Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Anthony Herron talks Super Bowl, whether Bears should pursue Maxx Crosby (Hour 2)
09 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What insights did Anthony Herron share about Super Bowl 60?
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Anthony Heron, our football analyst, also for Fox 32, Big Ten Network, and he broadcasts with us on the Circus Sports Illinois hotline. Download the Circus Sports app today and is also on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. Hey, Big Ant. What's up, my good people? Yeah, man, we had the Super Bowl last night, had all the festivities, the festivus that was Super Bowl 60, so that was fun.
We hadn't actually hosted at our spot. This is the second Super Bowl that we've been in the burbs now. But last night was actually the first time we actually hosted people over at the house. And my wife is a huge Patriots fan and things weren't going well.
But then I had to leave before the end of the game to go into the city because I had some NBC5 duties last night with Luke Kanellis after the game and after the Olympics coverage. And then we were part of the newscast there at the end of the night. So I wasn't there to sort of see the tail end of it, just where Patriots fans –
Even though, as I've said to her and to my in-laws, they've been very spoiled this entire century. But at a certain point, that reality sets in on the direction the game is not taking for their squad. I wasn't able to be there at the true end of the game to give her the warm embrace of what that defeat for the Patriots must have felt like. Wait, you had people over, you say.
We're trying to figure out if Grody was at a party or a gathering. So how many people did you have over and what would you call it? Oh, okay.
So I don't think it's accurate to only base it on the amount of people there for whether or not you would call it a party, because we also did order a bunch of food, too, and we all gathered within our fairly decent-sized theater space we have in our basement and had to get some things corrected on Friday to make sure that was going to be as pristine as we wanted it to.
So I think in the end, between family and friends, I have to look at the pictures, probably... Probably 12 people. Yeah, that's a party. I mean, family and friends. Yeah, that's a party. As opposed to what? When you say that? Gathering. Enemies. Three of your favorite enemies. I'm just going to say it. I'm going to make it real simple. I think a gathering is fewer than, less than 10 people.
Less than 10 people. Yeah, and you know them pretty well. What if some of those people are kids? Do you need like three kids to count for a full adult? Two and a half counts as a full adult. Kids being at a party is a game changer because they have to be accounted for, right? At all times. Yeah, at all times. Depending on the age, yeah.
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Chapter 3: How did the Seahawks perform against the Patriots in the Super Bowl?
Oh, yeah, it was Bosh. It was Bosh. unrecognizable had no idea who i'm like is that jimmy johnson have they used like cgi to make jimmy johnson look younger had no clue it was amazing right first yeah uh and this game was bad i'm just gonna throw it out here no no because look he might think differently you play defense no no no i'm gonna i'm gonna give it to you like this i like a defensive play
I like a strong defensive performance, but I can also recognize when offense is bad. Is it fair to say the Patriots' offense was bad in this game? Yes. Thank you. I would agree with that. And they... Throughout the postseason, they've obviously been bad. Now, great defenses will make you look bad, but the Patriots offense has not consistently been a consistent world beater this year either.
There was some boom or bust element to the Patriots offense during the regular season also. Now, Drake May's accuracy, his completion percentage being as consistently excellent as it was, was a huge part of what kept the chains moving for them defensively. But in the postseason, that hadn't been the case. As the competition has ramped up, that hasn't shown up.
And we certainly saw that play out a decent bit with the Bears throughout much of the regular season. But the Bears, sort of regardless of opponent, regardless of defense, they had that surge, that finishing kick.
that they could establish, and the Pats throughout the postseason haven't necessarily needed that because their defense has performed so well, but neither quarterback really had a strong game.
Sam Darnold between the two of them, and to his credit, because I think I was speaking to you guys about this maybe a little bit last week, you even go back to college where I called a bunch of Sam Darnold's games in college. The reason he was the number three pick?
instead of the number one overall pick in that draft cycle, was not because of the ceiling not being immense by comparison to his counterparts. It was that he was a turnover machine his entire time at USC and has been that throughout his NFL career also. It was even that... This season led the NFL in turnovers, but this playoff run, he's protected the football at a much higher level.
He was the guy who didn't take sacks and didn't turn it over in the Super Bowl. Drake May took sacks and turned it over multiple times. And that was really the main deciding factor when comparing one QB with the other. Was it just the – I guess this is way too narrow, but how much was the Seattle defense responsible for Drake May being bad for the most part in this game?
He was uncomfortable both physically and mentally throughout the entire game. And those are really the two ways that you pressure a quarterback. You either pressure them physically by putting that pass rush pressure –
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Chapter 4: What concerns does Anthony have regarding the Bears acquiring Maxx Crosby?
He can support the run with physicality also because he's willing to do that. And I was just waiting for – I described the other day that I feel like Drake May is kind of the –
what Josh McDaniels hoped Tim Tebow would be for him, not only in his day-in, day-out attitude, demeanor, maturity, but the sort of multidimensional ability he could bring to the table because we know he can be remarkably accurate with the deep ball, and he's also an exceptional athlete as a quarterback.
