Without a Super Bowl title, Philip Rivers rarely enters the discussion of top-tier active quarterbacks, but when the Lions play the Chargers in San Diego Sunday, they know they’ll have to face one of the most consistent signal-callers of the past decade.
And if Rivers has some success against a Lions defense that ranked second overall last season, there’s a good chance he’ll rub it in because he’s known for talking smack. Even if it’s G-rated.
“There’s really not a lot of trash to it, honestly,” Rivers said in a teleconference Wednesday. “It’s all stuff I can go home and tell my wife and daughters and mother, so it’s not any hardcore stuff.