Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - 5 On It & will the Bears aggressively pursue Maxx Crosby? (Hour 3)

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

In the third hour, Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote discussed a variety of topics in the 5 On It segment. After that, Rahimi and Grote debated how likely it is that the Bears will make an aggressive attempt to trade for Raiders star defensive end Maxx Crosby.

The score. This hour is brought to you by vasectomy clinics of Chicago. 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 are the Bears' top three priorities now that center, Drew Dalman, has decided to retire? I said it earlier. I maintain center because Drew Dalman is there. I'm sorry, Joe Thomas. I know you're a prolific tackle in our game. But center, and then for me, it's still defensive line. I'm sorry, I know there are dudes there, but until a lot of you prove it to me and I'm going to need more proof,

not you, Jervon Dexter, not you, Montes what? But I'm going to say focusing on the defensive line or trying to get some sort of pass rush. It's more based on the line rather than your secondary is still my number two. And then I think my number three, and this is also maybe avant-garde safety. Am I wrong to want us safety on the team?

They don't have safety. Under contract, like just one. I mean, I think four are preferable, but like that's still where I'm out with this. And people would say, Layla, how can you want a center as number one and then left tackle is not? Because you still have people in the building

who can play left tackle. So that's, if it wasn't, isn't as much of a priority to the bears, then that's me following their lead. Does that make sense? Yeah, it does, although I am going to go. You know that you and I are locked up on the center.

I came to grips with that, and towards the end of the show meeting that, yes, center is number one. Okay, so you gave me a tease in the meeting. I know. This is how Matt at Grady is. Grady's like, I don't know. I may surprise you. What were you thinking about when you said that?

Well, I mean, I thought about left tackle. Like I thought to myself, okay, now you don't have a center. You don't have a starting left tackle, which still is pound for pound a more important position on an offensive line. It is still a position that gets paid more. It is still a premium spot. Tackle is a premium spot in the NFL. How dare you believe Joe Thomas. So that's what was going through my mind because I wanted to be like right with you there.

Of course, it's centered. This is what we're talking about. But I was like, wait a minute. But then I did. As time went on and I took a few deep breaths and stared out the window, I realized that, yes, number one has to be the center position right now because of specifically of what he means to the quarterback, to Caleb Williams. I think all of these parts were really important in the season that Caleb Williams had

in a season in which I proclaimed to myself because I needed to see it that, yes, Caleb Williams is your quarterback. going forward. The Bears have a quarterback, and part of that is because of Drew Dalman. I will go left tackle as my second most important position then, because while they do have in-house potential candidates, you can't call it on those guys still. And do you want to go through another season where there has to be extra compensation physically at the left with an extra offensive linemen out there often? Cole Commet adding to the blocking or whomever, helping out that person, or do you want a standalone left tackle, which I think that they were still missing last year,

as well as Theo Benedet and Ozzie Tripillo play? Thirdly, so now it's between safety and defensive line. Or linebacker, don't forget, linebacker. I got to go defensive line again. And I'm going to ask you this. I'll answer the question, too, as an addendum to it. When you say defensive line, would you prefer interior linemen?

If you could have the best possible player on the interior or on the outside, which one would it be? I'll answer my own question first. It's still the guy getting to the quarterback. It's still the edge rusher. What would you say? No, I think it's edge because, and maybe I'm a bit Pollyanna in this, but I believe that Grady Jarrett still has gas left in the tank.

He got better as he got healthier last season. He has a sparkling reputation for keeping himself in shape, being a man of routine, and knowing how to keep his body right for, football. So because of that, even far, I think, above and beyond, you know, that seems to be his reputation when it comes to that. So because of all of this, I feel like

Grady Jarrett and Dauvin Dexter are not my main concern. It's that opposite of Montess what? I like the optimism, but I think too, like Grady Jarrett, like, if I may say, Chris Hill on him, he ain't going out like that. You know what I mean? He's got a good year. Maybe it's just one

really good year with the Bears and it might be next year, hopefully That would be the case, but I can see that too. Yeah, I just feel like he's earned that respect. So that's it. I'm not used to talking about veterans earning respect on his team like this, but he's one of them. Number two. More on this coming up at 1225, but here's the question.

Has Drew Dalman's retirement ruined your Max Crosby dreams for the Bears? Yes. I'm sorry. Yes. It was going to be crazy the process to get from adding Max Crosby's $35.8 million contract to the Bears salary cap already. And now that you know that the center price has only gone up unless you want to go with a lesser than Drew Dalvin quality option, then that just makes me wonder even more how they

put this all together. And I can't see a way through. That's not to say there is one, but I just, I don't know that you can address luxury without addressing necessity first. and that's where I feel like we're out with this. Max Crosby is a luxury. It's like having Shohei Otani and Mike Trout on the Angels right now. That's how I feel. He's the Lamborghini next to the home that is not worth as much as the Lamborghini.

