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Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show

Grote is at peace with the 2025 Bears' season (Hour 1)

29 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

1.769 - 7.336 Marshall Harris

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8.717 - 30.443 Laila Rahimi

The views and opinions of Laila Rahimi, Marshall Harris, and Mark Grody should not be taken too seriously. Especially when they give advice. Do not take Marshall's analogies literally. Especially when it comes to Russell Dorsey. The sports thoughts of Rahimi, Harris, and Grody may change at any time. It's just sports. Okay, thanks, bye. Rahimi, Harris, and Grody. 10 to 2 on 670 The Truth.

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31.182 - 47.49 Mark Grote

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.

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47.51 - 50.646 Laila Rahimi

That is... Talk about setting the bar low.

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50.886 - 64.988 Marshall Harris

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.

65.208 - 81.472 Laila Rahimi

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.

81.492 - 87.339 Unknown

Bob's been waiting. Can we stop with the boomer and onk takes of the 85 Bears?

Chapter 2: What are the hosts' expectations for the 2025 Bears' season?

87.42 - 88.561 Unknown

You're such a boomer.

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88.681 - 102.723 Marshall Harris

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?

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102.743 - 102.984 Mark Grote

Okay.

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103.304 - 105.447 Marshall Harris

Danny P joining us right now.

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105.527 - 109.932 Mark Grote

The statement's very simple, Danny. Caleb Williams is the best quarterback the Bears have ever had.

110.112 - 122.547 Marshall Harris

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.

122.527 - 140.688 Mark Grote

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.

140.708 - 148.978 Unknown

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.

148.998 - 163.104 Laila Rahimi

I rest my case. Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Middays 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 The Score.

Chapter 3: How does Caleb Williams compare to previous Bears quarterbacks?

288.928 - 301.633 Mark Grote

My younger brother, my younger sister, they are clear Millennials. And so I have a lot of Millennial tendencies. Okay. Okay. All right. Fair enough. You, meanwhile, are just X marks the spot. That's That's right.

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301.653 - 317.783 Marshall Harris

That's right. I own every single bit of that, as I did our Bears talk yesterday, which was fun. It really was. I had a blast in that hour and just listening back to the Butte right there, Tyler Buterbaugh, with a really good open. Ray Diaz is in the house as well, but that was fun.

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318.644 - 336.226 Mark Grote

Mark, here's what I'll say. The reason why I had to do it yesterday, the reason why I wanted to do it yesterday, because I felt like it was a degree of therapy involved, because here's the bottom line. What I said is absolutely true. I just want everyone to be at ease with it, comfortable saying it out loud.

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336.266 - 342.934 Mark Grote

And I feel like after yesterday's show, people are at ease with it, and they're comfortable saying that Caleb Williams is the best quarterback of all time. I don't know.

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342.914 - 352.511 Marshall Harris

As far as the Chicago Bears go. And we're not going to do the whole thing again. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think most people, if pressed, if they had to do the yes or no thing, gun to the head. That's the point.

352.531 - 373.594 Marshall Harris

Okay, but I think there's still a lot of people, including myself, and obviously Dan Wiederer, as he made his opinion known, that are just not comfortable two years into a tenure doing a question or a topic like that. And I stamped the topic. We talked about it the night before. This wasn't like – I was the one who said, yeah, Marshall, I like it. And as a matter of fact, let's lead with it.

373.835 - 389.97 Marshall Harris

And as a matter of fact, let's talk about it for an hour. That didn't mean that my sensibilities weren't a little bit off or – Yeah, not offended, though. Insulted. Not offended. Not offended, but like, are we really doing a topic about this quarter?

390.05 - 403.973 Marshall Harris

After all that we've seen and all that we know and all that we know happens to quarterbacks, are we really doing the topic on is Caleb Williams the greatest Bears quarterback ever? The answer is probably yes, but the other answer is it's too soon to be talking about this.

404.093 - 411.866 Mark Grote

Yes. No, the answer wasn't no. It's too soon to be talking about this. You are correct. But I like that today may be a little more in your comfort zone.

Chapter 4: What factors contribute to the legitimacy of the Bears' recent season?

1408.14 - 1435.253 Marshall Harris

I just didn't have interest because I think I knew myself. You were an adult at that point. Well, I just... That's the truth. No, it's not true because, look, I didn't play video games throughout college, high school. I just never went back to it because I think I would be overconsumed with it. So that was me knowing me. So there's that. And then, of course, the next text, 847 Boomer Grody.

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1435.233 - 1453.959 Marshall Harris

And then one more text I wanted to read. You can't read every single text that we see on the text line. I have one I want to read, too, so go ahead. Here's the last one I'll read. 847. Grody, you're not wrong for being jaded, as we all should be, but I truly believe that the 2025 Bears season was all about changing the culture, and they accomplished that with fine colors.

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1454.72 - 1472.88 Mark Grote

Listen, this one may be the best text that I've seen on here. 847. I would hope everything Caleb learned last year carries over to next year. I would hope so, too. And I would also say it needs to carry over, and he needs to get better. I don't think anyone's arguing that specific point. But the game is the same.

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1472.92 - 1493.555 Mark Grote

It's still football, and now you're going to have a more difficult schedule on paper. Who knows? Maybe more quarterbacks will be hurt, and your worst two-game stretch, you won't face, I don't know, Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson. But next year is going to be more of the same. You're never going to have a chance to really – catch your breath and get complacent because there's more to do.

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1493.595 - 1496.518 Mark Grote

And even when you win it all, there's still more to do.

1496.778 - 1514.635 Marshall Harris

Rahimi Harrison-Grody on the score. Let's turn to one of the Bears' assistant coaches. Antoine Randall-El runs the receivers for the Chicago Bears. He was on WGN with Jared Payton, and we definitely have permission to play this here right now, talking about the expectations of this season.

1514.916 - 1540.733 Unknown

We take a break because we lost, and that's the way we look at it. And we know... that the team won't be the same. You know, you won't have all the same players. It just doesn't work out like that. But with that being said, there is the seeds that we planted in terms of this is the norm. And the norm is getting in the playoffs and have an opportunity to go win the Super Bowl.

1540.833 - 1565.698 Unknown

That has to become the norm. And that's what we want that to be. And obviously, the norm is to win it all. But you got to get in the dance to be able to do it. Just get in the dance. I've been in the dance, man, as the one seed, as the two seed, as the six seed when it was only six teams on each side in terms of the NFC and AFC. So you just got to get in.

1566.439 - 1578.555 Unknown

And once you get in, that's when, you know, obviously you want to be able to be playing your best ball. So we planted the seed. We got it done this first year. Now, starting out in the spring, guess what? We got to build it all over again.

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