Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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It's just sports. Okay, thanks, bye. Rahimi, Harris, and Grody. 10 to 2 on 670 The Truth. Caleb Williams is the best quarterback this franchise has ever had. And it says two things. One, it says that Caleb Williams is starting to live up to his draft position. The other thing it says is the bar is kind of low when you look at the history of quarterbacks for the Bears. That is...
Talk about setting the bar low. It's all happening really fast. You're putting that ring on very quickly. So I am just expressing a little bit of angst, a little bit of discomfort with your decision to cohabitate already. Like, it's just, you're two weeks into the relationship.
And you're already moving in. Now you're on one knee at the Bulls game. I mean, think about it. You move in. You start fighting over stupid game rooms. Next thing you know, you break up. Ross, you were right before. It was just a stupid fight about a room. Okay, there are no stupid fights.
Bob's been waiting. Can we stop with the boomer and onk takes of the 85 Bears?
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Chapter 2: How does Caleb Williams compare to past Bears quarterbacks?
You're such a boomer. You obviously didn't watch Jim McMahon. You're assuming Jim McMahon couldn't keep up with the speed of players today. I guess that's what you're doing, even though you haven't ever seen the guy play, and I'm guessing you probably haven't even watched Highlights. Is it wrong? Okay. Danny P joining us right now. The statement's very simple, Danny.
Caleb Williams is the best quarterback the Bears have ever had. I'm not necessarily saying Marshall is wrong, but where do you stand on Marshall's definitive statement? He's obviously objectively correct. Well, I am always right, but I forgive you. Jim McMahon, he has a Super Bowl and Caleb Williams doesn't. But is that the only art? Because he obviously is not more talented than Caleb Williams.
Modern era football as we understand it, Caleb Williams is clearly the most talented player the Bears have ever had to play the position.
I mean, I don't even know how I'm supposed to respond to that. That's a false equivalency. Just answer the question, Mr. Reynolds. Sure. I rest my case.
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to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 The Score. Rahimi, Harris, and Grody on The Score. It is for today, though, and tomorrow, I suppose, and Monday. Boomer and Unk, it is. Boomer and Unk on the score. Does this country have, I would almost predict it does, that there is something somewhere in this country called Boomer and Unk.
Listen, I think you just made up a new tag with the Boomer and Unk turning Boomer into an adjective. I don't think I've ever heard that before.
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Chapter 3: What are the Bears' expectations for the upcoming season?
And to put the Boomer in front of Unk? I feel like the caller, by the way, yesterday, he learned the word unk like the day before. And he's like, I'm going to put it right to use. I'm doing it. And that's all good. Like, I am not. I did not walk out of here angry at Bob. You're a little unk also. No. We had it out on the air. But it's all good, man. I invite him to call back again.
Obviously, I didn't appreciate the way the call was started. When you come out on the attack, let me just get off a quick little insult. Let me boomer this guy. What's wrong with being a boomer? A boomer. Well, it's insulting to the folks that are, there's nothing wrong with being a boomer. By the numbers, if you're a boomer, you have more money than the rest of us.
That's true, and the world still kind of plays to you.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, absolutely. They've got the numbers. You vote. That's what I'm saying, is the folks that are actually boomers, it's an insult to the actual boomers to hear other generations, like our generation, I assume you're Generation X as well? I'm an Xenial. We've been over this.
Oh, okay.
I'm younger than you. Don't try to put me in your boomer category. No one's ever called me a boomer and lived to tell the tale as an honest person. Well, right. That's why I had to give the pushback. Like, don't just generalize me. Don't insult the boomers. Don't try to insult Gen X. We exist, man. And you're, what are you? What is your generation? I am an Xenial.
I'm a cross between the Generation X and the Millennials. Xenial.
Here's why.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Bears' potential stadium move?
I allowed it to be real. Fluid. Always with the Bears. Always with Caleb Williams. What I saw early in the season is not what I saw late in the season. This is a great text right here. And we want you guys in on this, by the way. You are invited. You are welcome. Let's officially open the phone lines here if you want to talk Bears. And are you satisfied with the Bears' season?
