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Philip Rivers Colts comeback at age 44?! 2x SB Champ Rob Ninkovich joins! Does Ninko believe Grandfather Rivers can do it? Risky for Rivers, or should he give it one last run?
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00:00What is Phillip Rivers thinking?
00:02Maybe he's got 12 kids.
00:03Doesn't he have 12 kids?
00:04I think he needs to get out of the house.
00:06He just wants to get away from the kids.
00:07Or money.
00:08No.
00:09I mean, the guy made $300 million or whatever.
00:11I mean, I was just told that $100 million wasn't going to get you far in this economy.
00:15But that depends on how many diamond necklaces you got.
00:18I think he's, you know, at a certain point, these guys, when they get away from the game,
00:25they still have that little twinkle in the back of their head that they still could do it at a high level.
00:30And they can still do it.
00:32And this is an opportunity.
00:33And it's a good team.
00:35And maybe I could come in and I could help this team win a playoff game.
00:38And then I'd ride off into the sunset.
00:39Or you get baptized and cut in half and just go off on a stretcher.
00:44It's not the age for me.
00:45It's the fact that he's been out of football for five years.
00:49Well, I think he's going to look like, remember Vinny Testaverde at the end?
00:53Where he had, like, the belly and everything?
00:54It looked like Greg.
00:55You know what we should do?
00:56Greg, let's get you in a football uniform.
00:59Why am I catching strays over there?
01:01Yeah, it looked like me.
01:03But at least Vinny wasn't out of football for a long time.
01:05Imagine.
01:06But he was in his 40s.
01:07How long you been?
01:08Yeah, but 40s I can.
01:09Dude, nine years.
01:10I'd get killed.
01:10I'd go out there.
01:11Have you been out of football for nine years?
01:12Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:12Can you imagine being out of football?
01:14Well, you can obviously imagine.
01:15Even five years, you've been out of football.
01:17That's how long he's been out.
01:18Yeah.
01:18It's not the age for me.
01:20It's the fact that the speed of the game.
01:23He could throw a football all day long with no pass rush, seven on seven, no issues.
01:29But the speed of an actual football game that he's been out for five years, how things happen
01:36so quickly, guys are in his face, the O-line, and he couldn't run anyways.
01:41I could see if at least he was a good athlete to say, all right, maybe he gets out of the
01:45pocket, he could still run at his age.
01:46I just, it feels like they're trying so hard to make it happen, like they're leaking all
01:51this stuff.
01:52But, you know, he talks to the OC Weekly because he is running, they run the same offense at
01:58the high school.
01:58You like The Town, the movie The Town?
02:00Yes.
02:00Yes.
02:00What happened when they went to the bank for the last grab?
02:04One last time.
02:04One last grab.
02:05You never go for one last grab.
02:07You never go.
02:08Nope.
02:08You never go.
02:09You just say, hey, I'm happy with what I got.
02:11Yeah.
02:11Because you go back.
02:13Right.
02:13Remember, he already wore like 16 knee braces.
02:17Have you seen him?
02:18He's going to get killed.
02:19Did you see him with, I think Gruden had one of those interviews where, I think his son
02:25plays football.
02:26I think River's son is a teenager.
02:28Yes, he coaches, and John Gruden went out to talk to him.
02:31Yes.
02:33He was holding a child.
02:35Yes, he was.
02:35And he has a little bit of like an old man belly on him.
02:39Yeah.
02:39So, they go all whites.
02:41The Colts, all whites.
02:42Yeah.
02:43Not going to look good.
02:44He's going to look like Dan Marino in the commercial.
02:46Yes.
02:46He's going to have the glasses looking at the wristband like, wait a second, hold on
02:50now.
02:51He's going to get destroyed.
02:52He's going to get hurt.
02:53Yeah.
02:53But Curtis had a point earlier where it was like, maybe they've got one game where he just
02:58like wants to prove people wrong.
02:59That's like a movie.
03:01Yeah.
03:01And that's like being a year out of football.
03:05A year out of football.
03:06Okay.
03:07You got one game.
03:08Not bad.
03:09But when you're talking about five years out of football at the quarterback position,
03:12if he was a wide receiver and it's like, all right, run a deep dig route.
03:16But we talked about it yesterday a little bit.
03:18What are the other options?
03:21It's a sad, it's actually a sad tale about what your options are around the NFL.
03:26You don't have another option.
03:27That's a backup somewhere.
03:29I guess you can't do that now, but there's nobody sitting on a couch somewhere that could
03:33play football at a high level.
03:35Well, give me one.
03:35When you said Kaepernick, when you said Cam Newton yesterday, he didn't say Kaepernick.
03:39No, I didn't say Kaepernick.
03:40We brought Kaepernick up jokingly.
03:42If I had to think about, let me see what quarterbacks are out there that have been cut.
03:47I was just saying, Kaepernick's younger.
03:49I mean, you could go get him.
03:50Yeah.
03:51Hold on.
03:52That's got to be somebody who's played within the last five years.
03:55Right.
03:56What about like Ryan Tannehill?
03:58Yeah.
