Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - 5 On It & discussing our favorite Super Bowl commercials (Hour 3)

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

In the third hour, Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote discussed a variety of topics in the 5 On It segment. After that, they imagined how Bears quarterback Caleb Williams would’ve fared in... the Super Bowl against the Seahawks’ dominant defense if he had been playing quarterback for the Patriots. Later, they discussed the Super Bowl commercials they liked and disliked.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The score. It's time for five on it. Rahini Harrison Rooney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104-3, the score. I got five on it. Number one. What was your biggest takeaway from Super Bowl 60?
Starting point is 00:00:18 My biggest takeaway was defense is still win championships. I'm sorry. It's cliche. It's painfully obvious. It's one of those things that you saw coming a mile away. But what did I say about the Seahawks team? I said they were the most consistent team in the NFL, said it a few times that I love their defense so much. And it showed yet again and again and again.
Starting point is 00:00:40 So I wasn't surprised that the defense remained consistent. There are a few things that are consistent in my life. But apparently the Seahawks' 2025 defense was one of them. My main takeaway is you don't need a top five quarterback to win the Super Bowl when you don't have to go up against the top five quarterback. Got that? Think safe. Points to head. You don't need a top five quarterback to win the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:01:01 when you're not going up against a top five quarterback. This game may have gone very differently if, say, let's start naming guys. Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes when healthy, we're out there. That's four guys I can tell you from the AFC who probably fare better than what Drake May did. So that was my biggest takeaway is, yes, defense does win championships, but it's a lot easier when you're not going up against an elite player at the most important position on the field. I'll twist what both of you just said. Yes, defense wins championships.
Starting point is 00:01:35 But boy, do we hate defense in this league. Boy, do we hate running games. What I learned is that we all still need offense that we've been talking about before the show, during the show. The whole thing is, is what a boring Super Bowl it was. Molly and Haw talked all morning about what a boring Super Bowl it was. I don't care what age people are anymore. The youngans, the boomers, everybody wants offense now. Except me, apparently.
Starting point is 00:02:05 That's what I learned from the, but you even said it wasn't the most eventful Super Bowl. Now I got excited for field position and punts. I mean, that's cool. That's fun, but even the party that I was at, people were nodding off because, and I was surprised by that, we still love offense. Number two. Question number two goes out to all the Maxinistas out there listening to 104,3, the score right now. We have a Max Crosby update from Jason LaCronforah of SportsBomb.com.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Sports, sports, sports, boom. Lockerforah shared the following quote from an unnamed general manager. Crosby, quote, told Tom Brady he will never play for the Raiders again. That's a fact. He told them he'll retire before he ever plays for them again, but I'm not sure they're actually going to trade him. Miles Garrett said the same thing last year, and we know how that ended up, unquote. That again, an unnamed general manager to Jason Lockegonforah on Sportsboom.com.
Starting point is 00:03:08 So here's the question on a scale of 1 to 10 on the Higone meter. Where would you rate the likelihood that Max Crosby will be on a different NFL team next season? Seven. I don't think it's at an 8. I don't think it's at a 9. I don't think it's at a 10 because right now it's an, quote, unnamed general manager, end quote, who heard this and shared with Jason Lackenbora. On what outlet again?
Starting point is 00:03:37 Sportsboom.com. Sportsboom.com sports, sports, sports boom. Sports velociraptor. I like that, Ray. And I'm not Jason Locker for a season reporter. That's not. But until we have some more sources on this and frankly, like some sort of definitive something, like Trey Hendrickson got in his car and drove away, for goodness You know, there are other ways of showing protest.
Starting point is 00:04:00 So until that happens, especially when the Seahawks, you know, that's part of this, by the way, is Clint Kubiak told Stacey Dales he's going to Vegas. So. Not Disneyland. Is it straight to Vegas? And like, people are like, oh, did he really? Stacey? Then where's the video?
Starting point is 00:04:16 Well, NFL network posted the video, dorks. So he's probably thinking to himself, oh, you know who I'd like to build my team around? A guy like him. Were people really questioning whether or not? It was so stupid. It was just a cacophony of stupid last night when it came to some of the replies. Being on social media last night was a chore, which is why all I posted was point of order on John Bon Jovi announcing the Patriots. And then after that I was like, I'm going to be in my notebook.
Starting point is 00:04:42 Took a break. Took a break from the old socials. Oh, I was in a box score. I was in play-by-play and I was writing stuff down. I like a good box score. You can get lost in a box score. Remember when box scores were in the paper in the morning? And a half-time score.
Starting point is 00:04:54 You know, I love a good halftime score. Like, I was like, wait, the Patriots have 18. net yards of passing at the half. It's like last year's. The Bears of last year, the halftime stats were hilarious. Atrocious. See at Detroit. Sometimes just take a look. If you're listening right now, go go take a look at the first half of the Bears game against Detroit Lions. Not you can multitask and listen. Exactly. People are sitting there with their phone right now listening to us. Oh yeah. They're not really listening either. So we're going to give you some homework. Your homework is look up a random box score from last year and giggle at the results.
