Yeah the professionals saw so much in him they drafted Phillip Rivers 4th overall lol......you just say anything lol. Brees HOF career started with the Saints. ITs a fact. Maybe you have a great eye and saw his talent in SD. Good for you. But his talent wasn't on full display until he got to NO with Sean Payton. Sorry.
Wow, not a single word of what you wrote is true.
They didn't draft Philip Rivers fourth overall, they drafted Eli Manning first overall. But that's a minor point.
They did that because Brees had disappointed up to that point. But after that, in 2004, Brees lit it up: he was in the running for OPOY that year. His talent was on full display.
And the Chargers suddenly had a problem, which was widely reported and discussed at the time. They had a QB who had become a star, and they had Rivers waiting in the wings.
Between Brees's injury and Rivers's presence, they ended up moving on. But there was no doubt that teams were excited about what a healthy Brees could do (in large part because they'd seen it).