Michael Pittman
I Was Shocked We Signed Philip Rivers
… However He Nonetheless Appears Good!
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TMZSports.com
The NFL world was surprised when the Colts signed 44-year-old QB Philip Rivers to interchange an injured Daniel Jones … and that features the crew’s high large receiver, Michael Pittman, who advised TMZ Sports activities he was “shocked!”
Whereas that was his first emotion, Pittman advised us there was additionally pleasure concerning the transfer, particularly since Rivers was his first quarterback after getting into the league in 2020 (it was PR’s final season, till now, after all).
“He actually taught me every little thing that I discovered about being a professional and about routine and every little thing,” Pittman advised Babcock.
“So I really feel like there’s a number of love there. I am excited for him. He is identical to, he is fired up. He nonetheless looks like the identical younger man that he was in 2020 and we’ll see what transpires.”
Although the circumstances round his return aren’t supreme — in spite of everything, DJ tore his Achilles — Pittman remains to be assured his crew, presently 11-5, could make a push to the playoffs, and past.
“We nonetheless have a extremely proficient crew, now we have a extremely good protection, now we have actually good offensive weapons, so we’re not going to surrender,” he stated.
“We’ll look again after these 4 video games, and possibly it really works, possibly it does not, however we’ll give our greatest effort.”
The query on everybody’s thoughts, nevertheless, is how does the outdated man’s arm look?
Based on Pittman, not a lot has modified for the reason that final time they shared the sector.
“Philip seems like, to me, he seems like the identical man in 2020,” he stated.
That season — which turned out to be his final in an NFL uniform — Rivers threw for 4,169 yards with 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
One factor we all know for certain, whether or not Philip is nice or dangerous on the sector, Pittman’s pearly whites will look nice ‘trigger the previous thirty fourth total decide just lately teamed up with Oral-B to advertise their new toothbrush.
