Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Best of the Bears: Will DJ Moore be back?

Episode Date: February 7, 2026

In the Best of the Bears this week, Tribune reporter Brad Biggs joined the Mully & Haugh Show to discuss receiver DJ Moore's future with the organization and Chicago's needs this offseason; Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris discussed whether the Bears will retain All-Pro safety Kevin Byard as he's set to hit free agency in March; and Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes got a kick out of Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst still being sad about his team's loss to the Bears in the playoffs.

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How are you going to finish that sentence? I mean that in a good sense. Oh, it sounded like he did. Yeah. Thank you. Well, you know how you start saying stuff? I know. Yeah.

Well, wonder where you're going with that. Yeah, it was meant to be positive. Okay. That's him over there again. This time with me. He's dragged me along. We are delighted to welcome in our Brad Biggs. He joins us on the plumbers 911 hotline plumbing emergency. Call 1833-3-plum-9-1. Call

130 plumbers. They get the job done right. The first time, he is the football man of the Chicago Tribune. A long-time contributed to the station and a valued friend, Big Zay. Morning, Brad. Morning, boys. What's going on? 143, the score, Brad. You are in crystal clear FM, so everybody can hear not only your actual voice, but your inner thoughts as well. I don't know if you know they leak out on FM, but that's what we've discovered. Real clarity.

And wondering is you look at everything going on right now, where the bears are at, what is your take to the idea that there are two players, that could be in trouble with the Bears, according to Pro Football Focus, and somehow they've got DJ Moore and D.J. Moore and D. Andre Swift as those players. Do you feel that they are guys that could be do a haircut, could be contract ridden with issue, or could be replaced this year? Well, like, DJ Moore, they can't cut him because of the contract. contract. They could trade him, but for the many reasons that Bears fans would think that that's a great idea, it's going to be difficult to get a lot for him in return.

$24 million cash, I believe, in the contract for this season. And you look at the production where another team's going to look at him and say, well, he's not near 100 catches. He's not this, he's not that, why where's the value for us and flipping even a late round pick for a contract that's that large? In terms of DeAndre Swift,

I don't know, he's 27 years old, you could create $7.4 million in cap space if you released him. And that sounds great, right? Okay, 7.4 is a decent chunk for

a team that is has got constraints, as Ryan Pulse called them, okay, what's your plan to do with the 7.4? Because at some point, you're going to need running back here, right? They had a pretty good combination. Swift coming off a season high in terms of yardage, rushing touchdowns, and he did that split in time with Monongai. So I think he's the guy where you look at what he,

He's due in terms of pay this year, about $8 million, and say, you know what, that could be a value guy on the roster, should be a motivated DeAndre Swift in the final year of his contract as well. Brad, the Bears are in the market for an offensive coordinator. Declan Doyle took the job with the Ravens. A bit of a surprise, but to call plays for Jesse Minter and to install, I would assume partly Ben Johnson's offense, maybe partly Sean Payton, but nonetheless, there's an opening at Hallis Hall.

How do you expect the bears to fill it? Do you think it will be internally with somebody like Press Taylor or J.T. Bearer or Antoine Randall, or will they go outside the building? Yeah, I think that's the big question right now. And I think Ben Johnson probably had some loose ideas in mind after the season ended. You know, when you ask him questions, do you think people come for some of your assistants? and he talks about how strong he believes his assistants are and how he thinks his future head coaches on his staff. You've got to have some loose ideas probably in the back of your mind.

How it's executed here, we'll have to see it. Certainly you've got some in-house candidates, and when you lose a guy like that, and people see an in-house candidate get the bump, I think that kind of makes everybody involved feel decent. So we'll have to see. I'm not going to pretend to have any super insight in how that shakes out. But you get a great opportunity for Declan Doyle with, you know, when you think about it and you say,

okay, the guy's super young at 2080s, an offensive coordinator. And we know that he didn't call plays. but the next step in his growth was an opportunity to call plays somewhere. Well, you start thinking about what's that first-time opportunity look like? You know, what's it going to look like? Maybe he goes to Baltimore because he steps back and he says, I don't know how many chances I could get better than this to kind of dip my toe into the water as a play caller.

