Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Best of the Bears on 104.3 The Score: Reactions to Week 4 win over Jets

Episode Date: October 6, 2026

In the Best of the Bears, Score football analyst Olin Kreutz joined the Haugh & Payton Show to share his observations from Chicago's dominant 23-12 win against the New York Jets on Sunday; Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes explained how the Bears bullied their way to a win over the Jets; and Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened up the phone lines for Score callers to celebrate the Bears' victory.

Good morning, Olin. How are you? Good morning, guys. Doing good, man. The Chicago Bears looking like a good, legitimate football team out there on Sunday. I heard you guys talking this morning. The surprise we all have watching that defense play yesterday and the level that they played at, a lot of credit to those players and the coaching staff on that side of ball, the way they got these guys playing together, doing their jobs.

Beautiful to watch. That secondary play, their zones, or their men. coverage, and we all know the injuries that they've had there and the question marks that this defense has had with their past rest of stuff, but really, man, Dennis Allen and Al Harris and Jeremy Garrett and Cannon Matthews and Richard Smith, all the coaching outside of ball. Just a tip of the cap today of what I watched yesterday on film. Yeah, Olin, that's the one of the thing that I was talking about earlier today.

It's very rare. Sometimes you're with Ben Johnson, he gets a lot of the credit, but he also brought in this staff. And so the staff, he wanted to bring in guys that were, that love ball. And it just seems like this defense is feeding off of Dennis Allen. But it's the way his system works and how they're coaching these guys up. And I came into the season looking at that defense going, there are a lot of question marks. But they're starting to kind of play into figuring out what guys do well.

And DA puts his guys in situations to be successful. Yeah, it's a great point, Jared, because when you turn the film on this morning, all 22 is out. get to see the secondary play their coverages and communicate with each other. And Jalen Johnson passing off a receiver to Dylan Thineman, you know, Xavier Woods, right, Malik Mohamed. These are names we didn't think we're going to say this year. Karek Stevenson, even with the drop interception, playing great coverage yesterday.

This defense along with Devin Bush and T.J. Edwards and all the guys that they have working together on the back end. I'm really interested here, Matt Bowen later in the week on the score, talk about what he saw on the Bears film. But you're talking about Dennis Allen. I'm talking about Al Harris, right, the DB past game coordinator for the Chicago Bears. You're watching this team play.

And you're saying, man, like, I don't even see a hole. I know why Gino, I'm like, what is Gino Smith doing when I'm watching it? Why is he holding onto the ball so long pumping it? Because it wasn't like the Bears had a ferocious pass rush on him yesterday, right? The coverage, you didn't know where to go at the ball. The Bears are fooling him getting out of his own, in and out of man, sending some timely blitzes, but just watching, as you guys know, the secondary is a lot like the offensive line, right?

Like everyone has to work together. The sum is greater than the parts if you're all doing what you need to do. And this Chicago Bears secondary, man, and we think about like, you know, Toby Bryant is not even playing. That's the job that this coach staff and these players have done, getting on the same page, working together, go all about to the Carolina Panthers game where you're like, oh, my goodness, man. This defense is going to be what we thought they were going to be.

They're not going to be very good. this year and the offense is going to have to score 40 to 50 plus just to stay in every game. But that's not true, man. This season showed up yesterday. Didn't give up a third down. Coach Allen had his guys flying around. If they did get the run game going, boom, timely blitz, get them behind the sticks, blitz them again, put them on notice that you're not just going to do whatever you want to

do. We're going to keep you off balance. And then just to watch them play their coverages yesterday, guys, really, really fun watch. You're listening to Haump Payton on the score and the segment. with Olin Cruz is sponsored by Great Clips. It's going to be great. All right, Olin, let's get right to it because I think that you watched Tyson Baygent yesterday, and I think the words

solid and serviceable apply to what he did running the offense efficiently. He's an extension of Ben Johnson. I don't think that maybe he looked like one of the best 32 quarterbacks in the NFL, the way that we have described him in the offseason. Maybe he was rusty. It was his first start in three years.

