, and special teams. Most teams we played were bigger, faster and had greater numbers. Only one player stayed on the sideline. It was usually the guy who had the most severe injury from the last game.
I was taught early in life that you cannot just take a break. You cannot even slow down. Does it feel like this in your work life somedays? I can recall several instances in my working career that my team was understaffed. I was being prepared for this in 8th grade and I appreciate that experience.
There is no replacement for you. Keep going. There is no one here to lighten your workload. Keep going. If you quit, you lose. Full speed. Keep going and know that someday, this season will be over.
-RW