Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Transition: NFL coaching carousel is loaded with Mike Tomlin, John Harbaugh on the open market
13 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What personal experiences did the hosts share from the recent game?
I just got to tell you this story. I'm fortunate enough to be at the game Sunday. And, you know, right before it, I happened to see A.J. Pruszynski. I'm kind of fired up, like, yeah, A.J., man, nice to meet you. A little fired up, make my way to the field. And I'm remembering that Parco said he was going to be on the 50. So I said, oh, yeah, let me stop by and see Parco.
Chapter 2: What does 'hell week' mean for Mike Tomlin?
So I see him, man, give him some nice dap. He's complaining about how hard I hit his hand. Sounds about right.
See, that's a good storyteller. Wasn't he? Like, I love a good storyteller. This is Remy Harrison-Groney on 670 The Score. Thanks to everybody who was a part of this one. How about our guests today? Patrick Manley, Alan Robinson, and Tim Jenkins. Ray, that's some good booking. Nicely done. Ray Diaz, our producer. Brandon Fryer helped us out as well.
Tyler Biederbaugh with incredible production all day long. Thanks to Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, and Max Curtis. Thanks to Mark Grody and Marshall Harris. And thanks to Anthony Heron and Lawrence Holmes for hanging out.
Hey, what's up, y'all? You're welcome.
Yeah, we're happy to see you.
Where's Spigs? He is off the next couple of days because of what he likes to term, and he has said this on the air, so I'm not speaking out of turn, hell week. He lovingly refers to it as hell week.
Yeah, what did he mean by that?
It's his wife and his son's birthday. Hell week.
Do they know that there's a Bears playoff game, too?
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Chapter 3: Who is currently the top coaching prospect in the NFL?
He's a year younger. He's 41.
D'Amico Ryan, also the most underrated coach, in my opinion, in the NFL. Every year he has been a head coach. His team has gone to the playoffs. And every year they have gone to the playoffs, they have won a playoff game. And now he has delivered the first ever road playoff win for the Houston Texans in franchise history.
At the moment, it's at least a Mike Vrabel-ish kind of trajectory as a coach. Perhaps even beyond that, because you've got the young QB in C.J. Stroud. And he doesn't have a Titans owner. Right. That's also a thing.
Cal McNair's father, Bob, was kind of prolific in his love of mediocrity as well. One time when he fired Gary Kubiak, who went on to win a Super Bowl, he said at a press conference, mediocrity is not our standard. We've won the AFC division title twice in the South. The AFC South division title was his definition of not having mediocrity be your standard. I was like, sir, by definition.
That is mediocrity.
That's like winning the NFC South now. Yeah, yeah. You're just kind of like, well, how'd you win the division? Well, we lost the last game, and then we had to wait until the next day until Atlanta won their game. Oh, what was the record? 8-9? It's fine, though. We won the trade with the Bears. We're bringing up old stuff.
We won the division.
We're bringing up old stuff. It's perfect.
People were saying they won the trade. Panthers fans believe they won that trade. No, they didn't win that trade. We joke about it, but I know that.
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Chapter 4: What similarities exist between Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh as coaches?
Did the Lions win, though? I don't see a Super Bowl anywhere over there.
Yeah, but they became a force and won a division, which is something that they struggled with for a very long time, even with Matthew Stafford.
And the division they won didn't have South on the end of it? Is that what you're saying? Correct.
It's so funny you're talking about Matthew Stafford because we're thinking, oh, he must have dominated the Bears. No, because all the years that he was with Detroit, Detroit sucked. Yes. And that's why he left. And there was kind of a mutual understanding. It was a very amicable breakup at the time because it was like, they're happy for Matt. Go, go, go do something big in your life.
And Stafford has done something big in his life in his second chapter, and he might be the MVP. Yes.
Stafford is a really interesting case because I think that while he was in Detroit, and I was one of the people that would argue this, I think there was an argument for him being a Hall of Famer. And once the trade happens and he goes and works with McVay and he gets himself a Super Bowl and now maybe an MVP. He's a no-brainer, like Hall of Famer, when he's done playing this thing.
