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  1. On 2/25/2020 at 9:26 AM, Indeee said:

    What are you talking about? Rivers has had the Chargers in the AFCCG ONCE, AGAIN ONCE in his career back in 2007 when he was 26 with more talent offensively than this team has currently and you believe Rivers at 38 can take the Colts to the SB with this group and/or a couple rookies? Seriously? Come on. All of this Rivers junk is absurd. I'm not being disrespectful to you just because, it's just it makes no sense to feel this way. It ain't happening whether Rivers is here or not.

     

    Lifelong Chargers fan here.  Unfortunately now without a team due to what the Chargers did to SD and Rivers.  Been excited to see where he lands for next team.  Been lurking this board because for me it is the #1 place I'd like to see him go.

     

    I understand without being a fan and watching a team week after week, you can't really grasp how everything went down.  Yes, Rivers has only made one Championship game, but this wasn't due to his lack of play or talent.  It's a 52 man team, and you need a team to win.  06 and 07 were his best teams.  06 they lost to Patriots because of a number of awful plays by the team.  In 07, in the AFCCG he played on a torn ACL with LT sitting out the game with an injury - playing an undefeated Patriots team on the road.  I don't think any Chargers fans were really expecting the upset with all those factors.  In 08 they were 8-8 and weren't expected to do anything in playoffs, but happened to beat the colts.  And in 09 lost a 3 point game in where our kicker missed 3 FG.  After 09, the offensive line went on a decline and was never properly fixed.  The defense was mediocre from 2011 - 2017.  Meanwhile  Rivers stats were always solid, minus a couple bad turnover years(which was due to awful offensive line play).  Check out his stats from 2010.  He was throwing to 2nd - 4th string WR that year because Jackson held out.  Add to the list having nothing but garbage head coaches and owners that don't have winning mentality.

     

    Now, I could be completely wrong, and maybe last year was a sign of his decline.  But as someone who watched every single game multiple times from 2019, that offensive line was pure trash.  Watch the steelers game if you really want to see how bad it was.  Rivers would've been MVP in 2018 and taken his team to the #1 seed, had it not been for KC moving on from Smith and starting Mahomes.  That was with a bad oline too.  The reason I'm excited for Colts as a landing spot is because he will have a few things he's never had - a top oline, good coach, solid run game(hasn't had this since 08), and ownership that actually cares about winning.

     

    I haven't seen any of the Colts games outside of Colts vs Chargers week 1, but I can see 6 of your 9 losses were by 7 or less.  And JB's numbers looked mediocre.  I'd imagine if you got a QB like Rivers who could play like he did in 2018, you add some more wins to that column and become competitors.

     

    But I completely understand the sentiment coming from the people who don't want to see Rivers there.  All you see if a QB nearing the end of his career coming off the worst statistical season of his career.  But I believe Rivers behind a good oline, with a run game, he can still play at a high level.

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