Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - 5 On It: Should Bears open the 2026 season against Seahawks in Seattle?

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

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

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?

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. 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. So I wasn't surprised that the defense remained consistent. There are 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 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. 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 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.

So 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 Max Anistas out there listening to 104.3, the score right now.

We have a Max Crosby update from Jason LaCronforah of Sportsboom.com. Sports, sports, sports, boom. Lock and Forra 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. 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? Sportsboom.com. Sportsboom.com sports, sports, sports boom. Sports velociraptor. I like that, Ray. And I'm not Jason Lockenforah 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

mistake. You know, there are other ways of showing protest. 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. It's straight to Vegas. And like, people are like, oh, did he really? Stacey? Then where's the video? 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 Stacey? Oh, 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. 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? In a halftime score. You know, I love a good half-time score. I was like, wait, the Patriots have 18 net yards of passing at the half. It's like last year's the half-time stats were hilarious. Atrocious.

See at Detroit. Sometimes just take a look. If you're listening right now, go take a look at the first half of the Bears game against the Detroit Lions. But don't do it right now. You can multitask and listen. Exactly. People are sitting there with their phone right now listening to us on the audience. 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. But yeah, I just, I don't know. 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. 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'd be different

if front office was changing this off season. 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. 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 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. That window's 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, 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 is gone. I am not saying that he'll end up with the Bears, though. Number three.

This is five out of 9-1043, the score with Laila Rahimi, 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 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. 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. 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. Also, maybe Zach Sharbon. is back. I guess he wouldn't be back by then, huh? Move, bears. Get out the way.

Kenneth Walker the third. You want less of him, more of Sharpenet. That's just my personal opinion. They're both good. Yeah, but Walker to me is the more dangerous running back. Look, if you're the bears, just get it out the way. Plus, it's a measuring stick game. Out the gate. 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. Yeah. Rams and Niners open in Australia. 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 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. 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. Votes would be amazing. It 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 up.

Dare to dream. Mm-hmm. Number four. 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 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.

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.

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. 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. 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, go ahead until i see what arturas karnas charnasovas and mark everesley 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 i know but that's where

i am uh i 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 and the tax didn't really matter And so because of that, I am bummed because that's a problem. Like 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, I think. It'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 interplayer 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. Why was he playing so much? But we all thought it was to do what? 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.

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 with those picks once you get them?

Number five out of it on it on 104.3, the score. Here's our final 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. 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 will be saved for a later date and a special occasion. In the meantime, I had a really lovely steak from Julescu. Julesco that I paired with a massive salad

from one of those salad and a bag kits, also from the Jules. That sounds so healthy. I mean, the dinner, the night. 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're ready? I was over

at the WLS, the old ABC 7 where they had a, I didn't know. I didn't know they had like the potluck thing going on. So I had crock pot turkey and gravy meatballs, crock pot, pulled pork, which was tender and delicious.

Some chips. One slice of Domino's sausage pizza and three 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. I made my own fresh from scratch. That's right. seasoning and everything. The whole, 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 was 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. Well, I'm sorry that you didn't get your pizza yesterday. Yeah. But it came to you today. Did it? Thanks to Lou Malnottis.

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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. That was pretty incredible. It's good stuff. Good stuff. He's 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? 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, 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? Drake May. Let's examine it. We'll get your thoughts to 312-644-67. This is 104-3-627-the-score.