My feelings about Max Crosby, I believe, have been temporarily stunted. I have not completely put away the dream for the potential of Max Crosby. obviously this dented it. It stunted it just a little bit. I mean, even before that, even before this, like doing the math of it and considering what the bears are still trying to build. Do you want to give away your first round picks for the next two years of your football life?

Do you want to give away what would have to be what? your best offensive player or best defensive player, the side of Caleb Williams or Joe Tuny. I'm talking about somebody like DJ Moore. It would be very costly, and I'm interested early in Ben Johnson's regime and this new life that Ryan Poles has. Let's see what he can continue to do

with these first round picks as well. So I don't know if I'm as like it's over as it sounds like you are. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but definitely put on pause, stunted a little bit. It's taken a hit. It has taken a big hit. And then there was that Brad Biggs discussion this morning where he brings up the Cowboys, who were, as of that point,

$56 million over the cap. And Jerry Jones did some weird stuff. And now they managed to move $47 million of cap space with Dak Prescott's contract and one other. And I'm like, that's cool. You're still $9 million. over the cap. So how in the hell are you going to make room for Max Crosby on that? How?

All because of Michael Parsons? Like you can't, you can't just, you know, throw money at this problem. You physically can't. Like, there's only so much you can throw. Michael Persons. Michael. It's your team. It's relevant since 1995.

You're responsible for that team. Actually irrelevant since 95. Wow. That's crazy. This is five on it on 104. The score with Laila Rahini and, Mark Grody. I'm going to take you, give you a little backstage packs real quick, guys. This guy.

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No, no, no, not at all. Just a little bit's okay, is what I was told. Grody. He spilled just a little bit. It's okay. Tyler, don't listen to Grody. Don't spill any. Mitch will be mad.

You don't have Grody spill stuff. Here's question. Keep that Laquois away from your computer. It's just water. Between Grody and Marshall, that side of the desk is very, very dangerous. I thought that I was a klutz. What did Marshall did? What did I miss the Marshall did?

He spilled a 44 ounce or a Panera tea everywhere. Idiot. We love you, Marshall. Here's question number three. Love you, Marshall. World baseball classic. It is. Exhibition games began yesterday.

Team USA's Alex Bregman and Japan, San Suu Kyi, both hit home runs in their respective games. Are you expecting any kind of jump in power hitting from the Cubs this season? Okay. Ray. This is Cubby brain for me in spring training. This is my question because I, I'm a Cubs fan. I saw that Bregman and Suzuki both hit home runs, and it led me to think and dream of the

possibility that we will see more power hitting from the Cubs. So now I present it to you. Do you agree? Okay. So first of all, yes. It was nice to see Sayas Suzuki hit a home run because Sayas Suzuki benefited the most from having the protection of Kyle Tucker in the lineup. Yeah, Breg Zeno.

Yes. And if only they had had both. And that's where I'm still at with this. Peker Armstrong, if he makes adjustments, does his power return? Does his, this is hitting return in a consistent manner? I can't even take that seriously. I've got to give him more time. We just do.

He had a terrible last couple months of the season. It was terrible. It was. His weighted runs created plus was only 45 the last two months. So exactly. So I say all of that knowing there was a say a drop off, knowing that Alex Bregman is consistent, but he's not the bopper that a healthy Kyle Tucker is.

So will it go up? I don't think it's going up. I sure as hell hope it maintains. Is that fair? That is fair. That is fair. Let me try it a different way. Like I'm just literally looking at the majority of the Cubs lineup here

and looking at players that could hit, Could Michael Bush hit more than 34 home runs? I don't know, man. More than 34. Right. So I would not take the over on 34 for Michael Bush. So I'll now go to Nico Horner. He had seven home runs last year.

I'd probably take the under. Because didn't a lot of his homers come late? Didn't it feel like he wasn't going to hit a home run last year for a while? Oh yeah. It was a couple months. Yeah. So I would almost go under on him. Danby Swanson hit 24 homers last year.

over or under on Swanson. I'd again. Right around there. I like the over for Dan's being, but I don't like it to the tune of like 30. I like it to the tune of like 27. Okay. All right.

