I first met him many years ago.

很多年前，我第一次見到他。

There was a three year stretch where Mike and I did Monday night football games.

有三年的時間，我和邁克在週一晚上做了橄欖球比賽。

We did the second Monday night game three years in a row on that opening weekend and one of the years we had the Chargers.

我們在那個首週末連續三年做了第二場週一晚上的比賽，其中有一年我們有充電器。

And so we sat down.

於是我們坐下來。

We had a production meeting and we actually sat with Philip Rivers and I had the chance to just sit and talk to him for about a half hour.

我們開了一個生產會議，我們實際上是和菲利普-裡弗斯坐在一起的，我有機會只是坐下來和他聊了半個小時。

And let me tell you, if you ever wanna learn something about football, sit and talk to Philip Rivers for a half hour.

讓我告訴你，如果你想了解足球的一些事情， 就坐下來和菲利普-裡弗斯談上半個小時。

I know that he is now going to become a high school football coach rather than he would be an excellent analyst.

我知道，他現在要成為一名高中足球教練，而不是他會成為一名優秀的分析師。

The way he sat there and broke down football for me was fascinating and the sort of approach and attitude and and and all of the things that you already know about him, the whole dad gum it of it all.

他坐在那裡，為我分解足球的方式是迷人的，那種方法和態度和和所有的東西，你已經知道他，整個爸爸膠它的這一切。

I just found him to be a fascinating person in every conceivable way, so I've always sort of kept a close eye on.

我只是覺得他是一個很有魅力的人，在每一個可以想象的方面，所以我一直都有點密切關注。

And this is a very long time ago before he became what he is now, which is, I believe, a full of surefire first ballot Hall of Famer.

而在他成為現在的樣子之前，這已經是很久之前的事情了，我相信，他是一個十足的肯定的第一票名人堂成員。

Let me give you a couple of numbers.

讓我給你幾個數字。

Not that numbers ever tell the full story of a person's career, Certainly not his, but there are some good numbers.

並不是說數字就能說明一個人事業的全部，當然不是他的，但也有一些好的數字。

He is the second quarterback now to throw for 4000 yards in his final season, second in NFL history.

他是現在第二位在最後一個賽季投出4000碼的四分衛，NFL歷史第二。

Do you know who the other one Waas?

你知道另一個Waas是誰嗎？

The other one was Andrew Luck.

另一個是安德魯-洛克。

Andrew Luck was 29 at the time.

安德魯-勒克當時29歲。

Rivers is 39.

裡弗斯是39歲。

He played 17 years.

他玩了17年。

16 of them is a Charger started the last 240 games of his career in a row, second longest streak by any quarterback in history.

其中16場是Charger在他職業生涯的最後240場比賽中連續開始，歷史上任何四分衛的第二長連勝。

Behind only, of course, Brett Farve.

當然，後面只有佈雷特-法夫。

He finishes fifth all time in yards and fifth all time in touchdowns, and he will go down as having always been remembered in two separate sets of quarterback groups.

他的碼數排名歷史第五，達陣數排名歷史第五，他將會被人們一直銘記在兩組獨立的四分衛群體中。

One of them is that during the time that he was playing in the A F.

其一，在他在A F踢球的時候。

C, the conference was dominated by Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.

C，會議由湯姆-布雷迪和佩頓-曼寧主導。

Let me give you an extent to which that impacted Rivers 2006 Rivers goes 14 and two loses to Brady in the playoffs.

我給你說一個影響裡弗斯的程度 2006年裡弗斯14歲，季後賽兩敗給布雷迪。

2007.

2007.

Rivers goes 11 and five loses to Brady in the playoffs.

裡弗斯在季後賽中11戰5敗給布雷迪。

2018.

2018.

Rivers goes 12 and four loses to Brady in the playoffs.

裡弗斯在季後賽中12戰4負於布雷迪。

He is the only quarterback in history to lose three playoff games to Tom Brady, and so that's what it ultimately will be.

