Netflix released the first four minutes of its upcoming documentary Quarterback that follows the lives on and off the field of three NFL quarterbacks: Kirk Cousins, Patrick Mahomes and Marcus Mariota.
The clip opens with Cousins reading Sports Illustrated’s Big Book of Why – about the NFL’s protection rules for quarterbacks – to his son.
“Did you know the season-ending knee injury that Tom Brady suffered in the first game of the 2008 season led to a ban on hitting quarterbacks below the knee,” Cousins reads, then adding a quip: “And Dad is forever grateful.”
The view of Cousins calmly reading to his son is followed by a replay of him getting blasted by a Bills defender, leaving the 34-year-old groaning in pain on the turf at Buffalo’s Highmark Stadium.
“These are very different players,” Peyton Manning, who narrates the show, says when introducing Cousins, Mahomes and Mariota. “Each in very different situations.”
“I think to whom much is given, much is required,” Cousins says in the show. “And it is an incredible privilege to be a pro quarterback in this league. This is as about as close as they’ll ever get to crawling in our skin and seeing what it’s like to truly live in our day-in, day-out basis.”
“It doesn’t feel like it should be over,” Cousins says in a preview of what his world was like after he threw short on 4th-and-8 and the Viking slost in the NFC Wild Card game to the Giants.
The full documentary will debut on Netflix this Wednesday, July 12. Here’s the lengthy trailer released Monday.