What does Ben Johnson do now? Does he have a discussion with his coaching staff about which quarterback, if Caleb Williams is unavailable, gives them the best chance to beat the Packers? Yeah, yeah, we talked about that yesterday. My immediate reaction, we talked about on the postgame show, you know, with Pat Manley and Grotie. And my media reaction was, you do have to have the discussion. I think you do have to talk about getting Case Keenham in the game against the Packers this week. But rewatching the All-22 this morning, I thought Tyson Bayesian look good, man. I mean, they got a good problem up there at Hallisoff.

They had three quarterbacks who they can win football games with, you know, the third downs early on in the game. He finds Roma Dunesay for 21 yards, right? Just stands in the pocket and delivers the ball over the middle of the field. Next play, finds Luther Burden for another 20-plus-yard game. And just really played really good like you're saying, efficient quarterback. And I don't know, man, I would have to go out and watch all 32 teams

to not say what I saw from Tyson, Beijing, was good enough to start for some football teams out there in the NFL right now. Like you know, David, I mean, there's a lot of bad quarterback play out there in the NFL. We've seen it here for years. But I thought, like you're talking about, he ran the offense yesterday. Obviously, late in the game, they go to the run game, but also timely passes, keeping them on schedule. When they do get a penalty, right, a penalty from Co-Komet. Co-Kamek gets a false start immediately.

He hits a good pass play down the field, puts his bear back in a good situation. So I thought he'd take really good football, man. When I went back and watched it again, the All-22 this morning. And I thought, man, you know what? Maybe I was wrong about going to Case Tina. But then you go watch Caseina. They're like, oh, man, they should go with this guy. Look at all the plays he's making, right?

So this offense, again, you go back to the coaching staff. You go back to having guys ready to play, ready to execute, ready to do the things that they need to do to win football games. You're just trying not to, when you watch this team play yesterday, and you watched him win with three quarterbacks, You know, I think I'll play with three quarterbacks back in 2001 in that season, right? You know, all the – but Bradbury, man, tip of the cap to him. It's not easy to snap to three different quarterbacks.

He had a great game yesterday. But when you watch this film, guys, you probably – like me, I don't want to speak for you guys. But I'm trying not to get out over my schemes and say, man, this is a football team that could win late in the year in the playoffs. These guys are going to be a tough out. Owen, they're playing complimentary football, man, on both sides of the ball. right? And that right there, you can see it in how they're coached well. And it's just, it's fun to see. And I know for you, I love watching the run game. So to see 30 carries yesterday

for a man guy, you know, to chew up yards, that right there was huge, 146 yards, two touchdowns. When you look at this offensive line, what are you seeing? Because they are, to me, the they are the stamp when it comes to this football team or what they're built on is that offensive line and yesterday opened up holes for Kyle Mononga in that running game to be efficient. Yes, offensive line is really good, man,

making an argument to be the best in the NFL, right? Maybe feel better gets to start of the left taffle. I just hate to say, people are like, only, who's the start of the left tappel? I'm like, I don't care, right? I don't know. It just seems to work, right? Put somebody by Joe Tooney and let's go roll it out there.

Let's go see what happens because it seems like whether Braxton Jones, Theo Bennett, or Ozzie Tripillo, they seem to be pretty damn good, right? They got Jonah Jackson, obviously, and Darnell right on the right side of that offensive line, and that scares the hell out of people, and you can't just leave a guy there over Jonah's outside shoulder because you're going to get double team. I think Jonah said on the score, it's like 600 plus pounds coming at you, nobody wants to deal with it. And he's correct, right? And Gary Bradbury playing good football, starting to work in there, trying to do the things that Chicago. doggle bears needn't do. And oh, guess what? You also have Joe Tuny over there, right, the blocker of the year.

So they have a good offensive line. This office line is fun to watch. Coach Dan Rochard, get some coach up. They roll off the ball. They go get pad under pad. Their hands are low to high. They're bringing their knees and they're rolling these guys back. But guys, like you know, when you watch film, all that can be great.

And you can see an offensive line is great. But they're also on the right guys. They also recognize blitzes. They know when blitzes are coming. They pass them off. They work well together. really well coached unit. They know who to block.

They know who to go to. They know what linebacker they're going to. And the most impressive thing to me is they had receivers in there. And they know what they're doing in tight ends. And they know what they're doing. So again, doing a great job. And then Bayesian is doing enough, right? He is threatening the defense enough that they just can't load up on the run.

