Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - 5 On It: How likely is it that Declan Doyle lands job with a new NFL team?

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris discussed a variety of topics in the 5 On It segment.

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I'm Mully and Haugh. David Hawre reported this. Declan Doyle will be pursued. This is what I know. Declan Doyle was offered the chance to be the play caller for the Philadelphia Eagles and turned it down to come back to Chicago. David Haw this morning, I'm Mullen Ha.

The Ravens have also requested to interview Declan Doyle on a scale of 1 to 10 on the Hegone meter. Where do you rank the likelihood of Declan Doyle taking a job in this hiring cycle? I think I put it at like a six. I don't know that it's very much higher than that because now it depends on whether or not

Lamar Jackson wants to work with Declan Doyle. And I don't think it's necessarily like, oh, he doesn't want to work with him. If the job isn't the right fit or something. But that given the situation in Baltimore and the discussion surrounding how that went down and the fact that John Harbaugh is no longer there, it sounds like having an offensive coordinator who is in lockstep with Lamar and is somebody who wants to work with him and adjust the offense to what the strengths are of that team is priority number one. Given that, I don't necessarily know if that's the particular job Declan Doyle wants.

If it is, then it's a one or zero and one, he's gone. But in this case, Declan Doyle might just be like Ben Johnson, where you waited out, everybody thinks you've interviewed well, and then different opportunities come up the next year that may better suit you. So I'm looking at this, and I put the Higong meter at a 7.5. Here's why. This does come down to what other jobs can you foresee being open in the coming year, right? Because it's one of two things. Either you don't feel like you're ready for a head coaching job and you want to get one more year under a guy,

like Ben Johnson, whose play calling is so phenomenal, and you feel like you haven't quite absorbed all that you can absorb from him. And you may have just been like, I'll go do these head coaching interviews for the experience of interviewing to be an NFL head coach. I think as an offensive coordinator who doesn't call plays, it's like, do you have enough to go out on your own and call plays? Or do you not? And it's interesting, if he turned down the job for the Eagles, well, what would be the

difference between that and the Ravens. Well, number one, I would say maybe less dysfunction. You've got a clear MVP when healthy in Lamar Jackson. You saw how they started the season when he was unhealthy and how they made a late charge and push and almost got over the mountain, if you will, at the end of the season. I really do feel like Declan Doyle is going to be a head coach in the NFL. It's just a matter of how long is it going to take? And staying with Ben Johnson might be the best route. The 2022 coaching cycle was summarized last week on the social media's. Only two people out of that coaching cycle that had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten. Just like this year. Only two were retained. So Matt Eberflus,

number one, Nathaniel Hackett, Lovey Smith with Houston. Doug Peterson was in Jacksonville at the time. The Raiders hired Josh McDaniels. Mike McDaniel was with Miami. Kevin O'Connell with Minnesota. So there's one. Dennis Allen with New Orleans. Brian Dable with the Giants and Todd Bulls with Tampa Bay. Wait, who's...

I missed the second one. Who's the still... Nathaniel Hacking. Yeah. It's worth putting out of your mind entirely. Don't you remember when they had to bring in the helper? This is bad. Because of the fourth quarter situations that were occurring.

This is bad. Although I think with the Ravens, like the Ravens is more of a sure job than the Eagle. The Eagles job, you go, you be the offensive coordinator. Either a head coaching job out of that or you get fired at the end of the year. Quarterback is the difference maker here. Like quarterback makes everything makes sense. And it's interesting because one is a Super Bowl MVP. The other one has never been to the Super Bowl, but he is a regular season MVP.

Right. So that's quite the mess. Number two. The Browns announced on Monday night that they completed a second. head coach interview with Rams past game coordinator, Nate Shieldhaus. Not House. No, it's not.

No, don't do it. Wanted it to be Shieldhaus. It is Schillhaus. It is. Don't be singing the House song. Sheal House. Okay. You know what you're also singing?

No, you can sing the Schill House. No, you know what you're also singing. Scorehouse. Hashtag Scorehouse. That's right. Mitch in every single tweet about Scorehouse. Every single one. It was Scorehouse.

Then hashtag scorehouse. Just in case you didn't know about scorehouse. Well, the real thing I was trying to workshop in my head was Ramstein, like, do Haast and working that, but that's too much. Shield. Sheal. Yes, exactly, exactly. But I was like, you know what, Tyler, that's going to be too much.

I think it's perfect. Back to the question about Shield Haas. Later that night, the bills announced that they also completed an interview with Shield Haas. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the Buffalo job has now been filled by their own offensive coordinator Joe Brady. With all that being said. said, do you expect Nate

Shield Haas to withdraw his name from the Browns Head Coaching Search anyway, because it's the Browns? Man, this Browns situation's getting hilarious. So just to be nosy, I went over to our sister station in Cleveland, Ken

Carmen and Anthony Lima. You got that quick, too. And Ken Carmen was like, I have a feeling the Browns are going to make a hire today. They did not. And I was just wondering, like when you're in it you're talking about it completely differently as we know you're trying to see where the team is coming from you're giving some people the benefit of the doubt you understand the

intricacies of the process not us i just get swooping and be like what the hell's going on over here oh you think you're making a hire today today of all days so i think it'll happen okay uh this goes back to what we were just talking about. You got to put your, you got to put your chips in the right pile, right? You got to put your, if you're rolling the dice, the Browns is not somewhere I would want to be.

