Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
What we learned from Coby Bryant being Bears’ top priority in free agency
20 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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.
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Chapter 2: Why is Coby Bryant considered the Bears' top priority in free agency?
Dave Wanstead, once upon a time ago, was pushing the idea of Terrell Smith, who, of course, was injured last year, but should be back this year.
Good.
A good bear. A good bear to make him into a safety. So I don't know that they would convert. I mean, Kobe Bryant was converted from cornerback to safety. Maybe they could do the same thing with Terrell Smith, but we can get to that later on.
No, I think that's a good thought to hold because a lot of people ask about Terrell Smith. A lot of our listeners... Mention Terrell Smith and you're right to do so. That's kind of how this works. If we're all building this team together, then you're going to name your guy.
Now, there was more on the Up and Adams show with Kay Adams and Kobe Bryant because this is important about, I think, not only the time that the Bears called, but also who we think is in charge of what. And he lets us into some of that behind the scenes as well.
I know polls said that, was it polls who called you or was it somebody else? I don't want to misspeak.
Dennis Allen.
Oh, yeah, that's what I want to talk. That's very cool, because I would imagine like I heard polls say that you play their style of ball. That was the quote. So what did I would love to know, like, you know, obviously, when I think of Dennis, I think like aggressive. Right. He wants those takeaways. That's so what like what when what makes you a good fit, according to Dennis Allen and you?
Yeah, just pretty much what he said already, just me playing fast, you know, just the takeaway aspect, just really just being that dog that I am, you know, and not to, you know, hype myself up, but just, you know, all the things that they listed, you know, obviously, like I said, they're building something special over there.
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Chapter 3: What insights did Coby Bryant share about his decision to join the Bears?
Maybe that was the answer. Or maybe Pohl said, here's three guys. Who do you think? That's just the way it works.
Yeah, and I feel like Ryan Pohl's... You're scouting people all year long. You're scouting people for multiple years. Ryan Pohl's himself goes to a lot of games. People have seen him. They've talked about it online. They've posted about it. He goes to the pro days. Even the day he spoke after... free agency. He was at the Oklahoma pro day earlier that day. Yes.
So I'm with you, Mark on the, he still very much has a part of this, a bigger part than a lot of people want to admit. But I think we did have some questions about how much Dennis Allen, uh, How much of it is him being a second head coach, essentially? How much of it is him being head coach of the defense? We talked about Declan Doyle's role previously, now Press Taylor.
So that is some good insight there when it comes to understanding that part. And again, way to be hands-on about it. If you want to be hands-on about it like that, then I don't think that's a bad thing either.
since the defense was, other than the turnovers, all the numbers were bad last year. They were middle to upper 20s in most categories, including overall defense. Stopping the run was not good for the Bears last year. So yeah, I think that some... you know, some autonomy. I don't know if that's the right word for Dennis Allen, but the idea that he's going to have some influence.
And did he, we have to go back to last year then, how much influence did he have in Dio Odengbo and Shamar Turner and Grady Jarrett? And like, do we penalize that then if we're going to do this fairly with Dennis Allen?
Well, that's it. You know, I always I always would talk about this, especially in college recruiting, because it would be like, oh, well, this school can get anybody they want.
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Chapter 4: How did the Bears' legal tampering period impact Coby Bryant's signing?
And I'm like, yeah, that's the problem. These were the guys they wanted. Yeah, that's a separate thing to me. So I try to compartmentalize when it comes to did you get the guys you want? Because a lot of teams. in the NFL and in college, for example, are not good at getting the players they want, the acquisition process. And then there's the secondary issue of, well, why did you want these guys?
And then can you actually use them? You know, like Tremaine Edmonds is a great example of that. Well, that was the guy you wanted, but could you even actually use him properly with what you wanted to do? Those are three different things in my mind.
And I don't think... Now that I think about it, you just asked the question, do they use him properly? Tremaine Edmonds seemed to not like Matt Eberflus, the coach.
Yeah, just because that guy wants you and thinks that you're supposed to do certain things in his defense doesn't mean that that's good.
Right. Well, that blew me away because it was... who had tremendous influence on him coming here. But every time we asked Tremade Edmonds about Matt Eberflus after he left, he couldn't even fake it. Our culture is awesome. He wanted no part of talking about Matt. And he took the high road. It was wild.
Dude, Jerry Jones, and take this with a grain of salt when he speaks, as we know, but absolutely lambasted the defense last year. And I'm just thinking to myself, well, if only they had had players, you know, like one in particular. Yeah. Who wasn't in the NFC North.
Michael Parsons?
Yeah. Maybe you could have used him. But I do think about Montez Sweat and the combo of him and Matt April Flus. That worked out well.
It did.
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