Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Could we see the Bears trade down from the No. 25 overall pick? (Hour 1)

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened their show by discussing whether it would make sense for the Bears to trade down from No. 25 overall in the first round of the NFL Draft. After that, they reacted to the news that the Raiders could trade star pass rusher Maxx Crosby this week. Later, they discussed the latest update on how the Bears view defensive lineman Gervon Dexter Sr. after trade speculation swirled around him last week.

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Oh, and good Monday morning to you. This is Rahimi, Harrison Grody on 104-3 The Score. Layla Rahimi, Mark Grody in today talking football with you, dare I say, bears? Bears. Bears. You said it. You dared yourself. You said it, and it sounded great.

It sounded great, Leila. It did. And this is a very different bears this time this year versus this time last year. As you know, I'm big on the year-to-year comparison, the comp. if you will. And I think in this case, rewind to where we were this time last year. This was in the pre-Joe Tooney

era, if you will. That didn't happen until March 5th. It was also in the pre- playoff win in the last 15 years era. It was in the, we're still trying to figure out what's going on with Ben Johnson, how Caleb Williams will look,

what's going on with the draft that was crucial, Ryan pulls all of that. And we also were drinking a lot lot of Kool-Aid when it came to the chase for Ashton Genty. I feel like now we're chasing another Raider. Now it's Max Crosby. But at the time, there was a ton of discussion about whether or not the bears were going to get Ashton Genti.

Will they trade up? You know, I think a big voice guy when he was like, will they trade up? And while that was going on, I don't know if it's, if we drank the Kool-Aid as much as the Bears really did want a running back. just ended up working out better than we thought it would because they stuck to their board and they got Kyle Menungai in the seventh round. And between he and DeAndre Swift having a career year,

it was able to work out. So here we are again. And this time I feel like it's in a much different spot. Brad Biggs in his 10 things at the NFL Combine brought this up. And he wasn't the only one who was making observations about the Baird. we very well with the 25 pick with the Bears in the NFL draft number 25 could be looking at a Bears team that might want to trade down. This is a different world. What do you think of just that prospect that we've talked about?

I'm interested in hearing more about that possibility and it's something that I would probably support. And you talk about relativity from one year to the next. I mean, last year, and it's been a while since the Bears have had a first round pick that that was that far down, which is a good thing, 25. That means that the Bears won. But you think about last year. Last year's draft, the Bears had the 10th overall pick, and they took Holston Lovellum. The Bears had, the luxury that the Bears had last year. And the place where the Bears landed possibly two starters, maybe three, we'll see, was the three second round picks.

I love the first round pick. of course. But second round picks, man, you should expect those to be started. You've got Luther Burden in the second round. You got Ozzie Tripillo in the second round. You got Shamar Turner in the second round. And I realize that Shamar Turner is a big old fat, incomplete right now in terms of what he might be able to do. I don't know if you could sense where I'm going with this, Leila, but I wouldn't mind the bears getting another second round pick or two if they're able to do something like that and trade down. I'd be very interested to see what the board looks like when they get to 25 and what sort of players would be there,

considering the depth on defensive line and end. But on the surface, yeah, I'm listening. I'm listening to a trade down. Well, and I didn't realize how rare it is, you know, for the bears to pick in the 20s. Like, that's something that doesn't take place very often, as we know. I should have just done the math, but we're so busy focused on like the year to year to year. So we don't necessarily think about it when it comes to the big picture of it. But in addition to Brad Biggs coming out with his 10 things from the combine last week, there was

something new that came across our ears. Tyler Buehiter Abbaugh, our producer pointed this out this morning in our pre-show meeting. Ryan polls on the Todd McShay show where we talked a lot about what he had to say was also asked about the sheer number of prospects he has on this year's draft board. How big is your final draft board player-wise, say kind of on average or ballpark when you go into the draft? How many players are on that board? I would say it's ranged. This year's going to be the lowest since I've been doing this. But I would say 120 to 140. So you guys are probably in the lower end. Yeah. Not the lowest. I don't play the window dressing game. If they don't fit what we do, if we're concerned about an injury, like,

then I just move them off or put them in a different zone. You don't do like to flip upside down? No. No, I just want to be locked in and guys that we've... So a low number means that you... I mean, tell me if I'm wrong, that you're not very high on the depth or talent in a class. Is that correct?

For this year? Yeah. Or any year. Does a number reflect how you feel about the depth of it? Yeah, like it will rain... I guess the last few years probably have been a little bit higher once we've kind of kicked out of COVID. But then we've entered into this NIL space

where I think the junior number is going down. there's a lot of guys going, you know, back to school. Like they're great. Kind of use that as our own for agency. Yeah. And it just seems like guys are a little bit more selective when they come out. So that was Ryan Poles on Todd McShay. Already, and you know how he feels about his draft board, Mark.

