Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Bears add defensive tackle Neville Gallimore on a 2-year, $12-million deal

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote reacted to the Bears adding defensive tackle Neville Gallimore on a two-year deal.

Rahimi Harris and Grotie. Middays 10 to 2 on 1043, the score. This is Rahimi Harris and Grotie on 105, 1043, the score. And I'm reading like 18 tweets that we've got here. So let's go through some of the news that we're seeing. Ian Rappaport, according to sources, the bucks are finalizing a deal to resign their standout tight-in, Kate Otten, taking a big-time target off of the market and a deal done by Excel football. not surprising or necessarily notable, but it is interesting to see some guys staying in place. Another former Chiefs cornerback in L.A., former Kansas City quarterback Jalen Watson,

this according to Adam Schaefter, reached agreement today on a three-year deal with the Los Angeles Rams. That is per calling Roberts of Excel, who's very busy because he is getting the news out to everybody. He was also involved in the previous news, and it's $4,020 for Jalen Phillips to the Panthers with 80 million in guarantee. So that is big. And then there's this. What I tell you guys about left tackle being not exactly a bargain? Adam Schaefter reporting, Commander's Pro Bowl tackle Laramie Tunsell reached agreement on a two-year 60.2 million

contract extension with Washington. So at two-year-60, that sounds about in the neighborhood of 30-million. Or as Grody was saying last week, 30-mildo. I think you said it in an interview as a unit of measurement. Is that like million dollars converted to an abbreviation? Yeah, it's a cool way of saying. It's a contraction? Yeah.

Is there a hyphen between the mill and the dough? No. Is that just straight through M-I-L-L-D-O-D-O-G-H? Or is it M-I-L-D-O-G-H? Because that would also... No, no, no, no, no. Just mill, though. Everything gets misspelled anyway these days.

So just go with the mill, though. I'm sad to see Jalen Phillips off the board. I really like Jalen Phillips. I don't know if it was realistic to think that he was actually going to come to the Bears. but that's that's tough he's gone off the board scratch him off where do we go now where do we go now on the defensive line on the defensive end also this news coming down that michael pitman according to adam schaefter is being traded to the steelers he of the colts yeah he had the the franchise put on him in 2024 by the colt and then signed a three-year seventy-one million dollar deal 46 mildo

guaranteed and now he is on the move from the very very big very disappointing Indianapolis cults from last year relative to the way they started their season. Well, a lot of that had to do, I think, with Daniel Jones going down,

and apparently they're working on some huge deal for him now, so he's going to get paid this offseason. Yeah, corduette goes down, it is tough. Apparently this is a pick swap, according to Schefter. Trade terms, teams are swapping

late round picks, plus Pittsburgh is preparing to sign Pittman to an extension. Who's throwing him the ball? likely Malik Willis, is that the estimation? Do we feel like that's the likely move for Pittsburgh? Well, we got Malik Willis news just in this very moment. Seriously?

Yeah, Packers, free agent, quarterback Malik Willis reached agreement today with the Miami Dolphins coordinator to Adam Sheffter. Literally, you spoke it into existence. Turns out he may be one of the 32, eh? If he hadn't heard to Atunga Voloa, he was released? Was that it? Or cut? I don't know what the exact terminology was.

Yeah, that's why that. So, okay. I just got your tweet, right? Because our Wi-Fi doesn't work in the back of the studio. Well, well, well. Kind of makes things hard on a day like this. So that's big. Are you happy about Malik Willis being out of the division?

I am because he's a very capable backup. He looked good against the Bears. He absolutely did. So I guess, I don't really care, but relative to him playing well against the Bears, I suppose. He was problematic. His ability to run really threw the bears off, if you'll remember. Yeah. And there's a reason why the Bears won two out of three games against the Packers,

but it was close. It was really, really close. His line was Tyson-Bajun is stowed with the Bears. Everybody's happy. As long as nobody is messing with, because, hey, I know there was that big flurry of Tyson-Vagent talk at the Combine. I love Tyson. Stand-by.

Well, Ryan Folson said he received calls. Exactly. And with all the movement that we're seeing, whether it's Tutanko Viloa, whether it's Kyla Murray, whether it's Malik Willis, if he is considered by the league to be in that tier of quarterbacks who are, Ben Johnson says one of the 32, is he a capable backup? Is he somebody people trust? So if that's the case, then I feel like what we're seeing is some movement on that side of the quarterback market. So it just makes you wonder how much of a bridge quarterback he could be. Now here's the other part of this. Aaron Rogers is still out there. And I don't think he's retiring next season.

