Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Transition: How big of a deficit is insurmountable for the Bears?
15 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey Alex, Matt Spiegel, 670 the score. Number three. So did you talk to Nico Horner about number two? And is that somebody you're looking forward to playing with?
I'm definitely looking forward to it. No, I didn't talk to him. I just, I wore number three because I wanted a third championship.
That is a declaration from Alex Bregman, who you heard his press conference was right here on 670 The Score earlier today. Thanks to our guests, Clay Harbor, Henry Melton coming in. Happy to have them. Mark Grody, who we just heard. A star-studded day over here at Rahimi Harris and Grody. I like to call it Marshall & Company.
It's different from another midday show, but kind of similar if you think about it.
Sping on the company!
Yes. And thanks to our producers, Ray Diaz, Tyler Biederbaugh. We also had Brandon Fryer who helps us out. Thanks to Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, everybody who texted in, everybody who called in, who also joins us on Twitch. And thanks to Matt Spiegel for asking the questions today. At the, it's not a hall. What would you call that? Just the office building? That's a good question.
I don't know. It's a second floor up there. They should name it something.
The interview room. Yeah, but it's not the one in the ballpark. I don't know what it is.
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about the Bears' current performance?
We've got to come up with a name.
Yeah. Cubs HQ? Maybe it has a name in the HQ. How about Cubs HQ? I like that Marshall and Company is now the show. Is that after Mully and Them? I think it is, right? It's Mully and Them. I thought there was an S on the back of Mully and Them. Mully and then Dem Boys.
Dem Boys. Dem Boys.
I like that, too. Lawrence, thank you for doing the Jigs impression there.
No, that was Stephen A., but I'm working on it.
I didn't think about that.
Yeah, because that's what he always does when he doesn't know the other people. He makes them dim boys.
My Jigs impression is... Caleb and dim boys. My Jigs impression has devolved into an impression of Jonathan Hood's impression of Jigs, essentially.
Jonathan's one of the best impressionists out there. St.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the upcoming game for the Bears?
What is this now, like the 30? It's like the 40th year or something. I don't know. Giving coats to kids all over the world. That's a lot of coats and a lot of driving. That was like my favorite thing about back in the days when Henry Melton played for the Bears, when they would go down to Olivet Nazarene, they would donate bikes at the end of camp. So all the players would have bikes.
The coaches would have bikes. And then at the end of camp, they would donate them to the kids in Kankakee County.
That's beautiful.
It was a really nice thing. Literally at the end of it, it's them giving bikes to little kids.
37th annual coat drive for Tony Medlin and the Bears equipment staff.
Every time.
That coat drive has kids. That coat drive has nieces and nephews.
I haven't worn this coat in a while. I should give it to the coat drive.
Marshall, that coat drive is on a second marriage.
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Chapter 4: How does the weather impact the Bears' strategy?
Gas station. There's a problem. You guys know it. It takes way too damn long at the pump. No, I don't want a car wash. No. It's nine degrees. Did you have your rewards card out? I don't have a loyalty number. Would you like a mint for your pillow? My God. So I do all the things, right? And then I go to pump the gas, and it says I'm done. And I'm like, what's up?
And the end of the gas thing, like the tube, was not plugged in. What? To the entire thing. You can't.
could have started like a fire it didn't pump any gas you might want to get a new uh place to get your gas maybe but i had to like go around to a new pump and restart the whole extra long process so anyway it's 90 seconds maybe two and a half minutes i was freezing my ass off they're gonna play football on that for three hours and matthew stafford and the rams will be affected oh it's
going to be colder than that. Number one, it's going to be colder than that.
I know, but I was there for two minutes, Marshall.
Number two, was this in our neighborhood? Because I knew you avoided that gas station. I know exactly where it was.
Yeah, you do.
Yeah, you do. It's kind of a problem. Wait a second.
I even think I know where that gas station is.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the coat drive mentioned?
There's not that many gas stations in our neighborhood.
Is it by a fast food establishment?
I know. It's on a corner, though. A lot of Bears fans might be going through that gas station. It's absolutely true. But, yeah, no, it's going to be cold as hell. The cold is real, and it's going to be a factor. And I love that Ben's got these guys out there practicing in it and Kevin Byard complaining about it.
Like, if you don't have home field advantage, I mean, you've got to use every bit of it and try to actually maximize it. It totally matters to me.
The thing of it is you don't even have an alternative to get ready if you're the Rams. There's nothing you can do. You can't do the equivalent. Other than I wonder if it were an NFC title game, is that a team like, hey, we'll set up shop in Minneapolis or Detroit so that we can go outside.