He loves his draft board. I've seen his draft board. You have? Well, I mean, there was like a little tour that we once received of some basics of how he sets things up. It wasn't like before the draft or anything. like that. But yeah, get a little idea of how Ryan Poles thinks. Yes. And I know that he's talked about how he sticks to it and that is his process, whether or not we like it.

You know what I've discussed. I don't know that I trust your board as much as you do necessarily based on some of the swings in the draft that they've taken. But when you consider that the Bears have used a first round pick in the 20s, just twice since Greg Olson was selected 31st in 2007. 2007. You have to go back that far. You know, they took Justin Fields. They originally had the 20th pick. We know they traded up. So Brad Biggs also pointed this out in his 10 things from the combine column. And he said the Bears had the 20th pick in 2021. They chose to trade up to get Justin Fields.

There have been five drafts since 2007 that they didn't have a first round pick while paying off trades for Jay Cutler, Khalil Mack and Fields. There's two aspects of this. Number one, it shows you how much they had to mortgage the future to get the player they thought they wanted because they couldn't develop people at home. You know, especially when we bring up Jay Kotler. Kahliel Mack, that's more understandable.

I think we all may feel a little bit more similarly. Jay Cutler turned out well, but the point is when you do this, there's only so many times you can go to that well. Don't forget Mitch Trubisky, too. You know, they lost picks trading up for Mitch Trubisky. So I think that the concept of the fact that they might say, hey, we don't like somebody at 25, we're going to go down. There's a couple different ways that concerns me.

Number one, we know that this is a rich edge rusher class, which is something that I feel like we all think the bears could use. And then number two, how much do you trust their board to be able to say, well, if you guys think you could trade down and that you should, is it enough to make you say, I trust your process enough to get what you need in the second round or to try to get more assets in the draft of lower rounds where you think you can get better value?

Yeah, I mean, I think when it comes to that pick, you're right. I mean, with the depth that exists, if there is an edge rusher on the board that is worthy at that spot, like somebody who trickled down to 25, even an interior defensive lineman that is better than what you have right now, then of course you have to jump at it. But you look at the Bears defensive line right now. What are the sure things that exist on it?

I would say Montez Sweat is a sure thing that exists on it. Even though Javon Dexter's name has been thrown around a bit, and we'll talk about him later, I think that he is a sure thing on this defensive line. I think that Shemar Turner is a sure thing on this defensive line, assuming he is healthy, assuming they can get him up to speed, assuming he develops at the right pace. I think Austin Booker is a sure thing on this defensive line right now. So you start to look at those. Billings is not.

He'll become a free agent, and I don't see the bears bringing him back. But if you could add somebody better than whoever is the best player, I would say Montes Sweat still, like right now, looking at that defensive line. Would you say sweat? It is the best player? Whether you want him to be. And I know that he's not as good as everybody wants him to be. He did have double-digit sacks last year.

He is your best player right there. If you think he'd get somebody better than sweat at 25, and I'd have to do more research into the players in the draft right now to figure out if the bears could get somebody at 25. But if you can't, if you really don't think you can get somebody who is on par or better than the guys that you have on that defensive line. And I say all this understanding that Ryan Poles has already said

that he's going to take the best player available at that spot. So he's not thinking like I am right now as far as need is concerned. But if there is going to be somebody better than those guys on the D-line at 25, then stay at 25 and don't trade down right there. Well, that's it.

This is one of those pivotal drafts where you think, like, oh, they've got 25. Oh, they might trade down. They don't have as many players on their draft board. Could that mean they would trade for somebody else? but in reading Brad Biggs's paragraph that we just said, you know, how many times do you look back at it now

and they didn't have a first round pick and realize how much that really hamstrung this team? Because then you're forced to sign even more people. Then you're forced to have even more cap casualties. And they're not in that position right now. They're in the position of control. They didn't give any away. But if you trade for a guy like, guess what?

Max Crosby. Then you're going to have to give some of those up. Like, did you question the Khalil Mack for Strouders when they were given up the two first round picks? Not really? I mean, you looked at it. It's like, oh, that's a lot. But okay, it's 26-year-old Khalil Mack, and it felt okay. And it also felt impossible that the bears were actually going to pull that off.