他是歷史上唯一一個輸給湯姆-布雷迪三場季後賽的四分衛，所以最終會是這樣的結果。

He was the guy who just couldn't quite get over the top because the very few that were left on the table by Brady during his era were generally snapped up by Peyton Manning or in a couple of cases by Ben Roethlisberger.

他是一個無法完全超越的人，因為在他的時代，布雷迪留下的極少數人，一般都被佩頓-曼寧或在幾個案例中被本-羅斯伯格搶走了。

And that, of course, is the other group.

而這，當然是另一個群體。

You will always remember him with these quarterbacks every now and again.

你會永遠記得他和這些四分衛們每時每刻。

We remember them for the classes they came out in, and there are some legendary quarterback class is the most famous of them all.

我們記住了他們出道的班級，有一些傳奇的四分衛班級是其中最著名的。

The 83 class that had six quarterbacks in it, three of whom are in the Hall of Fame.

83班有6名四分衛，其中3人進入名人堂。

Elway, Marino, Kelly.

艾爾維，馬裡諾，凱利。

The 2004 class, which now has only one of the three legends remaining will also produce three Hall of Famers.

2004年的班級，現在只剩下三位傳奇人物中的一位，還將產生三位名人堂成員。

Eli Manning was drafted first that year by San Diego, traded an hour later to the Giants for Philip Rivers, who was drafted fourth that year by the Giants.

伊萊-曼寧當年被聖迭戈隊以第一順位選中，一個小時後被巨人隊換來菲利普-裡弗斯，後者當年被巨人隊以第四順位選中。

And then, of course, Ben, who went a little bit later that day.

當然，還有本，他那天去得比較晚。

We were doing the draft that day.

那天我們在做草稿。

I remember it vividly.

我記得很清楚。

I remember watching that whole thing unfold, and so I think that I would look at it this way.

我記得我看著整個事情的發展，所以我想我會這樣看。

In some ways, Philip Rivers legacy as one of the greatest quarterbacks ever not to win a championship kind of justifies Eli Manning and the Manning family not wanting to go to San Diego.

在某些方面，菲利普-裡弗斯作為有史以來最偉大的四分衛之一的遺產，沒有贏得冠軍，這也是伊萊-曼寧和曼寧家族不想去聖地亞哥的理由。

And here's what I mean by that.

這就是我說的意思。

When you look at those three quarterbacks from the four class Eli Rivers, Ben, if you ask me which one was the best, which one was the best quarterback?

當你看到這三位四班的四分衛伊萊-裡弗斯、本，如果你問我哪個是最好的，哪個是最好的四分衛？

I think I would say Rivers, I think I would pick Rivers as the best off those three players.

我想我會說裡弗斯，我想我會選擇裡弗斯作為這三名球員中最好的。

But he's going to go down as the least accomplished because Ben has two championships and Eli has two championships and Philip Rivers only got himself to a conference championship game one time and never started in a Super Bowl.

但他會被評為最沒有成就感的人，因為本有兩個冠軍，伊萊也有兩個冠軍，菲利普-裡弗斯只讓自己打過一次聯盟冠軍賽，從來沒有在超級碗中出場過。

But I think it is my legitimate opinion that if you just said in a vacuum, which of those three guys was the best player, I think I'd say Rivers, he just didn't win.

但我認為這是我的合理意見，如果你只是在真空中說，這三個人中哪一個是最好的球員，我想我會說裡弗斯，他只是沒有贏。

Eli got red hot on two separate occasions, parlayed that into two championships and God bless him and he absolutely belongs in the Hall of Fame.

伊萊在兩個不同的場合都很紅火，將其轉化為兩個冠軍，上帝保佑他，他絕對屬於名人堂。

But if you just line them up next to each other and said you could draft that guy or that guy not knowing any of how it was going to go out, I think you would take Rivers.

