Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Cole Kmet reacts to Declan Doyle leaving Bears to join Ravens (Hour 1)

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

Marshall Harris and Mark Grote opened their show by reacting to Bears offensive coordinator Declan Doyle leaving for the same position with the Ravens. Doyle will call plays for Baltimore, an opportunity he didn’t have in Chicago. After that, Bears tight end Cole Kmet joined the show to discuss Doyle’s departure and to praise the impact that he had in his lone season in Chicago. Later, Harris and Grote discussed the Bulls acquiring a pair of second-round picks in a three-team trade over the weekend.

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Because we're crossing over. going from AM to FM. We're not jumping the broom or anything, but we're doing big things. Things did just get complicated. You're right. It's a little more intimate. Yeah, it was very surface level with you and I for a while. And now that we're FM, I don't really know.

There's a manual that we're required to read about FM behavior. So I think that that will send off into the relationship that you and I are working on. This has all been led up to really by time. spent together, those long walks together, they've paid off, Mark. And now we're going from AM to FM. We're on all the radio bands. We are, and with so much, by the way. So you may have heard in transition, we've got a great guest list today.

Our sports friends are coming through for us. Cole Commet, who's very busy right now, is going to join us in about 20 minutes from right now, 1025. Cole Commet will come on to talk Bears to talk FM. He grew up here. He grew up listening to the score. He knows what it is. His parents know the score, his uncles,

the whole Commet crew, man, they got to be thinking that this is a big deal today. Ryan Debster, one of our friends here at the score said, yeah, why not? I'll come in studio and hang out with you guys. So he'll be in here at one. Ian Hap, as I said, is going to join us. And he was like, yeah, I'm working out,

but you know what? I will leave my workout for you guys. So we'll talk to him because, my goodness, Alex Bregman and the new Cubs editions, Anthony Herron, like I said, will join us at 11. We get Big Ants. We are lucky to have him for two segments like we often do during the football season up until the Super Bowl. And by the way, just an update here in the studios.

I mean, you should go back and listen when you get an opportunity like after the show, after the score day is over, and just listen to the launch of 104-3 The Score with Mullen Haw. They did a great job. The whole marketing team did a great promotion team did a great job. Like I've been literally watching them work. I have done some of the work with them. Ashley Fields and her crew, Mitch Rosen and Ryan Porth and all the people that put all the work into this. And then Mully and Hall pulling it off perfectly today.

There is confetti all over the studio right now. If you are watching on Twitch, which we invite you to do, it is inside the studio. It is outside of the studio. And after Mully and Hall left, just to show you how quickly the party does, does end and that we have to move on with our lives at some point in time. There is an R2D2 looking vacuum right outside of the studios right now as they are preparing to clean the mess that is the 104-3-the-score studios. It is R2D2 looking.

I was like, are they sure they can get all that confetti in that vacuum cleaner? And I guess they will. You like the new signage, don't you? Yeah, I do. I do. I like it all. Is that font big enough for you to remember where you are? Yeah, no, I just, I wanted to also thank Circa at Las Vegas and the partnership and what they have meant to the score through the years as well.

Cheers to many trips out there in the very near future as well. So this has been lovely. It is lovely. And, you know, appropriate enough, we do have big news to talk about on day one of FM. Because just when you thought the Bears were going to get through this without being too hurt, too. to taking away from? We got news after we got off the air on Friday. Dick and Doyle named the offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens.

He will call plays with the Ravens. He did not call plays with the Bears. And one of the first things that I was thinking is how did, of the three Bears positions of authority that have left the Bears so far, Eric B. Enemy, blasts off to be the O.C. in Kansas City. We know that Ian Cunningham will be the general manager in Atlanta as we learned that last week.