Starting point is 00:05:25 But yeah, I just, I don't know. I, I think that if we've seen anything, Miles Garrett is a good example. Trey Hendrickson is another. You know, unfortunately, when you're good, you require a high-price contract, and there's not a lot of teams who can do that. 8.5. That's the number I'm putting out there for the he-gone media. Here's why.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Because I don't think this is just about them being bad. I think he was really, really upset, perturbed at the fact that he said he was healthy enough to play, and they put him on IR anyway at the end of the last season. I think he strikes me as a guy who has a degree of principle, which is going to have him fill in some type of way, and that hasn't worn off. And this is with a new front office in charge. It would be different if, like, front office was changing this off season.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Maybe he's like, all right, I'll hear you out, hear what you have to say. But he probably feels like he already knows what it is, because this is the group that said, yeah, Gino Smith and Pete Carroll are going to fix all our problems. And Pete Carroll lasted how many years as the Raiders head coach? Oh, that's right. one. So if I'm Max Crosby, I've done my hard time in silver and black. It's time to get out. And I get what you're saying, Layla, specifically about the Trey Hendrickson driving away, because even after he, quote unquote, drove away, where did he end up? Right back in a Bengals
Starting point is 00:06:37 uniform. I mean, Florida and then ultimately back playing for Cincinnati. Exactly. But I think that there's enough motion here to get something done that would also make sense for the Las Vegas Raiders because unless they're bringing in a quarterback that I don't know about, The rebuilding process is long. Well, and that's just it. For me, I'm going to put it at an eight that he gone because it's kind of last call for him. Like he's 28 years old. He's still at the peak of his powers.
Starting point is 00:07:04 That window is going to last three to four to five years, whatever it is. And I know that it would take two sides to make this happen, obviously. But unless, unless the Raiders tell Max Crosby, hey, don't worry. we're going to build this thing up, we're going to build this thing fast, we're going to be winning before you know it, unless they can convince him of that. I think even the Raiders would be like,
Starting point is 00:07:31 yeah, we'd probably be better off trading this guy and getting the assets and do a rolling rebuild right now. So I put it at 8. Max Crosby has gone. I am not saying that he'll end up with the Bears, though. Number three. This is fine about it on 104. 1043, the score with Laila Rahimi,
Starting point is 00:07:49 Marshall Harris, and Mark Grody. Here's question number three. The Super Bowl Champions Seahawks are on the Bears' 2026 schedule should Chicago open the season in Seattle? Why the heck not? The only other team I see
Starting point is 00:08:02 supplanting the Bears would be the Rams because those matchups have been epic. They also had to meet three times in the season. You heard the Seahawks after the Super Bowl talk about how the Rams lost to them was a catalyst, so much so that they won 10 straight games.
Starting point is 00:08:19 The end. And one of them was an absolute classic, the overtime game and then that was the second regular season meeting and then the playoff game was pretty dang good too. So when I consider that if I'm NFL marketing, if I'm NFL marketing, I'm straight petty and I'm starting with Rams at Seattle, Packers at Bears. Here's what's interesting about this. The idea that the Seahawks could open the schedule against the Patriots has not escaped me. I feel like that could be a great opening night game as well.
Starting point is 00:08:56 But I think they should start with the Bears. I think Bears fans should be clamoring for this. First of all, get that game out the way. What better way that when they're filling the emotion of having a banner hung at their stadium, maybe the 12s will be not quite as into it? Okay, that's a lie. The 12s are definitely going to be into it. But maybe the emotion overcomes the Seattle Seahawks.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Also, maybe Zach Charbonnet is back. I guess he wouldn't be back by then, huh? Move, Bears, get out the way. Yeah, Kenneth Walker the 3rd. You want less of him, more of Charbonate. That's just my personal opinion. They're both good. Yeah, but Walker to me is the more dangerous running back.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Look, if you're the Bears, just get it out the way. Plus, it's a measuring stick game. Out the gate. Like, you'll know very quickly what do you need to work on to be as good as the reigning Super Bowl champions in the team. I feel like has a pretty good chance of getting back to the Super Bowl next year. Oh, crud. I forgot about Australia. Rams and Niners open in Australia.
Starting point is 00:09:51 I'm sorry, I forgot about the Australian aspect of this. It's always the Australians, I tell you. I just wasn't considering that. I think that with this question about, should the bears open up in Seattle, it is to me, even that we're asking the question, it is, guys, it is the beginning, it is beginning the massive expectations
Starting point is 00:10:15 that the Chicago Bears are going to have, Are you guys ready for this? Is that a little heavy for you? People are going to be, maybe, and I'm working through it right now. I'm working through it right this second. There are going to be predictions for Caleb Williams to win MVP. Yeah, for the 4,000 yards. You could say it out loud, Marshall, like all of that stuff, for the bears to win the, like everything.
