Oakland Raiders

As a State fan I wish him all the best.

As a Raiders fan, I'll be cheering for a poor Philip Rivers performance.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2386175

3/27/2006 1:47:33 PM

fucking Raiders fan

3/27/2006 1:48:23 PM

beat me to it by a minute. pretty awesome to make your first career start on monday night football.

3/27/2006 1:49:28 PM

^^haha, that's what my brother would say too

mr rivers on monday night no less, how bout that

two games on monday night... weird...

three games on thanksgiving?!?!... weirder.....

[Edited on March 27, 2006 at 1:50 PM. Reason : he's a broncos man]

3/27/2006 1:49:58 PM

People shouldn't get their hopes up about Phil this year...

Let's keep in mind that it takes almost all QBs two or three years to produce in the NFL.

I think he'll be very good, but I don't expect it this year.

3/27/2006 1:52:14 PM

sorry sir we're state fans there is no acceptable progression. either way I'll still be cheering.

3/27/2006 1:54:36 PM

he will be fine

3/27/2006 1:54:37 PM

people in san diego are kinda pissed and dont think he'll be all that great

i think the chargers need to fire marty before they will ever get anywhere in the playoffs

3/27/2006 1:56:18 PM

Personally, I have a feeling he isn't going to be good right away, and might look pretty bad actually.


Add to my topics, lets see if I am right.

3/27/2006 1:59:36 PM

Odds are, he will look like crap this year.

Maybe not--hopefully not--but probably.

3/27/2006 2:00:30 PM

first start on monday night football with tremendously high expectations... I can forsee him letting a lot of people down. It's going to be a tough spot to fill. we shall see.

3/27/2006 2:00:50 PM

well carson palmer actually did better sitting out for a year so maybe phil wont be half bad

im not really that big of a chargers fan so i dont really even care that much

3/27/2006 2:00:51 PM

wtf? the third game on thanksgiving is going to be on NFL network?!? are they retarded?

3/27/2006 2:10:56 PM

I'm a Broncos fan, I hope Rivers throws 3 TDs and the game ends in a tie.

3/27/2006 2:31:46 PM

Quote :

"Oakland Raiders As a State fan I wish him all the best. As a Raiders fan, I'll be cheering for a poor Philip Rivers performance. "

fucker you are supposed to say you want PR to be 50-55 for 650 yds and 7ds but lose.

not cheering for a poor performance

fucknose

3/27/2006 2:33:06 PM

but it'll actually take a poor performance by PR for the Raiders to win... see what he's saying

3/27/2006 2:34:40 PM

2 MNF games to kick off the season AWESOME, one east coast game, GO SKINS! and one later for the west coast folks. FINALLY someone figured this out.


I wonder if they will have 2 games each Monday night all season?

3/27/2006 2:42:05 PM

i bet he out plays aaron brooks

3/27/2006 2:46:45 PM

^^^^Good call, I posted too quickly. Should've thought it through, haha.

[Edited on March 27, 2006 at 3:18 PM. Reason : to, too]

3/27/2006 3:18:04 PM

awesome

the day I return from my honeymoon...that'll suck

but hopefully Phil will show us some good stuff

3/27/2006 3:24:15 PM

63% comp., 2 td, 1 int., 3 sacks

3/27/2006 3:33:23 PM

Whoa Whoa Whoa! Philip Rivers is in the NFL?

3/27/2006 3:42:35 PM

after this game, september 11 will go down as one of the greatest days in wolfpack alumni history

3/27/2006 4:14:46 PM

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"sorry sir we're state fans there is no acceptable progression."

haha, that made me laugh. gg

3/27/2006 4:58:06 PM

I can't imagine starting my first pro game in Monday Night Football...it'll be interesting to see how he reacts.

And for the record, fuck oakland

3/27/2006 4:58:17 PM

GG PR!!!!

3/27/2006 5:04:12 PM

aww, wish this was a home game for the chargers

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"2 MNF games to kick off the season AWESOME, one east coast game, GO SKINS! and one later for the west coast folks. FINALLY someone figured this out. I wonder if they will have 2 games each Monday night all season?"

i hope not -- the late game is nice for the west coast, but the 4p start time of the early game is damn near impossible to catch

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"And for the record, fuck oakland"

3/27/2006 5:18:36 PM

How could anyone be a Raiders fan??

3/27/2006 5:49:38 PM

gfd I want nfl network

3/27/2006 6:14:04 PM

I was expecting more 9/11 jokes

priv should dedicate one TD pass to freedom

[Edited on March 27, 2006 at 6:14 PM. Reason : sdf]

3/27/2006 6:14:28 PM

Who? Who is this Philip Rivers guy everyone is talking about?

3/27/2006 6:17:31 PM

"That boy is our last hope..."

3/27/2006 6:22:20 PM

Monday nights aren't considered the 'marquee' game anymore

Sunday night on NBC gets higher profile games and a flexible schedule late season

Monday games will typically have the quality of games that Sunday nights have had in years past

3/27/2006 7:00:49 PM

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"fucker you are supposed to say you want PR to be 50-55 for 650 yds and 7ds but lose. not cheering for a poor performance fucknose"

Coming from the real big State fan that pulls for us to lose so we can fire Herb.

3/27/2006 7:47:30 PM

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"i bet he out plays aaron brooks"

Those are not very high expectations. I'm sure just about anyone could out play aaron brooks.

3/27/2006 7:52:09 PM

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"Let's keep in mind that it takes almost all QBs two or three years to produce in the NFL."

There have been enough exceptions to this generalization lately that you can't really call it a rule anymore.

Culpepper, Pennington, Brady, Delhomme and Roethlisberger are all guys who performed very well and took their teams to the playoffs in their first year starting.

I'm sure there are others, but those are just off the top of my head.

3/27/2006 8:30:12 PM

U mean Sunday nights on ESPN not NBC.

3/28/2006 1:42:02 AM

nope...he is right

Monday night is ESPN
Sunday night is NBC

3/28/2006 2:00:51 AM

article from the local paper with some quotes from PR:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20060328-9999-1s28chargers.html

Quote :

"The NFL also announced the three games that will make up the league's first Thanksgiving tripleheader – Miami at Detroit at 9:30 a.m., Tampa Bay at Dallas at 1:15 p.m. and Denver at Kansas City at 5 p.m. The latter game will be the first of eight prime-time games televised by the league-owned NFL Network."

this is gonna suck

3/28/2006 1:48:37 PM

Thanks to wanting Speed Channel, I have NFL Network.

They've said NFL Network games will be on local over-the-air. So if the Panthers have a game ont this channel, you can still see it.

Still, a ridiculous way to prop up your fledgling channel when the highlight of its coverage currently is NFL Europe.

[Edited on March 28, 2006 at 3:34 PM. Reason : .]

3/28/2006 3:34:14 PM

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"Culpepper, Pennington, Brady, Delhomme and Roethlisberger "

True...
but this group aint exactly the same. Big Ben did start from day one so I give him credit for that but Jake was over in NFL europe for a while before he came here wont he??? and Brady played backup to Bledsoe for I dont know how long before he got the nod to start.

3/29/2006 3:55:05 PM

Ben also had the benefit of being on a running team so they didn't really depend on him to establish the passing game.

SD can do the same thing, though, which is why I'm glad that's where Phil is starting.

3/29/2006 4:03:40 PM

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"Brady Rivers played backup to Bledsoe Brees for I dont know how long before he got the nod to start. "

And are you saying that Jake's NFL Europe experience prepared him for the NFL more than Rivers' record-setting college career? Have you ever watched an NFL Europe game?

3/29/2006 6:54:52 PM