So there's a little there. PCA, like you said, can't call it. 31 home runs last year. They're going to need every one of those. But I'd go under on him. I'd go under on PCA. Sayah hit 32. I might go over.

on Sea. I might go, and I'm not saying like he's going to hit 40, like maybe 34. Say Zika hits 40 home runs. We got ourselves a team. Yeah. And that Hap over there hit 23 home runs. Maybe over, maybe, especially since it's a, it is a contract year for Hap, yes? It is. And his, his on-base percentage remained steady. How about Babe Ruth at catcher? Carson Kelly couldn't stop hitting home runs last year. He hit 17. Why are you trolling Carson Kelly? Like, Do you think Carson Kelly is going to have a, what was his OPS in the first half of the season? Oh, wasn't it over a thousand? It was over a thousand.

He was competing with ridiculous Hall of Famers. But he had 17 home runs. You got 17 home runs for him next year? I don't know if I do. The catcher position when you consider Miguel Amaya. Yeah, Amaya too. Like Amaya's going to play a hell of a lot more. Let's go.

Amen. So I do see, like the Cubs are powerful. I don't know. if there's like a big discernible jump in home you lost Kyle Tucker look I'm just I'm just dreaming

I'm just dreaming big over here I love what you dream I'm dreaming big over your Max Crosby and the Bears is in my mind the Cubs take it up on the jump in power hitting Ray the Bears lost Drew Dalman

okay do you understand what we're all going through right now is that your Billy Donovan do you see what I'm dealing with I got four gods over here you see what I'm we haven't practiced before I don't know any of these guys I don't know who

Who wants to score? Who wants to play defense? What am I supposed to do? Well, with all that being said, let's turn the page of something more positive. Were you worried for a second that the Bulls were going to beat the Thunder yesterday? Yes, I was. Yes, I was. It became a six-point game, and I was like, oh, no.

Don't do this. Not like this. Not with the Thunder basically daring you to beat them when they decided to sit SGA. And I don't know, everybody else. So I was like, no. You can't do this. You can't do this, Bulls. You can't beat the thunder.

Not like this. Not when the tank is so important. When it got to 112. 106, I was just like, oh, God. Oh, no, they might actually win this game. Then there was a timeout taking. Grady, don't act. I can't believe that's where we are.

Don't act like you weren't thinking the same thing. Okay, here's what I was thinking, because I listened to a lot of the game on the radio. Great job. listening to Chuck and Bill Wennington, who was just in here, Alyssa Bergamini. And this is my problem, not Chuck's, but I am not familiar enough, like, with the names on the Bulls to just rattle them off or to have them feel familiar to me. So I'm listening to Chuck, and I'm like, here, Nick Richards and Miller and Sexton.

And I'm like, which team away? Yeah, Yvesanahili had a hell of a half, man. He had a great half. I was like, which team was, I was like, who scored? Was that the Bulls that just scored? Or was that Oklahoma City? No, dork. Dort plays for Oklahoma City.

Dort. So I couldn't like, I'm like, man, I'm in a bad place with the Bulls. I don't know who's scoring. I don't know who's stealing the ball. I don't know who. Dort played for the Bulls. They probably would have won. Probably.

Old Dork. So that's where I was with it. And then I did was it. I got home in time to watch the fourth quarter. And yeah, they did get frighteningly close. You may as well just keep on losing. And then Caruso played. Like we saw Alex Caruso.

And I was like, I miss you, Alex Caruso. I do. I do. I'm sorry. So I was tuned in for a bit to the TV broadcast. I bounced between the score and CHSN yesterday. And I did hear the guys on the TV broadcast mentioned that Alex Caruso told Casey Johnson that he was texting his wife about being back in Chicago and he misses the city. And the city has an aura about it.

Well, yeah, he does. Alex Caruso has an aura. True. He does. Alex Caruso, like, he makes things fun wherever he goes. Like, he's just going to make it work on the court. Like, remember when we didn't think Alex Caruso was particularly a three-point shooting dude? And then he's like, nah, you guys need to shoot these threes?

I'm going to do it. And then he did. Alex Caruso has an aura. That's what that is. It's all very rare, too, to just be able to watch a guy and be able to know, oh, that guy's really good at playing defense. Like to see him, like, fundamentally play defense the way it's supposed to be played. Like, that was pretty cool to see up close with him.

I mean, Chicago, yes, but also Alex Caruso. Number five. This is five on it on it on 104.3, the score. And here's our final question. Obviously, the theme of today's show is the retirement of 27-year-old Drew Dalman. So the question is, if you could retire right now, what's the first thing you do? Get off the damn grid when it comes to like some of the social media. Like I don't need to be a punching bag for people constantly.

Find another target. Ray, I would punch you. That's what I would do. Wow. No. No, that's not what I would do. With the shamrock shake in his hand and everything? Just not over the board.