It was very similar, honestly, Lela, to the way we were talking about Max Crosby. The Khalil Mack talking point was fun to talk about it. We all talked about it. It was great. Oh, yeah. Khalil back to the Bears. It's not going to happen. Ryan Pace is not going to pull that off. And then one morning I wake up

on a weekend and I see the news and I hear the news and there's Danny Park is doing it. Grotie, get up. Get up. We got to do a show. So we go into the studio and we actually did a whole Kalil Mack show because it happened. They pulled it off which was magnificent. So yes, to

answer your question, it was all well worth it. And it was not something that we had expected to actually happen as fun as it was to discuss. I feel like the process was faster because wasn't, wasn't the concept of him being up for a trade like a Saturday thing than it happened on Sunday or something or it was like, it was like, it was something where it was like the news is out one day later, Kalil Mack is a bear. I remember giving myself alarm clock free sleep that day. So I was about an hour to have late because

I was like, that's it. I'm sleeping in today. I'm not turning it. And then I wake up and there it happened. magically. Khalil Mack is a Chicago bear, and then I'm running into the studio to do a show about Khalil Mack. We have some news that involves a former bear. Oh?

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We'll get to that in a second. This is the breaking news read that everybody wanted, right? This is how we construct it. The Lions, according to multiple reports, are trading David Montgomery to the Texans in exchange for a fifth round pick. What? They're doing it. Poor David Montgomery.

He's just going all over the world. No, not poor David Montgomery. He was the one that wanted to be traded. Wasn't he? Well, out of here. Like, well, no, but I think he was tired of being second fiddle to as much as, He's tired of being knuckles to Sonic Kimmergives. As cute of a story as that was

and how life was grand for David Montgomery and he's playing a complimentary role. He just got himself. I mean, I have to read more. But my, the way I was reading into it, David Montgomery was the one who wanted to be traded. Adam Schafter has the compensation. Texans get David Montgomery.

Lions get fourth round pick. Offensive lineman Juice Scroggs. And a second round pick. Hell of a name. That's a great name. Scruggsy. but depth on the offensive line for the Lions wow jimier gibbs rb1 as we knew that already with a bullet I assume they try to get another RB2 in the draft

it is it just blows my mind how fast things changed and how fast narratives change and it's all changed like that was such a perfect running backs room for a year and change and now it's over two years but here's the thing two years for all we've talked about as far as the bears being over the cap, according to overthecap.com,

the bears are like $5 million to $9 million over. Lines are 12, according to over the cap. So they had to do a lot more wheeling and dealing than the bears may have to do. Anybody else want to be traded? Dan Campbell holding his out. David, you're good. Okay, we got you trade.

Aidan? No, no. No. Notice how they traded him out of the conference? That was a good idea, as opposed to say trading Micah Parsons to the Packers. Yeah. In the conference. That's a smart move.

Yeah. Well, the Texans needed more, they needed more offense. You know, that was the problem for them. It sure it wasn't their defense. That's a good product. So, yeah, Juice Scruggs at SUPA underscore Juice on Instagram for those wondering. Scruggs. So he is headed to Detroit, so they get an addition to their offensive line.

and they also get some real value, I think, for David Montgomery. You know, for everybody who thinks that that's sort of a fungible position, I would say fourth round pick, juice grugs, and a seventh round pick. That shows you how much the Texans wanted him. Yeah. And look, good, no matter how much the running back position has been dumbed down or however you want to put it, good ones are invaluable. The good ones that, and David Montgomery is one, they make a difference.

So that's still a really good player, but it's really, it shouldn't be shocking to me. But it, but it is. Just what a good time story, David. And maybe it was personal a little bit, like just being on the bear's side of it. You guys talked a lot. Yeah, we did. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Like David Montgomery, he was a guy who did not open up early on in his bear's tenure.

Just very quiet, very respectful. And then all of a sudden he's, I remember talking to him one day and he completely opened up. And it was like, he was, he ran very hot and cold with the Chicago media, but whatever. Good player, good guy, all that stuff. It's just shocking to me, really from a Detroit perspective, more than anything right now. I mean, that's it. You know that there are going to be some tough decisions made by NFL teams this week when it comes to trying to get under the cap, trying to get assets, trying to sustain other parts of their team.

And you know how the lions are. They built from the inside out. They built the line first. So I feel like they're one of those teams. where getting an offensive lineman in return does not strike me as surprising. Especially since their offensive line is, I'm not going to say in shambles, but another thing that has changed rapidly about the lions is they're not as effective offensive line, which started, of course, with the retirement of Dirty Frank Ragnow.

Yeah, it can't. Dirty Franks. All Franks are dirty to me, by the way. I mean, just a zinger, just a zinger for no reason. And then he tried to come back, if you recall. Yes, he did try to come back. And then he didn't pass the physical. Sorry, I tried.

