by Morris Phillips

HONOLULU–Jerry Rice has made some nice selections for his quarterback roster, Drew Brees New Orelans, Phillip Rivers San Diego, and Alex Smith Kansas City. For Smith he can make all the throws he’s an above average quarterback in the NFL. His history in the leauge hasn’t been the smoothest or the brightest but obviously that changed a lot this year.

The Chiefs were incredible in terms of winning games and making an impact on the AFC playoff race and he deserves a lot of credit for that. It should be wonderful this week in Honolulu as the quarterback and Smith should have a great game. Brees the other selection is going to play great, Brees is one of the NFL’s fastest at having touch on passes.

Brees is what you might call the anti 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in terms of disability to make different throws from different places. That’s what Kaepernick needs to work on is his touch and Brees has that. Once again they should have a great team on Sunday and we can see why he was the number one pick for Team Rice.

In the last couple of years Rivers has had a terrible problem with turnovers anbd intrerceptions and this past season that saw the real Rivers and Kennan Allen the Chargers receiver from Cal the first round pick that had a lot to do with that in making himself available and catching a lot of passes from Rivers.

Once again Rivers should have a great weekend and expect him to play a lot and he’s the last guy especially with his enthusiasm that you definitely want to get a guy like that in the game.

Dieon Sanders selected Cam Newton from the Carolina Panthers to be one of his quarterbacks and Newton has a lot to make up for his first year in Honolulu didn’t go well and he’s kind of gone to the loss there as a rookie and he’s a third year player now and will probably have a much better showing and Newton has lost some of his zip as an NFL quarterback especially this season.

For Newton this has to be personal and he didn’t even look good two years ago but he’s going to want to look a lot better on Sunday. The other Sanders’ selction is the Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck and he had a star crossed season. When the Colts lost Reggie Wayne their number one receiver the veteran of the team it really hurt his ability to get the ball down field to make plays. This week should be a nice departure from that for Luck he’ll have plenty of targets to throw to.

One thing about the other quarterback selection of Sanders of Philadelphia’s Nick Foles he won’t have his best game of the year. He already did that in Oakland with seven touchdown passes against the Raiders earlier this year and kind of came out of nowhere in terms of taking over that job in Philadelphia.

Foles is a promising young quarterback whose very exciting from an offensive system and it should interesting if they incorporate that pace and that system on Sunday to accomadate him to see if he can do the same stuff he did in Philadelphia.

Morris Phillips is covering the NFL Pro Bowl in Honolulu for Sportstalk this week