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This is the weirdest, most fun NFL season ever.

This is so strange.

The fact that we are here, and the idea now where the state of the nation is, is that Lamar and Borough and Mahomes

maybe likely won't start a playoff game, but Philip Rivers is going

to start a playoff game in 2025, or a regular season game, maybe a playoff game. I don't even know.

We should have known, Jamie, because before the first snap of this NFL season was even taken,

one of the best players in the defending champs was ejected for spitting on Dag Prescott.

And then it's been weird ever since then. It's never settled down. And I think this has

this potential for story of the year. If Philip Rivers starts the game, he plays terribly.

I don't even care. If he's out there starting in 2025 for the Colts, let alone playing well,

let alone in some miracle winning, going on some sort of Disney

movie run. It's the story of the year. It's also, for a lot of us, in a weird way, relatable.

Who doesn't, and once they hit a certain age, dream about getting back out there. And getting back

out there might just be, you go back to doing lower body you're on the

squat rack or you you can take your shirt off at the pool again or even you can post a picture

of yourself on instagram whatever your version of this is philip rivers has a lot of guys and

women in their 40s and 50s saying like i still think i have it i still think i can do it his

version of getting back

into the squat rack is going and starting an NFL game, a quarterback, and it's starting to

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