What does the future hold for veteran safety Kevin Byard and the Bears?
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What are the implications of Kevin Byard hitting free agency?
Amy Harrison Grody.
Could you imagine Lovey Smith doing the whole good, better, best thing and saying bleep the Packers?
Come on, guys. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Never let it rest. I'll see you on Tuesday. Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. Down to throw. Pressure up the middle. Zips one deep into heavy traffic. Intercepted! Kevin Byard, the league leader, has another one. Looking for some blocks. Up across the 25. They do it better than anyone. The league leaders and takeaways, and Byard, the most interceptions in the league, is seventh.
Yeah, that's right. That's courtesy of... Who is that? Fox or ESPN? Why did I think it was ESPN for a second? Because sometimes they all sound the same. It's courtesy of Fox. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. 104.3, Layla. Get it right. I have to tell myself, guys. And Kevin Bayard, yeah, seven interceptions. That led the league for the regular season. Devin Lloyd, two less than him at five. A group of five was Lloyd, J.C. Horn, Ernest Jones, Antonio Johnson, Xavier Watts, and Nashawn Wright, by the way, also a free agent now. Isn't that comforting, Marshall, to know that the guy who got you seven picks and the guy who got you five picks are both free agents now?
Yes.
Like if you're managing the Bears checkbook, you're like, well, isn't that nice?
I just like when I try to evaluate moves versus moves, it's so funny how one year you can think, oh, this was great or this was terrible. And then three or four years down the road, actually, it's the other way around.
Well, I mean, it's a wonderful problem to have, but it is still very much a problem. The fate of Kevin Byard, the fate of Nashawn Wright. The fate of even Tremaine Edmonds when you're trying to figure out what's going to happen next for the Bears, who also was up there at interceptions with four. So it's a jigsaw puzzle that Ryan Poles and the crew are desperately going to have to fit together. And number one, I think for all of us in our minds, and we even heard this when it came to Jaquan Brisker. was who are you going to keep? And Brisker versus Bayard was the discussion when we heard it talked about at the end of the season press conference. Who we didn't hear from after the end of the season press conference was Kevin Bayard, who's out and about because of the...
Pro Bowl games.
Why are you throwing up the air quotes?
That were on a Tuesday.
That man had an interception.
For some reason.
That man had an interception that he took off and ran back, and I think it didn't count because there was a penalty on the play. I think there was an illegal screen because you can't screen in flag football. I know a lot about flag football because I called the IHSA flag football championships this year, and it was a delight.
Yeah, screening in flag football does seem like a real illegal defense type of move. You can't block. The entire game becomes rendered irrelevant if you're screening.
Yeah, because that's not allowed.
Because that would be it. That'd be the end of the game.
I watched some of the Pro Bowl last night, but that's another story for another segment.
How does Kevin Byard's performance compare to other safeties?
My favorite's always tug of war and then the big men commentating on the tug of war. That's all I like.
I miss tug-of-war. I think we should be out here doing tug-of-war.
Pro Bowl games for adults?
Well, we got invited, actually, by Herb Howard two years ago. They were having the outdoor games, and I couldn't go that day, but I was like, that looks like so much fun. And tug-of-war was one of the things. Like, you bring your team of adults, and you see if you got what it takes against other adults.
Adult field day.
Yes. I think that's what it was called, actually.
I'm not running the 100.
No, I'm not. I'm not doing any of that. Potato sack race. Get me out of there for that.
The games of coordination, yes. But the games of like speed and power, physical violence. No, maybe hitting somebody. I mean, that's speed and power and violence. Yeah, but like just not the fast and coordinated part. Maybe like the willing to sacrifice your body for the cause part.
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