Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Bears' game-winning TD to beat Packers named NFL's Moment of the Year

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote reacted to an iconic Bears play being named the NFL's Moment of the Year for the 2025 season.

Hey guys, Fly on the Wall is back for another season. That's right, on audio and video every Monday and Thursday. Follow and listen to Fly on the Wall everywhere you get in your podcasts. Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, Rahimi, Harrison Grody on 1043, the score. On the fake Williams. That right there. The overtime touchdown catch, Caleb Williams, DJ Moore. It was awarded at the NFL honors last night.

Number one, we had a reason to watch the NFL honors. honors. That's new. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 1043 the score. Yeah, how about needing to watch that just because it's of consequence now? I had spent a couple hours at my favorite Starbucks Lula yesterday. Palmer House. Starbucks is having a great time. Love the people over there. Thanks to everybody who's made it great and accommodating for me. I wish I could live at the Palmer House. I got to check this out. I mean, I've been, I just didn't have the same experience. I had a really rude lobby bartender there who kept telling me that IDing me was good for me

and I was like, I'm over 40. Like I gave you my card. What's with the speech? Give me the name. I'll take care of it. ASAP. Yeah, please do. Because all I wanted was like a five ounce glass of Sauvignon Blanc one day and that was too much for this dude. He had to be a jerk about it. Okay. I'm going to co-sign with Grotty there. That Starbucks

though is spacious and nice. It's a nice big one. Don't be rude to people. I agree. No, the lobby's bomb over there. It's so fantastic. Oh yeah. I just want it. Lots of Outlets is really the draw because there's plenty of places you go that you don't get the outlet. So I'm doing all my work over there yesterday and you're right. I'm thinking about, okay, what do I need to watch tonight?

Obviously, there's the Bulls game. We all watched Bulls and Raptors for no reason. I mean, there was. For no reason. No, I disagree. I thought it was fascinating to see the Bulls and who they would start and who would play. And who is this? What does this Jaden Ivy look like?

Oh, Anthony Simons? He's pretty good, actually. Anthony Sommans looked like he belonged there. Yeah. I enjoyed some of watching just because of the... Now, will I watch going forward? Mac McClugg's like, I'm going downhill here and get stopped by a seven-footer in the lane. And then there was another point where like Yuki was in the post and I'm like, what are we doing, guy?

How about Matt? I thought that modest boozealous that done... I don't know if you saw it. I'm sorry, did I say MacMiller, not Mac McLung. McClung! RIP MacMack Miller. RIP MacMall, very important. It's a way and Larry of your name of him.

Matt McClung! Oh my God. Isn't it? McClaug. The arrogance of McClog. A McClog. Doug! More arrogance by Matt Nagy.

It just doesn't sound the same with Matt McCluck. And frankly, he was just doing what he thought was a good idea from a basketball standpoint, playing downhill, thought he had some space in the lane. Sir, this is the NBA, not the G-R-Aic. I'm really sorry how that lane closed up so quickly. And with a seven-footer to meet your fate, turnover, Raptors Ball. Modest Bazelis at one point time. a sick one-hand jam that he put all of his world into.

And I couldn't help but thinking that he feels a little threat with old Mac McLung on the roster. He's like, okay, you and I have both been in slam dunk content. McClug! Get away! At 1125, we need to delve into your, is Mac McLug pressuring modest for competition? I'm saying, you got two like slam dunk guys out there. We know, hey, McClung, we all know what you're trying to do. Modis would have none of it. MacLung!

You know what this sounds like to me? Bulls need their own slam-down contest, and it's two people. It's MacMachlung and Modis, and we'll figure it out. What if they do that during timeouts at the United Center instead of the bucket boys or all their various excellent acts that they have out there? Let's just get McClung out here. I do love the bucket boys and all of the dances. Oh, I support the bucket boys always.

They always, always will get contributions from me. Grotty's a man of the people. He supports the bucket boys. He's out at the Palmer House. He's doing things. But the Palmer House. That's right. Bring your back full circle. Actually, I think the segment was supposed to be about something else, technically. But let's go. I'll get it to you right now. So there I was, doing all my work. Go home. I'm like, not only do I feel obligated to watch the Bulls game. I feel, as you said, for the first time in a while, I feel obligated to watch all of the NFL awards from last night. Yeah, the NFL awards were actually important for us to watch. So after I watched the Raptors beat the Bulls on the Amazon broadcast

with the dashing British accent sideline reporter, who I thought did an excellent job. Yeah. Everything just sounds cooler with a British accent. Of course. He was great. So after that broadcast, I did tune it over to the NFL honors,

which had bears being part of the discussion. Let's start with the obvious one. I would have also been the first place vote for Ben Johnson for coach of the year. I'm sorry. he only got one and Adam Rake joked it was him. Sam Munson was the guy who voted for Justin Herbert who got the first place vote for MVP. It went to Matthew Stafford. Matt or Mike Rable gets Coach of the Year honors 19 first place votes, 302 points. Next was Liam Cohen. That was Marshall's guy. Then it was Mike McDonald. Then it was Ben Johnson and then it was Kyle Shanahan who you think deserves

it because he's good every year. Right. I was like sort of in that camp of can we just finally give it to the actual best coaches in the league every year. And not the biggest turnaround guy. But I think they should do what the NBA does and just have more awards that kind of encompasses that concept. Joe Tuney gets protector of the year for the inaugural award that Dionne Dawkins helped create. Way to go old Joe. Yeah, our guy Marshall would be very happy with that too.