I love that they on the team website are keeping an interview tracker. Yeah, that's pretty common. But it's, is it long, the list? Yes. With Shohas, I would just stay with the Rams. It's a very insulated situation,

continue to learn. and wait until a better opportunity comes up. Todd Munkin's going to coach that team, I think. I like that idea. But if he doesn't, he has a job. I like that even more. If you like a coach, do you like the idea of them having to coach the Browns? No.

Yeah, that's really what it comes down to. You know who should coach the Browns? Matt Nagy. There it is. There it is. There it is. More on him in a minute. Number three.

Five on it on six. 70's score with Laylor Rahimi and Marshall Harris at noon. Huge show honoring the legendary Boers. But here's question number three. On Monday, Cubs left-hander Justin Steele tweeted the following. Quote, was just brought to my attention that Nico Horner wasn't on the top 100 list. I wouldn't take that list very seriously if that's the case. Whoever made it was obviously not trying to be locked in or take it too serious.

The numbers speak for themselves. end of Justin Steele tweet. Do you agree with Steele that Horner was snubbed from MLB's top 100 list? I like that Justin Steele took the role of Cubs commenter, you know, whenever he got injured and then he would tweet here and there. And I appreciate a little bit of commentary out of Justin Steele. I think he got pretty good out of it toward the end of the season. You know, one of us, so to speak, but different because he works for the team.

So he's on to something here. Why wasn't Nico Horner mentioned? Nico Horner is third in world leaders among NL position players last year. It was Geraldo Perdomo with seven. A guy named Shohei Otani, who I hear might be pretty good, was 6.6. Then it was Nico Porter. Then it was Juan Soto, Matt Olson, and then PCA. Who is in that list, correct?

He is. So therefore, I think based on that alone, not to mention the I test, to mention that he was second in the National League and batting average, which still matters to me. That Justin Steele is correct. He should be in the list. Well, the man's 27th in total war period. So like, there's that.

Also that. That seems like it's pretty high when you're talking about top 100 guys. I think it's interesting that, you know, you got to go down to 35, I believe it is, before you find the first cub, which is Alex Bregman. and then the next cub on the list at number 40 is Pete Crow Armstrong. Then after that, it's Michael Bush at 67. After that, Sayas Suzuki at 77.

Just within the Cubs, like I think Nico Horner's better than Sayas Suzuki. Yeah. Just on the Cubs. I don't think that's even a question. Some of the other guys on this list, and I'm, I'm, very curious because there's a lot of catchers at the end, like middle infielers, like short stops, like the Willie Adomas, Zach Nito. Colson Montgomery is on the list at 88.

Well, well, well, how the turntable. And it's just like you go down the list and you're like, are they better than Nico Horner? And it depends, I guess, on how you're looking at it, but I think Nico Horner should be in this top 100. No, he should be in the top 100 for sure. This is a Jalen Johnson situation. Ooh.

I don't think that Nico cusses on the mic like Jalen, though. Nobody reacts to not being in the top 100 like Jalen did. I wish you would do it though, but that's not Nico's personality. Oh, that would be entertaining. The best part was when I was tossing to that sound, you know, as we like to say, when I was throwing to it, it was like, here's Jailin Johnson. As I go through these rankings, I do notice something. A premium seems to be put on power.

because you got guys like Carrie Carpenter and his 26 home runs making the top 100. And that would make sense for Colson Loveland why he's on there. But also Colston, Colson has done it how many times? Like how many seasons is he played in Major League Baseball? But that would make it make sense.

It's kind of like with Zips, you know that positional value weights the algorithm. Like shortstop inherently is going to be worth more short than third. So I don't know. I think he should definitely be in there. Number four. The NBA announced Monday that Bulls Forward, Matas Buzales, has earned his third rising stars selection. I think like when you make the rising stars, by the way, you got to have like a flute, like the power rangers, like,

do, do, do, do, do, like, that has to be. You have made the rising stars. So is he the red ranger? Yeah, we'll give him the red ranger. That makes the most sense. Shout out to all the rangers, man. We're just making up colors for rangers. I love this.

I don't even know. That was a little bit. Oh, is that before your time? After my time. Power Rangers after time? I never watched Power Rangers. Oh, you know what I have younger siblings? So I just like, by osmosis, pick up on all this stuff.

That's why people are like, oh, you're old? I just didn't watch it. I don't know. Like, I had other stuff going on after school. Well, yeah. You missed out. You missed out, Leila. But enough of the Power Rangers for now.