Marshall's guy. So what happens to Aaron Rogers in all of this? Or does he say it's either I'm starting or nothing? I think Aaron Rogers is going to be back with the Steelers starting and it's going to be fine. Yeah, I ever know other names necessarily. That's what I'm saying. attached of substance. Can you see another scenario where he's starting somewhere?

Well, I was questioning whether or not he was going to complete the Bratfarv arc, the team arc, and go to Minnesota. But it sounds like they've got a lot of options there as far as what they want to do behind J.J. McCarthy. Minnesota is going to have a parade of quarterbacks. Yeah, stand by to see what they do too, like in their quarterback room. Trying to figure out, you know, what the rest of the division is going to do and monitoring that to me is just as interesting as following what the Bears are or are not doing in free agency as opposed to whether there's more trades to be made

and or, you know, how they're looking at this draft. We have a bear signing. Oh. This according to Tom Pelliserro. The bears are signing defensive tackle Neville Gallimore to a two-year $12 million deal. Sources tell the insiders. You got your defensive lineman market, Marshall Harris. Neville Gallimore has arrived.

He is here, and he will be a depth piece on the Chicago Bears defensive line. That's what this is. Yeah. So we were wondering. You need players. That's it. You need players. And as we've seen with the injuries that have been a concern, you need more so than you most likely think.

Nose tackle for the cults. So the cults are making some moves with some people. Like the cults are wheeling and dealing, it sounds like when it comes to transactions, trades, and the like extensions as well. And we'll find out more about Neville Gallimore. What I can't tell you is he spent the first four seasons in Dallas, and then he played a year with the Rams, and then he played last year with the Colts,

where he started all 17 games, or excuse me, he played in 17 games, started eight of them. I want to see how this matches up with what other moves they make, right? But that's $12 million that's been shuffled into that position, $6 million for the 2026 season. 29 years old for his current. In a career, 147 tackles, seven and a half sacks, six pass deflections just off the thumbnail that I'm looking at right now. Yeah, he played Noah.

He played nose at Oklahoma. Yeah. He is Canadian. Oklahoma. Ontario. Okay. I thought he said Iowa at first. No.

Ottawa. I think I did too. Sorry, my bad. Ottawa. Okay. Well, hopefully we can learn more about him, but he was a third round pick in the 2020 NFL draft where the Cowboys took him with the 82nd overall pick as well. well. Yeah.

You know what it is? Michael Pittman had a $29 million cap hit since we're examining Colts news. That's large. Wow. It is not small. It is a significant cap hit. Well, that makes it make more sense as to why the deal was what it was. We have more to come here on Brahimi Harrison Grotie on 104.

The score. So we've got three pieces of news when it comes to the Bears. DeMarco Jackson staying with the team. Daniel Hardy's staying with the team and now defensive lined up with Neville Gallimore, the former Colt, yes? Does that mean that I guess I should have thought of this right away that they're not bringing back Andrew Billings,

that this is more of Dennis Allen's type of guy at that position. What about Dominique Robinson too? Yeah, he's the defensive end, but he's going to be, yeah, we'll see. We'll see about Dominic Robinson. I imagine. Since we're thinking of the backups, D. Robb was effective last year.

Yeah, I don't know if they look at him necessarily their starter, but I know that it felt like, although Billings still played plenty last year, it never felt like he was a Dennis Allen guy. So maybe this is a Dennis Allen guy. He was a me guy. I always liked Andrew Billings. A me guy? I liked Andrew Billings. Oh, you like. I thought you meant like you were saying he's like selfish. Like he's a me guy. That's what that connotes. Me, Leela, I liked him. Okay. And who didn't? It's like big guy running around? I mean,

And was a run stopper, and frankly, the bears needed way better run defense. He had a nice run with the bears. For all the pass rush we talk about, their run defense was terrible. Some might argue he was as big as an apartment complex. He's an apartment complex. Yeah. What if he heads up on the Packers? And he could be back with the Bears, too.

I don't know. I'm just trying to connect dots and figure out the significance of the saying. I mean, I'm following money here. You know, I'm thinking about it. I think about it in position groups. in term of money. That's why I was also thinking out loud about DeMarco Robinson. So Dominique. Dominic Robinson. Thank you. I just call him D-Robb all the time. That works. I feel like everybody does. So that's my thing is, oh, how much money is allocated to this,

to this position group as a cheaper option, I think, yeah. So I think that that's a fair question. So we know Daniel Hardy, we know DeMarco Jackson, and now Neville Gallimore. Those are the moves with the Bears. Five on it is coming up next as we take a look at the NFF. on this negotiating window day.