But it's interesting what a coach can do. And we're seeing it firsthand. The difference that Ben Johnson has made for the Bears organizationally... and what it can do for someone that you know has talent. Because that's all we kept doing with Stafford and Detroit, being like, yeah, he's got Calvin Johnson, but it's pretty much him and Calvin Johnson that are just doing this thing.
What happens when you got the coach and you and the coach click, and then there's talent being built around that? And we're seeing that now with the Bears. It's Ben and Caleb trying to get on the same page, and I think they're close. I think I love the matchup Sunday because it's what I want to see happen two, three years from now with Ben and Caleb.
But then you look over and you go, man, they got Colston Loveland and they have Luther Burden. So there's talent along with the coaching part. And it means that you can be a contender every single year.
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Chapter 5: How have the Pittsburgh Steelers performed this season?
And when you think of as a... Caleb is only a contemporary with Matt Stafford, not in age, but in position. And they're both going to be on the same field on Sunday. Stafford, of course, much older. But Aaron Rodgers stylistically is the quarterback who long-term Caleb probably in style of play will be more like.
But Stafford's one of the guys that's on his... on his little list of guys.
Yes, Matt Stafford is the guy who he looks to and says, like, that's a quarterback who I would love my game to mirror theirs. Just between the mobility, the off-script playmaking, and all those things, he compares more directly with Aaron Rodgers.
But Matt Stafford, Matthew Stafford, is the guy that he looks to and says, like, as a modern quarterback, Caleb, who's the best quarterback going in the business right now, he looks at Stafford as that guy. So that's a cool thing about Sunday night just in him.
having that opportunity to be on the opposing sideline, to match up with the team against a guy who he believes is the best one doing it right now.
The crazy part about the Matt Matthew Stafford, whichever one you want to pick, 17 years. You know how many times this man's been a pro bowler? What, three? Three times. You know how many times he's been All-Pro in 17 years? Probably never, right? This was his first season being All-Pro. First season.
And yet, we're all talking about how he's definitely going to be a Hall of Famer because you look at the numbers and everything else, and even on bad teams, what he was able to do. It's just a very interesting profile from an overall macro look. But if you look at the micro of this season... Bears better buckle up on Sunday night.
Well, yeah, to that end, I mean, is it possible that Puka Nakua could end up with 200 yards receiving and the Bears win the game in the fourth quarter and it's all over?
Yes, because of the halftime numbers the Bears have allowed so far.
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Chapter 6: What impact has D'Amico Ryans had on the Houston Texans?
And just seeing him do the things that we were sold that he would do. I keep saying it's been a pleasure to watch this man run routes.
Yeah, and it's a quality callback, Groats, because it's never been my intention to downgrade Cole Komet for what he is. But he's a good football player who is not the most elusive of tight end route runners. And for the Bears offense, that's what he was kind of tasked with being for a while. And he was always a guy you had to scheme him open, which is fine.
That's what most good tight ends are, guys. You have to scheme them open because most of them who are true tight ends in their body type don't run routes like wide receivers, whereas Colston Loveland has that ability to do it. And even in tight spaces, like on that two-point conversion where they just scheme up the matchup by putting Big personnel on the field. Here's the touchdown immediately.
Ben Johnson with the double guns up in the air. He's signaling, let's get big personnel out here. They go 13, but you know you can match up Colston Loveland on some flailing defender. And even on just a simple stop route towards the front pylon, but it's not only the ability to separate, but in a route like that, it's the coordination skills.
to be able to get up on the toes of the defender, threaten him into the end zone, make that guy pedal in the paint, be able to stop on a dime and contort his body as Caleb is getting the ball with velocity out, on time, in rhythm, and even in addition to just the speed and the separation skills that Loveland has that are unique for a tight end.
but the coordination to contort his body at a moment's notice and make a really comfortable grab because he's just got exceptional hands. All those things show up all throughout the game with the variety of ways they use them now.
I'm so happy that during the draft process, like literally the week before the draft, someone in the know was like, hey, been listening to the show. Perhaps you should look at Colston Loveland tape.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, okay. So I went and looked at the tape, and then it was the conversation of is it Ty Warren or is it Colston Loveland? And I was ready. I was ready to talk about Colston Loveland. I'm like, oh, yeah, I get it. That's a wide receiver in a tight end's body, and he's got the wide receiver feet. And now you see it. Now that he's figured out how this thing works. Some of the basics.
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