{"id":1183815,"date":"2026-01-08T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1183815"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:15:21","slug":"listen-philip-rivers-joins-opening-kickoff-after-return-to-nfl-coaching-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/listen-philip-rivers-joins-opening-kickoff-after-return-to-nfl-coaching-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Philip Rivers Joins Opening Kickoff After Return to NFL, Coaching Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Michael Cardinals head coach Philip Rivers hopped on The Opening Kickoff on Thursday morning to recap the last month of his life including a dramatic return to the NFL and even answered questions about the wild rumors that he could be a candidate in the next coaching cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers did not exactly shut it down, but confirmed his heavy expectation is to remain in Fairhope for his son Gunner&#8217;s senior season at quarterback coming off back-to-back trips to the state semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to the entire in depth interview right here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Philip Rivers - The Opening Kickoff\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0bCEQMnUbRDwbLZhfXKuFJ?si=aTaKZeLnRjm9U7vaV5d6tg&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>St. Michael Cardinals head coach Philip Rivers hopped on The Opening Kickoff on Thursday morning to recap the last month of his life including a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/listen-philip-rivers-joins-opening-kickoff-after-return-to-nfl-coaching-rumors\/\" title=\"LISTEN: Philip Rivers Joins Opening Kickoff After Return to NFL, Coaching Rumors\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1183816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,149,112,206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1183815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-news","8":"category-high-school","9":"category-hs-football","10":"category-nfl"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dbf122825005jags_clts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183817,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183815\/revisions\/1183817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}