My brother loved it. It's great show, in my opinion. Back in the day, that's what I thought. But anyway, back to my time. The Rising Star three times over. What does that tell you about the way the league is viewing the development of, as CHSN's Stacey King would call him, Little Boosy Vert?

Number one, Little Boosy Wirt, Vert is a great nickname. That is my favorite. You know, Stacey's the best at the nicknames. Also, Vucci Maine, come on. Yeah, Vucci Maine is also tremendous. Little Boosy Verde is, there's something about the contrast with modest, and little Uzi Verth that just makes it perfect. If nothing else.

I actually think that this is a good sign because for a long time, the Bulls didn't have anybody on either All-Star or Rising Stars list. And that was kind of an indication of how the league felt about the team. So in that alone, to get the nod outright for a Rising Star for Modus, that is an excellent indication because they're typically not wrong on these lists. It's who you will see in the league. and that's the beauty of having the second year players on there too, I think.

So I thought it was a great sign. I texted you guys that I was encouraged by this. I remain encouraged by this. I think Modis Bezellis is a step away from really taking off as an NBA player. And I love this because how many three-time rising stars guys do you know? That means you have to do it in the G-League. You have to do it as a rookie and you have to do it as a second-year player. That's hard to do.

Also, did I see Matt McClung scored 40 last night? Did you see Matt McClung, much like Modis Buzels also turned down an invite to the NBA dunk contest? So he will not be out here for the four-pete. What are we doing here? Why did he turn it down? And yeah, why did Modis turn it down? Why are all you turning it down?

Do you remember Modis's appearance in the dunk contest? Oh, yeah, that didn't go. But that's, hey, hey, LeBron shows you that even at 41, you can redeem yourself from your previous year. You know who was never in the dunk contest, but promised to be in the dunk contest? LeBron. Exactly. I wasn't talking about the dunk contest. I was talking about the loss to the bulls here.

I was talking about dunks. And listen, not hyper dunks, not dunks, just dunks. You and I needed basketball season to come back for real. We needed this. Some people are just now waking up to basketball season. As you guys know, I've been on it since training camp. I know, but I love it. You know how the sports talk calendar works?

I'm telling y'all today, once Modest Boozellis takes this off-season. to tighten up his handle, put a little more strength on it. He's going to be playing, wait for the comp, like Jalen Brown. Write that down. What? He's having an MVP season. MVP like season. He's also a finals MVP, so there's that.

He's having an amazing game. I'm saying that's what modest is going to look like. Also, real quick, I forgot to mention this. Johnny Barks on Twitter accidentally answered a spam call today. And it was the Cleveland Browns wanting to intervene. interview me for their head coaching job. I said no. L.O.L. Wow. Number five.

For question number five, let's go to Marshall Heather, Marshall, Heather, Marshall Harris for a score, winter weather update. Were you going to say Mathers? Is that one? I was. Let's do it again. Let's go to Marshall Harris for a score winter weather update. Marshall WTF. Listen, I get it. You guys want, you want to know that it's going to get better that just because the high today is 17, things are looking up. Ooh, 17 is better, actually.

I noticed the warmth on the street. Let me tell you something. On Saturday, according to ACUweather, the temperature gets up to 23 degrees. Let's go. Let's get outside. Next week, now this depends on your weather service. According to the weather channel,

it doesn't get to freezing. But according to ACUweather, on both Wednesday and Thursday of next week, we will be above freezing at 34 degrees. Here's the bad news. We don't get above 34 degrees on this calendar, according to ACUweather, until the 16th of February,

where it's supposed to be 41 degrees for two days. Are we just, are we wearing shorts? Is that when people wear shorts outside? You know that happens. 41 degrees? I wouldn't do that because there's precipitation, aka snow in the forecast for that day. I saw a man get on the blue line yesterday in shorts outside.

Just ridiculous. Inevitable. There's always one dude who's like, oh, it's above 20 in December. I'm wearing shorts. Well, maybe not December. But it's usually somebody who gets tired about this time of year of the cold. And the second it's like slightly warmer, they're in shorts. I salute you guys.

I'm pretty impressed by the flex. But it's an amazing skill. I don't have it. I'm telling y'all, it's all. All relative, a day like today is a great day. Not because it's super warm outside, but as long as the sun is shining, I'm good. It's when it's overcast for days at a time. And I don't remember what the sun looks like.

That's when I struggle. I know. The sun is a real game changer. We should all revolve around it and everything. I think it's that important. I think you're right. One day in April, it was like 54 degrees. This is like probably five or six years ago.

And I was like, this is warm. Take top. Live on it. Yeah, that's a good place to cut it off. And that's really what happened. I had suns out guns out because I was so excited about the relativity of 54 degrees. Coming up next here on Rahimi Harris and Rode, we continue with our shorter show because at noon,

we are seating to Matt Spiegel, who is going to emce the Terry Boar's Celebration of Life show. That's coming up at noon. In the meantime, we have a couple more segments left, and a former Bears head coach is saying some things that don't add up to the actual situation. So we'll do that next.