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NFL: Good Morning Football

GMFB Thursday Hour 2: Bears or Rams? Does Seattle Need Kenneth Walker?

NFL: Good Morning Football

iHeartPodcasts and NFL

Football, Sports

4.3655 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Kyle Brandt Manti Te'o, and Isaiah Stanback answering Throwdown Thursday questions - are the Chicago Bears or Los Angeles Rams the IT team? Would you rather follow Jim or John Harbaugh around? BUYIN or KEEP TRYIN - are you buying that Shedeur Sanders should start next season for the Browns? Then they examine how much the Seahawks need Kenneth Walker back and how much the Steelers need Aaron Rodgers to return?

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0:00.0

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0:02.6

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0:04.3

Good Morning Football is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio.

0:40.0

All right, hey, hey, hey. All right, we are here. It's the start of the 2026 NFL scouting combine, and this is not the warm up, the ramp up, the projection. It is actually happening today. Players cleats in the turf. Isaiah, how do you feel about it? I'm excited about it. Combine, I mean, it's a huge opportunity for all these guys, man. So be able to go out there and put out there. You already done the film, but now you get to put on display your athleticism for all the teams to be able to see. It's a great opportunity for these guys. How are you feeling, Teo? I love it. I mean, the thing that I like the most about it are the meetings, right? When we get those behind the scene meeting where that camera, where the one prospect goes in there and you're surrounded by the GM, the head coach, and they start peppering them with questions. It's stressful, bro. It's stressful. I think that's the best time for a prospect to show what he can do. I think that's the thing. If I'm a general manager, that's the stuff that I'm weighing heavily is how do you perform when I got you on a chalkboard,

1:11.3

when I'm going over good plays, bad plays. That's the stuff I look for. I love the combine phenoms, like the Vernon Davis types who are like they just destroy every single drill. Testers. Yeah, I'm saying? Yeah. To that point, Tom Pelliserro, he's there in Indianapolis, doing his thing, looking great, sounding great. Tom, tell us everything

1:28.2

you like. And first, your memories of Mike Mamoula. Go ahead. Mike Mamma, an absolute combine legend.

1:35.1

This is where legends are made. Listen, we got the defensive linemen and the linebackers going to be out

1:40.2

here on the field for position drills later on today, starting at 3 p.m. Eastern time.

1:45.8

Most, if not all of the top prospects are going to participate.

1:49.0

Arvel Reese is a big name, the Ohio State Edge, but his teammate, linebacker Sonny Stiles,

1:55.0

might be the one who steals the show.

1:57.7

I'm not big in the prediction business here, but here's what I would tell you about

2:00.7

styles. He is a big, ranger linebacker. He's been really impressive in his interviews

2:05.5

this week, and I had our research department do a little check for me. Since 2003, which is as far

2:11.7

back as our data goes, there have been zero linebackers at the combine who have weighed in at over 240 pounds,

2:19.7

run a sub 4-540, had a broad jump of over 11 feet, and a vertical jump of over 40 inches.

2:26.3

I believe that changes today. I believe Sunny Stiles becomes the first to put up those numbers. If he does that, we will be talking about Sunny Stiles a ton over the next eight weeks before the NFL draft kicks off in Pittsburgh. Unbelievable. Tom, I want to make sure that let's just let's do this one more time because that's a great prediction. It's a great name. It's how state. It's everything.

2:54.0

One more time, you're predicting what are the numbers and what is the rare air he enters?

2:54.9

I want to get this for the record.

2:56.5

Zero linebackers.

3:01.4

As far back as our combine data goes since 2003 to weigh in over 240 pounds. We're in a sub 4.5.40, over 11 foot broad jump and 40inch vertical. Sunny Stiles has an opportunity to do that tonight. And the rare linebacker that we're going to be talking about way up at the top of this draft. It's fun. I like talking about linebackers. I love talking about 40 plus, all that stuff. The numbers are intoxicating. So is everything

3:24.5

you're bringing us on. Thank you very much. Talk to you shortly, my friend. We have to get

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