Starting point is 00:10:38 So that is just the beginning of what I want us to all be prepared for. And that is lofty expectations for your Chicago Bears. Thank you for giving us the runway to prepare. That's a pretty lengthy runway. I'm ready to be part of it, too, because why wouldn't we look at what the Bears did last year and say, oh, if they can make that even better, we're going to have more pro bowlers. We're going to have Caleb Williams in getting MVP votes. I don't know if he's going to be the MVP.
Starting point is 00:11:06 Votes would be amazing. For a Bears quarterback to get MVP votes to be a crazy concept. One of the legit finalists? Are you kidding? You know what's common though, Lela? It's all coming out. Dare to dream. Number four.
Starting point is 00:11:23 The Bulls and Hornets have amended the Kobe White trade after a physical showed White had a left calf injury and would have to miss time. The Hornets are now sending two second rounders. That's a 231 second round pick from the Knicks, a 2031 second rounder from the Nuggets, to Chicago instead of three. Has your overall view of what the Bulls did
Starting point is 00:11:44 at the trade deadline now changed now that Kobe White, the Kobe White trade had to be adjusted. All right. So this is my first time addressing anything trade deadline since this happened on these airwaves. I got to tell you, first of all, my overall view hasn't necessarily changed because I think that the bears, excuse me, I think that the bulls. Bears. They didn't take a hard enough nose dive if their goal is to quote unquote get out of the middle. They're still in the middle.
Starting point is 00:12:14 I don't know if you guys have seen the first two games that they play. another 0 and 2 since the deadline. They have good enough players to win games. That is problematic. Also, are they going to keep Josh Gideon's sideline forever? Because when those guys come back, guess what? They're going to win more games. Trey Jones, not Mike Jones, just so you know.
Starting point is 00:12:35 Trey Jones. And so the only thing I learned from this trade having to be adjusted after the fact is, good on the Bulls. I will give them a piece of like, You got rid of an injured player and got stuff back for him that otherwise would have walked away at the end of the season. So actually, I'm going to commend the Bulls for finding a way to get Kobe White out of here with stuff coming back. Because we all knew he was hurt. Everyone knew he was hurt.
Starting point is 00:13:01 The first time he tried to play back-to-back games, guess what? Re-injured the calf. And to get him out of here, I know it's only two second rounders and some players. It's still better than what they would have gotten otherwise, which is absolutely nothing for Kobe White. Nothing has changed for me because even though there is much work to do for the Chicago Bulls to still figure out exactly who this team is, I am. Look, and I know these are like very minimal standards right now. Go ahead. They did something and they did a lot of something.
Starting point is 00:13:33 And I don't know if that something is going to work. They must have done something. They did something and they did it with some of their big names. So I am until further notice, until I see what Arturz Karnassovis and Mark Eversley and Billy Donovan do in the next 30 games. And in the offseason and going into next year, that's when I'll get judgy. But right now I'm like, you did something. And it's a bad way to live.
Starting point is 00:13:59 I know, but that's where I am. I think every draft asset counts. And I think that every dollar counts because this isn't the old NBA where you could spend a lot of money in the tax. didn't really matter. And so because of that, I am bummed because that's a problem. Like when you when you have a physical issue so much that it costs you a draft pick when they made a clue that they find them important, that is a problem. It does, as we've said, confirm how injured Kobe White was. And for the Bulls to somewhat pull a fast one when it comes to Kobe's health. About them Bulls? Yeah, that's, that's, dare I say, savvy? Is that the right word? I feel like it's, I mean,
Starting point is 00:14:41 That's pretty good. I'd say so. But you know, I mean, it's, there's a lot that comes with it. You know, you trade an intra player and maybe the physicals aren't what you want. There's a lot of tentacles where that can go. Like, what's the long-term relationship between those two teams going to be? But all of that said, it just makes me wonder why that wasn't more prevalent here, right? Like, that's the first question you're asking is, well, wait a second.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Why was he playing so much? But we all thought it was to do why? showcases trade values. Also, he's in a contract here. That's it. So I understand the process. It's just a bummer that it costs the bulls something that they value in a draft pick.
Starting point is 00:15:22 But the biggest takeaway, by the way, for this whole trade deadline thing, yo, you stink, stink, stink, stink at evaluating. Because where's Daly and Terry right now on the street? That's your 18th overall draft pick in 2022. And that's the real issue is, what are you going to do? those picks once you get them. Number five. Five out of it on 104.3, the score. Here's our final
Starting point is 00:15:49 question. What was your Super Bowl meal? I ended up having steak, but it wasn't the one I was going to make. It was a leftover from the night before. What? So you had me hyped. Steak weekend for Layla. Love that. I mean, I spoke it into existence. Yeah, my friends cooked a dinner the night before. This is precious. They adopted a truffle tree in France
Starting point is 00:16:10 as part of their honeymoon. So this tree produces truffles. So as part of adopting this tree for this farm, it's like a co-op type of idea. They did like this truffle dinner with all these truffles that they got mailed. So I learned about them and they cooked a wonderful steak. So my second city prime steak
Starting point is 00:16:26 will be saved for a later date and a special occasion. In the meantime, I had a really lovely steak from Julesosco. Julesco that I paired with a massive salad from one of those salad in a bag kits, also from the Jules. That sounds so healthy. I mean, the dinner, the night.
