Mike Florio talks Bears' 'leverage play' in pursuit of new stadium

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Mike Florio 0:40

Mike Florio.

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He used to be a lawyer, then he decided to take his talents to the internet.

Mike Florio 0:46

NBC Sports. I'm sorry I'm late, I was talking to Robert Kraft. That isn't the time for an airing of grievances. Pro football talk. I got a lot of problems with you people! No? You're gonna hear about it. On Chicago Sports Radio, 1043 the score.

Vinny Rotino 1:04

We talk to Mike Florio every week on Rahimi Harrison Grody. He is the creator and editor in chief of Pro Football Talk. He is at ProFootball Talk on X, joining us on our hotline and on Twitch, twitch dot TV slash the score Chicago. Mike, thanks for pushing your visit back. One day we had cross town yesterday between the Cubs and the White Sox. How are you today?

Mike Florio 1:26

I'm doing great. How are you? I I get I get like a little shaky when my routine gets disrupted, but it's okay. It was exactly twenty four hours, so I can tell myself it's Wednesday.

Vinny Rotino 1:36

Okay, we appreciate that. Marshall also thought it was Wednesday today, so everybody's kind of in the same place. Um, I do want to ask you, it is funny, you're the one who brought this up originally and I just realized it as you were coming on. You know we joked and had the whole idea of Bears too, which was your idea of Cincinnati coming up and combining resources with the Bears whenever they couldn't get their stadium renovations initially off the ground. Well, guess who's at joint practices today? If it isn't the two, the Bears and the Bengals tangling it up right now.

Mike Florio 2:07

And hey, you know, the Bengals have solved their issue. The Bears are the ones who are still looking. And I continue to believe that under the right circumstances there could be two teams. In one stadium in Chicago. New York has it. LA has it. I think Chicago's big enough.

What is Mike Florio’s background and why is he on the show?

Mike Florio 2:23

We know it's big enough for two baseball teams. And it becomes a lot cheaper to pay for a stadium if you've got 20 games there by NFL teams instead of 10. So my pipe dream is not over. It's just not the Bengals. Maybe the Buccaneers, if they can't get the deal they're looking for in Tampa Bay. The Chicago Buccaneers has a certain ring to it.

Vinny Rotino 2:41

I don't know. I feel like we did such good work with Bears too being the Bengals. It was and now and now as as we pointed out earlier, Mike, this this might just be the meeting of two offensive junkies between Zach Taylor and Ben Johnson. And then his brother Press also getting in the mix too. The more I think about it, the more I realize that may have just been what this was about was guys trying to work on their offenses together.

Mike Florio 3:03

Well, and hey, these joint practices have value and as the season gets bigger and bigger and the preseason gets smaller and smaller, we're gonna see a greater focus on the joint practices. It's a more controlled setting, except for the fights. Other than the fights, it's a more controlled setting for your players. It's not full speed, full contact game conditions, as long as you don't have the fights.

Marshall Harris 3:26

It's interesting, Mike, that you mentioned the the Buccaneers as a candidate to join the Bears because uh the Bears they wish they could have maybe a guy like I don't know, Vita Vea who signs a one year, thirty million dollar uh deal uh to end that kind of a hold in, hold out situation with the team. What do you make of Vita Vea agreeing to just stay put as opposed to demanding a trade, beating the drum loudly for the last few weeks?

Mike Florio 3:50

Oh, it always comes down to money, and he's now said he never wanted to leave. There's certain pressure points that get applied. Remember when Debo Samuel was never gonna play for the 49ers again, and then he signs his long-term contract. It's all part of the negotiation.