Philip Rivers' starting stint with Colts should make us appreciate him more

INDIANAPOLIS — Philip Rivers wasn’t able to change the course of this Colts season. A promising campaign that seemed lost when Daniel Jones tore his Achilles tendon in Jacksonville effectively ended when the team was eliminated from the playoffs before Rivers led the Colts onto the field against the Jaguars again. The collapse, the kind that hasn’t been seen in the NFL in thirty years, prompts big questions about the future of the franchise, questions that can only be answered definitively by Carlie Irsay-Gordon in her first year as principal owner. Those answers will come later. For the moment, it is OK to appreciate what Rivers brought to Indianapolis, the NFL and the sport at large at the...