You know, it could be a messy quarterback situation elsewhere where I've got a couple of those to pick from, or, hey, here's Lamar Jackson, a couple good offensive linemen, at least, Derek Henry, Zay Flowers, that, you know, there's some pieces to work with. Yeah, you know, we had a discussion in the pick six where we talked about this idea with everyone seems fascinated with improving the pass rush, go out, get a big name pass rush, or trade for one, sign Trey Hendrickson, whatever you get. got to do to get the pass rush stronger, even though you've already invested a lot of money in

it, add more money to that as opposed to resigning some of your own guys. You know, the prospect of different or more talented at a particular position can sometimes take away from repeating, or rinse and repeating with people that are just proven okay. how do teams balance that and how careful do you have to be about overinvesting in a singular position? That's a factor, right? You just, you can't have, you know, it's a pie, right? Your salary caps one giant pie that's filled with dollar bills, right? Instead of, you know, an apple pie, it's a money pie.

But you got to, you can only give so much of the pie. each position. They need to get better on the D-line as a whole. I think most conversations focus on pass rusher and edge rusher and getting better in that area. I believe the bears are looking at it like they need to get better across the board on the defensive line that, you know what if they're picking, let's just say they're at 25 and it's between an edge and a tackle. the choice is going to be the highest-graded guy.

They don't necessarily view edge as a bigger need. I think the whole thing. We talk about the inconsistent pass rush, and that's absolutely how you should describe it from this past season. The bears were 21st in the league in sacks per pass attempt. The rushing offense was 27th in terms of yardage allowed, and 29th in terms of yards per rushing attempt.

The depth at tackle is going to require some need as well. So I think that we shouldn't overlook defensive tackle and just focus on the edge. It's the line as a whole where I expect them to prioritize things this offseason. Brad, we heard from Raiders part owner Tom Brady and Fox Analyst talking about Nashon Wright being his value player of the year. And he said that Nation right is going to essentially get paid in free agency. Number one, do you think that that payment and that contract will be too big for the bears to afford?

And secondly, was that tampering in your mind? No, I mean, that's not tampering. Come on. What else is it? It's an owner who's publicly praising a guy and essentially telling him he's going to to get paid in free agency? Did he tell you something you didn't know, Dave?

Like, come on, man. That's tampering, Brad. It's stamper, okay. The bear should get a draft pick over that tampering. What if Brady's on a game at the end of the season and he notes how

Nishon Wright has been an incredible value for the Bears because they got him for $1.1 million and he's headed a free agency where it certainly looks like he'll do well for himself. That's telling the truth. That's not tampering.

Why are you protecting Tom Brady's conflict of interest? He's got a conflict of interest, but that's not tampering. Like you're grasped if you think that's tampering. Can the bears afford him? That I don't know. It's going to be an interesting market for him. The takeaways were fantastic.

Gave up some plays, though, too. Like, so I'm really, I think for the Bears to resign him, unless he badly, badly, unless he only wants to play for the Bears, which would be, he'd be getting poor advice from his agent, right? I think this is one of those situations where they almost have to let him go to market to get a handle on what his number is, because there's some teams that, you know, can have a different price range in mind for Nishan. Because it's just a really interesting case because before this season,

he hadn't played a whole lot. He didn't have a ton of experience. So you're certainly way more accustomed to, okay, we're evaluating this cornerback. Let's throw on the tape. And you're having a lot more tape to go through. There's not as much depth to his experience. So it's going to be interesting.