Yeah, well, and also there's this coincidence. Field Yates points us out. The Texans have the cornered the market on the Iowa State skill guys. David Montgomery, Jaden Higgins, Jalen Noel, and Xavier Hutchinson. They just want the whole team. Okay. Just get Matt Campbell. I know he just went to Penn State, figure it out.

Get him on there, too. Well, the Eagles are the, like, Georgia Bulldogs, right? The professional version, so. Given George's domination of. football for a time. I would say that that probably would bode well for them. Find your good college team and just draft everybody and trade for everybody. Well, Dave Wonstadt, you know, he was part of the whole Miami machine in Dallas, so that makes it make sense. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But in this case, the Texans and Iowa State are very much

in sync. We have more to come here, and that's something we'll keep our eyes on. It is one of those days where we expect some movement in the NFL. Mark Grotie is in studio. Layla Rahimi here with you as we broadcast live from the scores Hyundai Studios brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers. Ray Diaz, our producer, you just heard his voice, Tyler Bueberbaugh, helping us out, of course, as well. Brandon Friar does the same for us. And then you can catch us on Twitch and YouTube at the score. Our address changed just in case you missed it. We're no longer 670 the score on Twitch and YouTube. We are The Score Chicago. And we're still free there, at least for now as far as I understand, I don't think that's changing anytime soon.

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Do you think he's sad that David is leaving the building? Knuckles? He was Knuckles, right? No, well, yeah, David was Knuckles. I've never... Like Sonic and Nucles. Knuckles, like, I'll say it and I'll play along, but it does not come to me naturally. That was not like, like, I didn't know about Sonic and Knuckles, the actual characters

before Jemir Gibbs and David Montgomery. So I'm a big fraud. What you need to know, Grody, is Sonic and Knuckles originally, as the lore goes, is they were enemies at first. Oh. So they've done this in reverse order. Later, as the, in the video game storyline, they became friends later on. Oh, isn't that neat?

So now it's like just reverse order. So now they're enemies, if they ever. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's perfect. I like it. They must be having fun in Detroit with the story, though. Well, maybe, maybe not. You know, they didn't make the playoffs,

so I think that still irks them a bit. Oh, yeah. No, I'm sure that they're irked. Erked. They're well irked. Coming up next year on Rahimi Harrison Grotie, let's get into part of the concept of Ryan Pohl's saying that his draft board doesn't have as many players as it usually does,

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the 11th, that's next week. You know, we have the franchise tag deadline tomorrow. So that's another piece of this as well. And teams who are over the cap, like the Lions reportedly were, you're going to have to make a lot of moves. You know, 12 million, as I mentioned, according to over the cap, surprising a little bit, but understandable given the extensions that they gave out, like Aidan Hutchinson. So the moves are happening. And in the meantime, it goes back to how we're trying to dissect this draft and also therefore the value of the draft picks you know that's a big part of this too when you hear todd mcshay and ryan pulls talk and pull says this is a low number on his draft board then how do you value the picks you know do they become as valuable if you want

to trade them or are you a little bit more willing to part with them as well if you don't like this group of individuals that may be out there yeah i mean if you can get somebody a real player that you could slot immediately in what I call a must-win window for the Bears, and we don't know how long that window will last. So I am going to say that going into this year, it is must-win. The Bears' picks just for themselves, because of all the things that we're talking about, with the Bears being over the cap, as we've talked about, in the red and all of that, that makes these, unless you can use the picks to trade for valuable players,

that makes this draft about as important as ever of a draft. because the bears are coming at it from a position of strength where they can win this year, but they don't have a lot of other assets or available money right now to make other moves, to make other splashes. Like you talked to anybody who was at the combine and just listening to people on the score, the idea that the bears are going to make a big splash is a little bit far-fetched because of the lack of assets beyond what you're talking about here, Leila. and that is a first round pick, a second round pick, a third round pick,

four, five, and two sevens as it stands right now. That's right. And so when you look at it, I like what Biggs had to say here when it came to trying to figure out the process. Biggs said the question I had is whether anything shifts when a team is picking near the end of the round instead of the top ten where the bears have regularly been because they haven't been good. I got some interesting replies.