How could you do that to the shamrock shake? My answer. To do that to me. That was pretty aggressive. That was. I figured I'd try another destroyer. interaction to see if it works. I'll answer this question the same way I answer the question of,

what would you do? What was the first thing you do if you won the lottery? What I would do is I would go to the nicest, most beautiful hotel I could find in the city of Chicago, and I would take a nap. I would sleep. I would just, because we all like... You have been hanging out with Dave the Cat too much. Maybe.

Yeah, he does. Man, cats make sleep look really good. They absolutely do. That's right. That's right. But, no, like, I'm always in need of a little extra sleep. So I would just sleep and then wake up and be in a luxurious hotel and just enjoy myself. But that first thing I would do is just sleep.

I have a friend who did a staycation at the peninsula. That's nice. Yeah, they enjoyed it. Hey, I've always said, like, I would love to live at a hotel in downtown Chicago. So that's what you would do. In retirement? Or win the lottery, because living in nice hotels is very expensive. Yeah, for a fixed income, that's probably not a good idea.

Yeah, I don't know. We'll see when we get to the end of this, whatever this is. I do wonder, like, and you know, you guys know over the past couple of years, I've been really off of Twitter because it doesn't pay me to do this and I spend my time here giving opinions. You know, I'm going to do that on the things that pay me. So I just got to the point where I was like, there is no need for this. Like, why would I, why would I subject myself to this if it wasn't for the job? So that's how I feel. I would just use Twitter as a news source, which is pretty much what I do now. Like, if you want to hear what I have to say about this, come to the show.

So you wouldn't, that's another whole question right there. Would you get off of social media? Like, why would you need it at all? Yeah, I don't, I mean, I'd probably post more on Instagram because I don't have time to create Instagram posts. But why would you need to? Why do you need to create Instagram posts? Because I'd be doing some fun stuff, like traveling or something.

Oh, okay. Like I've traveled. I just haven't told you guys about it. I just haven't posted. I appreciate that. Well, you know, but like the people. Like, I haven't posted the picks of my travels because. Layla's secrets.

I don't know. I just haven't. I don't post a lot of stuff. Okay. Been living, not posting. It gets posted for us usually, whether we want it or not. Well, I mean, on here it does, but not, not my life life. And I'll just leave it at that.

Okay, fine. Grady will sleep and I will be on fewer social media. There it is. You know where to find us or not. Yeah. Like, I don't care about being. relevant after I retire because I've retired. You dig?

Like nobody cares anyway. You take those headphones off. That's it. You're not going to ever see Layla again? Yeah, I used to say, and I've held served to this, that I'll be at a TV station 20 years. I'm not saying goodbye. Like, I'll be at a radio station 20 years and I would say goodbye. I just don't.

Wait, what do you mean? Like, you know how people would be like, this is my last show? You would just go and like. Yeah. And I have multiple times. Oh, in honor of the Shamrock Shake, it would be an Irish goodbye. Nice. I do that in life. So viewers and listeners deserve nothing but the same.

Ray, do you do that Irish dance? You know the one? I don't know how to do it, but maybe I need to learn. Did you guys know that? Oh, yeah, I did. I think for you. Kail and Kailer, hit me up. You got to teach me.

I want to see you do. I want to see you skip it around in that hallway. I want to see that. I've wanted to learn so badly. Why just Ray? Well, just because of his Irishness today. He keeps talking about Irishness, so I thought I would bring another thing up. He has a shamrock shake.

You would have been the more appropriate person to ask, yes, because you're actually a dancer. But I don't have the shamrock shake, which is the Holy Grail today. Shout out to the new 104-3, The Score, Lamp, Light. What is it? What do you call it? Fly the Wood Designs did that. They do wonderful sign work, and they created us a new custom sign. Yeah.

All right, it's been enough time. We've spent a couple hours talking about somebody who is in Max Crosby. Guess what's next? Do it. difference is people who are legitimate beat reporters have added some fuel to the fire. So the latest on that next.

Dance, Ray. Dance now. Get out that hallway and dance. I want you skip it around. Lela Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, Rahimi, Harrison Grody on 1043, the score. The MXCrop is a company.

I don't know. Yeah, as long as this is a possibility, it deserves to be discussed. I like to say, you know when it comes to trades, Mark, dare to dream. And when it comes to trades and trying to figure it out, start with your ideal trade first,

and then you just have to work backwards from there. And as I know, from learning from the texts that were leaked during the hacking scandal, both the Cardinals and the Astros, that's pretty much what happens. Like, James, they are a shooter shoot. They'll be like, hey, can I have Jean-Carlowston?

Yeah, for a unicorn and a billion dollars in gold coins. Or you know something. But you have to ask because you just never know. Kind of like with Rob Polinka and Nico Harrison, he's like, you know it would be crazy as if you guys traded Luca. I mean, we'll take them off your hands. And then look what happens. Right, right.