They do have to play the pass. And yesterday, Aaron Glenn, we're trying to guess, like, oh, you know, I think they'll pass here. And all of a sudden you're in this defense where you're just static. in a nickel look and you got a light box. And I'm thinking they got to be kidding. They're going to check to a run here. Sure enough, we walk in the end zone.

So there's just really everything working together. Same thing you said on defense. You can say on offense right now, it's really interesting to see a team this early in the year, right? Four games into the season playing with this kind of chemistry, this kind of execution and this kind of attention to details in one game against the Jets. And like you guys know, it's every week, man.

Every week you got to redo this. the NFL every week's a different week. But Chicago Bears the last couple of weeks with the quarterback all focused in and decided we all got to raise our level and do our job to win these games. And it's been a real fun watch. Obviously, you got to take that out to Green Bay and you got to do the same thing over and over and over again. So, Alden, you spent your entire career evaluating defensive lines and making determinations about defenses in general quickly and coming to conclusions. When you watched this Bears defensive line, we went into the same. season and they trade

Jervon Dexter because they felt good about the depth. In the secondary, Kobe Bryant gets hurt and you worry about the leadership back there. All kinds of reasons to go into the season with concerns, especially after they give up 37 to Carolina in week one. How are they getting this done and how much does it

help the fact that the offense is possessing the ball as long as it is? That helps, right? It really helps the defense to keep them off the field. I mean, to end the game with the 18 place, 76 yards. 18 played 76 yards, nine minutes and 16 seconds, right? Get the D-line a cocktail. They got nothing to do over there on the sideline, right? They're all talking about what they're going to do after

the game, and this game is over with nine minutes left in the game, guys, right? So again, complimentary football, but that doesn't mean they didn't play good football. It doesn't mean that they're not doing their assignments. They're not fitting in their gaps, and they still have a hard time. Sometimes stopping the run, right? They get rolled off the ball a little bit. They have a hard time putting consistent pressure, I would say, on the passer. And that's something that you do as these teams get better, right? You watch the Detroit Lions, even though they lose. You see all their weapons and, you know, the Green Bay Packers and, you know, who's coming,

who we're going to play. And, okay, we're going to have to get a little more pressure out of our defense line, the more penetration on run plays. We've got to win a little more against their one-on-one, when they get one-on-one opportunities. And those are the things that, you know, when you watch this game, you say, okay, when we play a good, really good football team. Will this be the Chicago Bears the limiting factor, right?

This group up front, I'll be honest with you guys, man. When you watch this team on film and you say, what are they capable of? What can they do this season? I don't know how Ryan Post couldn't be in his office talking about making a trade. Making a trade and throwing everything in and say, man, can we do it this year? Right, can we win it all this year if we make one good trade and get ourselves a difference maker up there on a defensive line? So those are the things I was thinking about when I watched the film this morning.

I'm sure they're thinking about it when they watch this team and they start to wonder because even when you're in the building, right, guys, you guys know this. Even when you're in the building, you're still wondering how good are we. Like, gosh, man, we're a pretty damn good football team. We went out there for two weeks with basketball quarterbacks. Now our defense, they don't even give up a third down. I don't know about you guys, but I watched Frank Wright and Gino Smith's office. I thought they might be a problem yesterday, right, with their young tight end, Sadieck, with Garrett Wilson. I thought, oh, man, how are we going to cover these guys when they're running all over the field?

I thought their recipe for winning the game was to get two takeaways, which they did, right? We had the fumble and we had the interception. When Beijing was just a little late across the middle, Minko Fitzpatrick sitting back there setting up the young quarterback. But then they got to, but we only gave up field goals. Our defense, I thought that would put our defense in trouble, and it sure didn't. It sure did it. The defense stood up and stopped them and only gave up six points. So the really interesting question, David, obviously when you watch the film, you don't come away, blown away, come away impressed by the defensive line, the way they're working together and the hustle, like from guys like Austin Booker, right?

We guys who run around the field, make capitol, get sats, keep working and get to the quarterback, Brady Jarrett, getting some wins there. But obviously, that is the one position that this year goes on. You want them to show us a little more for Montez Sweat and guys like that who can get to the quarterback and make a difference. This segment with Olin Cruz is brought to you by Plumbers 9-1-1. Plumbing Emergency. Call the plumbing professionals available 24-7 at 1-833 Plum 9-1-1.