What would their priority be in the offseason? Could it be left tackle, just given Ozzie Tripillo not coming back anytime soon and the way they reacted at the end of the year when they lost him? Yeah, it could be, I don't know, the only way that becomes like a major, major, priority, and it could be, is if they just, they deem ProPillo to not be the, like, if they finish their review

of Tripillo from this past season, it'd be like, yeah, we gave it a shot. It's not going to work out at Left Tackle. Or if they have some early sense that this injury is going to be really, really. Long. Yeah. Yeah, well, like, I've talked to people,

you know, players have been like, I don't know if he'll be back this season, because of the nature of the injury, just that nothing specific to, I heard this about Ozzie, but just that those pettleton injuries take longer. Yeah, they take longer than your normal ACL in general. And so when you're looking at the left tackle spot, if you feel like, hey, it's still arrow up with this guy, provided he gets back to health, I think then you're looking. looking for a bridge. And if you're looking for a bridge, maybe that brings you there,

Braxton Jones, who you're familiar with, who your coaches have not seen at full strength. Like, he had to really press it with his rehabilitation from the broken ankle last off season and over the summer. But based on his limited playing this past season, a bridge deal might help him restore his market value. So that's a possibility. I mean, that's something you'd have to consider as you're looking for someone to help you out at left tackle because they will need help at left tackle.

I don't think they're using a first-round pick on a left tackle unless, again, they weren't enthusiastic about what ProPillo put on tape and somehow a left tackle that should have been drafted significantly higher falls to them at 25. Are you aware of any Bears' reaction to them not getting compensatory draft picks for Ian Cunningham's promotion with the Falcons? And would they have any recourse to appeal to the league or have they inquired about some sort of further explanation? Because it does seem like this was a loophole that really hurt the Bears. Yeah, it doesn't help the bears. The way I understand it when teams make hires, they create these new positions.

positions, the team kind of in consultation with the league determines who the primary football executive is. And so if that was part of the process in the league arriving at the decision that Matt Ryan, the president of football in Atlanta, was the primary football executive, I don't know that some appeal is going to lead anyone to say, you know what? You're right. It isn't, and you should get some draft picks. You see what I'm saying?

So, yeah, I mean, the Bears were aware of it, and I think a complaint to the league by the Bears, part of the response might be if you guys weren't comfortable with this, you certainly could have blocked the interview. You could have blocked him from taking the job, because the way the Falcons front office is structured in the Bears right now, the league basically considers it a lateral move because the Bears could have blocked it. Yeah.

And again, I just think that the very fact that he got a pay raise, the very fact that he's got more, you know, you got a guy in there that has never run a team before. and he knows how to run a team. He's going to be doing a lot of those operations, at least installing them initially, until Matt Ryan can take over. So I don't think that it is without promotion, that job.

And I think that, you know, I'd be willing to take one pick if it came to it. But I think it's just a loophole they've found in the league's being very... Well, no, I don't think... The Sondkins finding a loophole, though. No, no, no. I'm not saying the league. has decided not to do that. Here's the problem.

The Falcons won't care. You watch Rod. No, the Falcons. It's not from the Falcons. It's from the league. But I'm saying Roger Goodell is out there yesterday being asked about 10 head coaches in the Rooney rule not having any impact and not a single African American head coach being promoted. And he's just offering words, yeah, we've got to look into it.

You know, I mean, he said nothing of substance. I feel like they ought to go after him because he's in a weak position, frankly, with the way that he responded and the fact that there's absolutely no, I mean, it's just noise and words and nothing really of any relevancy you heard from him. Yeah, that he didn't offer anything on the Steve Titch thing either. Oh, my God, how about it. Oh, boy. Yeah.

Oh, boy. Not to combine those two times. No. What are you talking about? Steve Tish is named all over the Epstein files. And the response from the NFL is, oh, yeah, we're going to look into it. They need the facts. They need the facts.

Yeah, exactly. The league, this was something that all the teams were aware of after Matt Ryan was hired, that, okay, this is going to be the primary football executive in Atlanta. So everybody was aware of that. I'd be a little surprised that the league pulls a 180 at this point. Like they've made the decision. Again, these decisions are made, I believe,

as it's been explaining me, and kind of in consultation with the team. In other words, if Matt Ryan wasn't going to be the top football guy in Atlanta, maybe the Falcons are like, no, well, yeah, he's got this title, but really it's going to be the GM that's doing it all. They probably express that to the National Football League at that point. Maybe Matt Ryan has some different title,

which is like senior advisor to... Semantics. They're all semantics. If you want to make a statement, make a statement. It should be symbolic. You know, it should be important and carry some relevance. It carries no weight at all. If you have a rule, you're not going to enforce it.

