VonDoom
12-05-2015, 11:31 AM
I passed by this a couple of days ago but hadn't read it until now. Some interesting connections between Brock and Rivers. If the two guys Os has learned from in the NFL have been Manning and Rivers, he could do a lot worse.
Two quarterbacks separated by eight years of age have a striking number of similarities.
For starters, Rivers and Osweiler had the same college offensive coordinator, Noel Mazzone.
Rivers spent his senior season with Mazzone at North Carolina State. Osweiler spent his final two seasons with Mazzone at Arizona State.
When Osweiler was preparing for the draft, he went to UCLA to meet with Mazzone, who is now the Bruins' offensive coordinator, and Rivers met with the two of them there.
"We kind of formed a great bond and a great relationship over that course of time," Osweiler said of Rivers. "He's been nothing but great to me."
Rivers was going into his ninth season as San Diego's quarterback, but he still found value in going to Los Angeles in the offseason to work with Mazzone and give a young quarterback from Montana a few tips.
"(We) just spent some time talking football, watching tape, throwing and things like that," Rivers said. "I thought a lot of him as a college player. Then getting to be around him, he's a smart guy."
http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_29194899/brock-osweiler-draws-san-diego-connections-phillip-rivers?source=infinite-up
Two quarterbacks separated by eight years of age have a striking number of similarities.
For starters, Rivers and Osweiler had the same college offensive coordinator, Noel Mazzone.
Rivers spent his senior season with Mazzone at North Carolina State. Osweiler spent his final two seasons with Mazzone at Arizona State.
When Osweiler was preparing for the draft, he went to UCLA to meet with Mazzone, who is now the Bruins' offensive coordinator, and Rivers met with the two of them there.
"We kind of formed a great bond and a great relationship over that course of time," Osweiler said of Rivers. "He's been nothing but great to me."
Rivers was going into his ninth season as San Diego's quarterback, but he still found value in going to Los Angeles in the offseason to work with Mazzone and give a young quarterback from Montana a few tips.
"(We) just spent some time talking football, watching tape, throwing and things like that," Rivers said. "I thought a lot of him as a college player. Then getting to be around him, he's a smart guy."
http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_29194899/brock-osweiler-draws-san-diego-connections-phillip-rivers?source=infinite-up