Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Are you buying what you saw from the Bears on Sunday?

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened up the phone lines for Score callers to share their excitement about the Bears' 59-37 victory over the Panthers on Sunday.

Rahimi and Grotie. I mean, I'm just going to make it happen. I'm a dog. Midday, 10 a.m. to 2 on the score. See if you can get him into field goal range. Goes down field. First NFL game gets his first NFL interception. We were just talking about the confidence, a confident throw by Young,

but Muhammad dives out there for the pit. Heck yeah. I just laid it in Europe. Shopping bags of a tourist. That's the opening line of this song. Oh, not. Nice. That's Layla Rahimi right there. Blake was me. You know I got it.

I am Mark Grody. We call the show Rahimi and Grotie on 1043, the score. You are listening to a Plumbers 911 football Monday presented by Busey Bank and great clips. The Bears beat Carolina 59 to 37. Yeah, I admit it. I was pretty worried about Malik Mohamed from what I saw. I was not. No, friends. I never wavered. I don't know why. I mean, the guy didn't play the position at Texas, which makes it even more impressive. And I've had conversations.

What Texas do Saturday, Ohio State? Hell's yeah. We are on. How'd that go for you? And while I'm out of, how'd that go for you, Green Bay? That'll be addressed later in five on it, ladies and gentlemen. You extended your coach who then made another fourth quarter massive failure of a mistake. Oh, let's go.

You failed. Anybody else wants some today? You want some of that there, Carolina? You like that. How about that, by the way? The fans go into Charlotte. There's no surprises anymore, Leila. Another team's home stadium to chant Green Bay sucks.

Well, they were big. We got you there too. There was a ton of Bears fans there. I don't think that Bears fans outnumbered the Carolina fans. In fact, they didn't because you could tell watching the broadcast, but they made their voices heard. But yeah, Malik Mohamed with that pick at the end of the first half, he had a diving PBU at one point in time past breakup. So I thought he comported himself well, keeps stacking those days together. I absolutely love it.

Are you buying what you saw from the Bears yesterday? 312-644-67-67 is the number. Let's get going on these calls, Lales. Shall we? We shall. By the way, our segment brought to you by almost-freeteeth.com. Save on dental implants today. How about Bob?

Bob in Downers Grove. Bob, you're on the score with Rahimi and Grotie. What's going on, man? Hey, guys. How you doing? The best. We are the best today. Oh, I am absolutely buying 100% what I saw yesterday, and I'll tell you why.

That offense was absolutely on point. It was on point. DeAndre Swift was so good. Everybody saw the way he ran, but twice linebackers came free right up the middle, and they were going to ruin Caleb's day, and he just stepped in and stoned them. And I'll tell you what, our defense isn't nearly as bad as it showed yesterday. Aulik Mohamed and Danny Thineman, they can. come from absolute stud

stud programs. Malik Mohamed has every expectation of being a starty quarterback in this league. He's not going to have to worry about nickel. He's taken Tyreeks Stevenson's position real soon. We are going to whoop the Vikings. The Packers had no running game.

We're going to run it right down their throat. We're going to win. I am not worried one bit about Carson Wentz walking in here and putting up 30 points on us. Get out of town with that. No way. We are going to score 40. No problem. We're not going to have to worry about the Blitz game because Swift and Menongai are just going to run it down their throat. It is a nightmare for the NFL to have the Bears, Caleb Williams, under center, a Ben Johnson downhill running game, and play action.

We are going to destroy this. Hey, Bob, real quick question for you. Can I ask you a quick question before you go? 17 and all? Oh, I don't know. We got a tough one with the bills late in year. Oh, all of a sudden, we got a tough one, huh? Wait a minute. What was all that 40 points of game talk?

Hey, stop harassing the vibe. We're not, this is the NFL. There are a lot of good teams, but we are about to whoop the Viking there. See you later, Bob. Okay, I like that declaration. I did hate watch the Packers Vikings after the Bears game. I watched post game. I listen to Ben Johnson.

I listen to Caleb Williams. And I was like, let me see what's going on to this here, Packers and Vikings game. And then I'm like, oh, the Green Bay Packers are up. And then Malphor decided to take points off the board for his own team. And then suddenly there went the collapse again. There was. There was two years in a row, Matt LaFloor. Two games in a row, I should say.