Starting point is 00:16:40 before it was not. But the leftover steak with the salad, you try to have some balance. For me, I'm going to give you the rundown. You ready? I was over at the WLS, the old ABC 7 where they had a, I didn't know they had like the potluck thing going on. So I had crock pot
Starting point is 00:16:56 turkey and gravy meatballs, crock pot, pulled pork, pork, which was tender and delicious. Some chips, one slice of domino's sausage pizza and three
Starting point is 00:17:09 mini chocolate chip cookies that were homemade and delicious. Nice. We, so for this gathering that I attended, the idea was. The gathering. Magic, the gathering. The idea was like, everything was going to be centered around ordering pizza. So there were, there were dishes that were brought. Like, for instance, I made guacamole.
Starting point is 00:17:29 I made my own fresh from scratch. The seasoning and everything? The whole thing, I selected my own avocados at the jewels as well. So, yeah, yeah. So what had happened, though, was the pizza never got delivered. So everybody's kind of waiting and hoping for the pizza to come. The pizza did not come. So we just picked out on guacamole, casso dip, meatballs, and just a variety of chips and dips and whatnot.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Well, I'm sorry that you didn't get your pizza yesterday. But it came to you today. Did it? Thanks to Lou Malnottis, they brought by their heart-shaped pizzas. because today apparently is National Pizza Day. Did you guys know that? I did not know that. Because for me, every day is national pizza day.
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Starting point is 00:18:43 for carryout, dine, or delivery. I did not mean to work that in there, but when you see the opening for the segue, we got to do what we got to do. I was reminiscent of Kenneth Walker's performance yesterday, just going for it. Did you see the note about his dad, by the way? That his dad attended the game.
Starting point is 00:19:00 That was pretty incredible. It's good stuff. Good stuff. He never been to an NFL game, and his agent talked him into it, and Kenneth Walker, what? The third? Your dad at the game? First time ever?
Starting point is 00:19:12 How about you get the Super Bowl MVP trophy? And you get to witness it in real life. His dad afraid of crowds. That's why he never goes to games. Yeah, well, you know what? It worked out for everybody involved. Here's the question we have, though, is adjacent to the Super Bowl from yesterday.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Drake May and Caleb Williams always get compared. Same draft class, it's going to happen. But how would Caleb Williams have done in the Super Bowl if he was quarterbacking? not Drake May. Let's examine it. We'll get your thoughts to. 312-644-67. This is 104-3, the score. Pemey, Harrison Grody, midday's 10 to 2 on 104-3, the score. Arms outstretched, four-man rush, here's the snap. He leaves up. He's a bumble to ball, and Seattle's recovered. He was hit. The ball, Crowbar and Free. It's a bumble by the
Starting point is 00:20:08 Patriot quarterback, and Seattle is recovered. at the 37 of New England. First turnover of the game in Super Bowl 60. That's our friend Kevin Harlan on the call. Westwood won courtesy. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, the score. Drake May did not have the best day. And the Seahawks' 29-13 win over the Patriots,
Starting point is 00:20:33 the second-year quarterback had 295 yards passing a lot of that late in the game in the fourth quarter. Two touchdowns, two interceptions. he was sacked six times, and yes, he also lost a fumble. So accountable for three turnovers total in the game. And we've talked about this. It's been one of the ongoing discussions in the NFL is Caleb Williams' quarterback draft class, the draft of 2024. And Beau Nix, a part of it, the book, you know, that Seth Wicker-Sham wrote, American Kings,
Starting point is 00:21:06 the quarterback book, that centers around the discussion with Bo Nix, Caleb Williams, for example, big part of that story. Drake May is also a part of that draft. And while Drake May was getting MVP votes, I don't think that we here felt like we had to compare the two as much because it seemingly felt like all's well that ends well. But I do want to ask this question. We ask it of you as well.
Starting point is 00:21:28 312, 64, 64, 67, 67. If Caleb Williams were playing quarterback for the Patriots, I'm pretty sure he would have had a better Super Bowl performance. than Drake May. What do you think? I think this is super hypothetical, but I tend to agree with you, Leila. Here's why.
