Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
5 On It: How would you feel about a Khalil Mack-Bears reunion?
29 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the latest Five On It segment?
It's time for five on. Naylor Rahimi and Marshall Harris with Mark Grote. Bringing you five topics on their mind today. On Chicago Sports Radio 670 The Score.
I got five more minutes.
Number one.
This is a special edition of Five On It with Mark Grody, Marshall Harris, and joining us in the house, co-host of the big pro football show on CHSN, Clay Harbor. Here's question number one. This week, CBS Sports published its list of top 50 2026 free agents and potential landing spots for them. Number 40 on the list, veteran pass rusher, a name you're all familiar with, Khalil Mack.
At the top of CBS's list of potential suitors for Mac, the Bears. How would you feel about the idea of a Bears and Khalil Mac reunion?
First of all, I think that we discussed a potential Khalil Mac reunion last year. Or was it two years ago?
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about a Khalil Mack reunion with the Bears?
I think it was our guy. Chris Emma, wasn't it? It was, yeah. The reuniting with the Bears that came up, but he ended up with the Chargers. I don't like it. I don't need it. Khalil Mack is 34, played in 12 games for the Chargers last year, had five and a half sacks. I guess the problem with it is, for me, a couple of things.
The Bears have guys that they could probably get to five and a half sacks on the season. So I don't know. That just multiplies the amount of guys that you will have struggling with to get to double-digit sacks, I feel like. I love Khalil Mack. I covered Khalil Mack in 2018. It was a blast of a year. And I don't know if this is in the spirit of the question or not.
Khalil Mack didn't seem to really like... the Chicago-ness of it all, and I mean being in that fishbowl, dealing with the media. He was never mean to us in any way, shape, or form, but he did like to elude us. He did not like to talk. He always had this look like, my God, why do 30 people want to gather around my locker and talk to me right now?
I don't think Khalil Mack at this point in his life is built for Chicago. So no thanks on Khalil Mack.
I'm with my fellow Missouri Valley Conference brother, Mark Brody, from Illinois State. I'm Missouri State. MVC, baby. Love you, man. But I'm going to pass on Cleo Mack. I think he had an okay year. He's still got a little bit of gas left in the tank. I mean, he's getting close to running on E. If you ever get in a car with Marshall, he's always close to running on E. Classic. But...
Two guys I do like. I know there's been a lot of him thrown around here. Trey Hendrickson, obviously the history with Dennis Allen. You go back two years, leading the league in sacks, fourth in pressures, fourth in hits. You go back to last year, only played in seven games, but a top five pass rush win rate when he did play in those games. If the medicals, check out. Bring me him.
And then the other guy, I just watched tape on him yesterday, Adafi Owe. I was looking up edge rushers. After arriving in Los Angeles, this guy can move. He can play against the run. He can pressure the quarterback. I really like Adafe Owe. And he's big.
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Chapter 3: What are the potential concerns regarding Khalil Mack's performance?
He's one of those guys that Dennis Allen likes, Marshall Harris.
Listen, man. My answer to your question is a question. At what price? At what cost? This man made $18 million last year. And I just feel like if you've seen the Bears cap table, if you've been to spot rack, you're like, how much are they going to pay a guy who is definitely on the downside of his career? This is an ascending team.
Unfortunately, even though he's only a year removed from a Pro Bowl trip, he is a descending player. He will be 35 next year. And in the NFL, it's impressive that he's around this long. This guy is probably a future Hall of Famer. But guess what? The Bears don't need him. They need to find other options. I don't think this is the right situation for him to be in. Yes, do they need pass rush?
Absolutely. They need young pass rush that will get better and grow alongside Caleb Williams is my answer to this. If he was 29, okay, you got me.
But he's not. Unfortunately, the problem with the field and good creative thinking on Clay's part, like you look at the list of some of the guys that would be available, there's a Bosa available. There's always a Bosa available. There's Joey of the Bosas. Jalen Phillips.
Jalen Phillips.
Yeah.
Watched his tape. Yeah. I mean, he was okay. Owey stuck out to me. Okay. When I looked at both those guys, I wanted to see which one I'd like more.
Right. Okay, that is interesting because I do like Phillips. Hasan Reddick, 13 games, two and a half sacks last year for Tampa Bay. Yeah, I just don't get crazy excited about these guys, and I think we're all a no on Mack.
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Chapter 4: What are the Bears' options for improving their pass rush?
I don't know about Kate Horton going for a one-year guy. I'm a little nervous about that. Bregman stays, obviously. PCA stays. The rest, though, man, I guess I've got to look at the starting pitchers, too. Is there anybody else beyond Horton?
Well, you mentioned Wiggins. That's one. I guess, yeah. There's other guys, but who's stopping you from making the deal is your question.
Most of the roster would not stop me from making a deal like that.
Number three. This is five out on the score with Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, and CHSN analyst Clay Harbor. Here's question number three. What was the most disappointing aspect of the Bulls' 113-110 loss to the Pacers last night?
Oh, my God. To just choose one in a game in which they blew a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter, it is painful for me to have to narrow it down. But I think maybe if I have to, you know, blowing the lead is something in itself.
But the fact that they had two chances at the very end of the game to win the game on an inbounds pass to Matas Bozelis, where they were going for the alley-oop at the end, it was no good. Kobe White then drives down the lane and misses. That was very disappointing for me. And damn it! Nikola Vucevic made a 31-foot three-pointer last night, and he's got nothing to show for it today.
That's what disappointed me in the Bulls game last night.
All right, for me it has to be this is your third time losing to this team with 12 wins. Okay, you can lose once to a bad team, maybe twice to get like three times. What's happening here? And now you've got three games coming up with the Heat who are in eighth. You're in tenth in the standings. So these are three big games. You want to come in with some momentum.
The last thing was when I'm watching this game, Ayo's cooking. Io's cooking. He's doing great. Why you take Io out? He needs a breather here and there, but keep him in. You go on to be outscored 26-9 over the final seven and a half minutes of the game. Can't happen, especially against a bad team.
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Chapter 5: Should the Cubs trade for Tarek Skubal this season?
For an hour? I think it was like three hours is what they said it was.
What's $20 million to Michael Jordan who's worth billions? It's worth something, apparently.
It's worth him taking time out to answer some questions. He can get farther away from the world the more money he makes. His whole goal is to never be seen but be seen at the same time.
I know, but you're just pulling in so much money. It's irrelevant. That money to him is irrelevant. But anyways, to just get back to answering the question here, how many Caitlyn Clark appearances will be seen before we get another installment of MJ's NBC feature, right? I'm going to go, we're probably going to see her like four or five times before we see MJ.
I mean, we're going to see a lot of Kaitlyn Clark. MJ, he's on his own time. He ain't doing nothing he don't want to do. I think Kaitlyn Clark's willing. She's eager to get out there and to do this, and she'll be available, and she's a big draw, a big ticket, big time recognizable face. So I think we'll see a lot of her before we see and hear from MJ.
Since she's not playing in the one league and there's a WNBA work stoppage right now, she ain't got nowhere else to be. So I would say eight. I think they're holding some MJ for the end of the regular season. Well, actually, end of the regular season is sooner than that. So I'm going to go five.
There was a report that there would be more tapings of Michael Jordan. I don't know how much more. There was no clear indication of how much more. But there was something that came out within the past couple of months.
Okay. Always trying to get a little more out of Michael Jordan. It's just so hard. It's so hard to get anything out of Michael Jordan.
You sound like David Hall right now.
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