Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Packers have lost 4 straight games, but they remain plenty confident (Hour 1)
08 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the Packers' confidence level after losing four straight games?
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It's just sports. Okay, thanks, bye! Rahimi, Harris, and Grody. 10 to 2. On 670 The... Danny Parkins joining us on the Circus Sports Illinois hotline. Download the Circus Sports app today. Hi, Danny. Layla, Marshall, Packer Week, part three. I'm going to be in the house, willing to guarantee good vibes. I'm feeling great about it. First Bears game I will have attended since the double doink. Woo!
What the hell did you just say? Oh, God! No! No! It's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. Everybody stay calm. What's the procedure, everyone? What's the procedure? Stay f***ing calm! Everybody just f***ing calm down! I will be sitting first row behind the Bears bench. Oh, my God. First row, 50-yard line. Well, hello, Mr. Fancy Pants.
I will be wearing a very elaborate bear's robe and outfit that Fox is providing for me. And we'll be bringing the vibes.
Chapter 2: How do the Packers plan to prepare for their playoff matchup against the Bears?
In a robe? It's a very nice robe. I mean, I don't even know what I'd do with all that money. I know what you'd do with all that money. Hey, Pam, let's buy expensive bathrobes and hug. If you're wearing the robe, I want, like, a robe and a matching crown, but, like, are you just doing robe sunglasses or do you have, like, some adornment atop your dome? I need something to warm myself.
Okay, I'm not tough. How tough are you? How tough am I? How tough am I? I had a bowl of nails for breakfast this morning. Yes, so? Without any milk.
right this way sorry to keep you waiting so help me if you say the word doink at that game we can't mush this danny i'm not here to talk about the past i i am here to talk about the future my future is so bright jim jim do you know how bright my future is it's so bright that is there something i gotta wear I have something else for you guys. Please, by all means.
One person on the team said to be quiet when our offense is on the field. If 500 people who are going to be at the game are listening to this, tell your section to shut the hell up when Caleb Williams is on the field. Now you know how I feel sitting next to those M&Ms all day. Well, why don't you just move the M&M's? Why don't you shut up? Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody.
Midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 The Score. I have to be honest. I still do not feel good about the idea of Danny Parkins going to his first game since the double dork. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 670 The Score, and I'm just going to let you sit with that and see how you feel about it, too. And Marshall Harris joining me today.
Mark Grody will join us from Hallas Hall with the latest there at 1225. And in the meantime, as we do this dance for the third time, and this time is the most special now that it's the playoffs. I always like the concept of going behind enemy lines. You know, it sounds very sports center. It's a segment we do in sports. You know, it's something we look in on. We check in on the other team.
I prefer behind the cheddar curtain. I'm just saying what you said earlier was perfect. Why you got to bring cheese into this? No, that makes absolute sense. Oh, the foam party hat went away. The cheese grater foam party hat. It was sitting in our studio and now it's gone. You know, people would just be taking things and acting like things just walk away on their own. Absolutely.
All of those things. I'm pretty sure that's why we have four mugs sitting over there as well. But behind a many lines, cheese behind the cheddar curtain. I don't know. The bong recreation area. Whatever you want to call it. Bong recreation area. Yeah, that's what you pass once you go up to Milwaukee. Oh, we have it returned. Oh, we can't do that to the bear. This is actually perfect. Hold on.
You got it? That works. That works. We might be getting too much flair in the office. The thing is too much flair. I've seen Office Space a bunch of times with the sound up and with the sound off. When Luke Kanellis comes in studio right now, I won't be able to see him, but we'll figure it out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me move that because you're right. We have a foam party hat.
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Chapter 3: What factors contribute to the Packers' different attitude despite their losing streak?
And the end of the season could be this week for him, but I like a little animosity. I lied. I love a lot of animosity between teams when it comes to sports. And I think Keyshawn Nixon, not only through his actions, but now he's out here adding insult to injury or at least trying to, I like that he's embraced it, and now he has a bullseye on him. I'm very comfortable with that.
We know that one of the things the Bears do is they hunt coverages. That's partially why you'll see one play in the first quarter come back again in the fourth, a la Colston Loveland when the Bengals game happened, that play that they were hunting a particular coverage. They even did it in the Lions game last week. We know that's part of their strategy.