Go for the 10. So because of that, I talk about some wild trade ideas and then I go from there. And we talk about Max Crosby because dare to dream and then go from there. It's one thing if you do it. It's one thing if I do it. Ray just says Max every now and then just because that's how much he's on his mind. Max, you guy. Ray'll just be sitting there looking off into space and then suddenly Max.

How about Irish dancing with Max? Oh, yeah. He'd be your dance partner. We're really going to bring this thing to fruition, man. See, now that Robbie's not here to write things down, Grady's just gone completely wheels off. I have. Well, I'm enjoying Ray's Irishness today with the Shamrock Shake and he made a couple of Irish references. Well, he's just laughing in the background.

on Chris Tana Hill. Tanny Irish? You're out here in the Irishness too? Yeah. What? He said what? Tanny said his culture is not my costume. Sorry, Tanny.

I just love the Shamrock Shake. I said that to a friend who posted a pick of a puka shell necklace that looked like it was from 2002. And I was like, my culture is not your costume. Puka. Nakuwa. Max. That's the answer.

Max. Max. See, there we go again. Max. Max. This is how it is. Get that man here. So, you know, this is a.

romper room, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. Kids table. That's us. We own it. Feel good about it. You're just jealous. You're not sitting here at the kids table with us?

You know who I don't think is jealous since it's at the adults table and likes it there? Brad Biggs. You think Biggs would not want to sit at the kids table? Brad Biggs is about business. He doesn't want to mess with us being silliness. I think Biggs would love to sit in here with us. No, Biggs has a sense of humor.

There's no doubt about that. Well, I know he does. Like Brad's welcome any time. But I just feel like I would just waste his time. Well, not if he was, But he understands, he's hosted four-hour radio shows before. He understands that there's going to be times when it's just going to be fun times and we're going to be talking about one-arm guys.

I think Brad gets that. Well, I know. Boy, boys, what's going on? I know he gets it win-off. I love Brad as the socks fan. That's always my favorite plot twist. Oh, Brad's a great baseball fan. Yeah, like, yeah.

No, he's fun to talk baseball. See, Brad would be. He's not very positive about the Cubs, that's for sure. Brad would be excited to hear about Sam Antanachi. Let me talk about Sam Antanachi and the Verducci brothers. Sam Antanacchi and the Verducci brothers. Or is it Vertucci? Hawkisms.

Shout out to the Antonacci family. In Springfield and Sacred R. Griffin. Oh my goodness. Yes. So as we were saying, got a little off topic. But the point is Brad Biggs, what he says has weight. And it's one thing for us to talk about the possibility of Max Crosby. It's another for us to gauge the price. Diana Rusini confirmed it earlier.

today of the athletic. But Brad Biggs, Brad Biggs put some fuel to the fire on this Max Crosby dream of ours. The bears are either keep it a close eye on the Max Crosby situation and potentially involved or someone out there

is doing a really good job of convincing a bunch of folks that that's the case. You follow me there and maybe the individual is doing that perhaps being Clark County, Nevada. I don't know.

But there's a sense that the bears are involved. Yeah, but to what price, right? And I don't think that's something the bears know now or the Raiders know. I think Dallas is involved. If you listen to people and the Cowboys, if you've been following some of that, I think they're really getting aggressive with some of their cap stuff to create space to in an effort to win now. They're not kicking a can down the street with the cap.

They're kicking like the dumpster down the street. Like it's going to get, it's going to get really full there in Dallas at some point. But Jerry Jones, God bless his heart, is out to prove that he hasn't been a loser to cowboy fans for the past 30 years. And he wants to, you know, saddle up and ride for a Super Bowl. so I would think they would be a team to watch out for potentially with Crosby. The bless his heart was the truth. You talk about Jerry Jones?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Would that be something to see, though, wouldn't it? Parsons and Crosby? Like, allow yourself to just think about the aggression. Ooh. Well, that's why I actually think that the intangibles come into play here. Not anymore, though, obviously. Why do you say that?

You're saying them on the same team. Yeah, if they had had that opportunity. I was thinking them on the same division because Max. Oh, well, there's that, yes. Because Max. So I think there's a couple things at play here. Number one, I believe Brad Biggs when he says that Jerry Jones is after Max Crosby, because that was some scuttle but at the trade deadline.

And Jerry is talking in a way. He did a recent interview where he was seated at some, what looked like a cafe or something and he's just talking about it wasn't but it was that kind of scene where he he was talking about how much he wishes he could win another Super Bowl and what I saw was a guy who realizes he may not have a ton of time left to go witness another Super Bowl he's 80 what I got to look it off 80 I'm gonna think he's in his 80 I'm gonna guess that Jerry John just for the guess the sake of the guess 83 years old now God willing He has a much longer life after this.