Wasn't that his MVP or was it yours as well? Caleb Williams was my MVP because the quarterback is the most important. In my algorithm, quarterback waits the most. but best offensive edition for me was Joe Tuny. And I think it is really cool. We talked to Olin a little bit about it yesterday and the importance of how offensive line talk is one of the good things that's happened

with the advent of all this film watching and social media is understanding how crucial they are to successful quarterback play. So I thought it was fantastic that Joe Tuny got his due. Yeah, and he gets it over and just getting all the Detroit fans all stirred up, gets it over Penny Sewell. Names like Creed Humphrey. the chief's fine set over one of his ex-teammates.

Yeah, one of the best in the league. That collection of names was the best in the league. Yeah, I'm glad they're doing that. And congrats, man. That's awesome to see To see Toeney in the success that he had with the Bears. Now, keep in mind, Ben Johnson's advice to Caleb Williams was get away from football.

So I'm not mad that he wasn't at the NFL honors. Caleb Williams and DJ Moore and the touchdown to beat the Packers in overtime for that was win number one over the Packers to even the series at Soldier Field won the Moment of the Year award and you know I I think that Kevin Burkhard and Tom Brady had a little something to do with that I don't really know how it works there's votes and all of that stuff but they wanted to come back to Chicago because they had such a good time you know being here and being a part of the broadcast and then

And they talked about it a lot in that divisional game, too. So I don't know. I think announcer bias maybe kind of like inching over toward the bears a bit with stuff like this. I guess I would accept that if that's what it is. But I mean, that was pretty spectacular, the 46-yard walk-off TD against Green Bay over the dreadful Kishon Nixon, who, of course, stopped that party in Green Bay. I voted him as Bears Public Enemy Number One, as you know, and he really was part of the discussion surrounding it. So I also laughed because I checked out Packers Wire, you know, via USA Today.

And it was like, the Packers on the wrong end of NFL moment of the year in 2025. And then somebody's going to say, oh, the Packers live rip free in your head. They beat the Packers, okay? Like, that's how it works. You beat another team and it's the Packers. I think about your team. I'm not apologizing for it. That's good. I'm glad you noticed that.

The bears beat you guys. Okay, you've beaten the bears. That's how this goes. Beat you twice. Let's get that right, Layla. Twice. We live rent-free. You're on the schedule.

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Like there's so many times where like NFL films where it's the Bears that are in the picture at the expense of them. So it was nice to see that. But that was that was one of the great plays for the Bears and in the NFL. And the Bears had a bunch of doozies this year. Like they could have, there could have been what? Three, four, five maybe other plays. Well, even the ridiculously.

insane touchdown pass against the Rams to Colcomette, where he swung the bat right at Stacey Dales' phone, I think, or her camera or whatever to get that angle. That was incredible. Like, that was the one that wowed the entire NFL. I watched the highlight of that the other day, or yesterday at my Starbucks for some reason, because I just needed a little break from... Palmer House, you better be paying Mark Grady some reverse rent here or something. I don't know if they're telling you. I just want them to feel encouraged to keep everything the way it is over there.

We need third places. Yes, we do. We all need a third place. Stop it with the just working home thing. It's just amazing to watch the arm strength of Caleb Williams on that particular play where, of course, it goes down in the records as a 14-yard pass, but it actually was over 51 yards by the time he goes back and just the way he flings it, he's off balance, makes the play.

And the throw is perfect. Yeah, old 24-4-Calel Williams can be doing that, 24-year-old. Like, if we're talking about 34-year-old, I don't know that it's going to go the same way, but I'm living in the moment. But the point is, yeah, it was for the Bears beating the Packers. So I don't know. Are you guys all going to text the NFL and be like, oh, the Packers are living rent-free in your heads? Anyway.

Who is saying that? Who is hurting you right now, Leila? No, it's hilarious. It's all like any time we post a video talking about the Bears beating the Packers, all of a sudden, all these Packers fans come out of nowhere. Good, good. And then they're like, oh, we're living Red Free. What are you talking about?

This is the result of the game. Yeah, we're certainly not going to pay rent. I mean, it's three. The only reverse rent is going to Mark Grody for being at the Palmer House. So the point is Caleb Williams was not at the NFL honors awards. I think that's fine. Ben told him to get away from football. DJ Moore was there. He showed up.

