Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Okay, thanks, bye! Rahimi, Harris, and Grody. 10 to 2 on 670 The Show. Can we get a little more now, please? Can you get to the... Can you win two playoff games? Can you get to the Super Bowl? Because that Marshall Harris will be the expectation for the Chicago Bears next year. Guaranteed. I am expecting big things from you, young man. Big things! Have you ever played Super Mario Brothers?
Like, the original Super Mario Brothers. The game that came stock with the Nintendo Entertainment System. I played outside. A certain member... We all played outside. No, you didn't. No, most people don't. I have a friend. Now you sound like a boomer. Hey, Dean, you thought you'd bring the kid, huh? Yeah, we couldn't get anyone to watch him.
Chapter 2: What are the expectations for the Chicago Bears next season?
But don't worry, he has an iPad. I'll just sit there with that dumb look on his face. I don't care if I sound like a boomer right now. I have a very close friend of mine's child was just hurt. And he said he got hurt playing a video game. And he's on crutches, still waiting for more details. I'm like, wait, what? Video games are too violent anyway. Video games are violent? There's 32 levels.
Okay. Four chapters in each level. There's eight worlds you go through and there's four stages in each world. You beat the game and it sends you back to the beginning of the game. This is what the bears are doing now. They have beaten the game and they're going back to the beginning. It's a brand new season. It's going to be more difficult.
You got a first place schedule and you understand you got to do it all over again with more difficult conditions. Now we're going to have to start all over.
again fire off a few text messages here in a row the bears didn't beat the game okay the princess is in another castle another video game thing that is specific to super mario brother okay i was out playing wiffle ball and shooting baskets we were all doing that but we also on a rainy day what were you doing mark a little horse what were you doing on a rainy day try to find a gym try to find a gym and see if we could break in there we have breaking news a man named mark wrote has broken into a gym and all we know is that he does not play video games boomer grody
Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 The Score. Rahimi Harrison-Grody on the score. Live from the Odyssey Performance Studio today so we can make way for FM, baby. We're out of our natural habitat. We really are. Shout out to the Butte. Nice job, Tyler Buterbaugh. You are a beaut. You emphasized everything perfectly and correctly.
Now I'm just really glad, not that I wasn't before, that we will be doing, during our Five On It segment, Boomer will come back. I'll even tease it. We're going to give you our best Boomer takes later on in Five On It today, just to keep this old talk cooking. We got a Boomer. Appropriately just, you know, boomeranging back at us. Yeah. Yeah. Booming away. That is exactly what is.
You're going to bring your boom box? This is all just in time for our debut on FM 104.3 FM on Monday. Boomer takes. That's right. That's what the world is waiting for. We're loaded today with Bears talk, and we've got some great guests that we just told you about that we'll continue to tell you about today.
But one thing, too, that I need to update since it was in the open, and I alluded to my friend whose child— We have an explanation? Well, I have the details. And I also can name names. I'm naming names. It's my guy, Dan Levy, and his son, DJ. I've never seen somebody in my life so proud of the fact that his son was hurt. It's all over Instagram. It's everywhere. The son of the voice.
The son of the voice. I am told that he has a fractured foot and an ankle sprain. He scored a touchdown, apparently, with a place kicker, jumped out of his seat, landed funny, out four to six weeks. It's a badge of honor for my guy, Levy. I don't know. Maybe this toughens him up. I'm not sure why, but he seems to be loving the toughness of his child right now.
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Chapter 3: What happened with Ian Cunningham's departure from the Bears?
alternative, he becomes, let's say he's a bust. Let's say Roman Dunzay is a bust. Will you be pissed off at Ryan Poles for having made that pick? Yeah, because ultimately that's his job. Even though we all were like, yay, yay, yay, Roman Dunzay, yay. We're not as informed as Ryan Poles. That's the point. He's got a job to do.
And our job is to criticize when the job does not go well, and our job is to praise when the job does go well. All right, well, I'll tell you what. Let's continue doing his job for him. Let's do that because the defense needs fixing. What's realistic about it? And specifically, let's get into the edge rushers, the ones that are available. Max Crosby. Not Max Crosby.