03:58Somebody like that.
03:59But he's even been out of the game.
04:00Has he been out a long time?
04:02Not that long.
04:03No, but let me see.
04:05Matt Ryan?
04:06No.
04:06I mean, these guys have been out of football.
04:08Like, I'm trying to think of.
04:09Well, Matt Ryan has not been out for five years.
04:11So let's just play this out, that Phillip Rivers is the quarterback of the Colts, and Drake
04:16May is sitting out because he just is tired, and Tom Brady plays for the Patriots.
04:20Who wins that game?
04:22At their current age.
04:24I mean, don't you think that one of these rivers being contemplated has Tom thinking in
04:31the back of his mind?
04:32Hey, I could go out there and I could play at a high level.
04:35I could go throw this football around.
04:36I feel like he would say goodbye to the Fox money and the, for one more shot at it.
04:43I, I, I, I'm, I, he must get a phone call when, when this kind of thing happens.
04:49Like, he must.
04:49What was the year that Kyle Shanahan was trying to get him?
04:51I mean.
04:52Is Johnny Utah available?
04:54Johnny Utah.
04:56Where's Carson Wentz?
04:57Like, is he on a team?
04:58Like, I mean.
04:58Yeah, he's hurt.
04:59He was with the Vikings.
05:00What about Kenny Pickett?
05:01Like, some of those guys.
05:02He's probably starting for the Raiders because Geno Smith is hurt.
05:05Carson Wentz is the only backup quarterback that gets hurt while being a backup.
05:08Ooh.
05:09Where's Garoppolo?
05:10Is he out there?
05:11Jimmy G, I think.
05:11I believe he's the backup in LA for Matthew Stafford.
05:13Best job ever.
05:14What about Tyler Heineke?
05:15Is he available?
05:16I mean, I feel like there's guys out there.
05:18Oh, you bring up.
05:19CJ Beathard.
05:20You bring up, um, your boy Mike White all the time, right?
05:22Yeah.
05:22Is that who, is it Mike White?
05:23Yes, Mike White.
05:24Like, I feel like there's.
05:25Where's Nick Mullins?
05:26Yeah, I feel like there's guys that might have been.
05:28Walk-a-bye.
05:28On a roster during training camp that could be just on the street.
05:33Jeff Dreskel.
05:33We brought up Andrew Luck yesterday.
05:35What about Jeff George?
05:36Andrew Luck, he can't.
05:37Tim Boyle.
05:38He's been out just as long.
05:39Yeah, I mean, I'm thinking about, like, some of these guys that we're talking about.
05:43Shout out to Rich Keefe.
05:44Ooh, Wiggy, former Georgia Bulldog, Jake Fromm.
05:46Yeah, like.
05:47About Ryan, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick.
05:50He's been out a minute.
05:51Love him.
05:52Fitzpatrick.
05:53Stetson Bennett.
05:53I mean, he might be available.
05:55But I feel like there are those guys that they could be, like, rather than going against
05:59somebody who not only has he been out of football for five years, he's 44 years old.
06:07At least Kaepernick.
06:08Did you bring up Derek Carr?
06:10Texter says Derek Carr.
06:11Who was the other, like, the third QB on the roster last year?
06:14Cody Kessler?
06:14Tim Tebow.
06:15Tim Tebow.
06:16Tim Tebow couldn't throw when he was a player.
06:18Right.
06:19I could see.
06:20Johnny Manziel?
06:21Oh, I would love to see Johnny Manziel come back.
06:23Hey, he seems like he's kind of, like, he's kind of revamping his image.
06:28Didn't he play in that other league?
06:29He did.
06:30He got knocked out so badly.
06:31At least with those guys, they've been out of football for two, three years.
06:35But they're younger than Phillip Rivers.
06:38So, if you're going to go with somebody who's been out of football for two, three, four years.
06:42What's the only difference between all those other guys and Phillip Rivers, though?
06:46He knows the offense.
06:48So, the verbiage.
06:49They are saying, they are saying, they are couching this as if he's the only guy because
06:55he knows the offense.
06:56So, they don't have to deal with that.
06:58So, you don't have somebody coming in and they're like, uh, X, go, Z, post, what was
07:04that?
07:05And then he just comes in.
07:05I got it.
07:06So, you got a guy who goes, all right, X, post, Z, Z, in, Oscar, Oscar on two.
07:10And then the next thing, as soon as he snaps the ball, he's like, oh, my God.
07:13It's 100 miles.
07:15Let's go.
07:16What did I get myself into?
07:17He's reliable for, like, if he comes out there and he gets hurt, I feel real bad.
07:22He's signing a million waivers.
07:24Call them up.
07:25Speaking of old and potentially washed, your thoughts on Travis Kelsey?
07:30Travis Kelsey?
07:31I mean, he's definitely old.
07:32But I think the optics of when things are good, everything's great and happy and interviews
07:40and dancing after a five-yard catch and things are bad.
07:43I don't want to have any interviews and I don't want to talk to the media.
07:47It's just, you can't have your cake and eat it, too.
07:50If you mess it up, you got to own up to it.
