Mark Potash believes the Cubs' season is still salvageable
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Rahimi Harris and Grody. That's a show trying to win a Marconi right there. Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. Really good off-season program. talked with the players this morning and we really accomplished a lot just in terms of the goals that we set out strength and conditioning first and foremost technique fundamentals scheme installation and then some situational football which we've continued to to work on and we'll get another good day of again today so um really pleased with how they're working i said to you guys a few weeks ago that it's a really hard working group uh they're taking it very seriously very professional and Could be more grateful for the attendance we've had so far this offseason program and close it out on a great week this week.
That's Bears head coach Ben Johnson right there. This is the Rahimi Harrison-Grody Show on 104.3 The Score. Lots of talk Bears and maybe other things as well with our next guest. He is Mark Potash, founder of markpotash.net, Sun Time sports writer from 1987 to 2025, and it wasn't that long ago, 2024.
What insights does Mark Potash provide about the Bears' 2026 season?
the Illinois Sports Writer of the Year. He is Mark Potash. Potsy, what's going on? Thanks for joining the show, bro.
Hey, Mark, Marshall. How are you guys doing? We are doing well. You're doing well.
It's still June, right? It is June. It feels good. Bear's breaking. He's making sure. Yeah, I'm really good, and I'm excited to have you on, Mark, because I love how you've got range. You can talk about anything and everything. But I guess we should start with the Bears, right?
I think so. I think so. I think that with the off-season program, we should probably start with the Bears.
So, Mark, I just want to know, because you've got that vision, what was your biggest takeaway now that we're in this kind of break period before training camp starts from mandatory minicamp and everything that happened before that to where you sit now looking at the Bears going into the 2026 season?
To me, the biggest thing, they set up their offense to really take a big jump, as much of a jump as they took last year. If I'm looking at anything, I know their defense, they have questions, and they did fortify it with their first-round pick, but I think their offense is going to be kind of the star of the show and what they're going to hang their hat on, and I think that's kind of one of those things. People say, I ask, well, what are you looking for at training camp? Training camp's training camp, but... I'm looking to see an offense that kind of hits the ground running. This is the best offense that has returned for the Bears since Mark Trestman's second year, maybe even better than that. This is unusual circumstances.
The Bears should not be on training wheels on offense at training camp, and I'm expecting them to kind of, like I said, be the star of the show and kind of be their anchor. Yeah. Yeah, so right now I think that was the biggest thing of the offseason is that it's year two, and they have the best offense they've had in a long time.
It's funny, every year, Potash, and you can definitely relate to this with the training camps that you've covered over the last five to seven years, every year it's the same thing that defense is ahead of the offense. When we go to training camp and the offense struggles mightily, And for the first time, and I'm not making grand conclusions from what I saw out in the offseason program, but it was a little more even. You saw the offense win some days, you saw the defense win some days, and that has been unheard of recently. I guess, Patsy, probably the last time, was it probably a Jay Cutler offense that... came close to competing with the defense, even though those defenses were really good too.
But was it Jake Cutler that maybe was the last time where you saw evenness in the offseason or in training camp even?
Yeah, probably the Adam Gase year, I think. I remember being the one where the offense, I think, you know, was, you know, really looking good and he was looking like a different quarterback. But even then, you know, they're at a higher stage, higher level coming into this season than they were then.
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