We can talk about Max Crosby, but let's leave him out of the fray. Or maybe not. We haven't done that yet. We'll see. I'm excited about that. We'll see how it flows. We've got some ideas for the Bears on defense and at edge rusher as well. It's Rahimi Harris and Grody on the score. Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Middays 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 The Score.
Rahimi Harrison-Grody on The Score. Marshall and I are broadcasting from our Odyssey Performance Studio, while the real studio is being fit right now. We're about to get a great fit at The Score. That is an FM signal. It's all going down on Monday as the drama continues to build. Who will be here on Monday? Where will I be today? And what will happen? I don't know.
So we are in the performance studio. It is odd to be in here and not seeing faces in the audience because usually we have events in here. We see bands in here. Some cool acts have come through here. We had an audience for a second in the way of shout-out to Mike Mulligan.
our very own Mully, who has already put his time in today, came into the performance studio to say hi, shook our hands, sat down, and then left. You know what? I appreciated his presence. I did, too. I forgot that there's a bunch of empty chairs until he sat down and I realized there's a bunch of empty chairs. Yeah, I felt supported is what I felt by Mully.
Now it's just us and Ray Diaz and Connor O'Donnell hanging out. Right, so we're getting into the flow here because we're out of our natural habitat. But, but... Bears defense is it is hugely important that there are enough substantial is the right word, but certainly shrewd changes need to be made for the Bears on defense.
And it starts with and it has started with this position for quite some time now.
edge rusher defensive end in this 4-3 defense has has been a bugaboo for the bears and has not been substantial although montez sweat did get to 10 and a half sacks but you just don't feel him as that tyrannical presence at the edge on every play like you do with guys like max crosby who of course is circled who of course we have discussed who of course should be on on the bears radar but
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Ian Cunningham becoming the Falcons GM?
As in... The health. The health. The health. That's a real factor, and you just had, you just signed Dio Dangbo to this big deal, and what happened right away? It just sucks, you know what I mean? Like, you've got to think about that, and that is pretty much, that's truth right there, that if you've had single digits in four of your seven seasons, that is something you have to zero in on.
But I absolutely love the player. I just, like, I would stay on that injury thing and be a little bit skeptical about How about we do another? While you're naming guys, let me raise you a Matt Bowen to a Clay Harbor. Okay. Who was on with us yesterday here on Rahimi Harris and Grody. And he had a couple names for you.
But he was thinking a little bit outside of the box, I would say, on one of the names who maybe you've heard of, maybe you haven't. Here's Clay Harbor. 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. I really like Adafe Owe. And he's big. He's one of those guys that Dennis Allen likes, Marshall Harris.
27 years old, and I know he mentioned about Adafi Owe, and by the way, I don't know if he mentioned, but he was traded from the Ravens to the Chargers last year in the game against New England, to which he referenced. He had three sacks and two forced fumbles, again, in the playoff game, a loss against the New England Patriots. So, yeah, it's like shiny object right there. He is very now.
He is right now. Well, the question is, what have you done for me lately? He's like, well, did you see what I did the last time I was on a football field? Yeah. It reminds me of Jaquan Brisker. We're going to Bears it. It's like, whoa. I don't know how great Brisker's season was, but you leave that on tape in a playoff game, you could probably make some money off of that.
Well, here's the thing about Adafi Owe. It's like a tale of two seasons, really. Because, you know, he played 17 games. As you mentioned, he was traded. In his first five games, he didn't have a sack. And then the 12 games after that, seven and a half sacks is a lot. It's a lot. That's production. And you wonder, when you get a guy like this on the opposite side of Montez Sweat,
How much would that open up Montez Sweat and himself to get well into double-digit sack territory? Because that's part of the issue. Well, and I hate that we have to go to that because we thought that Montez Sweat was going to be the multiplier, that he was going to be the sweat effect, the Montez effect, the Tez effect. Tez effect. I'll get there. That's what we thought.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Jim Harbaugh's coaching decisions?
That really is because who didn't want – I wanted them to take a look at Jim Harbaugh. I would have loved it if Jim Harbaugh came here for multiple reasons. Number one is because he's a terrific head coach. Wow. I mean, Jim Harbaugh probably should be ahead. But maybe it's because he's been hired previously. Like you knew what you were getting with him. Yeah.
