What we learned from Coby Bryant being Bears’ top priority in free agency
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welcome to a friday of rahimi harrison grody here on 104.3 the score it is mark grody and leila rahimi in with you this morning i love it when mark by the way like gabe said the afternoon show because gabe is up early so to him it is afternoon people will call the midday show anything you're right some people were the morning to some people were the afternoon and sometimes we're middays but mostly it just tells you how people interpret their day
Yeah, that's a great point, especially. And I think things kind of changed after the pandemic to some degree, certainly during the pandemic when this was the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. was kind of the morning because everybody was working from home at the time. Yeah. And after the pandemic, we all learned with certain ways, including radio. We don't do it as often anymore, but we all learn ways to work from home, which pushes the morning up a little bit. But yeah, we are the show between the morning show and the afternoon show. We are the midday show. At least that's my interpretation.
Technically, they call us middays. But I really kind of like learning how people feel about their days. That does give you a clue as to who it is. You know, it's like Mr. Rogers says, the people you meet each day.
And it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, I must say.
It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood, especially compared to Monday. I'm into this. And we hope you are enjoying a very fun Sports Friday on this day. Now, you'd think that we'd be done with Bears talk, but Mark is here, and it goes on and on and on. We will address baseball in an R5 on a segment at noon. We will address a stadium discussion as well. We've got Jeremy Warner with a line-eye talk coming up at 1045, just so you guys are aware. But in the meantime... I think I said it offhand, and it has become the truth. The Bears' biggest free agent signing is safety Kobe Bryant. Three years, $40 million, 25.75 of it guaranteed. He'll be 27 in the season when he's playing here in Chicago. And he sat down with the great Kay Adams, also a Chicago girl, and I think really let us in on some inside information.
He also repeated something that I think... Not only should you understand how much it matters to him, but how much I think sometimes guys like that will play with that energy when they know that's how a team feels about them moving forward. But then he also let us in on some inside information that might give away some timing here that might be a little off compared to the NFL schedule. Let's take a listen.
Based off the season, Kobe, you had... And I'm glad that you looked, there were a lot of options for you. A lot of people wanted you to be hanging out with them for the 2026 season. How did it go with the Bears? What was it about the Bears?
Just the sense of being wanted, honestly. They called me at 7 a.m. I'm in Arizona, so they called me pretty early, which I had just woken up. And, you know, that was that that struck it right there, honestly. Just like I said, just being wanted and them pursuing to, you know, get me over there. It wasn't easy, you know, obviously, you know, being in Seattle for four years. But to me, I'm blessed. And, you know, that's where it led me to Chicago.
Wait a second. The NFL, quote, legal tampering period, end quote, started at 12 p.m. Eastern on Monday, March 9th, 2026. Kobe Bryant was an announcement that happened on March 9th, was it not? Wasn't that news broken on March 9th?
That's correct.
Wait a second. Hold on. You mean to tell me that even that might not actually truly encompass the practice of the NFL? What? You mean to tell me that maybe they knew about this guy even before Monday?
You're telling me that there's an illegal tampering period, too? We have an illegal tampering period and a legal tampering period and a signing period? Dun, dun, dun.
That is the right move.
That's five beauts to start the day off there, Cornhusker.
How would you, wait, if this were a Law & Order episode with that specific sound effect, how would that go? What would be, how would you address this to the jury?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:29
2
Why is Coby Bryant considered the Bears' top priority in free agency?
7:29–10:53
3
What insights did Coby Bryant share about his decision to join the Bears?
10:53–12:32
4
How did the Bears' legal tampering period impact Coby Bryant's signing?
12:32–16:50
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