But Declan Doyle, at the age of 30, of the three, has the most distinct and most defined job of the three in terms of the authority that he has, simply because you know exactly what Declan Doyle will be doing for the Baltimore rate. His job is to revive, to, or even say, keep Lamar Jackson on the right path and getting back to being considered as an MVP, which would probably be a possibility considering the tamper. of Lamar Jackson. But it's pretty amazing to me because the other two jobs, the gentleman that left Eric B. Enemy, he's the offensive coordinator in Kansas City. Of course, that's a nice promotion in title, more money, more authority, everything that comes with it. But he's not calling plays in Kansas City. And I know that Andy Reed from time to time is want to hand off the

play calling, but it's like a special occasions thing. And then Ian Cunningham, it's pretty undefined what his exact power and personnel power is under Matt Ryan. So somehow, some way, Declan Doyle, the 29-year-old who's never called plays so far, in my eyes, has the best job of the Bears to have left the team so far this year. It certainly feels like Declan Doyle is on this trajectory that is downright astronomical, right? Because he spends one year as the offensive coordinator in Chicago. now he takes a similar job in title in Baltimore under Jesse Mentor.

And you understand now that he's calling plays, well, anything can happen if they have a great season this year. He could be a head coach as soon as next offseason if we're keeping it a buck. If Jesse Minter's defense isn't good with Baltimore because that's his specialty, he could take over that job. Wow, I didn't even think about it quite in that manner. Who are you, Declan Doyle? Well, the thing is the Ravens aren't in a rebuild. They have a current multiple-time MVP on their roster. They have a future Hall of Fame running back on their roster in Derek Henry.

So between Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson, they've got to get to cooking. And it will be interesting to see that Ravens defense that was affected so much by injuries early last season. And the Bears got the brunt of the return of a lot of those players. When you look at what happened when the Bears, when they went to Baltimore and lost to a backup quarterback in Snoop Huntley. Snoop. I think he's got the best path forward to do even bigger and better things compared to the other two guys you're talking about, which is GM Ian Cunningham.

I mean, if the Falcons are honest, they told us what the role is going to be. The NFL apparently just didn't believe that was enough to give the Bears two third-round compensatory picks. Did he be working under Matt Ryan? Well, working under Matt Ryan, but Matt Ryan told you he's going to be their own general manager. He's responsible for the players.

And that, to me, is like, well, that's more responsible. responsibility he had in Chicago, where Ryan Poles is the one who's making the decisions ultimately about the players. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm trying to measure to how big a loss this is for the Bears. And my first instinct is to say not that big of a deal because of the fact that he didn't call plays. Not that big of a deal because I think most of us would say that's a star of the coaching staff is the head coach, Ben Johnson, and it all trickles down from there the plan that he puts forth, that he tells Declan Doyle what to do.

We know that Declan Doyle in the position that he existed because of his age, because of the opportunity, because of getting the title. There was going to be some grunt work involved. What I'm not positive of, and we'll ask Cole comment this question. I'm not positive exactly because we only got, as reporters, you only get a glimpse of the practice. and of course we'd see Declan Doyle out there talking with and talking to working with players. But what specifically was he responsible for in those practices?

What specifically was he responsible for during games? Who specifically might he have helped and made better? What might he have made better for Ben Johnson? Those are the things that we don't know. So right off the top of my head, it's hard for me to say, like, you're lost without Declan Doyle. And I don't think anybody's actually saying that. Ben Johnson, right? Well, I think this is why I am so adamant.

Whenever we talk about NFL head coaching hires, and there were 10 new head coaches that got jobs this offseason, that is almost a third of the league, 10 of the 32 jobs. I am adamant. If you want to have a successful program, your best bet, I'm not saying it can't be done other ways, but your best bet is to hire an offensive-minded head coach over a defensive-minded head coach

because guess what? If you're successful, you will lose assistance. I thought the Bears had the best of all worlds in the fact that they got a defensive coordinator who had head coaching experience and didn't sound like a guy who's itching to get back into a head coaching role when you talk about what happened with the bears and the way they made their hires,

