who cares?

1/5/2014 4:26:02 PM

Honestly...Ginger Dalton was player of the game. Rivers would have been player of the game had the opportunity presented itself.

1/5/2014 6:39:45 PM

skokiaan, do you know what I was referring to as irony?

1/5/2014 6:45:13 PM

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"Ginger Dalton was player of the game."

He was the Chargers MVP!!!!

1/5/2014 7:53:23 PM

PEPPERMINT ROLL

1/5/2014 8:35:34 PM

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/san-diego-chargers-super-bowl-stat/#sthash.e02N9rgC.gbpl
Ibtjinx

1/5/2014 11:49:39 PM

Rivers did what the team needed him to do to win. He connected when they asked him to throw the ball.

1/6/2014 7:29:38 AM

1/6/2014 8:10:28 AM

First laser-vision, now fire-fingers?

1/6/2014 9:18:34 AM

Still can't believe NFL fans view him as a foul mouthed punk...

1/6/2014 9:22:34 AM

^Blows my mind. When I lived in OK, no one out there liked him at all. However, most of them are Chiefs or Broncos fans.

1/6/2014 9:28:43 AM

I'm generally not surprised when divisional foes hate Rivers. They'd hate any franchise QB that routinely beat their team, and they're not necessarily going to be reasonable about it.

I mean look at us with UNC players. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone, but we can always find a reason to hate UNC players. The only UNC player I can think of that even I couldn't find a reason to hate was Reggie Bullock.

Now it does annoy me when our own fans fall into the trap of believing the made up reasons that Rivers is a shit talking, foul mouthed punk.

1/6/2014 10:11:09 AM

He grows stronger with each offspring.

1/6/2014 11:09:03 AM

He wears his emotions on his sleeve during games. He's animated and talks a lot (more than other QBs, it seems) during games. That sometimes could come off as cocky or whatever, especially if a person was looking for a reason to not like SD or Rivers.

1/6/2014 11:24:38 AM

I am just now realizing how damn good of a season the man had. He is Top 5 in the NFL in pretty much every statistical category that is relevant to quarterbacks. He would be even higher if you just counted guys that played every game(takes out McCown and Foles).

Rankings (min 200 pass ATT)

QBR - #4
Yds - #5
TDs - #4
Completion % - #1
AVG Yds/Completion - #5
FirstDown% - #2

1/6/2014 12:16:27 PM

He's having, arguably, the best year of his career...which is even more impressive considering he was trending downward the previous 2 seasons.

1/6/2014 1:28:03 PM

Chargers vs Panthers SB - at least we win either way. one can dream, right?

1/6/2014 1:29:14 PM

Chargers vs. Seahawks SB

1/6/2014 1:31:39 PM

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/sorry-panthers-but-give-me-rivers-vs-wilson/13274568/

from the comments

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"i really dislike rivers since i saw him trash talking an opponent a few years ago..i don't believe that's a thing for a qb to do... "

1/6/2014 1:35:51 PM

Yeah that's so dumb.

1/6/2014 3:49:26 PM

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"He wears his emotions on his sleeve during games. He's animated and talks a lot (more than other QBs, it seems) during games."

the funny thing is that ray lewis did the same thing and it was considered a fascinating and wonderful trait

maybe rivers needs to stab someone to improve his rep

1/7/2014 5:43:15 PM

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"when our own fans fall into the trap of believing the made up reasons that Rivers is a shit talking, foul mouthed punk."

He cops to the shit talking...I don't think there's any debate about that point. I wouldn't imagine he curses though. He's never been caught doing that.

1/7/2014 5:54:28 PM

shit talking without cursing is like trying to get drunk off of O'douls.

1/8/2014 10:11:27 AM

I find this shit so interesting.

Quote :

"Eerie? It gets eerier. There's another NFC East streak going. Seven seasons in a row, the Redskins have played the eventual Super Bowl champs, and in the last three seasons, Washington has won that game. The 3-13 Redskins beat only one playoff team this year: You guessed it."

http://deadspin.com/5981403/for-the-fourth-straight-year-the-super-bowl-champs-played-in-the-eagles-home-opener/1495637335/@barryap

1/8/2014 10:44:05 AM

^ That Redskins stat is crazy, but I find it even weirder that the home opener for the Eagles has been the champ for the past four years. Talk about narrowing down the choices.

1/8/2014 11:26:53 AM

Yea i had already heard of the eagles thing. but had no idea about the redskins.

1/8/2014 11:38:47 AM

so close, yet so far. year after year, Eli Manning shows that he made the right choice to act like a pussy and get traded to the Giants.

