Wondering what’s going on with quarterbacks in San Diego? Don’t. I already know who the Chargers’ starting QB will be next year.
Here’s a hint: it won’t be Drew Brees.
The only way Brees returns to San Diego for the 2006-07 season is if he returns with the Lombardi Trophy and a ring, and there’s no way the Chargers emerge from the AFC ahead of the Patriots, Colts or Steelers. They still haven’t emerged from the AFC West yet, though that’s not really Brees’ fault.
Brees is still starting because… well, you don’t throw away the Comeback Player of the Year for no reason, right? If something happens to him this year, Philip Rivers will get the ball, and he won’t give it back.
Rivers is the better quarterback. In fact, Rivers made Brees a better QB, too. Word out of San Diego is that Rivers gave Brees pointers on studying film and reading defenses, something Drew didn’t do so well the previous year. I guess they don’t teach ‘em up so well at Purdue. Ha.*
So in the long term, the Chargers will want to stay with Rivers, because he will be the better QB in the long run — barring a rotator cuff injury, of course. And if the Chargers and Falcons get to the Super Bowl in the same year, the media will hammer the story of that 2001 Draft trade into our heads so deeply that we’ll need a lobotomy to get it out.
(* DISCLAIMER: I graduated from Indiana, so I have to rag on the Boilermakers every once in a while. Did I mention that Kyle Orton had a lot more turnovers than Antwaan Randle El last week?)
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1 Angela // Oct 1, 2005 at 7:23 pm
And Antwaan Randle El made what might have been considered the dumbest play of the week when he lateraled to Hines? I kid – he’s usually great – I think he was just trying to make a play.