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Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show

Full Show — May 11, 2026

11 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

1.246 - 28.325 Clay Harbor

This hour is brought to you by Vasectomy Clinics of Chicago. Rahimi Harrison-Grody, 10-2 on 104.3 The Score.

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28.666 - 30.288 Marshall Harris

Fishy Business, how are you today?

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30.308 - 33.012 Clay Harbor

Noted pickleball hater, Mark Harmon. Yes.

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33.252 - 35.956 Unknown

There was a bit of a moment with him at Rookie Minicam.

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36.236 - 37.298 Leila Rahimi

I've been hearing about this.

37.318 - 40.602 Unknown

Go on. If you guys want to get into that. Oh, yes, we do.

40.622 - 42.165 Clay Harbor

That was going to be my next question.

42.185 - 44.668 Marshall Harris

I need the hot goss from Hellas Hall. Hey, mama, the goss.

44.648 - 53.58 Unknown

So we're up in the viewing deck. We have to walk upstairs to go watch practice. It's a good view, if you can see, because there's a lot of people up there.

Chapter 2: What insights are shared about the Bears rookie minicamp?

100.605 - 108.636 Unknown

What I saw was the aftermath, which was Carm turned, his face go pale. Oh, rookie mistake by Mark Carmen.

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108.656 - 113.123 Marshall Harris

Wow, bad hands, bad hands, Carm. We can't count on you to catch past him now, can we?

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113.143 - 121.034 Leila Rahimi

Maybe he should be playing pickleball. That's all I have to say. It's time for him to realize where he is in life. Time to take a step down, Carmano.

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121.074 - 124.158 Marshall Harris

Face Cam Jordan in pickleball. That's your punishment.

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124.178 - 126.281 Unknown

We have to follow the protocol. Those are the rules.

126.682 - 126.782

Okay.

126.762 - 129.767 Leila Rahimi

New idea. We don't report her at all. We just punish her.

129.787 - 130.748 Unknown

We punish her.

131.209 - 146.053 Clay Harbor

Tell her you can't have sex for six months. I don't think we could enforce that.

Chapter 3: How is the performance of the Bears' defense analyzed?

787.89 - 806.439 Dennis Allen

There was a lot of times where we had a really good rush. Okay. But we weren't quite as good over here on this side. And so it allowed the quarterback, you know, to step up into a lane. Um, and so, um, That's an area that we can improve on, and I think our guys, when they did it right, it was pretty impressive.

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807.04 - 827.987 Marshall Harris

This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. That is Dennis Allen, the Bears defensive coordinator, talking about the Bears' lack of production defensively last season. he's right about the fact that the quarterback is going to find the open lane. There's no better example of that than Caleb Williams showing you how to do it every year or all year long last year.

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828.708 - 852.902 Marshall Harris

When the left side was locked up, he'd roll out right and find somebody. But I think part of the problem with this is, is that if it's really scheme, That means usually one side of the ball is more strong than another. But when you have 27th in the run and 25th against the pass, that would indicate that it was both equally not up to snuff.

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854.564 - 861.233 Marshall Harris

So that's why I'm also like, okay, a lot of this comes down to who you have on the field.

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862.09 - 881.854 Clay Harbor

And we can't predict that the Bears are going to have an entire healthy team. That'd be dumb because nobody goes through a season with healthy players at every position. So you have to account for that. That's one of the reasons I've been begging them to add somebody just even as a depth piece. Even if you think Dio Dangbo and Shamar Turner are going to be ready to go from jump.

881.834 - 897.413 Clay Harbor

This text from 269, the Bears defense has 11 new free agents or rookie picks this year, not counting Dio and Shamar. Looking like five to seven new starters. That's a whole new defense. Not sure why folks think nothing has changed. That's not true.

897.393 - 913.208 Marshall Harris

Because your big money guys didn't. Your starting front four did not. And then you had to spend more money on depth pieces on your defensive line. And then you didn't draft anybody. And yet I'm wondering how Xavion Thomas and Khalif Raymond are going to coexist for time.

914.234 - 936.275 Clay Harbor

I'm good with the depth there at that position. That's just an example. Yeah, yeah. No, no. I think with this team... There are redundancies. If you take what they've done and you say, yes, they've added new guys, whether that's free agents or draft picks or undrafted free agents, the bottom line is this. Who's premium among them? Who is a high-impact player?

936.395 - 959.498 Clay Harbor

I see a lot of guys who are more role players, utility guys, specifically on that front four. And I'm just wondering, what is it that you think is going to change when you talk about coaching them up? You can only coach up talent so much. You have to have the raw tools, the raw power, the raw speed, the raw quickness to be able to make an impact up front. And that's where my concern is.

Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Bulls' fourth overall pick in the NBA Draft?

5009.805 - 5031.54 Marshall Harris

That was vintage Jacob deGrom. As somebody who likes pitching, it was fun to watch, except it was against the Cubs. So it was the fact that they were 0 for 13 with runners in scoring position that Edward Cabrera labored in his start to a point that may make you worried. And when the offense goes cold, it went real cold.

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5031.78 - 5036.428 Marshall Harris

And to have back-to-back shutouts, probably the most disappointing, but it was Saturday's game as a whole.

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5037.252 - 5055.892 Clay Harbor

I think the most disappointing thing about this is to see that the offense couldn't scratch things across. And I'm not saying that I'm disappointed they lost two games in a row. That's going to happen from time to time. But you've got to be able to come up with better results with runners in scoring position.