Olin, you make me want to run through a wall right now. Every time you talk football, I just really want to run through this glass. I want to run through a wall after Washington, I'm trying not to say how great deal. I'm trying not to be a fan here. I'm trying not to be a fan. I get it.

I totally understand. It's hard not to because they got this team rolling in the right direction. You got the head coach that's doing what he's supposed to do. Dennis Allen on the defensive side, the ball, all these assistant coaches, position coaches, doing their job. I mean, they're coaching guys up. And one guy that is a big bright spot yesterday, and we're seeing him kind of pick up steam as time goes on, as games go on, is Roma Dunezay yesterday. Seeing him more involved into this passing game.

I mean, he made some big time catches yesterday. And that's good to see for an offense that weekend and week out. You don't know who's going to be your leading receiver. And I think that's always a good thing that the ball's being distributed around to guys, but he made plays on Sunday. He sure did, right? Six for 94, right?

And Rome had a good game. It was good to see them. And even we saw hosting Lungie show up six for 57. That's what I'm talking about. When I went back to the numbers, we went back to the film, Jared. I said after the game, I said, man, they got us to see their casino going after Green Bay.

Now, I don't know. Now when you get to watch the film and you get to watch the way Bayes, you know, distributed the ball and used everybody and ran the offense, you can see why they would stick with him too. But as far as Romadunze, you know, leading us in receiving yesterday, we've all been waiting for that. We know if he comes with this offense, it'll make the offense really tough to stop.

You know, Roma Dunzee, University of Washington, say who, say what, say dogs, right? Obviously, I went there too, so obviously always cheering for him. Number nine pick of the draft is good to watch him make plays yesterday on fourth and one when they put him in the backfield at four. And we get stopped. I needed to block the guy off the edge. But I don't think that's his main job. So I won't kill him for that. Right. So, you know, that's just, you know, Ben Johnson's got Jada Walker at tight end. He's got Roma dudes there at fullback. He loves seeing the creativity. But I'm doing a lot for the team yesterday. He's a big wide receiver. He really, you know, really could help this offense if he keeps the consistency and becomes a consistent threat for the Chicago Bears. Oh, and how surprised were you that Ben Johnson, fourth and two, in the. second quarter decided to at the 12 yard line kick a field goal. Not at all because I really liked it because I think what he said is true, right?

And that wasn't on my bingo card this year, right, for Ben Johnson to say, hey, look, why wouldn't I? Was the way our defense was playing. That's just, that's like you guys are saying, this defensive performance was surprising, but credit the head coach, right, for noticing that this offense can't do anything. Coach Frank Wright on the other side, I'm sure you guys all have a ton of. respect for him like I do as a play caller coach Dennis Allen unit really took it to them yesterday and he thought to himself all like I do is kick a field goal here he gave you the the math major gave you the math on it right and put them up three scores and and that was the game right that field goal in his mind

was the end of the game because the New York Jets offense guys think about this our offense we'll always said in the beginning of the year our offense said I will kick a figure here these guys can't score. Absolutely right. Olin, great stuff today. Enjoy the Packers' Week, getting ready for it, and have a great pregame show when we hear from you again on Sunday. Appreciate it, guys.

Olin Crutes, talking bears. But Lawrence, that beat down yesterday. That was like remarkably satisfying because we got a coach who is known as a mad scientist, a brilliant play designer, a quarterback whisperer. but he recognized that yesterday was a day for bully ball, and he's like, oh, all right, well, let's just do that. And there were a lot of moments where it felt super satisfying and a lot of numbers that show the dominance.

I love the Monongai touchdown run, the first one, where he's like, all right, we need a yard, right? Let's go to the right side, and I'm going to motion two more dudes in there. I'm going to bring two extra dudes. So was everybody plus a tight end Cole Komet on that side, plus two more dudes motioned over? Go ahead and stop this. Oh, that's right.