Your process doesn't change, a National Scout said. You were still going to do your due diligence on everybody just to figure out who you think is going to be there in the 20s and then just in case someone were to slip through like Laramie Tunsell. I think he went 13th in 2016, but he was supposed to go top five. You need to be prepared for that. We know that was because of the video that had come out with Tunsel involved. With the actual selection, you can be a little more risky in theory, but at the same time, if you're in the 20s, you feel like you're close so you don't want to take too much risk

because you want to get a player that is going to help you this year. year. Really, I think sometimes in the early to mid-20s is where you get your best value. And I think that that's true. Take, for example, the Seahawks drafting Jackson, Smith, and Jigba 20th. Is that pretty good? Do that work out for them? It did in a slow 40 time at all. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Also, Ohio State, once again, just showing that the receivers that they are producing are making waves. It's not the quarterbacks. But, you know, the, fair enough. But the, Yeah, but the point, you know, being made about how you feel like those picks are valuable, this is also part of the quote from Brad Biggs, said a college scouting director.

Instead of having seven guys on the board that you would take, now you have to have 15 or 25 that you would like there. You get to a point where you're like, we don't have 25 players we like in the first round. Then you start thinking about moving back and getting some value. So if he says you have to have 15 to 25, and Ryan Poles is saying he has fewer, players on his draft board this year. What does it all mean? And then the quote goes on. It depends where they think their team is. Are you close? Do you have flexibility in free agency?

You can take more risks late in the first round, but it depends on your mindset. We're not going to take risks in the first round. We don't have any cash. Oh yeah, there's that part. Like neither do the bears right now. We have to hit on our first round pick so we don't have the luxury of taking a really good athlete and hoping he hits and trying to develop him over time. So that's where I was. You know, I said that last week. I think 25 becomes even more important because you have to use

your draft capital because you can't exactly use the financial capital the way you want to right now. Not yet, not yet, unless things start to change and with potential contract restructuring. There is the DJ Moore question. Yeah. Which continues to be incredibly interesting. And I hopefully we can get into that a little bit later. I know Weederer wrote a little bit about it. He and Kevin Fishbane and Weedsie will join us a little bit later on. But that is an interesting one, the DJ Moore, and what people are saying about DJ Moore, like anonymous sources, like the stuff that we know, that we know how valuable DJ Moore is. But we also know from watching DJ Moore that there hasn't been the full chemistry with Caleb Williams and

this offense yet. Well, and then Albert Breer, pointing out that the Raiders could trade Max Crosby as early as this week. Here we go. So our longstanding national mystery might come to a close. Is that the Bears Stadium search?

Or is that Max Crosby? Which will have... Note to self for a question. What will happen sooner? A Max Crosby trade from the Raiders or the Bears settling on a new stadium? Definitely a Max Crosby trade. Probably.

There's not even a doubt in my mind. But what if he's not traded? Then how would you answer that question? Definitely a Max Crosby trade. It's still Max Crosby. Even if he doesn't get traded, he will get traded sooner than the Chicago Bears will have a new stadium in, I don't know. Yeah, exactly. The lease is up in 2033 at Soldier Field.

And how many times have you said to yourself, I'm leaving my place this time. Oh, I'm leaving. I'm buying a place. I'm leaving. And then I'm like, oh, the rent is flat this year? Lela. I'm staying. I guess that's the single person, you and I,

apartment dwelling person. That is me. I went on two very serious looks to buy a place. And I'm sure the people that took me are not happy because I got right into it and then check it out twice. You flirted with the realtor? I flirted with the realtor twice, twice. And then I backed out.

So you just brought up my life. How is that not the bears right now? That's a great. That's a great point. Yes. Flirting and then pulling out. Wait a minute. Nobody's going to say that's what she said. I was just going to let that one sit there.

It was too. Also, we all just started laughing at the same time. That's what it's gotten to with that's what she's because we've all said it. We've all done it. No, we have not. Well, you do it too, Leila? Oh, I say that's what she said. That's what I mean. Yeah. But the other thing.

Oh, my God. you say. Oh, radio jokes. So here's what Albert Breer said about Max Crosby. Yes, ma'am. Yes. Ma'am, please. So first of all, it's in bold and italics.

That means pay attention to me. Italics. It'd lean toward a Max Crosby trade happening and maybe this week. But there's going to have to be some needle threading. Going to have to be some needle threading. Yeah. I don't think the Raiders want to go through the song and dance of shopping him, nor do I believe Crosby wants it advertised

that he's looking for suitors given his bond with owner Mark Davis and his view of himself as a raider. Now you say that, now? What was all this? He's played his last down of football for the Raiders talk. Talk about dramatic. I get it though.

When you hear how he talked about football and how much he cares and what he does every year and then the way, just the intensity that he talks about going about his job, then you see it on the field. Oh, yeah. Then you understand, you know, You were joking about Billy Donovan being like, you see what I have to work with out here? I got six guards out here.

