Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - 5 On It: Whom would you be surprised to see on Bulls' roster after trade deadline?

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

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

It's time for five on it. Rahimi Harrison Rooney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104-3 to score. I got five on it. Number one. According to ESPN, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, like his former head coach, Bill Belichick,

was not selected for entry into this year's pro football Hall of Fame class. Are Hall of Fame voters holding a grudge against the Patriots? I guess they are, aren't they? Because how else do you explain all of this? based on football success, that would indicate that Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft are first ballot Hall of Famers and given the team success and the dynasty that they created.

And this really does feel like a situation where perhaps, you know, they remembered. And the voters remembered and if they didn't see that there was justice served by the NFL, they feel like they are serving the justice at the Hall of Fame level. The problem is the justice wasn't served at the NFL level. And because of that, they are doing this, I think, improperly. You have to go based on record. It's not necessarily based on merit. If we had a character judgment of the Hall of Fame, we might be here a while.

I understand the concept. But your beef is really with the league and the fact that the governing body did not want to govern. And when that is an issue, you've got to take it up with the right authorities. But this certainly feels like some sort of blacklisting is involved. Yeah, see, I completely disagree with that. I think it is a flawed voting process. This is completely on the Pro Football Hall of Fame and what they ended up settling on

as the way people get put into the Hall of Fame. Understand this. This is a new voting experience in 2025 that actually pitted Kraft against Belichick against the other people because now you have five finalists amongst the contributors, coaches, and senior players who last appeared in a game in 2000 or early.

So Kraft was the contributor finalist, singular. Belichick was the coach singular. And then the others were the former players, Roger Craig, Ken Anderson, and Elsie Greenwood. So now, when you understand the process, 50 voters, you only get three votes. And then between one of the three need to get 80 percent or 40 of those votes. And there's a possibility that none of the candidates get 40 votes. And if that happens, simply the top vote getter gets elected. It is a flawed process.

I think we're reading way too much into it and we say, oh, people got a grudge against the Patriot. No, it's just an impossible process. Because some of those guys that we talked about, whether it's Roger Craig, Ken Anderson, or Elsie Greenwood, if they don't make it, they don't get another shot at this. So that starts dividing the vote up, and that's where you end up with the mess and the sham

that this process is at its current state. Hard to argue against Roger Craig. It is, especially, and you made a great point, Marshall. There were voters, and some have been, about it who said they did what they had to do because it's last call. We all know Bill Belichick is going to get in. That voter knew it. Other voters who had that conundrum knew that. But I will say, I do think in some cases, and we're not, we don't know. We just don't know what every single voter was thinking or how they were rationalizing it. But I think both things can be true,

maybe to a lesser degree. There probably are some people who are holding a grudge. And I don't even know grudge is right because, and I haggle over this, some people say it's part of the morals clause in there that you don't cheat. To me, I look at it a little bit higher as in it's illegal to cheat. Like, that's not a moral issue.

That's illegal in a game where millions and billions are being made, where you have gamblers, you have players, everybody that has a stake in this, to call it a moral issue, the cheating? I don't think it is. So, in other words, if there are voters who said, okay, as a one-off,

I'm going to get all moral here and high and mighty and all of that. I understand that. I wouldn't have done that, but I would understand where they were coming from because cheating is illegal. Roger Craig. Really good. 81 and 89 yards for the career. For the career.

And there's not that. For some people, they're thinking of the old San Francisco manager, Roger Craig. Remember that guy? Roger Craig, who looked like the emperor from Star Wars. Papine? Yeah.

Look them up. He looked like. Emperor Palpatine? Kind of. Look up Roger Craig, San Francisco manager. It is Palpatine. Palps. This is interesting.

Yeah, so, yeah, Roger Craig, who just... Okay, you're right. I mean, he always looked 80 to me. Oh, this isn't incorrect. Right? Because it's like he was your grandpa coaching. That's what he was doing. He doesn't look happy about it either.

I mean, he did with the Padres, but that's San Diego Weather will do that to you. He's kind of in that Jim Leland mold. probably smoked cigarettes in the dugout. I always thought Jim Leeland was cool. Oh, yeah, he was. Number two. Good manager. So what's right to cry?

They're moving us on to number two. Sorry. And we're going to get into some Bulls business here for question number two, but I have a programming note for everyone. Oh. As things are moving on a live radio show, Joelle Lorenzi of the Athletic is going to join us in the next segment at 1225 to talk about the Bulls and the trade deadline.

Our guy Paul Papps, the scores very own of the tailgate heard on Saturdays. he's out at the Super Bowl with the Dan Patrick show, and a lot of things are happening out there. He's going to join us at 125 and tell us everything that happened at Media Day. Everything he's been doing out there at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara now. He's got that fire and passion. That's right, my friends. So Paul Papst at 125, my friends.