Great first call. Let's name our calls. We'll call that call Danny Thineman. Put that down as Danny Thineman. I like that. I kind of like Danny Thineman. How about Wayne? Wayne is it Lafayette?

What's up, Wayne? Oh, you're on the score, man. What's going on? My God, I finally got through to my old buddy Grotty man. and Miss Layla, what a fine day to talk to you too, boy. Hell yeah. My favorite people in the world, boy. Look forward to seeing you guys again one of these days soon.

Boy, I sure do. Hey, before I get to my bear thing, me and Dustin Rosie decided, since you've got your own show now, we're going to call you Mr. Tall and a Saddle Grody like John Wayne, by. Mr. What? Wait, what was it? Mr. What? Mr. Tall on the saddle grooty. Oh, okay. Okay. You're right. You're riding tall, babe. Act accordingly. Act accordingly, people.

I'm a different man now, Jack. He's telling the saddle every day when he comes to work, buddy. You bet you. Thanks, Wayne. Hey, you guys, I think if we had our number one pickup in the office season, Mr. Kobe Bryant in there, they don't think they would even score 20 points on us. And I'm buying into it big time. As long as we got Caleb and Mr. Johnson calling the plays

and then our running, everybody stays healthy. We're going to have an unbelievable year this year. And Grody, all those bad years you had, you deserve a couple really good ones here, buddy, because you stuck right in there with all that ugly stuff. And now it's going to get pretty for you, old buddy. Wayne. For you, Leila. Oh, thank you, Wayne.

And how are you doing? Everything okay, health-wise? Yes, ma'am. I want to thank Dr. Orton from the Lafayette Cancer Society. Dr. Orton. Dr. Orton, is that Kyle? Is that related to Kyle Orton? Because he's from that area now.

I don't know. Mr. Orden, he's from Virginia. So he might be an off-breed cousin or something. I don't know. Well, very happy to hear you're healthy and doing well. I want to thank him because my PSA went from 31 to 7, and now the next time I go in, it's going to be down to zero. God bless you, Wayne.

That means I got it all. So I'm going to be around to antagonize and see and give you guys all the praise and worldly fame that you guys are going to show us all the time. Wayne, you're the best man. Thanks so much for the call. I don't know that Kobe Bryant could have saved. Maybe it would have been 450 total yards. The problem was, unfortunately, it was the cornerbacks.

It was Tyreeks Stevenson, giving up the Jalen Coker, 51-yarder. It was Jalen Johnson giving up a 27-yard play and the Jonathan Brooks 46-yard catch-and-run. And look, it's not like these guys won't get better. In fact, I think both of these guys will get better and eventually look very good. They had bad games yesterday. Yeah, that's the bottom line. I didn't love the fact that Bryce Young had all day to three. row and empty. I felt like he

looked so comfortable. That was excellent use out of empty out of the Panthers offense and Dave Canales. I feel like that was a very smart play. They were able to tie the game of 21 as we saw. And yeah, there were some bad tackles too and bad contain. And Jalen Johnson, if you are Kevin O'Connell,

you're looking at trying to create more mismatches. I'm surprised they didn't use slot more. Like, unfortunately Jaylen got beat several times in that game, but I know he probably wants that one back. Yeah. I was Weirdly, like, now in retrospect, I didn't want Jonathan Brooks to burn anybody on the bears. I'm happy for Jonathan Brooks.

This guy's had a tortured career so far, like three games and two awful injuries, former second-round pick, so good for that guy. Guess what, Leila? Yes. It's Frank in Oak Park. Ah, now we're cooking. Frank, you're on the score with Amy Grody. I'm a bullion, and I'm almost buying into everything, but let me explain. It's good to be back for a hearing.