07:52You got to talk about it.
07:53Yeah, I screwed up.
07:54That's on me.
07:55You know, you can't have a little tantrum on the sideline and cry about it.
08:01But, yeah, I think last year you could see that his speed and ability was diminishing.
08:10And then this year, obviously, because they gave him a contract, they're not going to
08:12cut him and have to pay him whatever $10 million he was owed.
08:15So, he's still on the team.
08:17Rob, do you and ex-players have a text thread?
08:20Like, do you take glee like Patriots fans do in the demise of the Chiefs?
08:24Like, do you guys kind of quietly root against them because everybody says they're the next
08:28Patriots?
08:28Well, obviously, they're not, if they don't, they're not in the playoffs this year, right?
08:34No, I was not on them right now.
08:35It's like 16% chance because they lost last week.
08:39No, you know, I think as a professional, you never want to wish doom on a specific team
08:47or a specific person.
08:48But, when it comes to the comparisons of the Patriot run and Kansas City, I don't think
08:55it's close.
08:57Not at all.
08:58Especially now.
08:58Yeah, you get, what, maybe six years to compare the two and then after that.
09:02You got 20 years versus the last six or seven.
09:04It's not even close.
09:05I think is the Brady-Mahomes comparison settled?
09:10I think it is.
09:11I mean, obviously, the body of work, he still has to play another 12 years or whatever it
09:16is.
09:16That's a long way to go.
09:17So, we'll see how he continues.
09:18But, the whole process of building a team and keeping a team together, that's so hard
09:25to do to be successful for so long.
09:27And, to keep the personalities straight.
09:29I mean, think about it.
09:31I mean, just look at Kelsey.
09:32From the time when he was a young player, he didn't have all the glamour and all the podcasts
09:38and all the photos of him and all that stuff.
09:41Now, he walks in for his pregame walk with a full mink suit on and all this crazy stuff.
09:47Chasing Kelsey really pushed him over.
09:50That was the first one.
09:51It's like, okay, now you've got to perform.
09:53Right.
09:53Like, you could do all this stuff, but if you're not performing.
09:56You could do it when you're out there balling.
09:58Everybody's like, oh, man.
09:58Everyone's like, oh, dang, he's balling.
10:00But, now he's like, he's got all these things.
10:02And, like you said, that's the worst thing.
10:03Dude, you're celebrating because you caught a five-yard stick route.
10:06I mean, you got one catch on the day for five yards and you would have thought that
10:10that was, you know, your 17th catch of the game.
10:13It's just, and this is what I said to Greg.
10:15Like, I think the main reason who's washed, and this is why I think the team is playing
10:20the way they're playing, I think Andy Reid is just, I don't think he's the guy no more.
10:24He just looks like he's washed.
10:26He's disinterested.
10:28His offensive kind of, Sean, what's the word where you create creativity is just not there.
10:34And I don't think guys really, I don't think his stick isn't the thing no more.
10:40Like, that whole stick that he has, I feel like that's not, like, guys are like, whatever.
10:44I lost a lot of respect for Kelsey when he was, I think it was last year, when he was
10:48bumping.
10:49Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:50When he was bumping the head coach.
10:52He was trying to be, like, tough or something.
10:54I'm like, dude, what are you doing?
10:57He was doing breathing exercises last weekend on the sideline to calm himself down.
11:00Can you relax?
11:01And don't you think, like, the younger players on that team?
11:03They see that.
11:04Taxi over there.
11:05They see that.
11:05Well, it's Rasheed Rice or some of these other guys.
11:08Like, look at this dude.
11:09Like, Travis Kelsey's, like, big boy in a mode here.
11:11And he's like, hey, let's all go grab cheeseburgers after the game.
11:16Like, I think that stick has kind of wore itself off.
11:18If you feel like Travis was being douchey for not talking to media after, because it was a bad game,
11:23where do you fall on Justin Herbert after a win?
11:25What did Herbert, what was the first thing you said, though?
11:28I'm trying to celebrate.
11:28I want to celebrate with my teammates.
11:30That, to me, is a clear statement that, listen, I just want to go celebrate.
11:38Give me five minutes just to say hello to everybody.
11:40And the hard part is that I think, like, that tone is, for me, more acceptable.
11:49Like, okay, he wants to just celebrate with his team, get through the interview, blah, blah, blah.
11:52I don't have a problem with it.
11:53Because at the end of the game, especially the way that ended, overtime game, you know,
11:58and it's a big win, I can understand.
12:01Like, I don't want to sit here and ask, you know, you're asking me questions about all this stuff.
12:05I want to go celebrate with my teammates.
12:07She's got a job to do, though, too.
12:08Yeah, I know.
12:09I get it.
12:10But that job, at the end of the day, like, she did her job.
12:15She pressed him.
12:16She got the questions.
12:17It was very quick.
12:18And, you know, he got out of there.
12:20But at the first statement, to me, I was like, okay, he wants to be with his teammates.
12:24I get it.
12:24Rob Nikovich is here.
12:26I want to talk Sunday and this game with you.
12:28Coming up.
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