Go and simulate it.
Yeah, but there's nothing you can do if you're them until you actually get in it on Sunday.
Right. And so you have to try and maximize it if you're the Bears and get you guys out there as much as possible. And this should be an equalizer because the Rams are better. And I not only believe that that is a supreme advantage that they have, but it also beats the alternative, which is maximizing their pass rush. So maximize the weather, maximize the pass rush.
I know they can maximize their advantage weather speaking, but pass rush wise, I've kind of just waved the white flag on that. On the Bears' pass rush? Yeah. From the front four or just in general? Yes, from the front four.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts analyze the Bears' defense against the Rams' offense?
The problem is, and I actually don't think the front four have been as bad.
They've actually been better.
They have been better. You're right. But the problem is that Matthew Stafford is a guy. He gets the ball out super quick. Elite. Exactly. So you don't really have a lot of time. Even though he's a bit of a statue in the pocket, it actually might be a reverse game. It might be a game where the coverage can help the pass rush versus the pass rush helping coverage, which is usually how it goes.
But then you're dealing with Devontae Adams and Puka Nakua, and they shred every coverage that they see.
Here's my thing. Make it a reverse-reverse game and be like, you are not running the football on us. You will have to pass. Eventually, tips and overthrows, you got to have those. Theoretically. Yeah, I think... But then there's back to the whole MVP, Coat Drive getting the MVP himself.
Even if he puts up big numbers, all you need is a couple of turnovers and points off those turnovers to be in the game. If you believe your offense can run the football... or that Caleb Williams can be second half Caleb in the first half. I mean, unlike last week, I can think of a bunch of ways how the Bears win this game.
And Stafford threw a pick last week, and he lost to Carolina a few weeks ago. The Panthers had the lead in the fourth quarter last week. It's not crazy. I still expect a pew, pew.
I think you're right. And don't you feel better about Caleb in a shootout than you ever thought you'd feel by this time of the year? It's amazing how good I feel about that possibility.
That I'm not concerned about.
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Chapter 7: What are the expectations for the Bears' offense this week?
I'm just concerned about what... We just saw them come back from 21-3. So what lead is too insurmountable? What amount of success at the half is too insurmountable?
I wouldn't play that game against this team. Right, I would not either. I think that there are a lot of teams that you might be able to get away with that. I think this one's quarterback is too experienced to let a game like that get away from him.
It's hard to imagine him looking like Jordan Love looked in that second half. To answer your question, two touchdowns. If they're down 14 at the half, I won't be like, the game is over. But if they're down 21-3, I'll be like, with that offense? With that play caller?
And the other thing is, they're different from Green Bay's offense in the fact that Green Bay is going to grind you down. Time of possession. How long they hold the ball for. What their successful drives look like from that aspect. That's not the Rams. They'll be like, whoop-boom! 40-yard pass. Take the top off the defense. Peace out. Touchdown.
More of a wa-bam guy, but wa-boom. Wa-bam.
I don't even know what I'm saying.
Yeah, what is a wa-boom?
I've never heard wa-boom. It's essentially an explosive play where you know Matt Stafford has an arm. Coke Drive has an arm.
Wa-boom goes to dynamite.
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Chapter 8: What insights do the hosts share about player performances and injuries?
He's going to throw it, and then you're going to see some viral frame of Puka Nakua being so, and you're like, how do you get that open? And then he's like, see you later.
Puka reminds me of young Russell Westbrook. Puka's a Wolverine. He just doesn't slow down. He goes through people. He catches everything. I have no idea how he fell to where he fell in the draft. Just pure speed? Was that people's issue with him? Because look at him athletically and look at the will he has and how hard he plays every play. It doesn't make any sense.
hands the route tree all of it is available with him as a wide receiver and he will catch it through you he will run through you he'll do whatever the hell he needs he's made some crazy catches this season he understands where to sit in zones like these guys had both the wide receivers for la last week had 31 targets like 31 combined targets for those guys for those teams a lot
Welp. How many catches on those 31? Do you know?
Half.
Only half.
15.
I would feel good if they held them to 15 of 30. But almost 200 yards. But again, if there's 16 incompletions out of 31 attempts, I have to believe the Bears can get one or two of those incompletions. That's a lot of passes. Devontae Adams is the afterthought.
But remember, though, a lot of that is out of 13 personnel. So you're lining up one or the other, and they're getting opportunities. It's wild stuff that they're doing offensively out there. It's going to be a lot of fun. Two guys that really... understand how to create mismatches as offensive play callers are going up against each other. That's the type of party I'm about.
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