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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Travis Kelce reflects on difficult season + Will Philip Rivers start for Colts on Sunday? (12/11 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including looking at the possibility of Philip Rivers starting against Seahawks, Travis Kelce reflecting on a difficult season, previewing Falcons-Buccaneers on TNF, and more.

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0:00.0

What do you believe with breaking out?

0:03.0

Right this second?

0:04.0

I'm not sure, Greg.

0:07.0

How about that?

0:10.0

That's an honest answer.

0:12.0

I will answer your question a little better on the playing

0:14.0

weight, Greg.

0:15.0

Not what it was when I walked up to film Buffalo.

0:18.0

All right?

0:19.0

I can tell you that.

0:26.5

Friday's the way in, right?

0:28.2

Isn't that when you've got to get on the scale?

0:29.0

Well, yeah. If you're over the prescribed weight, I don't know what they expect.

0:32.2

He does look a little fuller in the face than when we last saw Philip Rivers. Not if there's anything, I mean, I'm not being critical. I'm just saying he does look a little larger than he was when he last played for the Colts. Sure, no doubt. I don't know if quarterbacks will, you know, usually skill guys, they're pretty, like, consistent with their weight. They're not the guys that usually have to weigh in on a Friday, right? It's usually just the big deep tackles and offensive alignment to go like, hey, let's make sure that they didn't have a bunch of muffins this week and put on 10 pounds the last four days because those guys can do that. Right. So, but nonetheless, yeah, as you get older, you get a little thicker. But it doesn't look like he's out of shape.

1:12.4

It certainly doesn't look maybe as in shape as he was at the end of his career.

1:18.9

Well, it does make me wonder how much time he spent preparing for the moment.

1:23.3

Because after we talked it through, I kind of realized that this was, I believe, the emergency plan all along.

1:30.6

He and Shane Stike and were talking about it once they lost Anthony Richardson, and they're moving

1:35.4

forward with Daniel Jones, who had had multiple significant injuries in the past, neck, ACL, etc.

1:40.9

And your backups, Riley Leonard and Brett Rippin, you got to have a plan. They didn't

1:45.0

trade for a veteran. If they knew all along that if Daniel Jones gets injured, we're activating

1:51.2

the Philip Rivers bat signal, I assume he's been doing something to get himself in playing shape.

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