Dennis Allen being that guy who's the defensive coordinator, former head coach of the New Orleans Saints. And now you're seeing it come to fruition. You lose your offensive coordinator, that's, one, a sign of your success as an offense as being one of the top offenses in the NFL, top three rushing offense, and then a passing offense that was on the rise,

if you look at Caleb Williams' numbers on the back half of the season in year one of Ben Johnson's offense. But more importantly, you don't have to worry about replacing the play caller every time you have a successful season. The play caller is baked in because he's the head coach. Every team should lean into that more so than any. other organizational flowchart. It can be done the other way. I just think it's a lot easier to do it the way the bears are now doing it, even compared to the last head coach they had in Matt

Iber Flues. For all you young coaches out there, take a lesson from Declan Doyle, because one of the places, maybe the only place where he could get his message out there and sort of interview for the league was during his sessions with us, with the media. As once a week, we get to speak to all the coordinators, and of the three, he shined above all of them. All of them are good coordinators for the Bears. It was a winning team. The reason he shined is because he would give the best answers. He was not afraid to take specific questions and give specific answers without hurting the

team or hurting feelings, but he was the most direct. He was sounded like a guy who knew what he was talking about. So I think that that helped them along, and I guess selfishly I put that message out there too, because we want transparency. We want guys to be honest. We don't want guys to stand up there, like Dennis Allen occasionally would or actually often and just not interested in talking about what happened in the last game. I mean, everything has to be game.

And maybe Dennis Allen has earned some of that. But good for Declan Doyle to have gotten the gig. Now the question, Marshall Harris, Harris is here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104.3, the score. I'm doing well. We owe money, by the way, if we don't say that right. There are some good in-house candidates for the Chicago Bears. Antoine Randall L. would be one of those in-house candidates to be named offensive coordinator after the work that he has done with the receivers and the work that he does with the whole team, I know from some of the rousing speeches that he has given. J.T. Barrett, the quarterback.

coach of the Bears, I think is another good name to potentially promote from within. Do you like that idea or what are you thinking about for potential replacements? I like the idea of J.T. Barrett and Antoine Anderell getting first, being highly favored, like the preferred interviewees, if you will. Like you know, you have preferred walk-ons when you talk about college athletes and, you know, you're not, we don't have a scholarship for you, but you're going to be a preferred walk-on. I think because they are already part of of this organization which has done well, 11 and 6 and Ben Johnson's first season. Of course, Antoine Randallel L, your assistant head coach, if he wants to be the offensive coordinator,

and if he's organized enough. And clearly, they've worked together for, what, five years now, four years when he was with Detroit and now one year in Chicago. I think Antoine Randall should be the leader in the clubhouse, if you will. First of all, he's already in the clubhouse. He's already part of your team. Players like him a lot, too. I can tell you that. from just watching reactions out there. And then J.T. Barrett, as the quarterback's coach, obviously he worked with Caleb Williams very closely. So that's got to be one of those things.

I think it's a tough decision, honestly, that Ben Johnson is going to have to make. And after seeing what has happened, Grotie with the Rooney Rule and the lack of offensive coordinators of color, and that's where you just heard my rant about why I think you should hire and offensive-minded head coach,

I think this is a golden opportunity for either Randall L. or J.T. Barrett to step into that role and maybe give themselves a chance to be a head coach somewhere in the future. I would say of the two, and this is no slight to J.T. Barrett, he'll get his someday. But I think it's Antoine Randall L. J.T. Barrett, while really smart, very quiet. And not that it's a requirement to be extroverted to be a coach. But I just want to make sure he's ready to get through to an entire unit as opposed to being more specialized as he is. He's the quarterback's coach.

Did you talk to him at all? A few times. A few times. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I did. If you did, very quiet, very good, like, very smart. I understand, like, I get it.

