GMFB Wednesday Hour 1: Philip Rivers IS BACK, and Panthers Chasing Bucs!
NFL: Good Morning Football
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te’o, and Mike Garafofo reacting to Philip Rivers officially rejoining the Indianapolis Colts roster after 5-years away. WHITEBOARD WEDNESDAY - THE TEAM IN THE ‘LURKING’ COLUMN THAT *YOU WANT TO BE* THE ‘COME RUNNING TEAM’ IS ___THE CELEBRATION YOU WANT TO SEE MAKE A RETURN IS _____
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Good Morning Football is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper. |
| 0:13.4 | That's right, GMFB, everybody on a Wednesday. |
| 0:16.3 | Lock in, Manty, Mike, G. Kyle, and myself will have a couple of other friends stop by this hour. |
| 0:21.9 | I specifically love the fashion choices of the gentleman in New York because nothing screams talking about Philip Rivers and the resurgence. |
| 0:29.6 | Then a great button down with the short sleeve, Mike G. |
| 0:32.5 | And then the classic dad button down with the seasonal cross check. |
| 0:37.3 | Everybody just looks fantastic. Just eat the bolo tie. That's true. That's true. Yeah, I don't know. One should have gone. Maybe for Friday. Maybe for Friday. If he starts, we'll get the bolo ties all around. Let's get more information on this situation that's unfolding that we're all kind of falling over ourselves about. With Tom Pellasero, NFL Network Insider, joining us this morning on a Wednesday. Tom, I would love to say say it ain't so, but I kind of want you to say it is so. What's happening in Indianapolis with Philip Rivers? Jamie, it's a great day when a 44-year-old man gets to say a 44-year-old man is coming back to play in the NFL. |
| 1:12.7 | Phil Rivers, this is real. He is signing with the Colts practice squad and is expected to be on the |
| 1:19.8 | practice field today. This follows the Sunday injury to quarterback Daniel Jones, who suffered |
| 1:25.6 | a season ending toward Achilles after playing in recent weeks with a fracture in the fibula on his other leg. |
| 1:32.7 | The Colts examined multiple options here, but there is a longstanding relationship between Coach Shane Steichen and Philip Rivers, who played under a previous coaching staff with the Colts back in 2020. |
| 1:45.3 | Stiking Coach Rivers in San Diego with the Chargers. |
| 1:48.8 | The two have kept in touch. |
| 1:50.5 | Rivers knows the offense. |
| 1:51.8 | So even though he has not played a NFL game in nearly five years, Rivers from a mental perspective should be able to ramp up pretty quickly. |
| 2:01.7 | Now, physically, there are plenty of questions remaining about Philip Rivers. |
| 2:05.3 | My understanding is in that workout that he had on Monday night, River's arm looked basically |
| 2:10.5 | like it always has. |
| 2:11.7 | He's throwing it well, but there's a lot of other things that go into the overall body and |
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