So it makes sense that if you're looking for Keyshawn Nixon, if you think he is somebody that you can go after, And there are Packers fans who feel like he is. then to me it would make sense as to why he becomes that person. The foul, though, that wasn't called on DJ Moore, the late hit over the middle, that was unacceptable.
But the real get back was DJ getting back at him and battling, and he was draped over him. You could argue that would have been DPI, defensive pass interference in the end zone. Oh, I don't think it was an argument. I think the ref just did not call it. It was definitely defensive pass interference. You could see in real time or on the replay.
Right, and Bears would have declined because DJ ended up catching the ball. But if he didn't, you sure take the penalty because the game cannot end on a defensive penalty. So, therefore, I think it might come down to him yet again, or at least whatever matchup, wherever he is on the field, that might be something the Bears try to take advantage of and use to their advantage.
Layla, clearly he wants it to come down to him. That's the last time he was on the field with the Bears. He wants another shot to have a moment like he's had in each of the last two games to be the difference maker one way or another. I already know that people are getting fired up for this. I already feel the temperature starting to rise a little. 815 in our text line.
Nixon didn't intercept the ball in the first game. Caleb handed it to him. Sir, that's not how it went.
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Chapter 4: How do the Bears' and Packers' playoff experiences compare?
But if you need that to get fired up for Saturday night, I'm not going to take it away from you. People texting saying he is a nobody. Well, he was somebody in this game. The last two games. That's the point. When the game has come down to his matchup both times. And frankly, he should be responsible for 15 yards after that late hit, which was ridiculous.
Also, can we not be these revisionist histories? Okay. Like, I understand people in their minds are saying, well, the Bears had a chance to beat them twice. The Packers also had a chance to beat them twice. It's not a...
It's not this simple thing that like, oh, the Bears are better than the Packers because they beat them once and they had a chance to beat them in the other game until that interception. Well, the Packers are claiming that because listen to how they talk about it. But I think both sides are right. If you just go by who was in control of the game, each game, it was the Packers.
Let's be very clear about that. And the Bears, true to their identity in 2025. I don't know if this is going to be a Bears thing as long as Caleb Williams is the quarterback or whatever. We're hoping more consistency on the front end to match what happens on the back end with the second year quarterback. Would do a lot for this game.
So you talked about the fourth quarter being more important than the first three quarters because that's it. That's the end. I think people need to understand if you're in control of a game for three quarters, you have a good chance of just winning the game.
Well, and that's why I bristled the first time when Ben Johnson said, oh, well, we didn't make any adjustments and the runs we were getting were just more effective. I don't necessarily agree with that because you were running the ball to different places. You were calling different plays in different orders. There were still adjustments that were made. And if you didn't adjust, your team did.
And I don't think it necessarily has to be like some big speech at halftime or what happens. And you and I both know, having spent time on sidelines, the endgame adjustments happen during the game.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Jeff Halfley provide about the Packers' defense?
Unit gets off the field, defense, whether you're sitting with, say, the secondary, you all talk about what you're seeing on the bench. A good team communicates during the game. So, that happens. But when it came to the concept of, oh, we didn't do these things. No, you did. You called different plays. You had different stuff working.
And I know you don't want to back off of your game plan, and I'll give it to you because I'm also petty. But both of these teams, there are so many different ways you can call out individuals. Like, for example, the discussion on Green Bay side is Austin Booker with the hit on Jordan Love. We're talking about Keyshawn Nixon on DJ Moore.
They're frustrated with their defensive line outside of Micah Parsons. We respect Rashawn Gary. He hasn't had a sack since Game 9. There are so many ways that this is a similar conversation for the fan bases of these two teams. I love this. 7-0-8. In control the entire game? I mean, they had to lead the whole game. Isn't that what... Okay.
Apparently, Caleb physically just walked over to Keyshawn Nixon and gave him the ball in the end zone. I love 6-3 on the text line, though. I wanted to come down to Nixon, too. LOL. Yes. I think we'd all be comfortable with... Nixon trying to guard a number of receivers on the Bears that we feel like could position themselves to beat Nixon to a football. And that's the point.