[Edited on January 12, 2014 at 5:44 PM. Reason : ]

1/12/2014 5:43:30 PM

http://www.sports790.com/media/podcast-proper-gentlemen-podcast-propergentlemen/phillip-rivers-on-a-mobile-24147020/

1/12/2014 5:47:22 PM

^^ Chargers are moving in the right direction, but they will be in cap hell for a few years as a result of some horrible contracts AJ Smith handed out. Still, the new leadership has made some good moves. Its similar to the Panthers.

1/12/2014 5:54:02 PM

1/12/2014 7:12:54 PM

when they let Rivers throw, they do well. I don't understand Whisenhunt's bullshit ass playcalling until their back is against the wall.

1/12/2014 7:26:23 PM

looks like ^^ is gonna be wrong

1/12/2014 7:48:48 PM

When they let Rivers throw, he throws INTs. But today they held him back for a little too long.

1/12/2014 7:59:32 PM

Pelican face pwnt

1/12/2014 8:01:44 PM

^^Rivers' career interception % is lower than Manning's. He had a bad couple of years with Norv asking him to throw it deep all the time behind a terrible line, but for his career he has been very good at protecting the ball. And besides, you gotta take some risks against an offense like that.

Chargers just played way too conservatively. Good luck in Detroit, Kenny Wiz. Take that pussy play-calling with you.

1/12/2014 8:07:57 PM

I could easily be wrong here, but I thought I heard recently that McCoy did the play calling. Either way, they shouldn't have played like vaginas from the outset...definitely came back to bite them in the ass. Oh...and don't give up a fucking third and 17. Hey Philip, how about work with your receivers this offseason and not have your 87th kid.

1/12/2014 8:16:12 PM

^
scathing

1/12/2014 8:30:16 PM

I think Phil did pretty well in boosting Keenan Allen to OROY runner up. Peyton had loads of weapons. Funny how Welker is an afterthought in that offense. Hung out to fucking dry.

1/12/2014 8:54:20 PM

The one good thing for the Chargers and Rivers is that they seem to have competent backroom staff that understands how to build a team through the draft

1/12/2014 9:01:51 PM

^^after Demariyus he's basically in a 3-way tie for the 2nd option...only thing that put him slightly on the back burner was missing the last couple games with injury

also, would Welker have been anything special in NE and DEN if defensive players could still touch wide receivers after 5 yards with the rule changes 5 years ago?

1/12/2014 9:28:51 PM

Rivers had a great game today and a tremendous year.

Haters will hate regardless.

1/12/2014 9:48:32 PM

32,586 career yards

currently #32 all-time. if he stays healthy, and passes for another 4,000-4,500 yards next year, he'll pass some pretty big names: Aikman, Tittle, Young, Simms, Kelly, DeBerg, Hart. He'll be squarely in the top-20 alltime.

[Edited on January 12, 2014 at 10:14 PM. Reason : ,]

1/12/2014 10:07:49 PM

i'm at the bar, please post

sent from my Android 4G device

1/12/2014 10:12:59 PM

Welker dropped 2 passes (i think). McCoy has a vagina in his asshole and an asshole in his vagina. Free Phil!!!!

1/12/2014 10:24:54 PM

Rivers was the second best QB in the NFL this year. His dumbass team didnt allow him to win. This was a hard lesson that hopefully the chargers coaching learn from

1/13/2014 1:14:20 AM

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"Welker dropped 2 passes (i think)."

This in regards to Welker. I remember Brady would freeze him out of games after he would drop an early pass....Manning/Brady don't forget. And Welker is great...but he can have the dropsies every now and then.

1/13/2014 7:33:42 AM

Playing ultraconservative can work against a team like the Bengals who are prone to self-destructing. It doesn't work against a great offense like the Broncos, and it especially doesn't work when your offensive line and RBs are so banged up that you can't run, and your defense blows.

Pathetic game-planning by McCoy and Whiz. They never had a chance with that strategy.

[Edited on January 13, 2014 at 8:56 AM. Reason : 4]

1/13/2014 8:55:49 AM

Sucks that Rivers basically has had to spend his entire career going head to head with Manning and Brady in the playoffs. Outside of the one year that SD had a stud team with LT in his prime and Merriman in his roided up prime, Rivers has always had the inferior team when going up against Brady and Manning. Even in the season that SD was favored, LT bitched out Jay Cutler style.

Oh well, typical NC State disappointment year after year. RW, you are our only hope!

1/13/2014 9:18:57 AM

1/15/2014 9:16:34 PM

Russell got to a SB before you. Shouldn't have signed that contract extension

1/19/2014 10:00:56 PM