Starting point is 00:21:48 Caleb Williams has shown the ability to have a spark and to make ridiculous throws. While you can argue Drake May is more consistent because of that passing percentage that's over 70% for the season, you can, in the same breath, say, but he doesn't make the type of plays
Starting point is 00:22:05 that Caleb Williams has been able to make. And we saw that only grow, trend in the right direction towards the tail end of the season and directly into the playoffs. That's the reason why they almost were able to beat the Rams in advance to the NFC championship game because of Caleb Williams making ridiculous plays. And when you bring pressure, he tends to make the most out of those opportunities. And I think his line would have held up better as well. Now, I will also say this before I want to get your opinion, Mark, is that May did say he
Starting point is 00:22:34 received a pain-killing injection for that right-throwing shoulder before the game left. night. So that is also to be considered as well. I was actually watching the game. I was thinking of Caleb, not because of this question necessarily, but because I was thinking, oh, he is going to pull Caleb Williams because there were games where Caleb Williams was not a factor for two plus quarters, sometimes three quarters in a game, especially early on this year. And when Drake May makes that, when it's 19-0 in the fourth quarter, and Drake May makes the 24th quarter, and Drake May makes the 24-yard pass to Mack Hollins, ahead of the Hollins TD, which only made it 19 to 7 at the time. I thought, oh, wow, okay.
Starting point is 00:23:19 He's going to pick it up here. And then, and then there's the part where the Julian Love interception comes, where on that drive, twice, Drake May almost as if he knew he had to throw the ball downfield and he did it blindly, twice. He should have been intercepted twice on the Julian Love. of drive. So that's where it departed. So that's where it departed for me. And if Caleb Williams is in at that time, like once Caleb Williams got going, even if he was bad for a half or three quarters, he didn't stop in the fourth quarter. Drake May started to be good and that was bad. So my answer is yes, Caleb Williams would have been better, especially
Starting point is 00:23:58 late in the game than Drake May for those specific reasons. Well, and that's how I feel is that given the comeback element of what Caleb does, you know, the fact that there were seven fourth comebacks that he led for the team. Almost eight. Let's face it. Almost eight if it hadn't been for the last one. There is that element of, yeah, maybe he throws one of the similar interceptions where he's trying to force something late over the middle.
Starting point is 00:24:22 Okay, yeah. I could see, fair is fair. You know, guys throw that interception. Quarterbacks in the league will throw that when they're down and they're trying to make something happen and they're coming from behind. But everything else, like I think the scrambling, Drake may had a lot of like up the middle type of runs,
Starting point is 00:24:37 but I don't necessarily know that he would have been able to throw on the run like Caleb Williams can. He needed spectacular. Like Drake May, we debate like who's, and Drake May has the edge right now in Caleb Williams, probably, right? On the overall as a quarterback. But Drake May still can't do the spectacular things, make the spectacular throws to the same level that Caleb Williams can't. Like he needed, they needed desperate spectacular last night. and didn't get it. That's exactly what Caleb Williams provided the Bears last year.
Starting point is 00:25:11 No matter what you want to say about his season, Caleb made spectacular throws in the fourth quarter and May couldn't pull it off. I don't know that I'm ready to say that Drake May has this edge on Caleb Williams in the same way that you just said it. Maybe we're talking about two different things, though. So when you say he's got that, you just saying the MVP runner up in the league. Completion percentage was clearly in May's favor. In the overall, if you pull the NFL right now, if they did a ranking of that draft class,
Starting point is 00:25:35 Drake May in general would be ahead of Caleb Williams, would he not? Here's my question. If we redrafted right now, would you take Caleb Williams or would you take Drake May? I would still take Caleb Williams over Drake May. I think I would too, just because the sky is the limit, for lack of better phrase. Whereas with somebody like Drake May, you can see the ceiling. I don't see the ceiling yet for Caleb Williams. And that doesn't mean he's going to be elite or great for the next 10 years,
Starting point is 00:26:01 but it does mean that there is a lot of potential still with Caleb. I think that the issue lies in what you guys are talking about. Right now, one quarterback's forte more than another in Caleb Williams is the outstanding play, the play that is the outlier. Which you needed yesterday. Very rare quarterbacks can make. And yes, you do need a lot of that to win you a Super Bowl, especially against one of the best defenses in the league. Where I think there's room for improvement is something that I think a lot of quarterbacks can improve,
Starting point is 00:26:30 which is plays in structure. So if the mud date is the issue more so than the spectacular. I'm pretty sure that coaches can help you get to the mundane. You know, that's the thing. It's that the thing that seems to be fixable or easily understanding why the bridge would be there is that it's incredibly possible that a lot of the stuff that we would like to see him get back. If he makes two more of those throws in a game that are the mundane or the easier ones, or I don't know, let's go back to the obvious.