But I think there comes a time for a lot of owners where, especially the ones who are emotionally attached to their team that way. You saw it a lot in baseball, too, where guys would just stop at nothing because they wanted to see their team win. But in baseball, it's a little more easy to spot because there's no salary cap. Not yet. That's not the case here. All of that said, after moving $47 million off of the cap in restructuring two contracts,

including Dak Prescott's and Dallas this more. morning reportedly. Cowboys would still be $9 million over. So where in there are you squeezing the $35.8 million? That's why they're dragging a dumpster. Or how did he put it? You're kicking the dumpster down the road. Exactly. It's not a can. It's a dumpster. Like this is a problem that at some point will will come to roost. Big dumpster. What? The what? But the fact that Brad Biggs is saying that this is a possibility gives it a little. more understanding. What do you say the Cowboys part of or the Bears part of it?

The Bears part of it. Yeah, I mean, well, it... I don't think the Cowboys thing happens, but I think there's probably intent there. I heard a little bit, though, and maybe I heard it wrong, but he said convincing people that it's true. I heard Big say that. It felt a little ambiguous in terms of, are they just putting it out there to make it look like the Bears are interested or the bears actually interested?

Can I offer you his Q&A from the... morning. Oh, God, yeah. It's inappropriate. The question is, if you're Ryan Poles, are you trying to package both Trimane Edmonds and DJ Moore to Las Vegas with a pick to get Max Crosby, or are you going to trade them separately? Now, we all know the likelihood of Trimane Edmonds getting traded before he's cut is pretty low. But Brad replies, sure, that makes a world of sense from the Bears' perspective.

The best intel I can provide you right now is either the bears are among a small group of teams exploring the possibility of a trade for Crosby or someone, the Raiders, is doing a good job of convincing people they are. Let's flip it around and examine it from the Raiders perspective. Fox Sports Jay Glazer reported a month ago, and then that's when he goes into the same thing that we heard Brad mentioned on the morning show. Okay, let's do the exercise here. Could you handle the Bears giving up two first rounders and a player on the roster

to get Max Crosby? and what player on the roster would you allow to go or think that would be worthy to the Raiders from their perspective that they would accept from the Bears? That's the question. I don't necessarily want to see DJ More leave the building. I've maintained, I still think he's wide receiver one. I maintain he helped win you games even though he was targeted fewer times last year than years past.

I think that would be the most enticing offer to the Raiders. Would you do it though? Like, would you like, do you think? position where the bears have depth. So yeah. Probably so. I'm trying to think, like, if I had a chance right now, like hit the button, you're going to give up your first round picks for the next two years for this coming up draft and

then 2027 and DJ Moore is going to be gone, but you get Max Crosby? I'd do it. But do you think the bears are one player away? Because if so, those draft picks become really important. Well, they... If you don't. That's a really good question. I mean, they won 11.

games last year with a pretty bad defense, right, in a lot of ways. I mean, there were some stars on the defense still, Kevin Byrd. They got a lot of takeaways. They got a lot of takeaways. So you managed to get 11 wins last year with the developing offense, which turned out to develop pretty nicely by the end of the season. And a poor defense, would that be the right? I mean, I don't know.

Underperforming. Underperforming average. It wasn't average. I was below. So I'm building up this, maybe they are one player away. Like if you got what you got out of that season last year and I now have to factor in the Drew Dalman, no left tackle.

Perhaps that team was one player away. But we don't have that team on the field anymore. Because of the the extractions. Drew Dalman and then also the four safeties and the linebacker and left tackle. That's not one player away. But I do think about what they were able to, what that team did with a good offense

and a mediocre defense. So, like, depending on what you get out of the guys that were not as effective because of injury last year, in Dio O'Dangbo, you talked about Grady Jared. I mean, you said it yourself, Grady Jarrett could, and I agree with you, could actually give you a real Grady Jarrett year.

Shemar Turner might be something. If he's healthy, I think Grady Jarrett's a different dude next year. So I'm not dismissing the possibility that they are, they are and you have other holes to fill, but that Max Crosby could be a difference maker on the team. So that's what we think. That's what Brad Biggs had to say. Well, what about former NFL players?

Teran Armstead talked about that with our afternoon show. We'll examine his opinion. Next. Rahimi Harris and Grody. Spares tight end. Cole Kamet. Cole, welcome to the party, pal. Well, thanks for having me.