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5056.333 - 5068.167 Clay Harbor

To go 0-17 over the course of two games, it's giving me flashbacks to our Vegas trip when we were like, will the Cubs ever push across a run with runners in scoring position? Remember how they were playing that week when we headed to Vegas?

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5068.287 - 5075.796 Marshall Harris

When I wasted my pool time and I sat in the cabana at the pool yelling at the TV and shaking my fist.

5075.816 - 5100.047 Clay Harbor

Yeah, I look at the Cubs and... You've got to be better at creating something out of these opportunities. Now look, 0 for 13 and 0 for 4 in back-to-back games is bad, but it's just the number of opportunities. 17 different ones. I'm not as concerned about Edward Cabrera right now. It's one outing. Hopefully it's just kind of a dead arm period like I talked about where he can...

5100.027 - 5117.445 Clay Harbor

bounce back, get his arm right, get his mechanics, how they need to look to be good going forward because they need him. Edward Cabrera has to have good starts for the Cubs. He has to be able to keep the Cubs in games. And when I say keep the Cubs in games, I mean three runs or less when he starts.

5117.565 - 5119.167 Marshall Harris

We're wrapping him in bubble wrap.

5121.009 - 5124.212 Clay Harbor

Isn't everyone in bubble wrap if you throw for the Cubs right about now?

Chapter 5: What insights were shared about the Wizards' lottery strategy?

5618.803 - 5621.687 Marshall Harris

And I still feel like there's a lot of teams who could use his services.

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5621.802 - 5624.131 Clay Harbor

I feel like there's a lot of teams who could absorb that cap room.

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5625.356 - 5630.698 Marshall Harris

Why did you do all of this, Wizards, if you didn't want the first overall pick?

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5631.775 - 5640.544 Clay Harbor

They wanted to have the option. Think about it like this. If they trade down to No. 2 or No. 3 because someone really wants to Bonsa, they get more No. 1 picks in the future.

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5640.664 - 5646.49 Marshall Harris

Do you think they might get, say, an unprotected first-round pick that would be in, I don't know, next year's draft, for example?

Chapter 6: How does the new CBA affect NBA trades and strategies?

5646.65 - 5655.059 Clay Harbor

We don't even know if you're going to be able to trade for unprotected picks anymore after a certain date because of the NBA's draft lottery reform. Just remember that as well.

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5655.079 - 5672.62 Marshall Harris

A lot of this reform has really made it less fun for us. CBA, aprons... Can't trade pick protections. Can't trade all these options. I need unfettered. Everybody wants to go everywhere. Luxury tax isn't that big of a deal again. That's what I need.

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Chapter 7: What are the key observations from Bears rookie minicamp?

5672.66 - 5689.643 Marshall Harris

Exciting trade deadlines. Trades being shut down for basketball reasons. This new CBA is a buzzkill. And yeah, a third of your league is tanking. But when the transaction times come, I want action. A-C-T-I-O-N.

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5690.365 - 5698.401 Clay Harbor

I would like Caleb Wilson if he falls to them at the fourth pick. And if it's Boozer, we're going to have to have a conversation about Keaton Wagler and some other people.

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5698.842 - 5700.686 Marshall Harris

You love Keaton Wagler. Now, I don't blame you.

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Chapter 8: How does Press Taylor's coaching style impact the Bears' offense?

5700.706 - 5703.772 Marshall Harris

I think Keaton Wagler made himself a lot of money in this NCAA tournament.

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5704.754 - 5722.047 Clay Harbor

Man, people are on this on the text line, 260. What does Anthony Davis want exactly? Does he want to win a chip? Does he want to play? 3-1-2. Davis is only going to give you half a season. How does his trade value still stay so high? Because that half a season, if it's the back half of a season, he can help you win a championship in theory.

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5722.348 - 5742.337 Marshall Harris

In theory. I mean, he's had some great stretches with the Lakers. He's a talented big. And when he's healthy, he's one of the best in the league. That's how. But I don't think it was his determination as to whether or not he went to Washington. I don't think it was his determination as to whether or not he went to Dallas since nobody saw that coming.

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5745.622 - 5751.55 Clay Harbor

Number four. What was your biggest takeaway from the press conferences on day two of Bears rookie minicamp on Saturday?

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5751.69 - 5755.656 Marshall Harris

Number one, nerd out with me for a second.

5756.337 - 5756.597 Clay Harbor

Okay.

5756.978 - 5780.4 Marshall Harris

Press Taylor. Grab his microphone. Two 10-terabyte hard drives as a flex. For those who speak in storage terms, like your girl who pays for a 256 gig iPhone because I want all the space in the world to be able to store as many receipts as I need because cloud storage is for suckers and real hard drive storage is where it's at.

5780.76 - 5803.572 Marshall Harris

And that is getting more expensive by the day because of AI and all the products that need to be used to store their data. That was... The real ones know... Tanny, like Tanny and I texted about it over the weekend. I was like, oh, Press Taylor says he has 210 terabyte hard drives. Impressive. Anytime you can get into computer gear talk, I'm interested.

5803.612 - 5821.609 Clay Harbor

To be clear, that's where offensive coordinator Press Taylor saves all his plays. And he said in his press conference, which we'll hear later in the show, when Clay Harbor joins us, that the Bears video guys hate to see him coming. Yeah. Because they know he's got his big hard drives. He's about to load it up. Yep. Let's go through some video, guys.

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