Starting point is 00:26:58 The bear's receiving court catches the ball better. Yeah. Then, you know, Caleb Williams is still my guy. over May. Now, did May throw some dimes, you know, or at least try to with that shoulder? Yeah, you can see why the deep ball accuracy is there. Neither one of those quarterbacks yesterday were afraid to throw a deep ball into double coverage. Neither is Caleb Williams. But when it comes to the idea of being chased out of your pocket, you know, if they're going to attack left tackle like they did yesterday, I like Caleb Williams's chances better than Drake Mays. I just wonder,
Starting point is 00:27:28 because maybe this is where my in-town stupid comes into bias, like centers up. I feel like Caleb Williams with that skill position set is very different than Caleb Williams with the particular skill position players he has here. I think there are guys. Yeah, there are guys on the Patriots where there's Stefan Diggs and obviously Matt Collins showed you what he could do yesterday. But I feel like he has better weapons in Chicago. And so maybe he wouldn't have fared as well with that group of skill players in New England. I mean, look at the leading receivers yesterday.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Like this is, again, understanding how good the Seattle defense is. It was Mack Hollins with 78 yards, four catches. DeMario Douglas, Ramandre Stevenson, before Stefan Diggs, who had 37 yards receiving. Hunter Henry, Trevion Henderson, Kishon Booty with 21, Austin Hooper, and then Kyle Williams. So, CX had a defined plan when it came to making Drake may have to go to different receivers than as usual, trying to get to checkdowns, like all those things I feel like Caleb Williams has a handle on,
Starting point is 00:28:37 enough to where I would have trusted him in that game. Yeah, I think, so to answer your question, I think we can agree. We all believe Caleb Williams would have played better in that game yesterday. Again, the only question I have in my mind is a fully healthy, Drake, man. I know you don't get to have him fully healthy,
Starting point is 00:28:56 but without having to get his shoulder shot up, does that make a difference in this conversation that we're happening? Or do we just believe that the Seahawks' defensive pressure is so stout that it wouldn't have made that much of a difference in the performance of one Drake May. I mean, it's a great question.
Starting point is 00:29:10 I feel like nobody really wants to think about the possibility that Drake May was playing hurt. But he was. We know he was playing hurt. It is, but at the same time, that's why I was saying, like, if you're flushed out of the pocket, because he was sacked six times in this game,
Starting point is 00:29:26 yeah, then I like Caleb on the run. That's my thought. He did have that one May that burst up the middle where it was like, oh, you're going to give me the middle of the field right now for whatever it was, 30 yards. And it probably feels like he could have done that more often. Based on what he had done just in previous playoff games this season. And I thought as the game, yeah, as the game went on and you weren't getting anywhere with your explosive passes or anything, yeah, he should have looked to take off more. And maybe that is, maybe that is where the injury part came in, that he was in his own head.
Starting point is 00:29:58 I mean, I thought he looked hesitant all night. Yeah, and I feel you on that. I think there was a lot going on when it came to the aspect of balancing an injury with balancing how to play against the Seahawks defense and it's the Super Bowl. There's a lot there to have to figure out at one time. Great point made by 630 on the text line. Caleb wouldn't have been sack six times. He's got that elite escape ability and probably takes better care of the football,
Starting point is 00:30:26 which is a good part why his completion percentage is lower. Turn on the film. Caleb, yeah, we don't need to turn the film. We saw it. Caleb is a superstar. We understand the superstar potential there. But yeah, I don't think he gets sex six times. That's it for me.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Yeah, he doesn't, he's running out of that pocket. Especially the pick six at the end with Ocena Nuo Sisu. That is one that, that was a Justin Fields special right there where Fields never saw the defenders. It was like a horror film watching. It's like, no, that guy's coming for you. Caleb feels that. Caleb's got the Spidey series.
Starting point is 00:30:59 He feels that. There was a lot of that going on in the game yesterday. Debbie Witherspoon was coming in unchecked on the right side. They didn't even try. They didn't even attempt to slide protection. And how many times have we talked about that? That's QB's job. You know, there was a lot of that going on where there are some unchecked rushers.
Starting point is 00:31:16 We're watching it. It's like, no, they're going to get it. That reminded me of Justin Fields. Is that the Jaws music or is that the law and order? It's good question. I was going for Jaws there because of the, you know, the linebackers coming. hair in the water? Yeah. Blood in the water, folks. Coming to get you. This note being posted today on Twitter, by the way, by Ben Zelensky, he's a statehouse reporter
Starting point is 00:31:38 with Capitol News, Illinois. Nugget from Governor Prisker. We're in constant, consistent conversation with the Chicago Bears. There's a real possibility that many of the things we put on the table are the things they're willing to do to stay in the state. He adds he doesn't take their indie move as a bluff. Is that leverage? Who's that from some leverage? This is from Ben Zelensky. He's a reporter with Capitol News, Illinois.
Starting point is 00:32:05 But who is he talking? He's quoting Governor Pritzker. Okay. Pritzker, we could probably turn around that sound. I just saw it online. Interesting answers. There's an event going on this Wednesday night, little pep rally, if you will,
Starting point is 00:32:19 in I believe Arlington Heights, in terms of put a little pressure on the state to wake up and go along with some infrastructure plans. So that is coming soon too. They said that they would be willing to pony up a billion dollars. That's not nothing. That is not nothing. I mean, but it is the, this Indiana thing has awakened Illinois a little bit,
Starting point is 00:32:42 but more to come this week. 6.30, when did Drake get hurt? We do not know. That was just the report I read on ESPN from Mike Rice, was that May said he received an injection for his right throwing shoulder before the game last night. Coming up next here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, the score, one major aspect of the Super Bowl we have not gotten to yet.
