Philip Rivers working out with the Indianapolis Colts

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Indianapolis Colts QB Daniel Jones is out for the rest of the season and their playoff chances are looking slim. Recent grandpa Philip Rivers went to Indianapolis for a workout with the Colts... The guys go into a deep discussion of how they feel about this possible comeback.

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00:00x philip rivers is contemplating a comeback he is working out with the colts this morning

00:05and he may be playing for the colts because they don't have a quarterback how old is he

00:11uh he hasn't played in five years he was about to be eligible for the hall of fame you know how

00:16you know what that means so he's gonna he's it's gonna reset his entire clock if he plays in the

00:22if he's on the practice squad now i don't know if they're gonna use him practice squad emergency

00:25situation will tom brady be the oldest first time first ballot hall of hammer i have no idea that's

00:36a really random question i would assume so no maybe no george blanda yeah okay so but philip rivers uh

00:43worked out with the culture so they lost of course daniel jones i think rightly leonard got banged up

00:48too he did and and anthony richardson busted his eye earlier this year took a football to the

00:55face so he hasn't played and and and so they wait wait wait and wow let's be clear if you had a choice

01:04and they go into the meeting go you know ar we we thinking no uh-uh let's call philip rivers now

01:16if i'm anthony richardson i gotta feel real low right now that you go and get grandpa and not even

01:24giving me a looky loop yep he is yeah he is working out with them and uh he has not played

01:34since 2020 he was about to be eligible for the first time for the hall of fame and uh apparent

01:39according to jeremy fowler vspn rivers threw the ball well but the colts haven't decided if they're

01:45gonna sign him rivers has not determined whether he would play yeah there probably had to be a lot

01:51is this a good idea how much do also if i'm philip rivers made a lot of money in his career he's a

01:58grandfather is he really yes that's a lot of kids i'm not surprised is he would he be the first

02:04grandfather to ever start george melanda that's all i can think of he was the oldest guy jim plunkett

02:09jim plunkett was old too well either way steve de berg this is crazy because steve de berg was

02:16yeah how old was and flacco when he did the thing what was he 41 when he came back yeah flacco well

02:23flacco just turned 40 40 okay so he was 38 when he did right yeah right okay right he but but he

02:29wasn't out for a whole year that's no he wasn't out for all five years that's crazy flacco turned 40

02:37this year he's turning 40 you think brady's like who do they oh man brady's warming up going do you

02:44think he calls like if you're tom brady and like the colts who have played well do you think like

02:48would you even venture because here's the here's the difference between the two owner tom brady

02:52does not have what we call an arm can a cannon right right he's very uh you know he's very technique

03:01his technique is really good but philip rivers has a cannon let's not even mention brady

03:07he's an owner he can't come back well he could hey right like i mean what would what would be the

03:13i mean wait he could only come back for the raiders is what you're saying that's the only way he can't

03:17be an owner and just come back and play we've never had this situation i don't know what the cba says

03:23no he can't you can't own a team and play for so let me get this straight if duane wade decided today

03:28in the same division oh no not in the same if duane wade decided today he wanted to make a comeback he

03:32could only play for the jazz yeah you can't be part owner play for somebody else you can't own a team

03:37and play for the ops interesting that's like that would be the equivalent to you unless you're doing

03:44doing uh doing a um a pre-game show with another station uh let's not do that that's why i said unless

03:52you're in radio because the morning host is the play-by-play voice yeah i mean you can get

03:58exceptions you can get it yeah but that's that's a dolphin's thing right that's not that's not a

04:05station thing more like a a different company so media is not a good let me just say this media is

04:12not a good example oh yeah there's a lot of crossbreeding in media right now it's there's a

04:16there's a blurred line everything's everything let me tell you something we are whores for the money

04:21yeah media media is a terrible example these days so like armando said you can't work for mcdonald's

04:26and then also work for bird i think you could you mean like you mean if you like the ceo or if you

04:32were just a drive-thru right you can't be the ceo of mcdonald's and then be working like

04:37there's got to be people doing uber eats and doordash at the same time i would say

04:42tom brady wouldn't come back he may get 30 so he made more money than he made okay so this gets back

04:47to my point okay what i want is your point my point on philip rivers is what do you fleece him for