I understand it. I just don't know if he can command the whole room at this point. I'm not sure. Well, sounds like we're going to find out who Ben Johnson thinks can command a room. Or maybe I'm just saying I think that Antoine Randallel L could do it better. But when we return here on what I'm being told is 1043 the score, let's bring in Cole Commet. What?

No, I just love what I'm being told. No, you know what it is. It's FM day. We've been told for quite some time now. 1043. There were secrets. There were times of promotion. And then there's today and the whole party is going on here.

Yeah, that's right. We're FM. We're 1043 the score. And Cole Commet of the Bears. I can't wait to hear his thoughts on the FM switch. Oh, yeah, he's going to love it. I think he's going to be excited about it. And we'll ask him about Declan Doyle and the effect of him leaving what they will have on the Bears.

Cole Comette of the Bears is next on Rahimi Harrison Grotty on the score. At number 43 overall, they're going tight end. Our first tight end off the board, and it's from Notre Dame, Cole Commet. Cole Commet, in my opinion, is the best tight end in this draft. He's the most complete time. Williams rolling, throwing open, making the grab. Touchdown. Hold the med into the end zone.

This time they'll fake it. Williams. Looking. I don't talk to her on Packer Week, so we'll find out after the game. Don't talk to her? No, no, I'm kidding. I'll hear you. The man in motion.

Williams, drifting. With Rahimi Harris and Grody on 1043, the score. Oh, man, it sounded so good. It is Rahimi Harris and Grotie here on Indeed, our FM debut day, 104-3, The Score. Great thanks to our promotion staff who during the break spent their time

sweeping and vacuuming confetti. Kyle, Grayson. My friend Riley Goals out there. Shout out to her dad too. Apparently he's a P1. Steve.

Steve Goals, thanks for listening. Would he be listening on FM or oh yeah? He's hip. I like the people already converted over. Yes, you could still catch us on the other, the AM, but on FM, we're trying to

get the migration started, right? That's right. That's right. And that's why we're having big-time people on like our next guest, joining us now on the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline. He is the Bears' Tightend, Cole Kamet, Circa Las Vegas.com. Cole, welcome to the party, pal. Well, thanks for having me. I heard it was a big day. So naturally, I dropped everything I had going on today, to be honest. What did you have going on today, Cole? Now I got to know.

I had absolutely nothing going on, which is why I'm honest. You've got to play us like that, man. Well, see, now, Cole, because you've complained a lot through the years about not being able to hear the score on the 670 a.m. dial when you're inevitably cruising around downtown. And now that we have an FM signal, Cole, you can now hear the score all day, all the time, all you want. You can hear all the Bears hot takes you want. Well, that's perfect. I'll make sure I blast that in the locker room. I'm sure guys will love that.

See, why are you trying to get us killed out of here, Cole? Because, you know, we wouldn't get killed right now, but in years past, there may have been some moments where maybe the locker room doesn't like everything coming through our airwaves. Well, as a matter of fact, wait a minute. Cole, you had said that you're not even in charge of the music. Who was in charge of the music in the tight ends room or in the offensive side of the locker room?

In the tight end room, specifically, it's Stephen Carlson, who runs the tunes, and he does a pretty good job. Except for, as Grady, I told you last time, except for when he likes to play the weekend. I'm just not a huge fan of that. But everything else I'm good with. In the main locker room, Bristker takes that over. And he's done a good job the past few seasons. I'll say that.

So not a weekend guy. Did you watch the Grammys last night? Now I'm curious, since you apparently you don't have much going on. I'm going to be honest. So I watched a few hours of, no, not even a few hours. I watched a little bit of the Grammys. And I passed out early last night the day before. I had a long golf outing out in Orlando with some friends and stayed up a little late.