I heard it was a big day. So naturally, I dropped everything I had going on. today. You've complained a lot through the years about not being able to hear the score on the 670 a.m. dial when you're inevitably cruising around downtown. And now that we have an FM signal call, you can now hear the score all day, all the time, all you want. You can hear all the Bears hot takes you want. Well, that's perfect. I'll make sure I blast that in the locker room. Rahimi Harris and Grody, Midday's Tindle 2 on 1043, The Score. Hold on a second. Was that the Mark Grody pump-up return music?

Seriously. You give me rage against the machine, and then this song by Cage the Elephant, which I recently realized, the song has been around forever, that it's a great blasted song. Maybe it was just the moment that I was having, just cranking it up. Come a little closer. I mean, like, that's life. I was putting new furniture together, like a couple weeks ago,

and I actually had this song blasting in my living room while I was put it together. Am I right? Little like that. It's just like, I'm really wanting to actually put furniture together. Do you have a song,

Lela, that you just got a blast or is it just a momentary in the moment thing? Oh, first of all, a lot of songs. Yeah. I don't know,

until I collapsed by Eminem is up there for me. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like if I want to get my butt off the couch and get to a treadmill or something,

yeah, that's the way to go. Yeah, that's a whole thing. Like, get up, Leah, step being lazy. One of these days we'll have to put that

in five on it or a fun segment on our workout playlist, except Marshall can't do that because he goes Al Natural, right? He doesn't listen to music when he runs. Or it's R&B, he says. He's ridiculous. He likes to go against the grain. Actually, I kind of envy that.

I wish I wasn't dependent upon music or activity in my years to have the momentum to work out. Yeah, that's it. I need the music. I'm dead. I'm done for. I can do, you know, 45. minutes on the treadmill, but if it's without, it's like six minutes. I need that extra push. I just have enough challenges. I don't need that to be one of them, the no music challenge or something.

It's unnecessary. I mean, to preserve your ears, I guess. Maybe Marshall's got better ears than us. I've hurt mine terribly from going to concerts, games, and doing this job. I don't even want to know. Like, I don't want to go to the ear, like, and have them say, yeah, you're down to about a six right now. I don't want to hear that. I don't want to know. Well, you're not going to hear anything if you don't go. That's a good point. Keep encouraging me. Getting back to our Max Crosby conversation that apparently isn't just us.

Brad Biggs talked about it. So did Tehran Armstead. Hear what he had to say to Matt Spiegel and Lawrence Holmes about the concept of him coming to the Bears. I got a splash. And this is just my thought. I have no insider information, nothing. But I was on my show last night on the set live. And I keep hearing chatter about.

about Max Crosby. We keep hearing Max Crosby potential move. That has Dennis Allen all over it. Front, back, and he had that trade, that situation has Dennis Allen all over it. I can see that. I can see Max Crosby coming to Chicago in a package for Tremay Edmonds, DJ Moore, first round pick, whatever. I can see that Dennis Allen, what he was able to do in New Orleans, having Cam Jordan, he's able to build and scheme. pressures away from Cam to where you have to block him one-on-one. Whether you know these safeties or corners are blitzing or not, you have to slide the line over there.

So this tackle got to dance one-on-one with Cam Jordan. If he can get that with Max Crosby, listen, the Bears, I don't want to hype them up too much. I don't, but I like what they're doing. I like what they're building, the way that they're building it. It's fun. It's been great to see the Bears process from last year training camp. to now. Man, is that a hype up?

Taron Armstrong Armstrong's just a good storyteller, like the way he crafts a discussion is really artful and entertaining, but to understand a Dennis Allen prototypical player and then to visualize how they fit into a scheme like that,

that's a ringing endorsement. And it lets you know that who might be really interested in him that we aren't talking about, and that's DA. Well, the only thing I was saying was a great interview. I listened to that. I loved his Armstead's initial. He had not heard about the Drew

Dalman trade, so he literally processed it. Yeah, what did I say? Trade. Oh, man. Max is on your mind. Yeah, you're right. You're right. The Drew Dolman retirement. He had no idea and his reaction was just wonderful in real time on Spiegel and Holmes. So great

job by those guys. The only thing that I would say the only hole that I would poke in what he just said right there, wouldn't this have most defensive coordinators name written all over it like as if

oh yeah this is Dennis Allen's kind of guy right here well we wouldn't draft an off ball linebacker at not yeah that's true flus

but I would think that most defensive coordinators that's my kind of guy how did that work out I'm sorry I'm talking about Tremaine Edmins over

Roquan Smith essentially yeah yeah it was fine also Tramaine had a good year last year he did yeah Tramaine him is good

he was never as good as Roquan Smith it was never an upgrade from O'Kwan Smith. He was a serviceable player who really was kind of actually the trajectory had been disappointing for Tremaine Edmonds until last year. Yes. Yes. And then he got put in a position to succeed. He did. He did. The DA is there. But I'm just saying most defensive coordinators would be like, yeah, that's my kind of guy right there. And in sympathy to Maddie Ber Fluse.

not simply because I have not been a defensive coordinator who had a all-star all-pro, one of the best defensive linemen in the league, leave. But in empathy to Matt Eber Fluse, I'm like, oh, man, here you go, thinking you're going to coordinate this defense with Micah Parsons. Oh, never mind. Yeah, you're out of there, pal. No, I felt for him in that moment. Did you?