04:53like what is gonna give him minimum what i'm not coming back for the minimum for five years off

04:59the couch i'm a fleece you no for a playoff run no how much dude no way he needs at least 10 million

05:06no yeah but it's gonna be prorated no 10 million no because understand if they pay him 10 million

05:15for five six games it's prorated over the season to count against the cap i think that's tough

05:22that's tough that's tough nuggets so you go no dude he's getting minimum oh philip yeah wait he's

05:28getting minimum you're gonna have to check the listen we're gonna have a minimum we're gonna i i here

05:32oh there's five games left you know oh i have five games left six games left yes four four games left

05:38four games left i give him 500 a game oh you get 500 500 that's a lot he ain't gonna get that much

05:44he gonna get maybe 200 a game oh you want him to do the kawaii thing yep no wait we have a fake

05:51garden company yeah dude there's no way i think about this what he enjoys football if you like to play

05:59five years that's crazy talk like is that then he just wants to get away from the kids that's it

06:06that's the only reason that's the only reason hell he might be able to play with one of them

06:11they've done it in every other sport football's the only sport they haven't done it

06:21because the the fighting clay matthews they've been in the league for 40 years

06:27i mean that's the only original clay matthews started in the nfl when i was eight years old

06:35keys i played with him then there was bruce the only way that would happen would be is if your kid

06:40was a receiver right and you would have to be like tom brady because your kid has to be like 22

06:45to make the league you can't be like 19 like brawny right right right right well no it was uh

06:51igman ibi was uh 19 20 he wasn't 19 every time we do this we make him younger i think he just i think

06:58he was 20 turning 21 no yeah no i'm check i'm telling you he just barely when he got drafted

07:07he turned 20 that year okay so then he was 20 but he wasn't 19 okay all right but i'm gonna need

07:15yeah if i'm the colt because here's the thing with the colts like if you were just doing it on a

07:19terrible team first of all you wouldn't do this the colts are in a desperate spot they started the

07:23season red hot they were the darling of the league right and the division is slipping away they

07:28didn't call philip rivers i bet you philip rivers called them no i think you think i think mrs ursay

07:34probably i think carly called them carly called them up yeah hey uh they do want to kick the tires

07:40on this they do some weird stuff man the colts ever since they ever since they they got andrew luck

07:46the hell out of there and booed him they've been uh they've been going through some weird stuff

07:49jeff saturday is the coach he's got their picks oh you got oh you got the uh yeah they took a

08:00bunch of picks too don't you yes we got their picks this 26 and 27 he's praying on the doubt so do you

08:06want philip rivers would you think this is going to be a disaster bro have you seen their schedule

08:12no oh it's a murderous road they got they go they got seahawks in seattle yeesh then they play the

08:20niners oof then they have there are texans in there and jaguars tough that is tough that's a

08:27schedule jacksonville might win that division yes houston might win that but because this guy's

08:33leg broke that's why who uh daniel jones his leg didn't break he had already had a broken leg and

08:38then he tore he messed up his fibula but he was already playing like daniel jones he was coming

08:43back down to earth yeah but he was hurt though dude and you know you see have you not seen me walk

08:50around with a broken fibula i understand not great but it's not great he's playing football i was just

08:54walking but sooner or later daniel indianapolis jones was gonna turn into daniel jones the pumpkin was

09:00gonna the carriage into a pumpkin midnight was go strike yes but we we all said that about like sam brafford

09:08so we said that about baker mayfield so this guy's gonna go up let me just so this scenario is a 44

09:15year old man yeah he's gonna leave his 10 children and his wife to go play the 12th man he gonna spend

09:24all of his money getting his family tickets first of all we all know what he's going to say and

09:31grandkids let's forget he got not only his immediate family he talked to the almighty and the almighty

09:37told him to do this that's what you know he's gonna say he said i just bought some new bolo ties

09:41baby you know he's gonna say god led him to this so yeah it's gonna happen all right

09:47all right yeah i hear you i'm just like thinking hmm but you're so close to the hall of fame do you

09:57really want to mess that up well maybe he doesn't think he's getting in oh he's getting in he's getting

10:01in i don't know it was top five in passing i don't know about that yeah we talk about he's from