But, again, I'll circle back to it one more time. The bears could have blocked it. Yeah. If the bears looked at it. And looked like the most petty NFL organization. It would have been. Look at petty. They backed them into a corner.

It's a bad look. Hey, Bigzie, thank you, buddy. Good stuff, Brad. I got to tell you, I will be thinking about your ho-boy for a very long time. you guys have a great day I'm waiting for Dave to I'm waiting for Dave to jump me on like some type of probably start with

some Mac talk about Max Crosby and then he's going to circle back from behind with like some Prey Hendrickson talk I'm expecting that any game Okay Mockery does not Cast you in the Greatest light, Brad

Well no We can have They're going to be good for They're going to be good talking pieces Okay You're the best Thank you Biggs Thanks Brad

Always a pleasure Harrison Grooty Can you imagine Lovie Smith Doing the whole Good Better Best thing And And saying bleep the Packers

Come on guys Good better best Never let it I'll see you on Tuesday Days 10 to 2 on 104 3, the score. Yeah, that's right. That's courtesy of, is that, who is that? Fox or ESPN.

Why did I think it was ESPN for a second? Because sometimes they all sound the same. It's courtesy of Fox. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 1043, the score. 104, Lila. Get it right. I have to tell myself, guys. And Kevin Byard, yeah, seven interceptions.

That led the league for the regular season. Devin Lloyd. two less than him at five. A group of five was Lloyd, J.C. Horn, Ernest Jones, Antonio Johnson, Xavier Watts, and Nashan Wright, by the way, also a free agent now. Isn't that comforting, Marshall, to know that the guy who got you seven picks and the guy who got you five picks are both free agents now? Yes.

Like, if you're managing the Bears checkbook, you're like, well, isn't that nice? I just like When I try to evaluate moves versus moves It's so funny how one year you could think Oh, this was great or this was terrible And then three or four years down the road Actually, it's the other way around Well, I mean, it's a wonderful problem to have

But it is still very much a problem The fate of Kevin Byrd The fate of Nashan Wright The fate of even Tremaine Edmins When you're trying to figure out What's going to happen next for the Bears Who also was up there at Interceptions with four.

So it's a jigsaw puzzle that Ryan Poles and the crew are desperately going to have to fit together. And number one, I think for all of us on our minds, and we even heard this when it came to Jaquine Brisker, was who are you going to keep? And Brisker versus Byard was the discussion when we heard it talked about at the end of the season press conference. Who we didn't hear from after the end of the season press conference was Kevin Byard, who's out and about because of the, pro bowl games.

Why are you throwing up the air quotes? That were on a Tuesday. That man had an interception. For some reason. That man had an interception that he took off and ran back and I think it didn't count because there was a penalty on the play. I think there was like an illegal screen because you can't screen in flag football. I know a lot about flag football because I called the IHSA flag football championships this year and it was a delight. Screening in flag football does seem like.

a real illegal defense type of move. You can't block. The entire game becomes, the entire game becomes rendered irrelevant if you're screening. Yeah, because that's just, that's not allowed. Because that would be it. That'd be the end of the game.

I watched some of the Pro Bowl last night, but that's another story for another segment. My favorite's always Tug of War and then the big men commentating on the Tug of War. That's all I like. I miss Tug of War. I think we should be out here doing Tug of War. Pro Bowl games for adults.

Well, we got invited actually by Herb Howard, I was going to say us two years ago. They were having the outdoor games and like I couldn't go that day, but I was like, that looks like so much fun. And Tuggle War was one of the things. Like you bring your team of adults and you see if you got what it takes against other adults. Adult field day. Yes. I think that's what it was called.