Now here is question number two. Which player would surprise you the most to still be on the Bulls roster past Thursday's NBA trade deadline? I'm sorry, I'm laughing at this text. Rahimi Harris-Grody is like speaks, described the food spread yesterday. Disgusting, appalling, and arousing. That was amazing when he said that. Disgusting, appalling, arousing.

Sure. Or is it disgusting, appalling arousing? No, I want to be disgusting. I want to be appalling. Brody's arousing. For the record, they appointed me arousing. So you just can't have to deal with that. Yep.

Okay. I think that the player, who had surprised me the most to still be on the Bulls past Thursday's NBA trade to line stupidly. This is, I'm mad at myself because I can't believe I'm saying this because I know it's probably not going to happen. Is Vooch? But I know it's probably not going to happen.

Like, you know why I feel this way, Marshall. I can tell you no, deep in your heart. In your heart. Why do you feel that way? In your life. Because they should move him, but they can't. They've been, should have moved him. How many times?

Many times. Many trade deadlines and off seasons. And really last year, especially, you could have argued that he was an all star last year at the time of the season. The man told you he's tired of playing in the play-in. He's also said that. And like, think about the discussion surrounding Vuch, kind of similar to what the discussion was about DeMar de Rosen. Like, Vooch, he doesn't want to be here.

All right. So your answer is Vooch. He's not supposed to be here. I could see them being stubborn enough to not take the second round pick or whatever for Vooch that they should take. immediately. Just take the picks. Just take all the picks. Keep stop paling the picks. I'm going to say Kobe White.

There's no reason for Kobe White to be on this roster past the trade deadline. There's just not. You're not resigning him. You're not going to pay him all that money. Unfortunately, I think the reason why I'll be less surprised is because he has had issues with his calf. And that

is something that's not going to get you a first round pick. It might not even get you two seconds. And that's, I think, what the price is right now that you can buy him for. name does seem to be right at this moment the most prominent of the prominent names to be gone. I heard Casey Johnson utter his name. He didn't report anything, but just in conversation mentioned he wouldn't be shocked over that. Teams are interested. And they should be. I mean, you got offense. You should probably be pretty interested in the guy. If nobody is going to say this,

I am just going to say it because I'm sure texters are saying maybe on the Twitch line, maybe online, nobody is going to say that I wouldn't be surprised if everyone is still here. How can we, knowing what we know, knowing what we have expected at the past two trade deadlines, the surprise and the disgust that we have had. Appalling. Appalling. Disgusting. Arousing.

And we have been aroused in the last two years. It's only to be disappointed. Very anti-clamactic. I can't stop being aroused. Wow. You know this reminds you of it seriously is the Debra Cox song. Like, how did you get here? Nobody's supposed to be here.

Of course, the name had to be Debra Cox. Hey! What? Oh, I wasn't going there. Yes, you were. The best part of this little, this portion of the show, the best part about it is, over the weekend, Grady, weren't you saying to us that you took like an HR course? I did.

You did take an HR course. It's so funny, man. I threw it all the way for the content. I did. And one of the examples, video examples that they gave was a boomer joke. Hey, something, something about old guy, you boomer. And on Friday, Layla, and Layla would not have stood for this, by the way. I stood for it.

I was getting. I've made boomers. I got all boomered. Probably just because I mentioned Jim McMahon or something. And then I get boomered up, you know? And I'm Gen X, damn it. And that's the way it is. boom boomer with Mark Grody.

We all have things that we are passionate and inflexible on. Exactly. Exactly. And unfortunately those much younger than all of us have decided that you can be a boomer just with a take that is before the year 2000. Yeah, that makes sense. Nobody's supposed to be

here. You do pulling an Anthony Harriman over there? I've tried that trade thing for the last time. Their heart said no no. It's so true. It applies to the Bulls, doesn't it? Just use your flashlight on your camera, phone.

So everybody's coming back. In conclusion, don't say that. Everybody's coming back to the Bulls. Next. Everybody's supposed to be here. Party on. Number three. It's a historic day on the score once again. Tune in tonight for the score's first Bulls broadcast on the FM dial.

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I'm doing it a little deeper, Chuck. I don't know why, but I am. On the score and the Fitzgerald Equipment Bulls Radio Network, powered by Heli Forklifts. Okay. There's question number three. Question number three. We have like four minutes to get through these.

L.A. Clippers Guard, James Hardin, wants to be traded despite the team being the hottest team in the NBA having won 17 of their last 21 games. Your thoughts, Layla, Marshall. I was in Houston when James Harden was traded from the Thunder to the Rockets. And Darry at that time was James Hardin's dude because Mori, aka the godfather of the process, aka trust the process. Then they all went to the Sixers. more he believed in James Hardin more than anybody else did at the time

and I thought those two would be inseparable. But then no. Just like other teams, James Hardin requested that he didn't want to be on the Sixers anymore just like he did with Brooklyn. So I'm beginning to think that this is a James Hardin thing. I don't know what the hell is going on as to why he doesn't want to be

with the Clippers. Never mind that whole Chris Paul thing that happened with them earlier in the season. What's happening with them? Nobody cares as much because they're not the Lakers. And I hate to be so cliche about it, but it's just the truth. So James Hardin likes to get traded, doesn't he? Is that just simply what this is at this point? He's never supposed to be anywhere. James Hardin's 36 years old. He's been traded four times. Three of those trades came by way of a

James Harden trade request. Now it looks like he's working on number four. And it looks like they're moving in the direction that he is going to get traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Why does everybody just follow his instructions? They're like, okay, James. James has never. won a championship. James is probably not going to win a championship as the first, second, or third best player on a team. James Harden is selfish. James Hardin cares about money more than he cares about winning.