10:10he slung it i don't know if he's getting in dude where is he let's see philip or his seventh

10:18top 10 he's top 10 yeah well i mean matthew stuff it's gonna pass him pretty soon yeah yeah

10:24okay um i don't know you think he's getting in 421 touchdowns first 421 touchdowns where how many

10:32where's 426 he passed marino six yeah but it's different time and age different day don't it

10:40don't i'm telling you we live in a world right now where people just go look at the numbers they

10:45don't put it in context they don't they don't do that you think philip or how well you like we

10:51we think he's getting on the first we can honestly say this right now dan marino was one of

10:57the best purest passing quarterbacks we've ever seen ever yeah okay but nowadays they go look at

11:04the numbers and not acknowledge the fact that the the game has changed okay but at one point he was

11:10what i mean he was all of these guys like how many guys passed marino i don't care what in this era

11:16i don't care what point of football we're in that will always be he is one of the purest best

11:25passers to ever play the game yeah but wasn't dan marino like what was he number when he was done

11:30like he was number one so like you're not gonna like it's not like oh my god all of a sudden he's

11:3710 like the league changed right but but i'm saying a lot of people just gonna look at the numbers

11:42they're not gonna look at the league and the way the league because guess what when we look at

11:47players now we just look at the numbers we don't look at how the game has changed and how much

11:52easier you think matt ryan's a whole famer

11:54you want mvp they're right next to each other

12:00uh vlad vlad vlad we'll take a break can i put philip rivers in without matt ryan or matt ryan

12:12without philip okay you can put i don't know philip rivers well i'll tell you this i don't think

12:16he's had more division titles he went to the postseason more than matt ryan the team was stacked

12:20dude i mean that team was stacked one of the best running backs of his era so was the steelers and

12:25tear bradshaw's in the hall of fame he didn't choke a 20 championships though philip never choked a

12:2928 to 3 lead he came back he came that was coaching though he came back after winning a

12:35playoff game had surgery on tuesday and played the all i'm saying but all philip is number one mvp

12:40right no i don't believe i don't think he did no yeah so all i'm saying is like matt ryan has he's

12:47got only there's 700 yards difference between them that's what i'm saying i like now i have to pause

12:54all right we'll take a break well maybe he doesn't think he's getting in and that's why he doesn't care

12:57about delaying it or he doesn't think he's getting it on the first ballot right like he might not be

13:01first ballot yeah so if you know if you didn't care about first ballot maybe you'd punt on it a little

13:05bit then you wait another five years yeah you're like yeah what are you i'm a grandpa at 44 i got

13:11lots of life so you're gonna be a great grandpa at 54 i'm here at uh you know i'm here 60 i'm a great

13:18grandpa i wonder if they do like that usa insurance like my dad played in the league grandpa

13:24played in the league i can get insurance what if he comes in and he balls out and then all of a

13:29sudden we have a joe flacco situation where he just sticks around for another two i'm telling you

13:33guys like joe flacco and philip rivers they come out and sling it for a couple of weeks well you do

13:38know the annual jones is out for at least a year oh yeah yeah so no they ain't bringing back dude

13:43they ain't bring damage is done what if he goes but they can't find a quarterback because it's crazy

13:47in those in these next four games dude let me explain something to you when you get older

13:52you get that energy for about a month and then oh same thing happened with joe flacco what i tell

14:00you maybe they need he went in when the season started he gonna throw for 400 he gonna throw

14:04for 400 he gonna light him up and then he gonna get tired sounds like next year they might want to

14:08trade for a quarterback who might flourish indoors doesn't have to deal with the elements i mean i guess

14:13i mean like it has a running game yeah exactly just don't know no names i would say

14:19one of the things that terrifies me about the nfl is teams that just think they could find another

14:26quarterback anywhere right and then they spend the next 10 years look at cleveland spend the next

14:3420 years trying to find a quarterback i don't i don't want to be

14:37but i don't know where they can just go guys right

14:47and i can just check out the next 10 years on the field and i know that they can come and

14:51keep joining the next 10 years on the field so i look at what i can see

14:57the program and i look at this from the field and i'm going to see what i mean

14:59so i'm going to say about that one of the few years that i can also check out

15:03that i didn't realize that i can't remember that one of the few years

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