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"Rivers won't be the reason the Chargers don't make the playoffs By Dan Pompei - SportingNews On the one side of the line are the Chargers' problems. No one to play left tackle. A shaky secondary. A group of receivers defenses do not fear. On the other side of the line are the solutions. Football's finest runner. A tight end no one can match up with. A ferocious front seven. And there stands Philip Rivers, one foot on each side of the line. Who will you be, Philip? An inexperienced passer who costs his team games? Or a quarterback who takes his team places Drew Brees could not? The answer will define the tenure of general manager A.J. Smith, who essentially chose Rivers over Eli Manning on draft day and Rivers over Brees for a playoff-ready team. I have been convinced for a long time Rivers will be an excellent NFL quarterback. After visiting Chargers camp, I'm starting to believe it could be sooner than I thought. Rivers looked good in practice, but it isn't what I saw that moved me as much as what I heard. Rivers' work ethic and preparation have earned him the deep respect of teammates and coaches. Veterans usually are more skeptical of an untested quarterback who is trying to replace a player who won 21 of 32 starts and was football's second-most accurate passer the past two years. Listen to running back LaDainian Tomlinson: "He's going to be a great quarterback because the intangibles he has are what the great ones have. He's smart. He's able to anticipate what's going on on the football field. He's not a robot quarterback. He has something you can't teach." Receiver Keenan McCardell, a veteran of 14 NFL seasons, believes Rivers throws a better deep ball than Brees and says Rivers has an advantage seeing the field because he's 5 inches taller. However, McCardell does admit Brees was more comfortable with the offense because of his experience. Coach Marty Schottenheimer had some interesting thoughts on that subject. I wanted to know whether he would scale back game plans, maybe cut back on formations or on audibles with Rivers. It's still early, but Schottenheimer plans to have a passing game every bit as ambitious as the one Brees directed. "We won't have to simplify anything from an intellectual standpoint," Schottenheimer said while sitting on a leather couch in his office that overlooks the practice fields at Chargers Park. "There will be, certainly, a period of development that will take place, but Philip Rivers is way ahead of the curve in that regard. In my opinion, the mental side of it is not going to be a factor." When Schottenheimer and the Chargers staff coached Rivers in the 2004 Senior Bowl, they were impressed with his instincts. Those instincts could be the difference between the Chargers' making or missing the playoffs. "As you know, (instincts) can expedite the development process because it's a matter of maybe reacting to something he hasn't seen and doing the right thing," Schottenheimer says. The beauty of the situation Rivers steps into is the Chargers don't need their quarterback to carry them. This team is about running the ball and playing good defense. And Schottenheimer acknowledges the Bolts might be more about running the ball this year than they were a year ago, when they ran it 45.5 percent of the time, a lower rate than 15 teams. The Chargers might not be quite as effective this year with Rivers as they would have been with Brees. But they can be a playoff team. And at some point soon, they will be capable of more than they ever could have been with Brees."

Hell yeah, I hope he does great.

that nigga has got vision!

8/11/2006 2:37:10 PM

LASER vision dude. LASER.





[Edited on August 11, 2006 at 2:41 PM. Reason : ]

8/11/2006 2:39:59 PM

total laser vision. He will chop your head off.

8/11/2006 2:40:17 PM

or sever your labrum.

8/11/2006 3:06:08 PM

Tonight at 10.

8/12/2006 8:48:42 AM

is the game tonight on tv?

8/12/2006 3:40:32 PM

I think the game is blacked out. They are about 3k short of a non-blackout.

8/12/2006 4:02:26 PM

the game shown locally tonight will be the panthers / bills

friday will be chargers / bears on WRAL

[Edited on August 12, 2006 at 4:41 PM. Reason : ]

8/12/2006 4:39:49 PM

Rivers seems to be doing well, he just threw a TD


[Edited on August 12, 2006 at 10:26 PM. Reason : NFL channel has it]

8/12/2006 10:25:19 PM

so how did rivers look? the stats looked good but i didnt see the game.

8/13/2006 9:17:49 PM

i saw the first scoring drive and he looked great to me. quick decisions, spot on passes for the most part, etc.

[Edited on August 13, 2006 at 9:30 PM. Reason : fsda]

8/13/2006 9:30:25 PM

Rivers looked very solid yesterday. Great decisions, lots of confidence and typical dead-on accuracy.

He seemed very reliant on his tight ends, so draft Gates in your fantasy league.

8/13/2006 10:44:15 PM

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" CHARGERS’ RIVERS IMPRESSES Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers did not disappoint in his debut Saturday night, throwing for 169 first-half yards and leading two early scoring drives in a 17-3 preseason victory over Green Bay. “I thought he played excellent,” Coach Marty Schottenheimer said. “He played pretty much like I expect him to.” The Chargers showed their faith in Rivers, a third-year pro, by letting Drew Brees leave for New Orleans during the off-season. Crisp in the pocket, Rivers completed 15 of 21 passes. Keenan McCardell, San Diego’s leading wide receiver last season, said: “Nobody in the huddle had any doubt. He gave you all what you wanted to see.”"

8/14/2006 8:40:06 AM

my new background

8/14/2006 8:44:38 AM

^thanks for the picture

Interesting article.

I've heard a belly full of naysayer bullshit.

I am ready for him to TAKE THE FUCK OVER

8/14/2006 10:33:28 AM

heh, check out the picture of philip in this article:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20060910-9999-1s10chargers.html

we'll see what he's made of tomorrow night...

9/10/2006 4:16:16 PM

Interview on ESPN right now.

Well since nobody seemed to watch....Trey Wingo just talked to him about his quick start and how the last 2 years paid off.

Schlereth and Woodson both had plenty of good to say about him. Woodson even mentioned how he just beat Rothelsberger head-head and that he was playing better than him and Eli Manning.

[Edited on October 12, 2006 at 4:15 PM. Reason : GG Rivers]

10/12/2006 4:05:32 PM

Go #17

10/12/2006 9:31:34 PM

Um, this article isnt different from the 08320942 other rivers articles that are out there.

10/12/2006 10:55:52 PM

^dude youre an idiot...this was posted 2 months ago

10/12/2006 11:56:56 PM

the "when I grow up poster" is AWESOME

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"Listen to running back LaDainian Tomlinson: "He's going to be a great quarterback because the intangibles he has are what the great ones have. He's smart. He's able to anticipate what's going on on the football field. He's not a robot quarterback. He has something you can't teach.""

LT has been singing Rivers praises for quite some time.

I am so impressed with him and to have vets talking about your smarts, that's a big deal

10/13/2006 12:18:21 AM

I was always under the impression that he was a robot.

How could he have laser eyes without being a robot?

Maybe he's like a cyborg or something.

10/13/2006 12:23:01 AM