What do you expect me to do with all these guys? You think that's not the case for Max Crosby? That's true. Look at this. How am I supposed to work with these guys? I can't even name guys. It was basically Max Crosby, Ashton Genty and them. Right.

To the point where. And then boys. To the point where Ash and Genty was the fifth highest paid raider last season. Does that make a rookie? Everybody must go. That's it. I mean, I don't. know how you're not John Spitech saying I could trade hit first of all yeah you can obviously

build around him but his timeline is just a few years later than everybody else is that you would theoretically be building around on your team theoretically for nanda mendoza ashton gentee a year older so if that's the case then you know how are you not looking at this like you could get a massive haul and then be able to help push some of those draft picks out even into the next year because you know they're going to be relatively higher. You know, how would you not want to do that if you're trying? Obviously, two first rounders is the case. So why wouldn't you want those?

You know, why wouldn't you want to be able to work with that if you're the Raiders? Absolutely. Like, let's be real. Is there a winning window for the Las Vegas Raiders while Max Crosby is at the peak of his powers? Probably not unless maybe Mendoza comes in and he's the greatest thing ever. and he changes everything, but probably not. They need an offensive line. They need so much more.

Think about how the Raiders lost to the Bears last year and your least favorite game of the 20-25 season. Was that the Blockwell? Yeah. Blockwell. Yeah. Josh Blockwell. And then the game winner by the game-winning field goals.

Yeah. So that was the... That was Gentie went off in that game. Was that Gentie's best game of the year? It might have been his best. I got to look at that. Yeah, I would have to as well. But I'm going to go ahead and guess that was his best game.

But when you put it all together, it just, I don't know, it's, it's, it makes everything a little more intense. Also something that I would, that I would like to bring up next when it comes to this is, uh, not just, uh, the fate of one Max Crosby, but I think there's something that I was, I was thinking through yesterday that I want to bring up on the other side of this break. Additionally, we've gotten conflicting reports about possible roster movement on the Bears, uh, defensive line. So let's get into the latest from Brad Biggs. and more on the bear's defensive line, and I think a guy who could really affect a possible trade that the bears might have thought that they might have been able to do.

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Midday's 10 to 2 on 1043, the score. This is Rahimi Harrison Grody on 1043, the score. and we've had dueling reports. It's like dueling pianos, but worse. There's no tipping. You don't get to celebrate with your friends, listen to Burkwest songs. I don't think I would ever be the person to organize my friends

to go to a dueling piano bar, but when I have gone, love it. I did. That was a birthday party for me many years ago. That you organized? Yeah. It's a blast. Trust me.

It really is, but it's just not something that I ever think about. We had a Christmas party, Odyssey Christmas party at Sluggers, and there was dueling pianos. And there was dueling pianos here one time, too. What? At another, like... Dueling pianos is great.

That totally sounds like something Mitch would roll in. Hey, I got dueling pianos. Come on down. You can stop by. Dueling pianos. Doesn't it? Literally wheeling a guy playing on a piano as Mitch is saying it. Mitch would be wearing like a piano tuxedo tie, and there'd be a couple guys in there

play in their piano, a couple of bros. How do you feel about the keytar? Would the key tar pop up in this? Ooh, the key tar. Is that even something that people get? anymore. I will say the keyboard guitar. Well, they should. In case you were born, I don't know, after 1990.

The dueling piano people that are really talented, though, they really are, because they're able to play just about anything, it seems. I would argue the dueling reporters are also really talented and everybody's got their sources, but the problem is you don't know who the sources are. That's true, and no other, no good

reporter with a source likes any other reporters with a source. Wow. That's the way it goes. People snip at each other, dismiss each other. It's ugly out here, Leila. The combine has been the scene for some conflicting reports. So last week, we heard Jordan Schultz, the Yahoo, formerly of Yahoo, the NFL insider, say that Javon Dexter was a possibility for a trade. Like there were discussions had or perhaps there were inquiries made. It wasn't something that was definitive. But it led a lot of people to ask, you know, why. For just the same reasons we've,

talked about, right, Mark? Pickens are slim when it comes to how much money you can spend on the line. So would the replacement be better? You know, would you move Shamar Turner back from D-N in that case to detackle where Dexter was second on the team in Sacks, by the way, with six to Montez sweat? So if that's the case, what is his value to another team versus what it is to the bears? And you'd argue that with the bears, it's pretty high. So he's into the last year of his contract, we know that. So while we were all trying to parse that through, Brad Biggs talked to Mully and Haugh this morning, and here's what he had to say. Devon Dexter's not, they're not taking calls on them, they're not making calls on them.

