KC Chiefs: Five landing spots for Philip Rivers and how it could affect KC
By Cullen Jekel
Indianapolis Colts
Along with the Bucs, the Colts seem like one of the likeliest landing spots for Rivers. They’re a budding AFC team that doesn’t have an answer at quarterback and they appear very close to busting through the AFC South.
Last year, after Andrew Luck’s retirement, the Colts were all but forced to hand over the starting gig to Jacoby Brissett. He was…fine. He was fine. He played in 15 games and threw 18 touchdown passes versus only six interceptions. But he averaged only 196.1 yards per game.
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Essentially, he avoided errors but also missed out on the big plays. In turn, the Colts, who for a time looked like they would make the playoffs, missed the postseason altogether.
The big question here is: over the course of the next two or three seasons, would Rivers be an improvement over Brissett? It comes down to your preference of play.
Rivers will take more chances than the conservative Brissett. Will the Colts win the Super Bowl with either of them under center? I doubt it, but Rivers’ shoot-from-the-hip mentality gives them a better chance.
And while the Chiefs don’t face the Colts in the regular season, a playoff matchup between these two organizations always seems like a possibility.
Imagine that: Rivers getting his best shot at winning it all only to face his former tormentors, but this time in the postseason.
New England Patriots
To whom will the New England Patriots turn if Thomas Edward Patrick Brady leaves in free agency? The team certainly doesn’t have enough capital to trade its way up the board to land one of the marquee young quarterbacks, and Jarrett Stidham doesn’t seem like the answer.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Bill Belichick turn to Philip Rivers if Brady bolts for, say, Las Vegas or somewhere else that is decidedly not New England. This would be Rivers getting perhaps his best chance at adding a Super Bowl ring to his resumé.
Perhaps more importantly, it would also give Belichick a shot at showing the world that he was the mastermind behind the Patriots Dynasty, not Brady. It would be Belichick telling the world that he can win it all regardless of who his starting quarterback is: the Greatest of All-Time, or the guy with the playoff record of just 5-6 before he joined the Patriots.
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The Patriots will play the Kansas City Chiefs next year at Arrowhead Stadium. How odd–how fantastically odd–would it be for the Chiefs to face a Patriots team with Philip Rivers under center?
I’m not sure that stranger things have happened.