Philip Rivers

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I think people are misreading the original post. The original post proposes SD gets our first, and next years 2nd; while we get Phillip Rivers and SD's #13 pick. How anyone would pass that trade up is beyond me. Rivers is a top 10 QB easy, and he would make us an immediate playoff contender. He is only 31 and should have 4-5 good years left. All we would be giving up is a few spots in the first round and next years 2nd, big deal.

I would then try to work a trade down from #13 to recoup the 2nd for next year, and we would get Phillip Rivers for a simple trade down. You have to make that trade. Then we could draft a QB that could come in and learn from Norv Turner and sit behind Rivers for a couple years.

With our first round pick we could still land a quality player to plug into the defense, or maybe the top TE Eifert to really give our offense some weapons.
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I know that it is that "down time" between the end of the season and the draft for us, but I think we should all take a deep breath and think about what has transpired over the last couple of weeks.

We've brought in a new head coach who has a pretty good reputation of fitting his offensive scheme to meet the strengths of his personnel.

He's brought in arguably one of the top offensive coordinators over the last generation.

We've got a quarterback that was annointed with a starting job that he may not have been ready to take. But he did a fair job, starting with three other rookies, and a 2nd year WR. He was directed to run an offense that probably wasn't best suited to match with his skill set.

While it is completely natural for us to consider possible replacements and/or upgrades for Weeden (including the aforementioned Philip Rivers), I, for one, am extremely excited to see what is going to transpire under the tutelage of Chudzinski and Turner.

Rivers is a great QB, but the move to Chud and Turner makes me think that the new braintrust feels that Weeden may be who they are looking for at QB. Another year under the belt of our top two WR's, an OC who can possibly make a very serviceable player out of Jordan Cameron, one of the best young RB's in the game, along with one of the best o-lines in the game, makes me pretty excited to see what happens in the future.

I don't think we need to make a knee-jerk reaction to bring in someone who is even older, and has a ton more mileage on his body than does Weeden.

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