All of these things have led us to this moment, which should be unsurprising and at the same time, reinforcing, don't trade for James Hardin. I'm talking to you, Cleveland Cavaliers, don't do it. I mean, if you liked somebody just standing there watching the other dudes play when he's supposed to be playing defense. Do you understand the back court of James Hardin and Donovan Mitchell is not a thing that sounds like it's going to be very much a puzzle fitting

together? It's not a good idea. I simply, and I've said this before, I cannot wait for James Hardin's skills to fully diminish because you said selfish, I'll add petulant, I'll add unnecessarily dramatic. I will

also say oversized ego, but that's pretty easy. And I get it. Like there's been other athletes by this, but he hits a boiling point for me that every year or every two years, we have to go through this with James Hardin, and I am sick of it. He has to ask what is part in it is? What Harden it is? Yeah, no, what part he has in this. Oh, yes.

Thank you. Yeah, he hasn't done that. Exactly. You could also ask what Hardin it is because remember he gained all that weight and then we went back down. There are too hard. They have them too hardness. I admire his ability to do that.

He's a shapeshifter. He is. Flux. In the fluctuating weight business, we call it fluctuators. I thought that's the thing that takes you back to the future. Oh, yeah. The flux capacitor. Want to be a fluctuator.

It's all in the same family. Very nice, right? Poor Marshall. Marshall's like, get back. We need somebody to tell us to be linear. Tarek Schoolball's arbitration hearing is tomorrow. The back-to-back AL-Sye Young Award winner is asking for a record $32 million, which would surpass Wansota's arbitration record of $31 million.

The Tigers are asking for 19 million, which would be less than the 19.75 million. David Price got in 2015. What should happen and what do you predict will happen? Scoobel's going to get that money. He's back-to-back Sal Young winner. School was going to get that money. He is. This is not 2015.

The price of business has gone up. Severely. Yesterday's price is not today's price. And that is the bottom line here. That's it. He's the back-to-back AL-Sai Young winner. they know because these stupid trade rumors are out about him. They know that they can't afford him.

They've told everybody as much already. Yeah, he's going to get traded, first of all. But before he gets traded, he's stupid, by the way. He's going to get the $32 million. And he's going to get a lot more than that in free agency. And good luck. Good luck Detroit, trading him and getting his value because that dude is somebody the Cubs should trade for. And yeah, he's going to get the money.

Period. Oh, yeah, that would be like, the Zach Gallen stuff. That was fun with Bruce, who, by the way, offered that to us. Unsolicited. When I asked him, who's going to be the best pitcher on the staff by the time Justin Steele gets back, he said Zach Gallen, who's not in the Cubs roster yet, but Scoobs would change all of that. Number five. School, we're going to get that money.

All right, question number five, lightning round. What did Paris do to deserve the Browns? What did the city of Paris do to get the Cleveland Browns? Like the Saints make sense and the NFL's like, here, Europe, whether or not you want this. And I really question whether or not the city of Paris does, just knowing how things operate there. You get the Browns. You know why this is lovely? Enter Todd Munkin.

Exactly. In non-French fashion, he's in like baggy ass jeans and like he's making jokes and his clipboards and his pants. My guy. You know why they get him? Because you can't pretend like your speech. speaking French without saying Chador. Doesn't that sound like a French word?

Chador. Chador. Chador of the family Sanders. Maybe it's about time France came down a peg or two. You know what I'm saying? That's your takeaway.

Maybe it's about time. We give you the Browns. Deal with that. That's a reality check right there. It is. France, you need to be taken down a peg. Whereas France shall now have the Browns.

Apparently, we don't want them to understand NFL offense. Cleveland Browns. You know what? Miles Garrett's good. They can like Miles. Yeah. Absolutely.

Miles can be their guy. Miles and them. Yeah. Miles and that's Mully and Them. That's our morning show. Molly and them boys. Manly and them boys. Damn boy.

5.30 a.m. to 10 every day right here on 104 3 to score. But like the inherent instance of humorous sarcasm, the Browns are not going to help with this. They bra. Oh, yeah. Lebron.

Lebron James? I just heard Lebron James in that. Lebron. It's French. It's true. I'm sorry. We're going to get back on the rails and discuss a little bit more about that impeding NBA trade deadline that is coming at us

whether or not we wanted to. Joelle Lorenzi, the new Bulls writer for the Athletic. We'll join us next.