You can. Some menung guy? No, you know what? I thought about this. I thought about this while the game was going on. You, sir, have no leg to stand on when it comes to that crap. And it happened a couple times in the game. And I was like, Rip Van Ginkle over here doesn't get to.

talk about that part of the broadcast. No, no, no, no, no. Speeks, you make some bad puns, but that is... That's pretty bad. That's next level. No, Alex, you could have stopped with Speegs, you make better puns. But I don't do it in the middle of broadcasting a game. This is true. That very delicately

needs to be handled in a way that's pleasurable for the millions of people viewing. No, just on the radio show that you do where millions of people are listening. I know, but they are subject to my idiocy. You have hit the button choosing my idiocy As opposed to just innocently watching a game Waiting for the comfortable hands of Adam Amin to guide you through

He did it again too, right? I forgot he said it about another player too And I was like, Speegs better not say About this. I will not criticize the puns. I won't say anything about that. A lot of other stuff about Brando I could say. Fair.

And maybe we will later on. How dare you, sir? But Lawrence, the Bears ran feet. 57 more offensive plays than the Jets. That is the second highest difference in league history, right? Behind when the Steelers welcomed the Cleveland Browns back to existence in 1999. So remember when the Browns became the Ravens? Yes.

We need to make the Browns again. Their first game back, the Steelers beat him and the play discrepancy was 90 to 28. Other than that, yesterday was the biggest discrepancy between offensive. offensive plays and defensive plays. And like that other game, in this game, the discrepancy between the plays was also more than the plays that the Jets ran. Yes, 57 plays. And the Bears, what is it, 32 plays as an offense. The Bears defense was on the field for 32 plays.

I mean, it's just unbelievable. The fact that they almost tripled them up in plays. is insane. The fewest plays in franchise history on defense, 32, fourth lowest in NFL history. Devin Bush said one of the easiest NFL games I ever played in. I'm not sore at all. That is a linebacker in the NFL.

Isn't that great? Like those guys get to go home and they're like, I feel pretty good today. Because even in like, let's look at the past plays, for example, if there, Gino only had 15 pass attempts. and he didn't hit on half of them. So you don't have to tackle on those plays. Like even the plays that they did have.

They didn't have to tackle. There were some off time for the Bears defenders. It's unbelievable. Where they're like going back to the hello, like, you guys feeling fresh. Like, yeah, I feel pretty good. In 10 thoughts, Brad Biggs did the math. Defense has been on the field for 192 snaps all season.

That's the lowest in the league by a lot. Steelers and Bucks at 228. So when Montez Sweat says, This is the freshest I have been in my career through four games, unquote. He means it. So, I mean, this is a product of your dominant offense. And your smart defensive coordinator, your defense getting better. Yes, you know, making them go over on third down, of course.

But your smart offense and your bully ball offense holding the ball for 42 minutes is a big, big deal for the entire organization. It's the fact that you were able to pick up a whole bunch of third down conversions that your quarterback played very efficiently and made the plays that he needed to, your run game. They were like, all right, lean on those guys. And the moving of the chains, right? More first downs than plays for the Jets, right? 34 first downs for the Bears, 32 plays for the Jets. That's the type of dominance, like the volume of it. And in trying to explain it to people, like, it was such a dominant performance.

The score doesn't even indicate how dominant it was. You're right. You're right. And they still won by a bunch. But damn. They stayed on schedule. And a lot of the players in the offensive linemen talked about them. We'll talk to Jonah Jackson at 5 o'clock of like, they got a few yards on first down.

And they got a few yards again on second down. A lot of those third downs were really short. and really manageable. If you don't fall behind the change, you have an opportunity to, if you wanted to play, like, we're going to bleed the clock,

like type thing. And that's, that's not what the bears were doing. No. Except for at the end. At the end, that's what they did. They were like,

let's do that. But that's, that's what I love about Ben, where it's like, the guys in the locker room all joking about, because the joke is, guys prepare.

Like, it's one of the last things they do at the end of a practice. So, four minute offense. Let's see what our four minutes. And those guys are like, yeah, we ran the old nine-minute office. Yeah, they were all so proud of that. And they should be to grind out the clock for nine minutes.

But when you stay ahead of schedule like that, if I may here during baseball's postseason, make the comp to a pitcher who is always ahead in the count. You always get strike one. And you are in control the whole way. The Bears' offense was in control the whole way. Man, this is short. Man, this is short yardage again. Damage, again. God, I feel like I'm behind again.