So I decided to get some sleep last night. Well, good for you. We did Marcell and I were just discussing that we basically did that all weekend, get some sleep. And there's no shame in that. There is no shame in it for obviously for football players as the adrenaline goes down a little bit after an amazing season. And Cole, you said it, man. I think a lot of players said it. The coaches said it, but I thought you uttered it maybe the best in the locker room postgame after the loss of the Rams.

our theme was, well, hey, it's great, though, because you guys were good, and you guys could carry this on. And of course, you can, but no two seasons are ever the same. And it's happening. Eric B. Enemy is gone. Ian Cunningham is gone and good for them. And that brings us to the latest Declan Doyle taking the job with Baltimore. What do you think of that? And what does that loss mean for you guys? Yeah, well, we're super happy for Declan and really anybody this time, year that's able to go out and take advantage of the situation they were in the year prior. And, you know, that's kind of happening with coaching right now and with players that'll come up here soon with three agency and teams kind of getting their roster set and somewhat ready

to go for the upcoming season. You know, it is kind of like a puzzle piece. And, you know, with us being in a salary cap league, there's pieces of the puzzle that fit well into the next piece of the puzzles that don't. So, you know, I'm sure Ryan and Ben will are going to be all over that this time of year, figuring that out and all those things. But, you know, yeah, it's obviously a big loss for us. Loof in Declan, E.B, two great coaches and guys that provide a lot of value to the offense side of the ball this year.

And, you know, I know even though Declan doesn't call the place for us, you know, the amount of work that he did on the offensive side of the football was immense. And you could see that in day-to-day and practices. and I'm sure it took a lot off of Ben throughout the week for his duties as a head coach. Cole, if you could just humorous and kind of walk us through that, because I know at the beginning of the season, Ben Johnson explained how, from an organizational role, that was going to be so important, Declan's role, even though, as you said, he doesn't call plays,

but so that Ben Johnson could do, you know, head coaching duties because he wasn't an offensive coordinator anymore, but he still remained the play caller. What was Declan Doyle's role as you got through the season? What would you say his day-to-day was like? Yeah, well, I mean, that almost be hard for me to even say just because I'm not there in those meetings once we leave the building. But, you know, you can tell with things in terms of getting the scout team correct, getting all those cards ready, dialed up, ready to go, whether it's scripting the practice. I'm sure Declan had a huge say as to what plays we're going to have up and what looks we were going to get throughout the week of practice. And then, you know, on Fridays and Saturdays, when we'd go over our film from Fridays on Saturday morning, you know, Declan's the guy going over that tape with the whole skill group and then kind of leading.

us in the walkthrough on Saturday before our main mini walkthrough as before we get to the hotel. So, yeah, DECA was very hands-on with all of us. And that is a big role. And I know I understand and I somewhat understand what people on the outside and they say, oh, if you're not calling plays, like really, what are you doing? These guys do a lot of stuff in terms of prepping for the game plan and getting us ready to go for practice throughout the week that really shows up big time up on Sunday. And then, I mean, another thing Declan was great at is, you know, I'm sure Ben as the head coach, there's a lot of things got to handle on halftime. Declan's the one addressing the offense at halftime, kind of going over the openers. They're going to be

coming up in the second half and telling us what we need to do, what they're seeing, and how we can make adjustments. So, yeah, Declan was definitely a very valuable piece to us offensively. That's great stuff, man. I mean, that does add a little bit of extra texture. And you're right. It's always tough when you can't say that you're calling the play as we talk to Chicago Bears' tight end. Cole Kometh here on 104-3, the score. Rahimi, Harris, and Grotie. And Cole, I mean, like, we talk about changes for the teams.

Every roster is going to be different going forward. Do you get nervous thinking about that, that anybody can be exposed to potential trade? Like DJ Moore, his name pops up sometimes. your name from time to time pops up sometimes. Anybody who has value to make other parts better, how much of that do you watch and how much of that do you think is real heading into the next season?