I'm not running the 100. No, I'm not doing any of that. Potato sack race. Get me out of there for that. I don't. The games of coordination, yes. but the games of like speed and power physical

violence no maybe hitting somebody I mean that's speed and power and violence yeah but like just not the fast and coordinated part maybe like the willing to sacrifice your body for the cause you really want to be a linebacker that's all I'm hearing right now yeah and after all the linebacker survey where they were asked about a lot of questions it wasn't just

linebackers the player survey and hearing from all the NFC defensive players I was like yeah you guys are my people Okay. So he's more of a safety type, but if you want to be a linebacker, we'll let you do with the fullbacks. I'm a linebacker, linebacker is me. That's a low center of gravity battle. That's why I feel like I would do okay. I feel you. All of that said, I can't play for the bears. Kevin Byard might not play for the bears. So our friends, Adam Hogan, Adam Johns for CH Joe, were at the Super Bowl. They're at Radio Row. And they talked to Kevin Byard about the possibility of what basically we all want to know. So are you staying here or what?

I think I was one of the only guys that he actually brought up by name. So now it's always good. I obviously hear your GM say that they want you back. And obviously I had meetings with him and Ben, and they basically all echoed the same thing. And I said the same thing as well. Like if all else is fair and all else is equal, everything is equal. And I would love to come back to the Bears.

I think just the city, the organization has embraced myself, my family. We had such a great year this year. And obviously, and I kind of said this in my interviews on the epic, is like the hardest thing to do I think in this league is to get the quarterback and the head coach right and I think that's something that Chicago has so I think that window is going to be open for as long as it needs to be so obviously I would love to come back and play for the bears you know we know this is a business and I know Poles and Ben they have a lot of decisions to make on the roster they're probably still trying to figure out how all that stuff works out so like I said haven't really had too much

conversation about it because like it's still January you know I'm pretty sure when the compound comes around where all decision makers and agents are all in the same room those conversations that probably pick up a little bit more. Okay. What do we always talk about with Kyler Gordon? We're like, oh, Dennis Allen mentioned him by name. Yeah. And you've remember when we played that clip when he went through the safeties,

I was like, I noticed he didn't say Jaquam Bristker out loud, but he sure made sure to say Kevin Byard out loud. I said he name checked him, and I'm glad Kevin Byer was paying attention to the name check as well. Why am I not surprised that Kevin Byard, respected veteran, leader in the locker room, NFL regular season interception leader, had the elevator pitch on lock.

He nailed it. If you're going to go do Radio Row and hang out with a bunch of media guys, you got to have a plan. But consider what else he said. All things being equal. Here's the problem. What's the problem? I don't know that if all things are being equal,

then I assume he's implying salary. and you and I were just going through a list of some of the highest paid salaries in the NFL. Let's give a frame of reference. Number one is Kyle Hamilton at 25.1 notes. That's why I said let's give a frame of revenue. Here's the frame of reference. That money is what Kyle Hamilton made, the safety from the Baltimore Ravens last season. Additionally, you got to go.

We're not doing franchise tag here because it implies the average of the top paid at your position. You got to go all the way down to number 24. because Kevin Byer was the 24th highest paid safety last year at 7.5 million. And if the Bears could resign him at a rate of 7.5 million for two or three years, they would absolutely do it. But the NFL Interceptions Leader is not going to get paid $7.5 million, even regardless of the fact that he's over the age of 30. So Kirby Joseph at 21 and a half is number two.

Antoine Winfield, 21, Derwin James, 19.1. Mika Fitzpatrick up there at 18.4. Point is you have to go a long way. Before you even get to a number that Marshall and I talked about being 13 million, and that's Talanoa Hufanga of Denver. Amani Hooker's at 13.5. Kyle Duggers at 14.5 from Pittsburgh. Cameron Bynum of Indiana or of Indianapolis is at 15.

So when I consider those numbers, even though he's older, don't you think for even like a year he's going to get paid somewhere in that range? Is that crazy? Josh Mattelis is getting 12. I threw out to you because this is a guy who's what, 33 years old

going into his age 34 season. If the bears could get him on let's say a two-year deal where he's getting paid 13 million per year, would you be okay with that? And what would your answer, Leila Rahimi? I forget. You were kind of like, that seems like a lot. But then I made you look at all the other salaries and you're like...

Well, I mean, that's, yeah, we did that together. So I would say this. That would be what I think in a salary cap world, if you can get him to come back on $13 million per, and maybe it's a three-year deal with a guarantee of, you know, let's say $30 million or something like that. It's a lot relative to what he got paid. But the problem is it's not a lot relative to who he is now among in his position group.

