Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody, 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score.
According to Tom Pelissero, it is happening. He reported about two minutes ago that the Bears are citing Kobe Bryant, that per sources.
But are you a different animal and the same beast?
You're welcome. So the Bears have a Kobe White. Who's he? Who's who? Well, I just want to let you know they don't have a Kobe White. They have a Kobe Bryant, but I've already done it once today. So we're going to do it.
We miss you, Kobe White. I don't care what anybody says. You've clinched the ninth seed at home court advantage in that playoff game. What does that mean for you guys tomorrow? Sorry, my boy, D-Booty. D-Booty. His grandma used to call him D-Booty.
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Chapter 2: Who is Kobe Bryant and why is he significant to the Bears?
773 at our text line. Wanted to correct you. In all caps, they put Colby White. You didn't get it right either.
You didn't get it right. That's like Emma correcting us. It's a pillow. For the first year that Kobe White was here with the Bulls, had to keep from calling him Kobe Bryant, which I know is like a huge insult to Kobe Bryant because Kobe White is no... And now I'm going to have to be careful here with Kobe Bryant and not call him Kobe White.
Give me like 10 more of those, like two weeks worth of it, and then I'll stop. Caleb Daniels. Oh, yeah, of course. That's the helmet. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Who is Caleb Daniels? That's what I'm trying to find out. Who is Caleb Daniels? Yeah. I don't know what the f*** his first name is. What's his name? What's the quarterback for the Bears?
My question is this. With him specifically, Kobe White. What impact do you think he'll have? Brian. Oh, Brian. My bad.
Did I really just do that? You did. I've done it 10 times already. Yes.
I'm sorry. We used to have a basketball player. His name is Kobe White. He just got traded. It's fresh on my mind.
Whatever you say. Stove.
It's Steve.
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Chapter 3: What are the Bears' priorities in free agency?
The Raiders, as I mentioned, $82.287 million of cap space. Commanders have 79.8. Here's where it gets interesting. You've got a playoff team like the Chargers who have 66.8.
I'm glad they play in the AFC. How about that?
That's it. There are some teams, savvily, who have cap space. Like the Patriots go to the Super Bowl. They lose. They trade Garrett Bradbury, as we know here. But the Patriots have $37.1 million of cap space. That's what you want to do. That's the ideal. You're on a rookie quarterback contract in Drake May. You get to the Super Bowl.
Not ideal because you lose, but you've still got enough money to hopefully address what you need. Like, for example, they trade their center to the Bears because they're able to plug and play a center who they drafted, who they think has had enough experience. That is my goal. I don't think the Bears are there yet.
There's still too many gaps that they have to fill in, as you and I, Marshall, have discussed.
I think looking at what you just said, that model of, especially when a quarterback's on his rookie contract, I know that time is winding down, right? You've got a couple more years of that with the option year. I want to see the Bears on defense badly. whether we're talking about safety, whether we're talking about defensive line tackle, and maybe they're doing it with Shamar Turner.
There's guys that they have now, but I want to make sure this draft coming up, they get defensive guys, even if they're not ready to be studs on day one. Two years from now, you should be able to say, we're very comfortable letting you go get your money elsewhere because we've got a guy still on his rookie contract who can contribute for us.
This is probably a separate conversation for another day closer to the draft. But there are people who say, well, third round picks don't matter. And I'll show you that they absolutely do if you know how to build a team. There are people who say, well, third and the rest.
Okay, that's why we worry about, for example, spending important fourth round draft capital when you only have single digit amount of draft picks on a punter. That's where it does matter. Or for example, look at how Seattle drafted. Don't forget that Jackson Smith and Jigbo is available at 20th overall.
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Chapter 4: How do the Bears address their defensive needs?
Everybody can do everything. It'd be a little bit more like the Eagles with Vic Fangio where they had Reed Blankenship and then they had, you know, at times it was Johnson Gardner Johnson, then it was Andrew Makuba. But it was, hey, like, you know, Reed is the player we prefer to have deep. The other guy we prefer to have close to the line of scrimmage.