Well, it's definitely very real. I know it's real because I've seen it happen before. I mean, that's just the nature of the business in this league. So, I mean, maybe you know, you say nervous or scared. I would say, like, my first two years in the league, you're like, it kind of catches you off guard of just how ruthless this business can be. But I think at this point in my stage my career, you're kind of accepting of it and understanding that this is just part of the deal. And, you know, especially a guy like myself or, you know, you're talking about DJ or other guys who have played a little bit and you're on a second deal.

You know, unfortunately, as you age, you get, you get more expensive and you may not fit in that piece of the puzzle that I was talking about. And that's just the nature of the business. So however it works out, it works out. You know, for me personally, I felt like I did a lot of good things this year in the role that I was in and had a lot of fun playing with this team. And, you know, like I said, after the game against the Rams, you know, it is going to be different next year despite who's here. But I think going forward, you know, this is an organization that you want to be part of. And I'm sure they're going to have no problem bringing in the guys they want to bring in for agents-wise and selling them on a. Super Bowl run this upcoming year.

I'm curious, Cole. Ben Johnson talked about guys like Caleb, he mentioned by name, but getting away from football after the grind of a season ends. Is that something that he talked to you and the rest of your teammates about as well? And what have you done? Do you get away from it or do you still watch football every Sunday? How do you handle football after getting

knocked out of the playoffs? Yeah. It is a long season. I mean, really, you start, for us, we started at the beginning of April and you go all the way till mid-January, and it's really nonstop. I know we had the buy week in like week four, and so that kind of really prolonged the season mentally a little bit there. But I like to get away from it. You know, Ben did address us after the game and telling everybody, you know, use this time to get

away, reconnect with your families, and reconnect with your loved ones. And, you know, that's what you got to do. You make a commitment from, you know, from start of April all the way through January. And football comes first. There's a lot of things that come up and there's weddings that are missed. There's family events that are missed. And you just can't be at because the priority is football during that time. And that's the commitment that we make to one another.

And it's a good point that Ben had, I think, for us to kind of have this time to reconnect with our families and get back to doing some things outside of football. So, you know, for myself, yeah, I'll take off really training, hard training. hard training up until March. I watch the games. I'm a fan. You know, I was watching the AFCNFC championship games. Those are good games to watch. And obviously, I watch the Super Bowl coming up here this week. So, you know, as much football as we play, it's still hard to get away from.

It is a great sport to watch. Well, I was talking about this on the score the other day, way back when we were just 670, and we didn't have an FM signal back in the day. This is the first year in a while, Cole, as it pertains to you guys, to the Bears that while I was watching those title games, I wasn't like longing for, boy, I wish the Bears could do that. I wish they had that player. Of course, there's certain individuals.

Of course you say that about. But it was the first time where I was like, I am at peace with what the Bears did this past season. Are you at peace with what you guys did this past season in terms of what you accomplished or no? I think now that being a few weeks removed from it, I can definitely appreciate it. I can definitely appreciate what we did this year. Obviously, it was not the goal that we had set out coming in in April. And I know the expectations on the outside weren't what we did this year.

And I think that's why everyone was so appreciative as to what happened. But at the end of the day, us in the locker room, we expected to go win the Super Bowl this year. And that didn't happen. And so it's hard at first to look at the season as a success when you don't achieve your ultimate goal. But, you know, as I've done some travel here the past few weeks since the season's been done, it's been really often to interact with Bears fans in the airport or wherever I'm traveling to. And, I mean, really, they just come up to you and say, thank you. And you really realize the impact that we had on the city this year.

You really felt it come to life, especially on the back half of that season as we kind of made a run and pushed towards the playoffs. And it just really shows you how meaningful the Bears are here in Chicago. You know, at the end of the day, like, and I grew up a huge Cubs fan and, you know, obviously the Bulls in the 90s, but like at the end of day, this is a Bears town. This is a football town. And you can feel that, you know, as we were winning and going down the stretch there. So, no, I definitely look back on the season and I'm really appreciative of it, you know, kind of understanding that we didn't achieve our ultimate goal, but still have a lot of appreciation and respect for the for the guys in the locker room as to what we were able to get done this year. I know you didn't reach that ultimate goal, but. You have been watching football. Do you have a pick for the Super Bowl? Do you have a team that you think is going to win this thing? Yeah, I'll give you a pick. I think in Seattle.