但如果你只是把他們排在一起，說你可以選那個人，或者那個人不知道任何的情況下，我想你會選擇裡弗斯。

Ben is a tougher one because band my image of Ben is always of him with, like two guys draped one on one leg and one guy draped on the other leg.

本是一個艱難的一個，因為帶我的本的形象總是他的，像兩個人披一個在一條腿上，一個人披在另一條腿上。

And Ben is just sort of standing in there and still managing to complete a seven yard pass on third and six.

而本只是有點站在那裡，仍然管理 完成一個7碼傳球 在第三和第六。

To me, Ben versus Rivers is very close when it comes to which guy you would take at their best.

對我來說，本與裡弗斯的關係非常密切，當談到你會在他們最好的時候選擇哪個人。

But it's obviously not close an accomplishment.

但這顯然不是接近的成績。

Ben Roethlisberger was a two time Super Bowl champion in Pittsburgh and Philip Rivers is not.

本-羅斯伯格是匹茲堡的兩屆超級碗冠軍，菲利普-裡弗斯不是。

And so that is the way I think his career will be remembered shouldn't be diminished.

所以我認為他的職業生涯不應該被削弱。

He is an all time great straight talk wireless, no contract, no compromise.

他是一個永遠偉大的直言無線，沒有合同，沒有妥協。

In the meantime, it also opens up the quarterback spot in Indianapolis.

同時，這也為印第安納波利斯的四分衛位置打開了局面。

And if I am a quarterback with some options this offseason, that's one of the first places I look.

而如果我是一個四分衛，在這個休賽期有一些選擇，那是我最先看的地方之一。

You play your game in a dome.

你在一個穹頂裡玩遊戲

Excuse me.

對不起，請原諒

Your home games are played in a dome.

你們的主場比賽是在球館裡進行的。

You've got a coach who was a quarterback himself and who quarterback seemed toe love playing for.

你有一個教練，他本身就是四分衛，而且四分衛似乎喜歡為他打球。

And Frank Reich.

還有弗蘭克-萊克

You've got a really good defense.

你的防守真不錯。

You've got a really good defensive line.

你的防守線非常好。

You're not.

你不是

Excuse me.

對不起，請原諒

Offensive line.

攻擊線。

You're not in Patrick Mahomes division.

你不在帕特里克-馬霍姆斯的部門

There are a lot of reasons why I think Indy would be a very attractive place if you're Matthew Stafford.

如果你是Matthew Stafford的話，有很多原因讓我覺得Indy會是一個非常有吸引力的地方。

Maybe if you're D Shawn Watson, let's see what winds up happening.

也許如果你是D肖恩-沃森，讓我們看看最後會發生什麼。

The first place people will look will be Carson Wentz to that, I say no freaking way After the Eagle did what they did, firing their coach, basically giving whence the victory in a power struggle.

人們首先會看的是卡森-溫茨到，我說沒有嚇人的辦法後，老鷹做了什麼，炒掉了他們的教練，基本上給了什麼時候的權力鬥爭的勝利。

I can't see any way they trade him, so the immediate reaction would have been went with Reich.

我看不出他們有什麼辦法交易他，所以直接的反應就是去找雷克。

It makes sense that would have been the place to look right now.

按理說，現在應該是找這個地方。

It would be putting two and two together and getting five.

這將是把兩個和兩個在一起，得到五個。

Carson Wentz isn't getting traded, so I don't know who the quarterback of the Colts is gonna be next year, But it isn't going to be Carson Wentz.

Carson Wentz不會被交易 所以我不知道明年小馬隊的四分衛是誰 但不會是Carson Wentz。

It is going to be someone who immediately is in position to make a run at a championship year.

這將是一個馬上就能在今年奪冠的人。

Won the culture that good.

贏得了文化那麼好。

And you know what?

你知道嗎？

They could easily have beaten Buffalo two weeks ago and who knows where they might be right now?

兩週前他們可以輕鬆擊敗布法羅，誰知道他們現在會在哪裡？

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