This should have been a double-digit carry game for Drake May because you had to know going in. You've seen the film. You know what this Seahawks defense presents. And you know what you lack on offense.
And Drake Mays' legs, they should have gone into this game with the game plan that the running ability of their quarterback would be a bigger part of how they try to gain some advantage on one of the top defenses in football. I was really shocked that they didn't go in with that as a focal point. You know, 10, 12 carries, maybe not 20-plus carries.
If you asked Drake May to give you 20 carries, I'm pretty confident he'd give it to you, but at least 10, 12 carries, and then just depending on how many snaps of offense they run throughout the game.
That, to me, could have been a separating factor, but it ended up being a situation where he's standing in the pocket, and they could just bring a very similar blitz with Devin Witherspoon over and over and over again, and even when it didn't completely get home, you could tell it was just speeding up the timing mechanism of
of that Patriots passing attack, heating up the pocket in that way, that was part of the mental pressure that was there. So it was masterful for Michael McDonnell to do that and to continue to throw it at them because they showed that they just didn't have an answer for it.
Ant, when we look at this game and the way it went down, and really the way this entire season went down, I feel good knowing that the best team in the NFL, at least through my eyes, won the Super Bowl. That's not always the case.
And I also feel a little scared because I feel like because they're not in this Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson formula where you're paying the quarterback so much money... and they got that defense, they could come back and make another run and be successful doing what they just did. Not paying the quarterback all this money yet.
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Chapter 5: What role did Drake May play in the Super Bowl performance?
From a Bears perspective, Do they have the capital available? Do they have the not only cap space but personnel available? Just almost similar to a Bulls conversation here. Oh, no. What do they have to go get Giannis? Is it available to them? What do the Bears have to go get Max Crosby? They do have the second round picks mean more in the NFL, just to point that out for you there.
John Greenberg doesn't understand that, though, by the way. But the issue is what they've already invested into the defensive front. That's a huge factor within this because you've gone really big into Montez Sweat. You've gone fairly heavy into Grady Jarrett, into Dio Dangbo. You've got a position group, and you –
Yeah, you should continue to put draft capital into it as well because that's a continued investment. But they have also done that pretty consistently also. They just haven't had any of these draft picks hit at a really high level.
So that to me is my concern is how much of your cap space by percentage can you continue to invest in the defensive front to go get someone like Max Crosby who will come in here and will he be looking for a new deal? Maybe not a new deal, but he is going to be a guy who comes in and the
The amount of financial wherewithal that you would now have invested into the D-line, to me, seems like it negates that potential. Whether you're talking Max Crosby or even when Miles Garrett was demanding a trade, there are certain names that have a dollar value that, to me, is likely beyond where the Bears can go with their current D-line situations. Yeah, I mean, you're probably right.
And yeah, he's like 28 years old as Max Crosby. He's like, that's what, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven years. There's like, okay, that's it. Now I got to get out of here. Because he did put up with it. Yes. For a while. A lot of foolish. He really did. And then he got sober. See what sobriety does, folks?
You get sober and you're like, oh, my God, there's so many things that could be so much better. Clarity of thought. That's right. That's right. Exactly. You can be better. And I think that that's part of what's good. Am I missing something? Like, I don't. I don't know. I'd be excited for Max Crosby to show up here and be a member of the Bears.
You're not willing to do the accounting is what it sounds like. It's really tough. I mean, it seemed inconceivable when Khalil Mack came here as well. So anything is possible. But you're right. You'd have to make some pretty tough decisions, Anthony.
They didn't already have one of the highest paid defensive linemen in the league on their roster in that meeting room when they went and got Khalil Mack. That's the difference. They already have Montez Sweat as one of the highest paid defensive linemen in the sport. Dio Dangbo isn't too – like he's off that pace, but he's also a really highly compensated defensive lineman they have in here.
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Chapter 6: How did the Seahawks defense impact the Patriots' offense?
Ant, thanks for joining us. This has been a lot of fun this football season. Yeah, no doubt. Appreciate y'all. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks so much, Ant. That's Anthony Heron. You can hear him with us on 670 The Score often, and he's out and about in the football streets doing a lot of work. You never know what TV station he's going to pop up on either. Yeah. Wait, what did I do?
Everybody wants him. He's a hot commodity. He knows it, too. He's like, yeah, you're darn right I was on with Lou Kanellis last night. He's like, wherever the action is, that's where you can find me. I mean, rather than speaking for him, we could have just had him answer the question. No, I think he did. He talked about the fact that he went and visited Lou after the show.
Yeah, he's been on a couple times. Coming up next here on Rahimi Harris and Grody, we want to devote halftime to talking about halftime. A novel concept, but I think we should try it for once. I'm all for it. I'm pro. Super Bowl halftime thoughts next. What time is it? It's halftime. That it is. It is halftime here in Rahimi Harris and Grody.
