The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Return of Old Man Rivers: Savior or Season Ender?
12 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: Is Phillip Rivers really ready to save the Colts season?
Quick story, when I was doing corporate sales in my 20s, they used to do all these team building exercises. And one time they gave us a piece of paper and on the top of it, it said, I am dot, dot, dot. And then you had to fill out like five answers for it and then get up in front of everybody and read them. So I got up there and I said, I am...
A little teapot short and stout and everybody in their suits and especially the bosses were not amused at all by it.
Chapter 2: What challenges do the Eagles face after losing their positivity rabbit?
Anywho, I bring this story up because now I want to do that with Phil Rivers signing with the Colts is dot, dot, dot. One. Fun. Two, funny, especially after you see how fat he is now. Three, is good, not bad for his Hall of Fame candidacy.
Chapter 3: What are the unanswerable questions surrounding the NFL?
Coming out of retirement now allows him to avoid his contemporaries, Big Ben and Eli, both of whom are more likely to get a gold jacket before he does. And it also allows him to avoid guys like Matthew Stafford, who presumably are going to stick around for a little bit longer. And if he takes the Colts to the playoffs, this just about guarantees him.
What a cherry on top of a borderline Hall of Fame career. Next, it's overstated how his age is going to impact him physically.
Chapter 4: Which NFL games are considered the most consequential for Week 15?
You know, I know Stephen A is worried about age. the imminent danger and all of that. But keep in mind, it's very much like Frank Gore. The Frank Gore paradox is he was never reliant on high end speed or athleticism. Phil Rivers never ran away from a pass rush.
Chapter 5: How does age impact a quarterback's performance in the NFL?
He would stand in the pocket and take the hit. And that's how Phil Rivers used to play and I assume is going to still be playing even after five years away. Next, NFC State Wolfpack icon might not do well here, but it can't go as badly as another Carolina ACC school embarrassed itself this year. I'm talking about the old man named Bill Belichick.
And lastly, is bad for all the other QBs who are in their prime right now.
Chapter 6: What conspiracy theories are discussed regarding NFL teams and players?
Imagine if Gramps comes off the sidelines after a decade and a half and is better than you. How humiliating that would be. I guess come to think of it, good thing Phil Rivers isn't starting a podcast. Speaking of which... Let's start the show.
Chapter 7: What insights does Dean 'Mojo' Muhtadi provide for upcoming NFL games?
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Chapter 8: How can listeners make the most of their NFL weekend plans?
Good word. Let everybody else know about Football America with the playoffs fast approaching here. Hi and hello to the fellows in Miami and up in New York. Jeremy Taché among them joining us. Episode 33, so let's honor the player who wore that jersey number best, obviously, as somebody who hails from the banks of the Three Rivers. Tony Dorsett, the Heisman Trophy winner in 1976.
Hopewell, Viking, and all the rest of it. Then he became fancy and became Dorsett. when he went down to Big D to toil with Roger Staubach and company. Who else? And hi and hello to you, Gino and Mike Fuentes.
Let me see. The only ones that come to mind are Aaron Jones, who's currently playing, but not exactly legendary status. Jamal Adams, I think, the safety. Correct. I think you already named all the ones that I would know from history.
The one guy I remember, and only because he helped me capture a fantasy championship, was Deion Lewis for the Patriots. He was playing alongside James White. Wow, Deion Lewis. Yeah, he was playing along with James White for a while, and then he ended up going over to the Titans, where his career had effectively died as he was the second back behind Derrick Henry.
And speaking of James White, James White didn't wear 33. He actually wore No. 28 for the Patriots. I think he scored the game-winning touchdown in the comeback against the Falcons, if I remember. Oh, he should have been the MVP.
He should have been the MVP.
It's ridiculous. Sweet feet.
It is one of the worst. It is one of the worst MVP awards. I mean, the first 15 or so had some sketchy ones, but in more recent vintage, that's the most specious one was to give it to Brady there when James White had, I think, literally like 13 or 14 catches in that game. Also, Roger Craig, speaking of pass-catching running backs, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, of course, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing.
So that's the sport that wore 33 best is basketball. Anyone else there, Jeremy Taché?
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