And do you think that there is, for once... legitimacy with what the Bears are doing, please come join us. 312-644-6767 Rahimi Harris and Grody. But I do want to read this top text from the 312. The Bears spent the first half of the season learning how to win. Most of them had never done so here. By the end of the year, they damn near mastered winning. That's really well put.
I didn't necessarily put it as they were learning how to win. For me, some of that was just lucky. The Bears got away with too much other bad stuff within games, whether it was teams running against them or the penalties that they were racking up early in the season. There was a luck factor, and maybe—I'm listening—
To the texter, maybe there was learning, but I really love the part where he says they near mastered winning by the end of the season in a real way. It's got to be real, Marshall. Let me counter you on that. I don't think as much luck, quote-unquote, was involved as you are implying. I think bad teams find a way to lose. Look at the year before. Good teams find a way to win.
That's what made the Bears good this season is they found ways to win before they were as juggernaut-ish as they were, say, on Black Friday, right? Before they had the late-game antics that happened against the Packers, all three times, by the way. They found ways to win, and that is part of this process is... Any given Sunday, man. Any given Sunday, any given Monday, any given Thursday.
You look at what the Bears – any given Friday. You look at what the Bears put – any given Saturday. You look at what the Bears put together on different days of the week as the season went on, and you understood that that is a team fully capable of beating anybody in the NFL. But just to jump in on that, there were some things that even when winning –
that would not have equaled wins in the postseason. They would not have won a game, I don't believe, in the postseason if they had continued to give up 200 yards rushing to teams, if they continued to have double-digit penalties, if they continued to drop footballs, which I guess they did continue to do. Yeah, they kept dropping footballs.
That never stopped, by the way.
There were some things that had to be fixed where I think it was completely fair of me to be like, huh, really? That's fun. That's a fun win. That was great. You're right.
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Chapter 5: Why are the Bears passing on Khalil Mack?
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.
Chapter 6: Who are the key players discussed for the Bears' offseason?
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. 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. He was in a 3-4 defense, but this guy can play some defensive ends of edge rusher. He got traded from the Ravens to the Chargers.
In the playoff loss to the Patriots, he had three sacks and two forced fumbles. And you look in the year, he was 11th among edge rushers in pass rush win rate. After arriving in Los Angeles, this guy can move. He can play against the run. He can pressure the quarterback.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of trading DJ Moore?
I really like Adafe Owe. And he's big. 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 SpotRack, 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.
Chapter 8: How does the Bears' roster impact their 2026 season expectations?
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 watched his tape. I mean, he was okay. Owey stuck out to me when I looked at both those guys. I want 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. Number two.
Should the Cubs make a push to trade for repeat American League Cy Young ace Tarek Skubal?
Skubal would be a one-year rental. What would the haul have to be in order for Jed Hoyer and company to get the deal done if you are on board with it?
Does the Pope wear a funny hat? I believe he does. I believe the Cubs should go ahead and punch that. What would it look like to get Tarek Skubal in this rotation? I think if you can get this done, this puts them at the top of the list of challengers to the Dodgers in the National League. I think right now they're in a pool of teams who are challengers to the Dodgers.
But if you get Skubal pitching twice in a seven-game series... maybe even three times depending on how it works out, you feel real good about where the Cubs are. And some of the young pitching that might have to go out to get them, I'm good with that. Because get Tarek Skubal on your roster. Get Tarek Skubal a shot to get you not only into the playoffs, but to pitch you through the playoffs.
What do you envision the Hall being, though? What are you willing? Where do you limit? There's got to be somebody on the big league roster. Hi, Matt Shaw. Bye, Matt Shaw. Of course. Look, man, think about it. From Detroit's perspective, why in the world would Detroit not ask for the world? They're not going to be like, oh, yeah, we'll take your bottom feet, your unproved prospects.
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