First, team, all pro. It was a steal. It was an absolute steel. First team all pro. You know, when you have our first team all pro and you are making plays in a secondary that was very questionable at times. Oh yeah. I mean, the first two games. So you got to give credit where credit is due.

He was an anchor on that team. And I think any other team that is interested in him right now understands that you're not just getting the first team all pro guy. You're getting a rock of a leader in a locker room kind of guy. guy. But that's why I said, you know, he nailed that elevator pitch because he said all things being equal. Does that sound like a guy who's going to give a hometown discount to you? No, but it does sound like a guy who understands this is his last chance to get paid and understand that the Bears, as an organization, have other people to pay and understand also this. You're getting paid not for your past performance, but what they think you will do going forward.

Yeah, but I think somewhere in the middle is the fact that his production was so wildly high based on the previous contract. That's why I came up and almost doubled his salary at $13 million compared to the 7.5 year and last year. And you're right. I said that was a lot compared to what he was making, but not compared to the rest of these dudes who frankly have some questionable money on the books, some of them.

Yes. And like Mika Fitzpatrick was paid for his past performance. And I think he's a fabulous player. But you know what I'm saying? And now that looks like a deal. You know, Buda Baker, 18? Okay, for Buddha? Don't you think that that's probably still relatively speaking

knowing Kyle Hamilton is getting 25.1, that's a deal. Here's what I'll say. If you take the top, let's say the top 12 guys, how many of those guys, safeties, that's not a premium position, how many those guys end up playing on a playoff team? That's the point. Cameron Beinom is somebody who I kind of zeroed in on.

I'm like, is that the kind of neighborhood money you're talking about here? And as we know, the Colts did not play in the playoffs. Javon Holland, not in the playoffs. JCPyates to the third, not in the playoffs. Xavier McKinney was in the playoffs. lost to the bears in the playoffs. Sure did. Trayvon Moorring, was in the playoffs.

A lot of guys, more than half the guys, did not make the playoffs last year in that top group. And Cameron Bynum is in, this will be the second year of a contract, and he's only going to be 28. 33. Going to be 34. Yeah, that's the age. The age piece of this.

The question becomes, how much is age going to knock off the price of the contract for Kevin Byer? I thought 13 was a fair number A-A-V. I thought it was a fair number. Also, some of these salaries are going to go up. Somebody's going to become the top-paid guy, I would think. Oh, yeah, timing helps with that. Like, for example, Mika Fitzpatrick is only going to be 30 in 2026.

So, yeah. Either pay Kevin his money or keep your name out of his mouth. I think that's what Kevin's going to end up saying at the end of this. He just said it so well. He nailed the elevator pitch, man. especially saying all years, you know, all things being equal. Like he just, he nailed it. I would just walk around saying first team all pro.

That's what I would do if I was him. And then the fact that he's like, yeah, the GM mentioned be my name. Name checked. He said, I think I was the only guy that got mentioned by name. It wasn't just that he mentioned his name. He was like, I was special in him mentioning my name. Flawless execution, Kevin Byard. Flawless in the business.

Flawless. Ah, I love it. Almost as much as I enjoyed his play this year. Make that money, Kevin Byard. I just don't know if it's going to be here. We have to do this next, right? The clip you guys were talking about with Marshawn and Jackson Smith and Jigba. Do we have it?

Oh, yeah. Are you good with Holmberg? Oh, it's that good? It's that good. It's Marchand Lynch. Anything with Marshawn Lynch is amazing. And it makes sense because Seahawks back in the title game. All right.

We'll do it next. Caleb Williams in the shotgun with a set back to his left. He takes the snap. He looks. He pump fakes once. Now, lost it. Left side. DJ Mar.

He's got it tough. Oh, no. And the Bears take the lead with a minute, 43 to go. And he wasn't just a little open. He was a lot open. 25-yard touchdown pass. And the Bears lead 30 to 27. A missed field goal, missed extra point.

