Philip Rivers Moves On
The QB world is gonna look really weird next season. The famous ’04 class is now 1/3rd retired, 1/3rd a free agent, and 1/3rd a fat rapist who might still retire but probably not yet. Rivers, Mariota, Jameis, Brees, Brady, Keenum, Hill, Bridgewater, Flacco, Tannehill, Dalton, and Dak Prescott’s statuses are all up in the air. Presumably most of them will return to their current teams (Brady, Jameis, Brees, Tannehill, Dak), some could end up anywhere (Bridgewater, Dalton, Mariota, Keenum) and some are unknowns overall (Hill, Flacco). One is for sure. Philip Rivers is no longer a San Diego Los Angeles Charger.
I have no idea where Rivers is going to end up. I could see him as a colt, a bear, a Tampa Bay Viper…it’s gonna be fun waiting to see what Philip wants. The dude should probably be the darling of free agency unless Brees and Brady don’t actually return to their teams as expected.
It is going to suck seeing Bolo Boy in a different uniform but it might be something that the Chargers need in the long run. Not just from a new team perspective but from a moving on from San Diego perspective. Philip was the face of the San Diego Chargers. For the team to totally move into their new identity, or at least to have any hope of doing so, they probably need to put the Rivers era behind them. Whoever they end up with (folks are already calling for it to be Justin Herbert) will be LA’s QB, not a holdover from the good days of San Diego. Maybe that will inspire some fandom. Best case scenario it does. Worst case scenario they keep being completely irrelevant on a soccer field.
I’ve seen some chucklefucks bringing up how the Chargers have treated Philip compared to how the Giants have treated Eli and how Eli made the right choice in the draft. I love dunking on the Chargers and Phil but this isn’t fair. In terms of ownership yeah, Eli was right. But Rivers didn’t retire, he left. Of course he’s going to be treated differently. He’s not gone yet. I have zero doubts the Chargers will gladly welcome Rivers back to retire with them one day. Unless he goes to the Raiders and wins a Super Bowl. That would be hilarious.
Speaking of which, that makes me wonder. What is the funniest possible landing spot for every QB that could move this year? Lets thought exercise.
BRADY – Colts. The Colts have a long history of hating Tom Brady and were the progenitors of the deflategate scandal. Seeing Colts fans have to suddenly support the man would be choice schadenfreude.
MARIOTA- Tampa Bay. The team that passed on him and can’t handle the volatile Jameis amends their mistake and gets the conservative good boy.
JAMEIS – Tennessee. Just reverse the James/Mariota draft completely and see what happens.
DAK – Skins, just adding to the QB dead money, but instead takes them to the playoffs and Dallas gets fucked
TANNEHILL- ?
BREES- Chargers. The Chargers call it a return tour
DALTON- ?
KEENUM- Patriots. Let’s see how the fans handle this level of downgrade
RIVERS- Raiders. Immediately supplanting Carr and goes to the playoffs over the Chargers. Watching him and Gruden yell at each other in Vegas is prime television.
TEDDY- Bears, suddenly takes stacked Bears team to new heights, embarrassing Trubes and the Vikings on the way
HILL- Literally anywhere as a starting QB, the guy has thrown like 10 passes. Seems like a John Elway Special if I gotta pick one.
XFL is better than advertised
to be fair thats not saying much
Studiously avoiding Miami I see. They’d only screw up whoever went there anyway. #rosen
Miami already has Tua & Fitz
Tua isn’t locked down yet though. There’s four drafting ahead of us. I remember Miami eyeing up Baker a couple of years back.
If the Dolphins are serious about Tua there won’t be four teams drafting ahead of them by the time it’s all said and donr
Knowing Miami, They’ll trade all of thier tanked draft picks for Tua, who then procedes to never play a down in the NFL
Rosen is just straight up bad though
Hey, if Chad Henne can get his ass a ring, anything’s possible.
It’s like the Star Trek teenagers. You’ve got Wesley Crusher, Jake Sisko and Nog – who gets to sit in the Captain’s Chair? The ferengi. So it goes with Miami – fucking passers we’ve had, and who is it gets a ring? Henne & Matt Moore! At least Moore was a half-decent backup, I liked him – Henne was flat-ass-out hot garbage under Sparano.
And if Henne getting the jewellery doesn’t finish off Ringless Rivers, the dude is effectively goddamn immortal.
