Dominique Foxworth

I think you could argue that it's more important if you only had a half step to hold on to that half step.

I think that there are so many other things in the game that you can rely on if you had a bunch of traits that were beneficial.

You could find one of those other traits to rely on.

I think Phillip Rivers' ability to read defenses.

Honestly, I think the thing that Phillip Rivers had that was special was

was not only his size, but that fire and intensity, which is hard to measure.

And I don't know how that translates now if your body can't do the same things that it once did.

And so I think the accuracy is probably going to be a little bit off.

The speed is going to be a little bit off.

And we don't pay as much attention to the speed of evolution of defenses as we do offenses because defense is a little bit more complicated.

It's not on a screen.

It's not as exciting.

But the defenses that Phillip Rivers is going to face now,

are very different from the defenses that he saw pre-pandemic or during the pandemic.

So I'm guessing that, yeah, the offensive plays and the system, he's going to understand that it's not going to be as difficult.

But the things that he's going to see are not going to be things that he saw back then.

Defenses change so fast.

And from team to team, you're going to see drastically different looks.

It's a lot harder.

So even if he was just as good as he was at the time when he retired,