Well, I'm asking because there was a report that there was. And I'm saying that, I'm reporting nothing's happening on that. Okay. That's good. I'm glad we clarified that because it didn't make any sense at the time. Where does something like that come from then? Just from, what's your best guess? Where's something like that come from? I don't want to speculate on other people's work. They've got two defensive tackles under contract. They're not looking to move one. Jervon Dexter will be with the Bears next season.

See what I'm talking about? It's ugly out here, Leila. Brad was like, no. Who said that? Jordan, who? If Braddon had had some sort of, you know, staff like he were guarding a door, the staff would be set down to file. I'm more with the Biggs report, though, for sure. because, you know, it's Brad Biggs

and I love Brad Biggs. And it's just like, it doesn't make sense. Like, I'm really hard on Jervon Dexter because he was a second round pick. And every time I've interviewed Javon Dexter, he's told me he should have been a first round pick. So I take him... He says that?

He says that. Now, maybe not as much as past year, but like in the first couple of years, like he obviously, yeah, I got a chip on my shoulder. I thought I should have been a first round pick. And maybe that's what any lineman would say anybody who's in the second round probably thinks they should have been in the first round of the draft. But guess what? That's one of the hardest positions, like defensive linemen to stand out at, like, that position.

Especially interior. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like, to get, it is extraordinary to get sack production from the guys on the interior. We know the guys that have done it, and they are straight up, Aaron Donald, special types of guys that can actually, actually interrupt from an inside spot. That doesn't mean you can't be critical of Jervon Dexter, but he is league average, whatever you, want to say right now you can't afford to get rid of somebody like him again second on the team in sacks was six to montes sweats ten i also value the batted balls at the line of scrimmage that he had and i think that's such a blessing and a curse his height when you consider it it does take longer

to get up and get down when you're that tall and you talked about at the speed because he's closest to the ball everything moves faster so then therefore it's hard to move around at that speed and really make an impact, and he still tries to. And using his height to his advantage in those ways, I think, is an example. But additionally, financially, I just didn't see how it made sense, especially this year. There's another piece to this, though, when we were talking about Max Crosby, Mike had traded this week, that per Albert Breer. We understand the league year begins on the 11th. We understand all the pieces that come together here.

And in all of this has been also a discussion about potentially freeing up. money if you trade DJ Moore. Now Brad Biggs had reported, you know, this is also in the same column. One source is relatively confident the Bears could find a take her for more and might be able to get a day two pick and return. Moore is set to make a lot of money. And it does matter about that 11th deadline because on the third day of the league year, 15 and a half million of his 2027 salary becomes fully guaranteed. So that's a deadline to note. Here's what I didn't necessarily until this weekend taken to a lot of account. AJ Brown.

And the fact of the matter is, there's potential for the Eagles to trade him. So how do you think that factors in when again, Ryan Poles says he has a lower number than normal on his draft board? Drap pick value does what then? Does it go down? You know, you hear how, say, for some general managers or some assistants, like this isn't the deepest draft when it comes to certain players of impact. I wonder is this then when you consider all of that

and then that AJ Brown might be a part of this. Now he's owed $29 million next season. But I would assume it would somewhat affect DJ Moore's market. Oh, absolutely. I mean, wouldn't if you were the Raiders? Wouldn't you accept A.J. Brown a lot faster than you would, DJ Moore and a Max Crosby? The Bills.

The Bills as well? And I think that situation, unlike here where there hasn't been any verbal discussion out of DJ Moore to indicate anything of concern. There has been tenuous discussion out of A.J. Brown and his role on this Eagles team. So when you consider that, I think the likelihood is higher that A.J. Brown would get moved. But I think it's the salary that might put the Eagles in a hard spot if they want to try to. Right. Same spot the bears are in with D.J. Moore. I do believe is owed 28. million. That would be his cap hit next year, if I'm not mistaken.

24 and a half. 24 and a half next year. 28 is sweat. Montess sweats at 28 and a half. So he's number one. So he's 24 mil, though. That's, I mean, that's the whole trick. And that's what the whole trick has been all along with DJ Moore, that yeah, the bears need to make some room, but other teams are looking at like, like, is that, is he worth it for us right now? And teams are saying we're not really sure yet. But AJ Brown would be the guy that would get chosen before DJ Moore, as much as we love DJ Moore. And, Listen, you can trade other draft picks, but I just, I wonder when you put it all together if your guys would get the most value this year given the circumstances.

