Second-stringer in a sentence as a noun

The incompetents can now use "jerk" to paint anyone who GTD, while the second-stringers can ease-back and do a whole lot of nothing.

I suppose at this point such second-stringers might as well give up on smartphones and find some other mobile platform to work towards, such as tablets.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it comes across as encouraging knowledge-hoarding, omitting documentation, and other job-securing, second-stringer games like writing obscure code no one else can understand.

There's not necessarily incompetence by virtue of people from elsewhere in the world, but there is sufficient incompetency, second-stringers and lack of accountability because of all the bureaucratic layers and indirection in the responsibilities.

Second-stringer definitions

noun

an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced

See also: substitute reserve