And I love what New England's done. And obviously they got a great operation going on over there. I think they play great defense. And, you know, their quarterback has been outstanding the whole season. But, you know, I just watch Seattle on tape. And they're long. They're fast. They're physical.

Their quarterback's playing really well. And I just think that their depth is probably going to take over. for the game on Sunday. You know, it might be close in that first half, but I think Seattle ends up taking it pretty good. And it's way too soon for the Patriots to be winning Super Bowls again, man. Yeah, right, right.

That's probably, he's, you notice how he's already watching tape, though. He's getting ready for next season's road game at Seattle. I got you, Cole. I picked that up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cole, seriously, man, thank you so much for popping on. I know that you guys cherish your off-season and your alone time and your private time.

and your workout time. So thank you, man. It really means a lot to us here at 104-3 FM, the score. Thanks so much, Cole. Yep, thanks, guys. Appreciate you. Yep, that is the one and only Cole Commet. I caught that too.

The guy's watching tape. Oh, my goodness. Ben Jop said, get away from football. He's like, all right, as soon as I watch this AFC and NFC championship game, and then I'm going to watch some tape, break it down. You want to talk about this Bulls Miami Heat series that went down?

It was a whole series. It was a whole thing. And it got to like Game 3 winner take all. And let me tell you something. The Bulls took a beating, a mollywaping. They were down by 54 at one point last night. We had one of those games last night, right? You buried the lead, of course, though.

They made a trade. And they made a trade. Is it a smart trade, actually? Like, is this the Marshall Harris type of trade? I have a word to describe it. I have a word to describe it, which while I will tell you on the other side. Dario Sharich is coming through, everybody. So we will talk about that trade and the bulls and the heat and every

Everything Bulls coming up next on Rahimi Harrison Grotty on the score. Rahimi Harrison Grody, Midday's Tyndall 2 on Chicago Sports Radio, 104-3, the score. And we're down to the final 20 seconds. Jack Cohnas will dribble the 0 in the 8 second line. This game, thankfully, is over. As the Miami Heat take care of business on their home floor, they win the season series, 3-1. And the final score here in South Florida, Miami 134, and the Bulls, 91. It was a beating.

Welcome back to Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score. Our sponsor by Almost Free Teeth.com, affordable implants, life-changing smiles. You heard it right here on 670 the score, Chuck and Bill right there, on what used to be just 670 the score at the time. Now we are officially FM 104-3, the score. Heat beat the Bulls 134 to 91. Just a few things from the text line before we get to it here on the Bulls. Had an opportunity to use FM, went through the car wash.

No static. Didn't miss a word. That's another place where you used to lose the score. Yes, those pesky car washes are no longer an issue. From the 815, great interview with my favorite player, Cole Commets. another one. Cole Commet was a great speaker. You know why? All of this? Because FM.

That is why. And to the... And I'll even read the 708. How is it possible for you guys to have interviewed, at least that's how you should have phrased it? Cole Comette, and you didn't ask him about his fourth down TD catch in the last playoff game. He's been asked about it and asked about it and asked about it and asked about it. He wants to move on. We want to move on. We did move on. I'm comfortable with it. Are you, Marshall?

current things to ask him about. Absolutely. No regrets whatsoever. Cole Comet was fantastic. The Bulls did make some news too, beyond the fact that they were down by 54 at one point last night and lost to the heat and faced the heat three straight times, something that hadn't happened in the NBA since 1972, quite a thing. And we could kind of hit on some of the games if we want. But the news being the three-team NBA trade that went down that did involve the Bulls.