I think the Bears want it to come down to Nixon. But he seems to be very Jaquan Brisker about the whole course of events. That's a great comp. That's the point. The similarities are wild with these two. Listen to Keyshawn Nixon talking about wanting to play the Bears in the first round. I didn't want nobody else. I wanted the Bears. I just, you know, however it fell, it was going to fall.
If you had to go to Philly, it was going to Philly. But I'd rather play the Bears first. I need to get back. That's just what it is. He's very specific in what he wants. Be careful what you ask for. Is that not the cliche that so many people talk about? You know, they're the two seed. They have home field advantage. It is my belief they will need home field advantage. But here's the thing.
Home field advantage against this team specifically isn't the same as home field advantage against some of these other wildcard teams because guess what? The Packers are very comfortable at Soldier Field. They've shown you that. So I said Bears enemy number one is Keyshawn Nixon. I think Packers enemy number one might be Austin Booker.
Listen to Josh Jacobs talk about when Booker took out Jordan Love. A lot of guys took that hit that he took a little personal. So I'm not saying we're going to go out there and play dirty or nothing like that, but we're definitely going to defend our brothers. I mean... Spider-Man meme. What's he about to do? When he says, we're definitely going to defend my brothers, what does that mean?
That on third and one, nobody wants to tackle you and you go for 21 yards? That's the one I cannot have. Huh. That's the play that I cannot handle. That is what's going to fry me on Saturday if it happens again. I need one of you dudes to tackle in that scenario again. 224 on the text line.
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Chapter 6: What are the key strategies the Bears need to implement against the Packers?
Against the Packers. They lost to the Packers in a chance to go to the Super Bowl. This is the biggest game since then to me. Am I wrong in saying that? The playoff game in 18 was massive. The fact that they're playing again. But for whatever reason, the Bears rivalry part of this is not as loud as it's coming from Green Bay.
And I don't know if it's entirely because of the last game that Green Bay lost in overtime when they had to go to Soldier Field. So that's their freshest memory. You lost four games in between then. Well, part of it, I guess. You lost four games as part of it. I think in their minds, they lost to better teams, though, than the Bears in those games, the other losses.
Well, now it's time for them to prove it. But it is really funny to me, all the similarities, including the reasons for the get-back and vice versa. I love that the get-back has become universal and now everybody understands what the get-back is. Yeah, if you didn't know before this week, now you know. Join the score in Circus Sports Illinois tomorrow at Real Time Sports in Elk Grove Village.
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Sports betting the way it should be. So we get to go live to Arizona next, don't we, Ray? Oh, yeah. Big game. Jared Payton's repping the U out there. Our weekly conversation with Jared Payton about the playoff game and the college football playoff tonight. Coming up next, I'm Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
jared payton my name is jared payton and i am here to motivate you today former nfl running back jared payton wearing his father's number number 34 and looking like the old man look at this run a gorgeous job by jared payton the son of sweetness there's walter with his cubs jacket on And here he comes up. His son, Jarrett, is with him. Sweetness. What an ovation. Sports anchor for WGN.
You know me. I'm the resident running back. Jarrett Payton with Rahimi Harrison-Grody on Chicago Sports Radio. 670 The Score. Uncle Luke got me hooked on Hennessy, so thank you to Uncle Luke. That'll wake you up. Shout out to Uncle Luke. Shout out to Two Life Crew. Shout out to Jarrett Payton, who joins us on the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline, CircaLasVegas.com. Jarrett Payton in Arizona.
Are you going to watch your alma mater play tonight? Layla, I am so ready right now. Man, we just got off the plane about an hour ago. I'm with my daughter. She's excited. She's got her nails painted with the U on her fingernails. She is, like, ready to get 305'd out tonight. And, man, we're getting the opportunity to watch my Canes tonight and take on Ole Miss.
So hopefully I can bring home a dubbed... and then get the dub on Saturday as well with the Bears. That would be the perfect end of my week. Teach them young, Jarrett. Don't teach them to be like these kids who don't care. The U on the fingernails while doing the U with the hands is a flex. That's what I'm talking about. You already know, Layla. What's going on with you guys?
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