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The backup, the pastor, the coach: Frank Reich's road to the Colts

Insiders Stephen Holder and Zak Keefer discuss the Colts' new head coach on the latest podcast 'Chopping Wood'. Clark Wade/IndyStar

He was the backup who became a folk hero, the jock who became a pastor, the pastor who became a 45-year-old intern, willing to scrub toilets if that’s what it took to scratch that football itch of his after eight years away from the game.

Even as a second-stringer, he was respected enough to counsel Jim Kelly; even as an unproven position coach, he was sharp enough to tutor Peyton Manning; even after the Philadelphia Eagles were left for dead this fall, their star quarterback sidelined, he was shrewd enough to lift Nick Foles from stopgap into Patriots-slayer.