And I don't think anything changed remarkably at the combine to indicate anything different. Yeah, nothing that I heard in regards to that. But it is interesting that as we're in our little DJ Moore world and then along comes AJ Brown to put a little, make it a little bit more complicated and interesting. A behemoth. And just to wrap it up, so this is what Breer had to say. Eagles GM, Howie Roseman, knows this situation is delicate. And actively shopping Brown can make things messier than Philly needs them to be.

Because like we said, he's already spoken out publicly. But Brown's camp has done recon too on potential landing spots and which have a genuine interest. So while Roseman quietly has had talks, Brown's side has gauged whether there is greener grass elsewhere. The asking price, though, for now is high. it sounds like the Eagles have won a first round pick and another top 100 selection, similar to what the Packers got for Devante Adams in 2022. And that's going to be too much for most, if not all teams. Some of those teams conversely see Brown's value as being closer to what the bills got for Stefan Diggs from Houston in 2024,

a second rounder plus a day three pick swap that favored Buffalo. So that's important to keep in mind. The bottom line is I think we're not out of pocket by talking about DJ Moore in this way because of how many receivers we're seeing go elsewhere. Markey names, receiver ones. You know, I was kind of surprised to see George Pickens get the franchise tag because of that. I didn't know if there was going to be a situation there

where he goes somewhere else again. I think it's all important to keep in mind when you're trying to figure out the market on something where maybe the draft doesn't dictate your need like that. And for A.J. Brown, it's like, be careful what you wish for. He could end up with, hey, maybe that's what he wants to go to the Raiders and get, targeted 30 times a game or go to Cleveland and be the star that Cleveland needs so badly.

There are playoff teams who need receivers. I just mentioned Buffalo. At least it's out of the conference. It's AFC. See how the Lions did that there? They did. Yeah, they did. It was smart.

Ideally, that's why it sucked. And the Bears didn't have control over this, but it did suck to see David Montgomery pop up not only the NFC, but in the NFC North. In my snoopings, I noticed that the Lions on the player survey, the offensive coordinator, got a C. Do you think Ben Johnson knows that, looked it up and has pinned it up, maybe just on the refrigerator with a magnet on there, just to see, grade C? Because you know he's still pissed off about that 50 burger. There's no way.

He's upset. He was also really upset about the last game of the regular season. Yeah. But here's the problem. They didn't do anything about it on the field to be able to win the games. That's right, Ben. Come on, Ben. What do you think about that?

Huh? Taking your shirt off at the Bulls game? You think this is funny? No. You think this is some kind of game? I'm sorry. Making jokes about your quarterback? What do you think this is?

O.C. Minus. Not just a C minus. Which, oh, in Detroit? Yeah. C minus. Who is their offense coordinator? Is it Dan Campbell?

No, well, he was. He was calling plays for a second. I know. Like as we speak right now, who calls the Detroit Lions plays? Anybody know? Well, yeah, they just hired Drew Petzing. Oh, it's Drew Petzing? Yeah, the dude from Arizona. Right, who was actually a Bears coaching candidate.

I believe he was one of the many that got interviewed during the Ben Johnson cycle. He was one of the many. Yes. Are you trying to get Ben Johnson mad? I don't think he's listening to us. No, not really. I'm enjoying the comedy tour of Ben Johnson, actually. Like, somebody has been in his ear.

saying, hey, hey, Ben, let's let's let it loose this offseason. People think you're really serious. Let's go. Let's start the comedy tour, which started at the Combine. It hit the United Center last night. He's got 11 or 12 more dates lined up around. I imagine he's going to get Cub season tickets this year, which will be a blast to see him with his shirt off in the left field bleachers.

Why do you think he's into a left field bleacher? Absolutely. Right field sucks. Good, better best. You know, wait, wasn't Rizzo also in left field? I think was, I thought the Rizzo was in right field for some reason. Or maybe, maybe he was left field. Somebody tell us which part of the bleachers Rizzo was in.

Boy, he did have a good time out there. And then there was the time when Theo and Jed Hoyer were wearing mustaches and sat in the bleachers. Yes. And I think they were in left field. Left field for Rizzo. It was in left field. The Riz and well, we'll see. That's it.

Ben Johnson, I challenge you to sit in the bleachers for a, let's go down. June when it's nice. Let's go June. I want to see Ben Johnson. That's it. That's it. I think we need to start our challenge for Ben Johnson to sit in the bleachers in June. We have to incentivize him. He's not going to do it willy-nilly. Ray says we have to go to commercial because our sponsors deserve time. Did Weiner's Circle get anything? Like, did give away anything to him personally? I mean, that's a good question. Maybe a hot dog. Okay. We'll work on that. And in the meat, yeah, Mark was cooking. And now we're keeping our friend Mark Gonzalez waiting.

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