We spent our first hour talking about some of the observations and lessons that we saw after watching the Super Bowl, the superb Owl 60. And thank you to the 815 texter who agrees with me that Josh McDaniel is the assistant of the year because he's Josh McDaniels. Did Drake make no favors? I agree with you. In the meantime, we also talked to Ed Herron about what he observed in the Super Bowl.
And ask the question we want to ask you in our next hour. Since Caleb Williams and Drake May are always compared because they were drafted at the same time. If Caleb Williams would have done a better job. And I say yes. It's nap time. So we thought we'd talk about the Super Bowl halftime show during halftime. A novel concept. It's a new thing. I don't know that we should ever try it again.
It's a newer type of thing? But visually, it was absolutely stunning. I didn't know, I don't know, 80% of the lyrics in Bad Buddy's performance last night, but I knew enough to get by, and I thought visually it was one of the best halftime shows I'd ever seen. Music that makes you move. That's how I would classify what Bad Bunny did in that show.
I enjoyed it, and I also know a little Spanish, so I just went with it. Honestly, what I was thinking throughout it, I was thinking, how does Bad Bunny... They must have rehearsed the hell out of this thing. It looked very difficult from a... Just choreography standing. Oh, my God. I was impressed that he knew where to be at all times because he had a lot of different parts. And he is an actor.
I mean, he's hosted Saturday Night Live, and he does have those kind of ambitions. But I was sort of like the overall breadth of the talent and the performance. That was what I didn't really know about Bad Bunny. Well, and what's funny is I think the ball that he had, the football that said, you know, that promoted America being all of us. We are all together. We are all America.
This is from Benjamin Solak. Per NextGenStats, Bad Bunny traveled 124.4 yards with the football. The most by any halftime performer and the most by any player over the NGS era. But it was from every song had a vignette. And the medley of your greatest hits during a halftime show at the Super Bowl is not new.
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Chapter 7: What unique strategies did the Seahawks use in the Super Bowl?
If you're the best man, of course, there's a lot that goes into that. But if you're a groomsman, you get to be one of the stars of the show, but you don't really do anything. It's great. There was a time where decorating the church was sprung on me the day before. They're like, oh, great, you're here. You can decorate the church. And I'm like...
I have to work like nobody told me I needed to do this today. That's crazy. So, yeah, I think grass in the wedding would be a better call at times. We do what we can for our friends. But I thought it was pretty cool. One of my buddies texted me and said, did you notice that he gave J.J. Barea a shout-out, Puerto Rican basketball player? I did not notice that.
Yeah, my buddy Hector, who we asked about whether or not Pitbull was at the game in San Antonio, and he said when he was in the telephone booth, he said something along the lines of, Barea, who became a champion before LeBron. I was like, amazing. Who's next year? Taylor Swift? Who's taking the stage? Is it time? Has Swift done it? She's not done it, has she? She's not, famously.
Swift, what about, has Cardi B done it? What about Cardi B? Cardi was in the show. Cardi was dancing as part of the show. She's in my head. So what about Pedro Pascal? First of all, Ricky Martin. Who I first learned to be Enrique Martin. Lady Gaga was fantastic. She was. Jessica Alba was in the show. Yeah, that's what I was saying earlier. It was like Jessica Alba.
There were a ton of people who were leaving out, I feel like. I'm just glad they didn't. Did they put Jon Bon Jovi? Because there was way too much Bon Jovi throughout all of that. Jon Bon Jovi from New Jersey, who's a noted Giants fan and had a Philadelphia XFL team. Why is he announcing the Patriots? So he is a Giants fan? It's been said that he was a Giants fan.
Okay, then what was he doing there? He also had a Philadelphia XFL team. Why, why, why? And I get it. There's a certain segment of the population, I would say middle-aged women, that love them some Jon Bon Jovi. So maybe that's what it is. He needed the Rob Lowe NFL hat on. That's what he needed. Remember that? Oh, yeah. I heard him talking about that on the pregame show, actually.
But, yeah, it was an incredible performance. It was visually one of the best I had seen. It reminded me of the weekend's performance where he had a little bit of that, you know, the wandering through the hallway. Yeah, I thought that was a little too much. I didn't really get the weekend's. Maybe it's my bias against the weekend. His was a bit of performance art, but I enjoyed it.
I'm sorry if people didn't, I don't really know what to say. I don't see many people pushing back, do we? Well, not in our office. But yeah, I thought it turned out to be one of the visually most entertaining performances I had seen in a long time. So, kudos to a wonderful vignette and series of vignettes that were performed by Bad Bunny. He is one Bad Bunny, I tell ya. Benito, nicely done.
Coming up next on Rahimi Harris and Grody, it's time for five on it, and we have a new edition question. We did a little bit of a remix for you. It involves somebody who gets everybody going. We'll do that next.
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