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, his defensive coordinating resume speaks for itself. Yeah, it does, right. and I don't like to step on guys on the way out, even though that's what we do. But the confidence about your system over the actual talent of Roquan never sat well with me. Yeah, I mean, I listened, but I never made sense.

Everybody knew Roquan was better. But he did. I mean, I guess you can say that Iber Fluse did have his paw prints on T.J. Edwards as well. So that's worked out. And I think he did get into, at least into the ear. of Ryan Poles to say, here's some of the guys that I would desire. So I get that right.

Which is why I think that Ryan Poles did listen to not one but two head coaches when it came to players that they thought would fit in their system. I think, you know, GMs always listen to their head coaches, right? Like allow their coaches to give a wish list, but at the end of the day,

it's up to the GM. And I don't think that's really changed. No, it's here's who we have, who best fits what you do. Yeah. You know, that's how I feel like that goes. Yeah, what can you work with? Yeah.

And I think there's 32 defense coordinators that could work with Mad Max. But it's true that Dennis Allen has a type. You know, and Tom Brady talked about it during the broadcast too. You know, just understanding the style and the hallmark that is a Dennis Allen defense and the players that are involved in it. Speed. Yes, length, too. And then you hear to Ron Armstead, like that's knowing living, breathing,

existing and ball where you know exactly who DA wants and wants. why he wants them and how they work in that system. That is, first of all, respect. And then secondly, it's a teaching point for the rest of us and trying to get that eye for the same player and what kind of coverage, for example, or what kind of blocking scheme they draw. Like, that's good stuff.

Yeah, but can you also take the players that you have and that you're, I guess, quote-unquote, stuck with and make them better? I don't know that, I just go back to the timing of his hiring. He probably... Was he in the ear? Look at Tremaine Edmins. Yes, he can. Look at Tramaine Edmonds.

Good point. But who I'm getting towards here is Dio Dangbo. Can, and I don't know, like, would D.A. have had anything to do with Dio Dangbo being here? I don't think so. I don't think the timeline meets up. I think that's a poll. The timeline does meet up, I think. That he could have been in polls as year on that? Well, yeah, I think so.

It seemed like, you might be right, but it seemed like a polls thing, just the way he was talking because they were projecting so much. I mean, they admitted it. that I remember asking Ryan Poles at the press conference in the theater or whatever, the auditorium, as it were, when they rolled everybody out and they were talking about this and asking him, hey, you know, the sack numbers are not there for Diodangbo. And he said, got to watch the tape. Got to see what this guy does all over the play.

And I heard him and listened to him too. Which means, I mean, like, and I have not, just similarly to what you're talking about with Grady Jarrett, I have not given up on the idea that DiO Dangbo, could be a really, you know, effective player for the Bears. I was skeptical when they drafted him, or drafted him when they signed him because of the sack numbers

and our obsession with needing guys who actually get the double-digit sacks, but we'll see what the DA can do with him. The DA. The DA. It's like a doctor, but a different title. That's right. He is the DA. You know who I think of? You know which DA I think of? David Aldridge.

I think they used to call him the DA at one point time. Wonderful report. He really was, is. I don't know if he's still. He's with the athletic. He does a lot with them. Okay. Yeah. Still doing, is he doing like sideline stuff in the NBA? I think so, yeah. Yeah, I was like to him. The DA. Agreed. My favorite DA. Love that. Well, Dennis Allen should be up there for you at some point. Maybe not immediately. Yeah. He's got, I'll give, I'll give him some bears, but I can't say he's my favorite. We'll work on that. In the meantime, I can't wait to just hear Danny and Mark talk to each other. That's it. That's really it. It sounds cheesy and

but it's true. Don't leave me alone with Danny. Don't make me do all the work. I do sometimes. I do like to sit back and just listen to people talk to each other. And then I'm like, oh, I'm the host. I'm supposed to say something. Yeah, you have to.

Don't leave me alone. It's, you know, I'm getting tired here. You know, it's a long show. It is a long show. But you two are funny. Yeah, we do have a good time. Danny Parkins and Mark next.