Leila Rahimi

Bears need to do it more consistently.

They need to start hotter.

But if they can do it how they played at the end of games for the full length of the games and they're so young.

So there's a lot of teams that are vying for that title.

But I do think given the coach, the quarterback, and the age and the continuity up front, I do think it's in play.

Yeah, thanks for being flexible with the time for me today.

I appreciate it.

And I'm on vacation next week, but we'll pick it back up in March, including I'll tease a little announcement for the score listeners in March.

Kevin Fishbane is a regular guest here on Rahimi Harris and Grody.

And we love talking to him in the offseason, too.

And he joins us now via our Circa Resort and Casino hotline, CircaLasVegas.com.

He is one of the senior writers at The Athletic covering the Bears.

He also has a great podcast, Breaking In with Kevin Fishbane, a sports media podcast.

And he joins us via Twitch, twitch.tv slash TheScoreChicago.

Hey, Kevin, how are you?

Happy offseason, except unfortunately in the very well-written and illustrated story that you posted with The Athletic last week, talking about the very realistic issues with the Bears' salary cap problems.

It was a nice table that was also illustrated to and showed whether it was money owed or dead cap money or how they would count against the cap.

What were your takeaways from just the research you put together when you wrote that story?

I guess, Kevin, if your choices as the general manager of the Bears are either let your guy at right tackle Darnell Wright reset the market or franchise tag if that comes up, not obviously a this year problem, then you probably would rather a franchise tag, for example, but...

When those are your options, they're both very expensive discussions that you would have to have.