And the playbook opens up, the dominance begins to wear on you. The Bears just completely and utterly bullied the Jets. And they're three and one. And it feels like they deserve to be three and one. And it's one of the more impressive three and ones in the NFL because they've done this without Caleb Williams. Three wins with three different quarterbacks. This is the stuff that we were talking about with KOC as like the quarterback

whisperer because he was just finding guys. on couches and they were winning games. Ben's doing this even at, I think, a higher level, no disrespect to KOC because I'm really impressed with what he's done. But the fact that his guys are always prepared when they walk into a game is incredible. Rahimi and Grody. Hey, Mark and Layla, I just want to tell you first off that I really enjoy your show. You guys cover all those sports I love and you do it with humor.

So keep up the good work. Oh, my God, my friends, my friend. I look forward to talk to you guys, listen every day. Love you guys so much. Midday. Man, love is in the air. 10 a.m. to 2 on the score. Yo, it's Rahimi and Grotie on the score.

We do love you. Thank you so much for joining us here. We all get to, we're all in this together. Talking about a Bears win. Everybody's debating the fact that you have friends who also want the best for you, so really you just didn't acknowledge who all wanted the best for you. It wasn't just your parents. It's apparently all of our listeners, us and your friends.

Thank you. Well, and they should want the best for it. Because if you get the best for it, from us, your ears and brains will be rewarded, right? Or at least you're taking some time off your Monday. That's true. Yeah. And we appreciate that.

Let us waste time with you. 312, 644, 67, 67. Yeah, wherever you are, if you're in your office, you're driving around. You're the person that just got in your car and you're like, I want to hear bears. Well, here it is. And we're taking calls. 312, 644, 67, 67. Let's start at the top with Kim in.

Halitine. Hello, Palatine. What's going on, Kim? Good morning. Happy Victory Monday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you. How great are our quarterbacks on and off the field. Oh, I mean, so good. So good. So good. And that cool first play loved it. But anyway, I heard you guys talking earlier about the quarterbacks being good or very good or one is better than the other.

So could we say Case is good, Beaton is better, but Caleb is best? Good better best? I see what you're doing there, Kim. Yeah, I mean, that's it. And now maybe perhaps the battle is between good and better. Yeah, wow. So good, better, best. Wow.

I love that, Kim. I don't know if I would go Tyson better than Case because he wasn't. Like if we're really doing this, Case Keenham had a better game. game than Tyson Bayesian had. It doesn't mean that it's not better for the organization, though, that Tyson-Bajun continue to be the quarterback. There's other factors that go into it. Also, our texters really want to talk about Case versus Bayesian, apparently. 3-1-2-644-67. I think we'll be doing this all week. But yeah, go ahead. Say what's on your mind. We'll find your thoughts if you need you in the next few days. We'll be here. Amen.

Yeah, we'll be here all week for you. Yeah, the texts are great. That somebody say, could Ben Johnson have made Peter Tom Willis into a good quarterback? I wonder. Now, I'm just like thinking about all of the Bears quarterbacks of Bears past. What could Ben Johnson actually have done with some of those quarterbacks? Todd Collins. Yeah, could you have made Todd Collins into a pro bowler? And I do believe that Ben, as long as he had Kyle Manungai on his side, he probably could have made Todd Collins into something special.

Yeah, Kyle Menonga showed up yesterday. I mean, 30 carries? And we got one, Ben said that he did not. Ben Johnson said after the game he didn't realize it was that many. Unbelievable. Well, since he bench DeAndre Swift, who else was going to get the carries, Ben? You knew exactly what you were doing, pal.

We want to get into that a little bit as well because that is clearly what that was. But, yeah, back to the phones, I suppose. How about Frank and Oak Park? It's our guy. Frank. It's up, Frank. Hey, great, great to be there here. And before I do a breakdown on the squads,

I want to get into this backup quarterback thing. you're probably already getting call flash messages recommending Keenham or Bejant replace Williams as starter before he gets healthy. Some may recommend a trade of the former Trojan before he's do a monster contract. The door to bear fan buffoonery has been opened. When a score listener steps through, I recommend you have a digital version of a police car siren, one of those in-progress ones. be ready and then you blow it. On defense, the Bears held a third team under 250 yards. This time was just 157.

They only allowed 12 points. They got three sacks with motivated Dio getting his third for the season. And by Monday night, the Bears could have a top five defense. What? Yard Jal. What? Yeah, check the stats. Check the stats.