He talked to CHGO, as we mentioned. You can check out much more of their interview, by the way, on their coverage with Adam Hogan, Adam Johns. And DJ Moore showed up to accept this award. Listen to what happened. Ooh, there's a lot of people in this mug. But I want to say thank you to God, you know, for our season. Joe Noda, ups and downs. Everybody know. This season was special for the 2025 Bears

because RIP Virginia, but we went out there and made some moments this year. And it was special moments and we can't look forward to causing havoc to the league next year. Thank you guys. Yeah, he was great. Like the smile on his face was ear to ear and he showed up and it was really nice of him, I think, to honor Virginia McCasky, who I wanted to see in the in Memorial Montage, forgetting that she was in last year. You were enraged on the text line. I was mad, yeah. It's hard to remember sometimes, like, what happened.

Oh, it's like, because I did, like, the year-in-review thing over in WBBM, and you really have to think about what happened in the calendar year 25. Like, did this person die in that year? Right. So it is, like, I could understand how you got mixed up. But good to see DJ, like, looking happy, looking healthy, looking confident, looking eager, looking like he anticipated. I don't know if these guys know that they won the award before they won the award,

but he just looked so happy and confident to be there. He did. And it really, part of the fun of watching that show was seeing all the people in the crowd. Like, he's right. You know, Ed McCaffrey's up there looking like he hadn't aged a day talking about the work of his son, Christian. I did not expect Ed McCaffrey to look like he's still playing shape and like all of his brown hair. Like there were like how about the moment from Roger Craig as well when they announced the Hall of Fame class and he looks like he's about to cry. You know, that was incredible.

You could tell how much he really wanted to be there. And his stats bear out that he should be in the Hall of Fame, by the way. Not Emperor Palpatine Roger Craig though, right? No, no, just just not baseball Roger Craig, but football Roger Craig. Both were San Francisco though. Yeah, no, Roger Craig was like one of the great early, like that I saw dual threat running backs. where he could be just as, like, think Matt Forte. Yeah.

Could be just as good receiving as running. And they talked about that, you know, a thousand yard rushing and a thousand yard receiving, which is outrageous. Like, we forget, I think, how outrageous the West Coast offense was in disrupting what we knew about the NFL at the time. And, yeah, it predated my football cognizance a bit. But you, I mean, I don't know, you're up early Saturday morning watching NFL films and stuff like that.

You get the history. Oh, yeah, man. Yeah, no, it was good to see all those guys up there. No, no, Bill Belich. No, Bill Belichick. Punishment levied via people because the league didn't. Yes, Ray? Just a quick note, since we did mention Virginia and DJ's acknowledgement of Virginia

McCasky, this is a year ago today that she passed away. So, you know, shout out to Virginia. See, and that's why it was tough because you're trying to figure out the timing of it. And I think it may have been that day on the NFL honors where they included her in last year's montage. but Virginia does deserve more acknowledgement than just being in one memoriam montage. She does. I agree, yeah. She deserves her own special.

Absolutely. She's Virginia McCarthy. And frankly, you know, as a woman who appreciates women in roles where there usually aren't, she was one of the groundbreaking women in football when you consider that she became ownership long before a lot of women were in that role. Like think about Carly Ursaig. Gordon now and how much we accept her and her presence. And Virginia was doing that at a time when nobody was. Right. Prematurely. Well, relatively nobody. Earlier than she thought she was ever going

to have to. Yeah. So I always, I always think about that. And, you know, if the bears really wanted to do a bobblehead, and I said this before, I actually think Virginia McCasky bobblehead would be awesome and really well received. And women in sports day was actually, women in sports day happened earlier this week, and she truly is a woman in sports who deserves all of the recognition for that. I laugh because there's just no way they would do a Virginia McCasky bobblehead. Because she's just like that would not be her style. That would not like to put Virginia, the classy Virginia McCasky in bobblehead form.

I don't think that would happen. But not like a bad bobblehead. I know. But that's a caricature of somebody. She's not a caricature person. The one they did for the 100 year wasn't that. That was the Gail Sayers' bobblehead, right? I have it.

Oh, the Gail-Sah, okay. So, like, they've done some that are like, they're honoring people, not like, you know, cartoon of people. Oh, I understand, but it just like, it just made me laugh at the idea of Virginia McCaskey and Bobblehead. That's just not her personality. No, but I don't know. I just, I'm trying to think of ways to, like, honor her that would have been like something involving fans in a way that, not to take advantage of, but just to do something else to just give credit.

You know, like we have a less bubblehead doll right now in our studio. Yes, we do. Yes, he keeps moving. He's in front of you now. Oh, no, actually, there's the Les Gropstein name placard right there in the co-pilot chair, and Les is in front of you. So I hope you feel protected. Okay, exactly. So we have a couple of different ways we can go with our next segment. I want you to pick, because you're here, and it's a Friday, and it's a Friday before the superiors. owl. Wow.

Yes, it is. Should we talk about the other moments that you think should have been Bears moment of the year at least? Or should we get into the Chicago Pope skit that happened with the NFL honors? Wow. I mean, I did not hear the Chicago Pope skit. Because for halftime, we have something completely different, which is also a different discussion. Sounds to me like you want to do the Pope.

Can we? Come on. Yeah. Ray says yes. All right. Chicago Pope. appeared at the NFL Otters last night. Bob.

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