Philip Rivers Is Back! Is This a Good Idea?

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4.0 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Sheil and The Ringer’s own Billy Gil share their instant reactions to the Indianapolis Colts signing Philip Rivers, and analyze the legacy implications of the 44-year-old QB coming out of retirement. (00:00) The Indianapolis Colts sign Philip Rivers(1:35) Is this a good idea?(18:49) Philip Rivers the family man(20:48) The other possible QB options for the Colts(24:33) Philip Rivers’s legacy This episode is brought to you by American Eagle. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit ⁠www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Sheil KapadiaGuest: Billy GilProducer: Chris SuttonSocial: Kiera Givens and Brian WatersProduction Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	welcome to the ringinger NFL show.
0:38.3	I'm Shield Capadia, and today we are talking about Philip Rivers returning to the NFL.
0:44.8	This is not some type of April Fool's joke.
0:47.2	He is coming back to the Colts, signing to the Colts practice squad at 44 years old.
0:53.7	And it sounds like he could get on the field sooner rather than later.
0:58.8	So this is the most stunning story of the 2025 NFL season, a very interesting wrinkle here
1:04.9	in December as the Colts reached this desperate mode with Riley Leonard going down, Daniel
1:10.5	Jones going down, Anthony
1:11.7	Richardson still not back. Why is Philip Rivers doing this? Why are the Colts doing this? How will
1:17.6	this play out? Are we in favor of it? To talk about it all, we've got on my friend from the ringer,
1:23.8	Billy Gill. We go at all kinds of different directions with this story, which is a fun story.
1:28.0	It is a fun story to have here in December. So let's take a break. We come back. We talk to Billy
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