Damien Grotie for a new bear season. And I thought it might be a bad omen when Ferrari lost one card of bad breaks in Spain and the surviving racer could only manage fourth. But the Bears' offense deodorize some shaky defense on a record day. Granted, the Panthers were an 8-9 division winner last year and played better the second half with wins against the pack and the Rams. But, baby, you can't be giving up 4758 yards and 37 points or close to it each week

and get what you want to accomplish. Now, if you can get that down to 340 or 350 each outing and you get the three takeaways like Sunday, with this offense, you could go to the Super Bowl. Oh, dang, that was a conversational and short, Frank call. Yeah, I wasn't ready. I also want to point out this. It was not just the way the Bears won in time of possession,

but total plays. They ran 70 total plays. That's how you win a ball game. That's how you score 59 points, by the way. And I understand, yes, the defense did not look good. But unfortunately, I think a lot of this somewhat went to plan. They knew that their defense was not going to be as good as their offense. Right.

They knew it. Yeah. Yeah, no matter how many. I mean, Ben Johnson was asked questions throughout the offseason in the spirit of, are you just going to have to go out there and outscore teams because of your defense? course, Ben Johnson gave the politically correct answer, which is not to denigrate the defense. But I think we saw, again, if that is the template in an exaggerated way, it's not surprising. Yeah, 552 total yards, 291 rushing yards to go along with six touchdowns on the ground,

26 first downs in all those plays that Layla just mapped out. There's just so many things from this game that I don't even know if we'll get to all of the cool little history points and bullet points that this game brought up. Right, not to mention how this NFL opener was historic and the amount of points that were scored total. But yes, on the other side, you have every reason in a world where we saw the Seahawks defense show you yet again why it won the Super Bowl in their first game of the season. Great point. You know, the defense still does win. But in the meantime, this is what this team was constructed to be.

It was just an extreme example. I've got the numbers right here, Lail. You just talked about for an opener, the combined teams, 96 combined. Bind in an opener is the record, 5937. The old record wasn't that long ago, of course, because this is the era in which offense is king. It was in 2018, 88 points combined between Tampa Bay and New Orleans. That was a Tampa Bay 48 to 40 win over the Saints.

How about Tony and Joliet? Tony, you're on Rahimi and Grotie on 104. The score. What up? Oh, my God, my friends, my friends. Lela. Grody! Tony.

Fares Monday. And it was the best Fares Monday we've ever had, man. Because to answer the question, it's not even close, man. Caleb is not generational. He's once in a lifetime. Oh, boy. It's like when we knew Michael Jordan was there and we had it, we never looked back. And just like a once in a lifetime player, the people before them did great things.

Bird Johnson, great. But Michael took it to a home at a level. So Patrick Mahomes, he's coming. for you, buddy. We're going to be unbelievably great. And another cool thing, too, you take Minangai and Swift together with their production. It's almost like having Walter Payton back. This offense is crazy. It's going to be great. And I look forward to talk to you guys. Congratulations on the new show. Listen every day. So happy to be back. Love you guys so much. Let's go, Grotie. Let's go, baby. Let's go, Tony. Take some a ad call again. We always appreciate your calls here.

promo now. You've made the station imaging. Congratulations. No, he did with the morning show, yeah. Oh, you did? Well, it was funny. Olin Crutes did the pre-impost with Olin-Cruits and Patrick Manley yesterday. We had an absolute blast. Those guys were just so good. And Olin-Cruits was asked a question after the game. Is this

the best? When have you ever seen a better tandem of rushing backs or running backs for the Bears? And he said, he went where I would have gone. I think a lot of Bears fans would have gone as well. And that was Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson at one point in time. I mean, that was a nice one-two punch once Benson got himself going. It was nice.

I mean, you think back to, of course, Walter Payton and Matt Suey, but quite frankly, like Matt Suey was not a prolific rusher. He was the fullback who led Walter Payton to all of his yards. And he was a terrific running back, but he was not a big time running. That was the style of football at the time. That's how that went. They were the only ones with that style of running game in the NFL at the time. Oilers were like that, too, with Earl Campbell. So that was, you know, the bears were just tremendous at it because of Walter and Matsui. Yeah.

Yep, no doubt about it. Yeah, kids, there was a time where it was a no-brainer to draft your running back number one overall in the league or number two overall in the league. And then somewhere along the line, it changed. But we'll go through that book a little bit later on and also give more tidbits on Walter Payton, the legendary bear. running back that people don't know anything about only I know things about Walter Payton Lela. I'm the only one. Brody was telling Jared Payton, his son about him this morning. It was a very interesting conversation. Keep listening for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Weezer.

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