Starting point is 00:33:05 Are the commercials? Mark Grady has some thoughts. He of the Comedy School. I have some thoughts. Putting pressure on me now. Yeah. Marshall Harris always has a thought, so I want to hear what he has to say about it. Congratulations.
Starting point is 00:33:18 You do. You're always good for an opinion. You're always good for a thought. Whether it's right or wrong, I've got a thought. Don't we all? Put that at the promo. Marshall Harris, good for a thought. Do you know what that was?
Starting point is 00:33:29 That was sister messing with brother being like, me. I've been prodded. You've been prodded. Yeah. Okay. Amy Harrison Grody. Could you imagine Lovey Smith doing the whole good, better, best thing? And saying bleep the Packers.
Starting point is 00:33:44 Come on, guys. Good better best. Never let it rest. I'll see you on Tuesday. Middays 10 to 2 on 104 3, the score. Oh, this. song is so good. This is the song
Starting point is 00:34:06 from the trailer to FX's show Beauty. This is Rahimi Harrison Brody on 1043 The score. The trailer's good. I haven't seen the show yet. The Ashton Coochard show? Yeah. It's kind of a riff off of the substance movie where you can take this shot. It's going to make you pretty.
Starting point is 00:34:22 But uh-oh, watch out their side effects. And the side effects are mutation and killing. If it's not punked, I don't care if it's about Ashton. You know, that's it. Just punked is all I love. That's fair. But that's just a side effect guy. But that's me. You're more what? Butterfly effect.
Starting point is 00:34:34 Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. It wasn't bad. But the song is a banger, so I was glad they revived it. I thought that was excellent music choice on their part. In the meantime, it wasn't one of the many commercials we saw during, as Dustin lovingly calls it, Big Game 60, which I think is hilarious because it's essentially, you know,
Starting point is 00:34:54 if you use it in a promotional copy, you have to say, Big Game. The Big Game. So there were many commercials. Few of note for me. Mark, what stood out to you that was like notable? I got two of them that were notable. I really enjoyed Adrian Brody making fun of himself because every movie that Adrian Brody,
Starting point is 00:35:18 or a lot of the movies at Adrian Brody, and he plays like the most serious, the most dramatic, the most worn down, depressed humans that you will ever come across piano. And then they go and cry? Yeah, yeah. So to see him, he's in a turbo tax commercial, and he's doing the Adrian Brody dramatic commercial. And the director is like, tone it down, man.
Starting point is 00:35:41 You don't always have to be Adrian Brody. So I enjoyed that one. And also probably from nostalgia reasons. Oh, here we go. I am like Jurassic Park, the original is in my top five of movies all time, just because of this discovery of the movie to see Dr. Grant. Ian Malcolm and Laura Dern's character all out there. And it was just, it hit me right. Okay, you're using Jurassic Park, the original for what was, what was even the,
Starting point is 00:36:14 I'm actually not even sure what the commercial was. It was for internet. Was it? Internet? Everything. The whole, I think it was like, maybe Xfinity. It was the whole point of the commercial was if you just had, if you had better internet, the park wouldn't have shut down and then everybody loves the happy, I will happily endorse your park.
Starting point is 00:36:30 Yeah. So those are, those are the. two, I mean, there's a lot of them, but those are the two that stopped me and made me pay attention. The Guy Fieri, just a guy for Bosch. So that one was good because they leaked a little bit of the marketing first where Guy showed his image, but you didn't know what it was from. It was him without any of the flare that Guy Fieri has without the frosted tips, you know, without the bulberry, jewelry, without the white stitched jeans. You know where I'm going with this, without the affliction shirt.
Starting point is 00:37:02 Looks like a totally different guy. It was disturbing. You couldn't even tell, like, if you put that photo up, like, that's Guy Fieri. And Bosch is actually one of our sponsors. That's why I remembered it was Bosch. But the formation where he puts his hand on the fridge and then he transforms into regular Guy Fiery. Yeah, that was really disturbing to see Guy Fiery without flair.
Starting point is 00:37:24 And that's how I know I'm an old. The most disturbing part about getting older is not your friend's kids getting older. you getting older, like, for me, it's not the doctor's visits, whatever. It's understanding that now I'm supposed to be in the demographic who can spend money. And I'm like, ha ha! Jokes on you. I get these references and I still can't spend that much money. And then I'm reassessing my life choices.
Starting point is 00:37:48 So my number one commercial is probably not going to be anybody else's number one commercial. But come on, man. Come on, man. It's definitely Bruce Ariens. And the relax your type. in for prostate cancer, unveiling a new way to test for it without having to, you know.