We can switch it up on you just to get the drop on you, but it's not going to be what we live with. So if they return Bayard, which is my expectation, then you're going to see Bayard spend the majority of his time as the deepest safety, and Kobe spend the majority of his time near the box. Now, Kobe has cornerback experience. When he played at the University of Cincinnati, he was a corner.
For his first couple years in Seattle, before he broke through in Mike's defense, he was on the corner of the Jeff chart. That was where he was. And so when you think about the coverage ability that you got from a guy like Chauncey, who, you know,
plays safety but really you're trying to play him in the nickel a lot and have him cover receivers kobe has that skill set and that wasn't relied upon a ton in seattle because they had devon witherspoon and nickamon warwick they had so many guys but you can ask kobe to be a player who comes down and plays that that slot position and then be creative with the safeties you play behind him as well
So that sheds some light. He was very bullish on Kobe Bryant whenever he got drafted.
Well, here's why I love this pickup for the Bears. One game... Sorry. One team... One receiver in particular comes to mind. I don't know. Do you guys remember when that team from just north of us came and played against the Bears and they lined somebody up in the slot and he was just destroying people off the line of scrimmage?
Christian Watson. Ah, that's him.
That's good. Good recall on your part.
Something about a bay and it being a color and they put things together in boxes.
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Chapter 5: What are the Bears' free agency moves and their impact?
That is a novel idea.
Oh, and by the way, no wings either. Because why have wings to celebrate? Like if you had said a restaurant or as to how it's described in some places where I used to live, lunch with a view. And here's the funniest part is you hear me advocating for this. I haven't gone to any, but that's the point. I don't go. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to tell other people what to do.
And again, there were not going to be any dancers at the game or anything. It was more about T.I.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of compensatory picks in the NFL?
performing, putting on for his city. There was a podcast beforehand. They were going to offer the wings that everyone raves about from Magic City at the game in three different locations in the arena.
Or just sell the hoodies and then donate the money to charity and a good cause.
Oh, I found the tweet I was looking for. David Dennis Jr. tweets out a statue picture of Karl Malone talking in front of his statue the day it was unveiled in Utah. I'd much rather explain to my kid what Magic City is than go to a jazz game and explain to them who this is a statue of. Hmm.
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Chapter 7: How does the NFL's treatment of Ian Cunningham reflect on league practices?
So wait, they want to speak on behalf of women, but don't want to come up with ideas or solutions for the fake outrage when speaking for women. Nailed it.
Also, it was women in leadership who came up with this idea to begin with.
But they don't count. Some other guy who has a job in San Antonio. He does, though.
Don't forget about the guy with the job in... San Francisco.
Just do yourself a favor and find a spot where it sounds absolutely ridiculous because it always does to say, speaking on behalf of all men as a woman.
Never gonna happen.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the Bears' current roster decisions?
I speak on behalf of me and that's it.
There's a thought. There's a thought. Let people do what they do. And if you're that offended by what somebody else is doing, here's a thought. Don't pay attention to it.
Hmm.
Five on it is next.
Number one.
What letter grade would you give the Bears for what we've seen from the team so far in free agency? B plus. Yeah, they didn't have a lot of room to work with. They had spots they needed to fill. They're filling the spots. Yep, I like the Kobe Bryant pickup. He had four interceptions last regular season. He was on an excellent defense.
I feel like he's going to help with slot coverage, which is something they needed. I feel like Neville Gallimore is a guy who can help with the run defense, which is, again, something they needed. And they replaced linebacker, which is, again, something they needed. So Devin Bush, great. They signed DeMarco Jackson. Daniel Hardy's back. Braxton Jones is back.
With what they were able to work with cap wise, I feel like this is good.
Seems like a step in the right direction, right? I'm assuming by letter grade, the letter I is not available to me in this exercise. No, Marshall, we're going with grades, grades, real grades from the report card. Because I've gotten an eye on my report card, let me tell you.
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