The world according to Jim:

• As the NFL season gets underway – and we’ll get to the incongruity of the Chargers playing their “home” game against rival Kansas City some 6,200 miles from SoFi Stadium – this thought keeps running through my head: The career arc of Justin Herbert is starting out hauntingly similar to that of the guy he replaced under center for the Chargers. …

• Philip Rivers never quite got the national respect he deserved during his days as the Chargers’ quarterback. Some of it came from playing for that funny little team in that funny little corner of the continent, even as San Diego dominated the AFC West (four straight division titles from 2006-09). Rivers put at least one teammate in the Pro Football Hall of Fame – Antonio Gates will be happy to make Rivers’ own cas

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