First, the Cleveland Cavaliers traded DeAndre Hunter to the Sacramento Kings for Dennis Schroeder and Keon Ellis. The deal includes the Bulls acquiring the Kings for Dario Sarshich. Two second round picks as well. The Bulls also needed to waive somebody to make room on the roster. That would be Javon Carter. He was waived by the Bulls. And by the way, those Bulls second round picks, 2027 second round pick from Cleveland, 2029 second round pick from Sacramento.

Marshall Harris, I can't wait to hear your reaction on this Bulls trade. So when this news came across, you've got to understand, Javon Carter had just led the bench scoring in a Bulls win over the heat in which he dropped three-threes, had 11 points. And I was like, okay, this is a nice game from the Bulls reserves. Because there was no Josh Giddy, there was no Kobe White, there was no Nikola Vutrovich, still no Jalen Smith. I was like, this is a great game.

And then to go from that to moments later, I mean, I don't even think they were done with the post-game press conference. And Javon Carter's been waived. And that's Chicago's own Javon Carter, Proviso East star Javon Carter. I was like, oh, that's tough for him. But I know he was a professional all the way through, had been out of the rotation instead of this. He got to play here, too. He did get to play for his hometown team. He did.

And he got paid. Yes. He got paid. And somebody will probably pick him up and it'll be on a playoff team, I'm guessing, before the end of this season. Who knows, he may circle back round of the Bulls someday, too. Yeah, so that, and then I was like, but let me look at this trade real quick. I was like, okay, this is actually a very shrewd and smart trade from Archerich-Karnasovus. And I was like, I hope this isn't the extent of what we're doing for trade season, being the Bulls, but as far

as a first appetizer starter, you know, you get to the table and you're like, oh, I want some food, and then you're like, let's order some apps from the table. I love this as an appetizer for the Bulls because they get draft capital, which is something they need more of. You can never have enough future draft picks. And as you mentioned, this is spaced out, 227 second round pick from the Cavs, 2029, second round pick from the Kings. And you didn't give up anything except for the two-way deal of Emmanuel Miller sending that to the Cavs.

So I like this deal for the Bulls. Now they need to do what I've been asking for, which is move out anything that's not nailed down to the floor. All right. Dario Sarish, for people who are not familiar with him or his game, 31-year-old 6-10 Power Ford Slash Center from Croatia, who was the 12th overall pick once upon a time ago in 2014, played in five games for Sacramento this year,

nine seasons early in his career with Philly, but has averaged just over 32 games a year over the last five years of his career. So he's not been really available. What do you think of this player? Like, what's he going to do for the Bulls? I was in Philly when he was drafted. Yeah?

The whole thing, he was a draft and stash. And the whole thing was, is Dario coming over? By the way, really quickly, I want to correct, I think I said nine seasons. Nine season total. Yeah, yes, right. But nice seasons is what I meant to say. Okay, so he played two and a half seasons with the Sixers when he finally did come over from Europe. And here's what he is.

He is a classic stretch four of the European variety. and offensively, very smart player is going to be able to do, think of like, what Vooch does offensively. You know, how he can facilitate. He can make all the fundamental plays. He can shoot a little bit, a lifetime, 360 shooter from three. The defense is lacking. The defense is lacking.

He is a defensive liability. I knew we were going to get to something at some point in time. There's a reason he's only played five games for a team that's challenging for worst record in the NBA in the Sacramento Kings. Precisely. Can't crack the rotation. No doubt. But this is more of a salary thing, right? Because he's on an expiring deal as well.

They keep him and then maybe he plays a little bit, whatever. But at the end of the year, that's just added to the cap. Like the amount of space that the bulls are going to have to operate under. But again, I like this move, but they need to be thinking about getting rid of Vooch. They need to be thinking about getting rid of Kobe White and others. This hour is sponsored by almost freeteeth.com, affordable implants, life-changing smiles from the 7-08. I love that you keep talking about amplitude modulation as though it is a distant history. No, no, no, no, no.

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