Maybe that's the typical not giving enough credit to the incumbent guys like we were talking about with Coach of the Year. Like where Bill Belichick can't get a Coach of the Year award because it wasn't a revelation. I would say Harbaugh would go ahead of Ben Johnson too on the overall. What's interesting about this is Dan Quinn is the next coach at number 10. Yeah.
And I'm like, I think, yeah, I can say Ben Johnson is a better hire just because Ben Johnson maybe had more to clean up. But I am surprised at number 11.
Chapter 6: How do coaching rankings impact perceptions of NFL teams?
I'd rather have Ben Johnson than Dan Quinn. Okay, that's fine. What I'm saying is I think Liam Cohen should be higher on this list. Okay. And where is he? He's number 11. Okay. I think he should be above – And I understand why he's not. He's not above Dan Quinn because Dan Quinn played in the NFC Championship game. Right. But at the same time, 13-4 in year one.
Yeah, let me just fire through a few more of these because there's another name that people will want to hear here. Let me go from 17 on. Brian Dayball, number 17, New York Giants.
Chapter 7: What should the Bulls do before the trade deadline?
Tave Kanellis. Don't go too far down on this because you've got to remember what question number two is on this. Oh, okay, okay. All right, then I'll just stop. Let's get to question number two. I forgot. So I think he is appropriately there. I could slide him down a spot, but not up any spot. Right, yeah. Yep, agree. Number two. Turn your mic on. Wrong button. There it is. There we go.
Chapter 8: How does the Bulls' performance affect their playoff chances?
For question number two, we scroll down Bill Barnwell's list of the head coach rankings of every hire since 2021. In that same piece by Bill Barnwell, former Bears head coach Matt Eberflus came in at number 25. How do we feel about where Matt Eberflus ranks on this list? Mars, you get the first crack at this one, buddy. So I looked at this. 25 felt high just when you say it's 25.
And how many coaching hires have there been since that year? Well, there's been a total of 37. Just to give you a frame of reference, number 37, you probably forgot about this because I did, Urban Meyer with the Jacksonville Jaguars. One of the worst coaching 10 years in the NFL ever. Yeah, and the worst since 2021 because he finished 2-11 and didn't even make it through season number one.
Same thing for number 36, Frank Reich. One season, didn't make it to the end of the first season, 1-10. And so we keep going up, and some of these names are very familiar. I think Matt Eberflus is pretty well-placed. Because he's above guys like Jonathan Gannon, who didn't have any success in Arizona. Jared Mayo, who was one and done in New England.
And Brian Callahan, because, well, when you coach the Titans these days, you know you're not in it for the long haul. Aaron Glenn, which obviously was a disaster for his first year. 3-14 for Aaron Glenn. Talk about two coaches from Detroit going separate.
directions in their first years and directly above him is Dennis Allen at number 23 and Raheem Morris at number 24 Allen of course the defensive coordinator now he was 18 and 25 before getting fired in his third season with the Saints and Raheem Morris is the person directly above him I think I like where this is I think I think Matty Berfuse is also placed correctly at 14 and 32 before seeing the names and you heard how many is it 37 is that what the list goes to here
Yeah. When you first heard Floose is 25 out of 30, I'm like, ooh, sure that's not farther down. But then you look at the name. By the way, there's one other former Bears coach who is on this list. Even though it feels like this man has been gone forever, it just does. It's weird. Lovey Smith shows up with the Houston Texans at number 33. In season one, he was 3-13.
That did not get him off to a particularly good start for Lovey Smith. That's not what the Bears said. They're just happy he got that third win. The Bears are just happy that he got that third win. FOB, friend of the Bears. Number three. This is Five Out, and I'm the score with Mark Grody and Marshall Harris, and we're dusting off an award that we've kept in the closet since baseball season.
Here it is for question number three. Does anyone on the Bulls roster qualify for the Mark Grody He Deserved Better Award following Chicago's 116-113 loss to Miami yesterday? I guess it's the guy that we were talking about a little bit earlier. The one that Marshall Harris is desirous of potentially, if it makes sense, signing and keeping here for as long as possible.
And that would be Ayo Dusumu. Very strong at the end of a game where the Bulls in general were strong because they had to be strong because they sucked for a lot of the game. Down like between 7 and 10 points for the majority overall.
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