What are the Bears’ expectations for 2026?

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What are the Bears' expectations for the 2026 season?

Leila Rahimi 0:00

We're talking to play-by-play man Kevin Harlan. You're the best when it comes to play-by-play of life.

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We're sending Marshall Harris to D.C. to run on the field.

Marshall Harris 0:08

Come on, Marshall.

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Bring it home, baby. We're ready for you.

Marshall Harris 0:11

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Roma Doomsday 0:17

I think the biggest thing was just obviously making the plays that come to me, making the most of my opportunities. I feel like this season I had way too many opportunities that I left out there on the field and, you know, that's never been the player I feel like I've ever been in my career. So just capitalizing on those opportunities. But, you know, I got to go into the offseason and put in the work to be able to do those things.

Leila Rahimi 0:39

That was Roma Doonday on Locker Cleanout Day. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 670 The Score. And we're listening to Antoine Randall-El's conversation with Jarrett Payton of WGN Sports. Thanks to WGN for letting us use the audio.

How did injuries impact the Bears' performance this season?

Leila Rahimi 0:56

He talked about DJ Moore. If you missed it, you can go back and listen to that segment. Really compelling when it came to what he meant to the team and also that final play we saw the Bears run offensively against the Rams. He also talked about Rome Adunze. So before we wanted to get to the standard conversation, which I think is very important, listen to what Jarrett had to say about Rome Adunze's self-criticism. I think this answers a couple questions we had about how he thought about his injury earlier in the year.

Marshall Harris 1:25

I think when you look at Rome, I mean, here's a guy who understands hard work, not going to shy away from it, doesn't want to shy away from it. doesn't want to take a rep off, a playoff, wants to be in there. So we had to really, at one point, we had to kind of keep him from himself in terms of, hey, let's rest his foot, not get back out there, you know, give it some time and let it heal up. Like, he was chomping at the bit to get back out there. And the criticism that he and how critical he is of himself Man, that is, that's what you want to see and hear when those things take place. When a guy takes, he takes the onus on like, yes, I messed up. Now, I gotta try to find a way to fix it. You know, yes, this is... I didn't play my best ball, man.

Marshall Harris 2:21

I'm chomping at the bit to get out, to get back to work, to play my best ball. When you get guys who see their faults, so to speak, and go work on it, man, that's easier for a coach to coach. Because at the end of the day, like, you see it, you gonna tell him about it. But before, sometimes I even tell him about different things. And again, it goes for other guys in my room as well. And I would say just most all of them. Like, he wants to, like, yeah, coach, I saw it. Now I'm still hitting him on it. Let him know it. But, man, he's already want to go work at it and get better. And you talk about being on pace to have such a great year and so on and so forth. So when these things happen, like, there's some disappointment that takes place, you know, the injuries or whatever.

Marshall Harris 3:08

So it comes down to, man, picking yourself up, continue to push forward. Hey, let us take care of while you're out. But, man, get your body ready to get ready to come back. And again, next year, he'll be much better. We got some things we're going to work on in the offseason. But he is he's going to be ready to go because that's the mindset and the mentality that he takes. you know, into the game, into practice. Man, how can I get better in this practice? We got seven on seven. Well, how can I get better in seven on seven? We got the team periods. How can I get better in team period one, team period two and three and so on and so forth? Being able to break it down like that. Hey, I had six plays. Man, I was perfect on five.

Marshall Harris 3:49

I got to get back to being perfect on six of them. That type deal. So that's the thought process that he takes into the practices and we, and that's the, how we operate. And he's going to be back full board, ready to go. I believe no question, just because he has that mentality for sure.

Leila Rahimi 4:07

Okay.