And Henne continues being hot garbage. Fitzpatrick and Tannehill helped the Chiefs in winning the Super Bowl than Henne
more than Henne*
No more soccer stadium, real stadium in Inglewood should be open in a few months where the Chargers can really feel like second-class citizens.
Dalton needs to go backup in Philly #TeamGinger
I can’t think of anything funny for Tannehill either.
Andy Dalton goes to the Browns to backup Baker because God hates him. Baker tears ACL in 3rd pre season game Browns go 2-14, but 2-0 against Cincinnati.
Newton might play? Might not? I don’t know.
My guess is he’s going to retire as a Panther. Maybe stay a year to help the younger guys out.
Dude has kind of a big ego. You think he’ll hang around to tutor kids?
As a Colts fan I’d rather the team move back to Baltimore than Brady be the QB.
Chicago
Tom Brady to San Di-Los Angelos doesn’t sound too bad now.
I don’t see Brees playing anywhere but New Orleans. He’s even said as much. It’s them or retirement. I did think about how funny it would be if Brees retired, Rivers went to the Saints, and they won the Super Bowl with him. That would be the ultimate middle finger to the Chargers I think.
The funniest place Tannehill would go is back to Miami to replace Fitz as the “veteran presence” to cover until whomever they draft (probably Tua) is ready. It would be like when you have a nightmare you are still in high school and never graduated.
I actually still have a Drew Brees Chargers Jersey stuffed deep in my closet.
I’d really want them to get Bridgewater. If not him, then get Brady. If not him, Jameis.
I don’t even care where Rivers ends up, I just want to see him win a ring. Shove it in the face of our shitty organization
Woof, those choices though.
Are you sure you’re still a Chargers fan?
I can’t blame him, I feel the same towards what the Bulls have become.
Come on, the funniest landing spot for Tanny is back in Miami. Dolphins pay him huge cap destroying money, he starts over some 1st round stud, and Miami essentially ends up exactly where they were before before the tank, while like Mark Walton or Kalen Bellage winning a Super Bowl somewhere. Just a Groundhog Day loop of incompetence.
A one-season loan deal to Tennessee, like the English soccer leagues? That’s ridiculous. I love it.
I would be incredibly happy if Rivers came to Chicago, but I’m not holding my breath. There’s a massive sunk cost fallacy going on here where no one is willing to admit that it was a bad draft choice and move on, so we’ll keep putting him out there until he has a decent season, use that to say it was the right choice all along, and watch the Super Bowl window close with the defense eventually inevitably regressing.
It is pretty crazy just to think of Brees and the Chargers though, not that it will happen, but that it is even conceivably possible. 2004 San Diego Drew feels like forever ago, these quarterbacks really have stuck around for an incredibly long time.
Colts fan here, while I wouldn’t enjoy rooting for Brady, my real hatred of that team is for Belichick.
I’m with you on that one. Rooting for Brady would be a bit awkward, but the Colts already have a history of taking Patriot castoffs (see: Vinatieri, Adam)
Kinda surprised at no Cam mention, but I guess there’s also not much of a storyline that could play out at other places besides like…denver
It’ll never happen, but I want to see Rivers to the Patriots and Brady to the Chargers. Then I want the Patriots to win one more Super Bowl.
Also, I’m a Raiders fan and still think Carr has potential if only he could stop panicking so easily and had more than one receiver to throw to. I could however, warm up to the idea of Rivers winning a Super Bowl for us.
“ Seeing Colts fans have to suddenly support the man would be choice schadenfreude.”
There is a 0% chance a team with a Peyton Manning statue outside the stadium signs Tom Brady. The vast majority of Colts fans would rather go 0-16 for years on end.
Also this is your infrequent reminder that *technically* the Ravens started deflategate, not Indy. And the one guy on the colts who pushed for it is gone and has been gone for years (Ryan Grigson aka the worst GM of the 2010s)
If Brady walks Billy Five Aces starts Stidham and all of a sudden a nobody is in the SuperbOwl. Naturally Eli Manning would come out of retirement, join the Bucs, get them into the playoffs and somehow derp them to an upset win.
“Ben McAdoo: Employed!”
I had to check because I first heard that here.
QB coach for the Jags? Huh.
Something tells me that there could be some kind of comedy potential in this between him, Minshew and Foles, but I can’t definitely put it down on how to make it work…
Courtesy comment acknowledging your courtesy mention of the XFL. Get your GUARD UP!
Rivers should hitch a ride with a contending team as a back up for a ring. He has little to lose anyway.