Two of them, right? Two missed extra points for the backers tonight. Wow. Sad Wayne Larvey, who is one of everyone's favorite pieces of soundtrack from this season. It was sad. Wayne Larravee. It really is great.

And sad, is that sad John Coon with him? No, that's Larry McCarran. Rock is his analyst there. Sadd. Sad Larry McCarran. It's qualified.

And then we've heard lots of sad players and salty players. It's a real dopamine drip, folks. It really is. Sad fans, angry fans, like the Packers fans, not only fans, but angry fans.

The Packers fans, the streamers who destroyed their equipment. You know, I miss that. Don't you? What if we went as high as we can possibly get on the food chain? We goody! Brian Gutikunst. Brian Gutikunst.

Is he the GM? Is that what he is, or is he the team president? What is he? Ed Policy is the president, right? So maybe we'll tease that for the future, maybe. Maybe Ed Policy will talk about this Bears game. If anybody knows Ed Policy, please ask him surreptitiously about the game, record it and send it our way.

But in the meantime, this is what we got. In the meantime, you have Brian Gutakoun's, Goody! Talking about all of this stuff, and guess what still hurts? I know it's been, I apologize, it took a little while to get to this point where I was out here, but just working through some things and all-star season and whatnot. But with that, I'll take questions.

The injuries were what they were, but being up 21, 3 a halftime, I imagine you sitting there at the solar field thought, you guys were going to win that game. How would you digested that since then? Not well. But no, I mean, yeah, I mean, there's, you know, in every season there's successes and there's failures and there's disappointments and things like that. And, you know, again, I was proud of our team in a lot of areas this year.

But, you know, finishing games is certainly something that we got to, you know, concentrate on as we had into that 2006. And that was one where I thought certainly played very, very well in the first half and had a lot of things in front of us. And when you get in a situation like that, you expect to win the game. Yeah. I love this guy. Finishing games is something we'd like to do. Yeah, you didn't do it there. That's amazing. Ten, you didn't happen to cut it short, did you?

How are you taking that loss as time goes on? Not well. Yeah, but no, I mean, I know you cut it short. Not well. Might need not well to become part of our lexicon every once in a while. Not well. But no, I mean, uh, it makes me loud. It's nothing against any of the other teams there, but you never feel like, hey, we can't go win this game, you know.

I fully expected where we were in the middle of the playoff game to win that game and be headed in Seattle and win that. I'm going to, I'm going to. Really needed that. Really needed that. A Texer says, Sad Wayne Larravee sounds amazing in FM quality. You're right. I bet he does.

I bet he does. Yeah, folks, we've gone FM. Everything's better. Sad Wayne Larravee's better. Categories tomorrow is going to be better. I don't even know. I mean, didn't we just kind of have categories with coach? Coach categories?

Lawrence, not into categories tomorrow. Okay, noted. I felt that. I totally felt that. How's categories tomorrow going? Not well. But, no, I mean, I haven't even started to prep it.

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It'll be heard during Super Bowl 60 this Sunday right here on 104 through the score. Score big for your business, sponsored by People's Bank, where better banking keeps moving forward. Remember FDIC. Now, Tanny, let's get back to Goudicke's here. I know that's where you wanted to go back to. Can we hear it again? Just a short version of him being, and how did you feel when they lost that? How does he feel now that they lost that game to the Bears?

Not well. But no, I mean, we are laughing. We really are. He's actually a really good football executive. How are you taking the realization that the Bears have the better head coach and perhaps the better quarterback than the Packers? How are you taking that, Brian? Not well. Yeah.

But, no, I mean, I understand. If I were you, I wouldn't be taking that well either. Feels pretty good over here, though. Brian, one more thing. We want to ask you, how are the people of Wisconsin taking the fact that the Bears won the NFC North? Not well. Oh, it's too bad.

But no, I mean, it's too bad for them. I feel bad for some of them. Just a few of them. It's nice to be on this side of it. Oh, my God, it's amazing. Hey, we're giving away a pair of tickets to see the Black Crows and Whiskey Myers. The Southern Hospitality Tour with special guest South Hall.

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