Starting point is 00:38:07 Was that where they're showing the butt close-ups? The butt's clenching? Literally, right? It starts out with like a bunch of tight ends. I don't know what we need that for, that audio, but we need to get it. You had like Tony Gonzalez, uh, gronk. Who else was in it? I think Kittle was in it too. Greg Olson was in it.
Starting point is 00:38:24 And it was just like, you didn't even know what they were talking about because it was like relaxed, relaxed tight ends. And the whole thing was like these tightings were getting. Titans are getting pampered. And then once Bruce Aaron gets in there and explains you what he's pitching, and then you see the close-ups of the Heinz, the hind quarters relaxing. I was like, oh, that's excellent use. It was good.
Starting point is 00:38:43 That was, it was kind of weird to see the older players, though, like in the, they were in full football uniform. Yes. So to see some of those guys like Tony Gonzalez and Greg Olson in uniform, like at their current age was kind of funny looking. And that was the second commercial with butts, by the way. It was Levi's was the other one. Dochi was in that.
Starting point is 00:39:02 What was that? Yeah, I missed that one. It was a Levi's commercial, just, you know, a bunch of jeans. So they're, there's an excuse to show butts. Did you see the Matthew McConaughey trolling Bradley Cooper? Oh, yeah, that was good, too. It was until the end when there was poor sound editing. Like, I need Bradley Cooper to enunciate the line, football is selling food or else the hook doesn't work.
Starting point is 00:39:22 And I had to rewind it several times. And again, I sound like an angry woman yelling at a cloud. But that defeats the purpose. when you have to go back and rewind it. I've yelled at my cloud before because it was full and I didn't realize it was full. And I was like, cloud! We need more space. I'm not paying for it either.
Starting point is 00:39:40 Well, yeah. And when the cloud gets full, it doesn't back up right. And your encrypted data goes bye-bye. It's very bad. Yeah, that ad campaign, that Uber Eats ad campaign, I had that on my list of least favorite because it's just getting old. Like, it's played out now. They've done these commercials where they're like referencing food and like it's a whole conspiracy theory that the NFL is selling food. I mean, the Hall of Fame being a jean.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Being a juicer is pretty accurate, though. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't ready for that one. How do we do on Goodwill Duncan? Too flashy, too good. I hated that one. Really? Why?
Starting point is 00:40:08 Why? Because of the... It was the AI of it all. Yeah. I feel like it was all, if you look at all... It's scary. It was a very cool idea to have all these 90s TV stars make cameos. Yeah, Sam...
Starting point is 00:40:19 I did like Sam Malone showing up on my TV. Very cool. Very cool. But they are all, like, looking at, as they did in the peak era of the 90s when those shows were on. But that's the whole thing. It was a, it was a... So does it just freak you out that we can, that we're capable of doing that? Is that what you're saying?
Starting point is 00:40:35 Yes. I understand what you're saying. Like, because it was a good... I liked the commercial, but I wasn't. This was a little too good. Like, you could really bring these folks back like that. Like, that's creepy. Ben Affleck was the best part of it. I thought. Like, he's really good at selling ridiculousness. He is.
Starting point is 00:40:50 We know he loves Duncan, so it's authentic. I got a phrase out of it. I called it at the, after I finished watching it and thought about it for like five seconds. I was like, like, that is just the most egregious case of nostalgia porn I think I've ever seen. That's a great way to play. You just nailed it. It was just over the top. And just this doesn't know.
Starting point is 00:41:08 My sensibilities are quite offended. As if you even needed it. Here's Sam Malone for you now. I will watch this commercial because a person I remember is in it. Yeah. Sam Malone gets girls. Like Jalil White Jasmine Guy. Also the other thing that bothered me, like gave me the creeps, was
Starting point is 00:41:26 Rocket Mortgage. company who brought you the we're going to try to revive spending concepts of pre-2008 crash decided to use the Mr. Rogers theme song to encourage people to try to buy houses. See, I missed that.
Starting point is 00:41:42 That's one that I missed and I'm glad I missed. When you're twisting the Mr. Rogers theme song to try to convince people to buy houses in this economy for capitalist gain and I participate in capitalism, that's not the point here. It's just some things you need to be separate.
Starting point is 00:41:55 And for me, that was a bridge too far. The whole thing, we don't have a choice but to participate. That's how you live and pay your bills. And yeah, we kind of have to do the thing that's everybody else is doing. Yeah, I'm not saying anti-capitalist. I'm just saying don't use Mr. Rogers to try to convince people to take on a mortgage. Some things need to stay sacred.
Starting point is 00:42:11 That's it. That's it. Nothing is sacred. Nothing is sacred. That is the lesson I took away from the Super Bowl commercials. Yeah, I willingly participate in the system. I'm not saying that, but I also have scruples. Oh, you do, do you?
Starting point is 00:42:23 Yeah. I don't have any scruples. Yeah, neither do I. Layla's got scruples. What I do with them. I'm not quite sure yet. Dan Weider is next.

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