On offense, the bear line dominated. Chicago piled up 232 yards on the ground for a total of a total of 492. Menungai scored two TDs with 146 rushing. Rome was solid with six grabs for 94 yards, but Bajun threw too many lollipops. The Jets took one and had one or two taken off the board for penalties. Next week, it's the pack in Lambo. Green Bay just added three vets to fix a leaky O. line with their skill guys, if you go minus two and turn over margin like this week, you won't

win by 11. You'll lose by a touch. Wow. Coming strong like Frank does. Man, I mean, we barely scratched the surface talking about the bear's defense this week, but I kept asking the question yesterday in the postgame with Olin Pat. Right. Is the Bears defense good? Might they be good? They were really good yesterday. Well, here's the other thing. What coaching up did you do, Dennis Allen? Yeah. Because it does seem like we are getting more of a burst at the line of scrimmage. I also think we're getting a healthier Grady Jarrett.

Yeah. To be incredibly fair. He is affecting the pass rush. He is. Yeah. When you've got four people at the line creating some havoc, it's working for you. Also, Devin Bush had a good game. Yeah, Devon Bush.

And he needed it. We talked about that in the pregame yesterday. like Devin Bush has not been very good for the Bears so far. He's been a disappointment. Like I thought he was going to be better than Tremaine Edmonds. I was like, I like this. I like the speed that this guy brings. He's a good player, but he's not been a good player for the Bears.

Well, because Dennis Allen falls in love with a trait that doesn't always translate on the field into production, which is speed. You know, that's the hard part about it. It's the marriage of the speed and the ability. And that's what gets you, I don't know, an all pro player. But in this case, I think he dialed up a couple blitzes for some mojo too. And that usually works. The Blitz is a love language for him. Yeah.

You know, it's like, hey, I see you're a little down. You want a blitz? You want to blitz? Make yourself feel better. We're going to bring it hard. Go get him. Go get the quarterback. Oh, you like it. Oh, you like that.

Oh, okay. Get him. Going to bring it. Wayne is in Lafayette. What way. How you doing? You're back on Rahimi and Grotie on the score. What a happy day it is when that happens, Grody, man.

Oh, man. God bless you guys, man. Hey, I'm fans of yours, no matter what, man. you guys know that big time. I'm always for your best for both of you guys. Thank you. Yeah, Wayne, you are, man. You have been, you've had our back since day one of the show.

A thousand percent, guys, thousand percent. You know what I mean? And you know what? I think the most important thing is we're getting some maybe some get, I heard we're getting some offensive linemen back. And I believe the most important thing is keeping our quarterback up right so that Ben's plan can go to work on these packheads. And I know one thing,

what would be mostly paralyzed, that whole Green Bay team and coach would be just trade off on these quarterbacks every other down. I mean, you know, every other set of down, you know, put them both in there and trade off with them. And then also, I think maybe we could beat them so bad we could get their coach fired. What do you think about that? Okay, well, first of all, we thought that that was on the line after the playoff game, remember?

And then they extended Matt LaFleur and Brian Gutakunst. But there was that gray area. where Matt Lafleur was up for an extension. That was brought up. He got the extension. We can't be doing this. We can't be doing the quarterback every other play. This is the NFL.

It's not good for any of us. Matt Lafleur, apparently, and we'll maybe play this later on this week. Did, like, had a reporter walk into his press conference and did the old stare-down thing to the reporter, waited for the reporter to sit down, something like that. I haven't seen that stare-down since I got stared down by, And obviously this still sits with me, a little bit traumatic. I was once stared down by Brian Sutter.

Brian Sutter, who was a Blackhawks head coach in the early 2000s, and I don't even remember the question that I asked, but he didn't like it and he stared me down. It's scary to get stared down by a Sutter. That's right. It's really just, you don't want to be the one messing up the flow in any press conference. No, you don't. Also, well, please, sorry, coach.

Like if you're going to stop, sorry, Coach. So sorry. All right, coming up next here, we'll do more of your calls a little bit later on here today. 1145. 1145, that is your next time to check in with a couple of calls. Coming up next, though, we've got Anthony Heron. He is going to provide his insights like he does on this Bears win. The Bears beat the Jets 23 to 12.

What did he think of Tyson, Baja? What did he think of the defense? We'll find out next on 104-3 of the score. The door to Bear fan before. has been opened.