Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Dan Wiederer: Bears must figure out keys to sustaining success (Hour 4)

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

In the final hour, Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote were joined by Dan Wiederer of the Athletic to share his takeaways from the Seahawks beating the Patriots Super Bowl 60 and to discuss the Bears promoting pass game coordinator Press Taylor to offensive coordinator. Later, Rahimi, Harris and Grote got a chuckle out of how Seahawks star cornerback Devon Witherspoon was ready to party after winning the Super Bowl.

The score. Dan Weiderer, Bears reporter and senior writer for the athletic. You're going to be relying on a lot of young players, guys that have to materialize into who they thought they were. The Bears are who we thought they were. On-air contributor for 670 the score. We'll mention this mainly because Dan Weiderer said we would mention this Nugget. Host of the Take the North podcast. We're going to take the North and never give it back.

Dan Weider. Thanks, Coach. We'll go first to Dan Whedier. On Chicago Sports Radio, 1043, The Score. Weezy. That poor Bears, Pete. guy. I think about him every time. This is Rehmi Harrison Grotie

on 1043, the score, and we go to our Circa Resort and Casino hotline. Circle Las Vegas.com. That is where we connect with Dan Weiderer, the senior writer for the athletic who covers the Bears. He is the co-host of the Take the North podcast, DTN, alongside

our own Mark Grody. Dan, thanks for joining us. Hi, guys. Welcome to the NFL offseason. Oh, we've made it. Look at that. The weed man has spoken. The season is over. Dan, Mark is trying to call you the weed man, and I'm pretty sure that refers to something else. How do you feel about this? Weed man, weed man, weed man. It does not apply to me, but I have been called that many times over the course of the law. Dating all the way

back to junior high. We can throw something out here right now. All of the people that knew me in childhood just call me weed. And so my nickname has kind of evolved over the years during various markets. and on this station as well. And you can call me just about anything you want. Wait, wait, wait. What is your preferred nickname? Because I don't want to call you weed if you don't be called weed. What are you talking about?

We've got to call him weed now. I think of a little more endearing, but that's also Mark Grody who put me on to the weedsy. So what do you, Dan Weider, want to be called? It's whatever you prefer. I will just tell you that, like, as I just shared, weed was what I was called through all of high school and really through college. And it's what my close friends still refer to me as. And a wide. You get a wide too, right? Some people do the IE with the EI, the Widener.

No, don't get that. No, don't get that. No, why, stop trying to make wide happen, Grody. I took it, I pushed it too far. Yeah. I have shared that my high school homeroom teacher added an N and would call me Weedner, which that was always fun as well. Yeah, that was what you said. Ah, yes, the Trubitskiing of your name. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Josh McGowan. We were, we're, of course, we shared our takeaways, and I think we watched the Super Bowl. Bowl a little bit differently now since the Bears did actually have two playoff games this season. You know, you're evaluating through a different lens. You want to say to yourself, what would the Bears do if they were facing Seattle and the NFC championship game? If they were facing the Patriots, you know, we asked the question about Caleb Williams if he were in Drake

May's spot for the Patriots because they're drafted the same year. You know, what about this Bears season and watching the Bears? What changed were you and you were watching the Super Bowl last night with that lens? So we'll never know how Caleb would have performed against that particular Seahawks defense on that particular stage. We will get a glimpse next season of that matchup, though. And it'll be an interesting test to see what the bears do with the offense that they have. That's obviously evolving, and we expect to improve against a Seahawks defense. Guys, it was great all year, and then it may have been at its best in the biggest game of the year,

which is really impressive because Mike McDonald does so much stuff that it just relies on the cohesion and the detail, and they just mastered it last night. They had the Patriots offensive line uncomfortable, which then made Drake May uncomfortable, and they just didn't really ever let up until the game was well in hand. And I think at the end of the third quarter, the Patriots were averaging two yards of play after three quarters of a Super Bowl. And so you just got to give the Seahawks their flowers for how well they played. And it wasn't an anomaly because we saw that all year long from that group. I'm curious, Dan, what was your biggest takeaway from this game through the lens of what the bears need to do to get to be on the level

where they can play in that game next year. Well, you just have to understand how hard it is to get there, you know, and I think that they do very well. And now it's just about going and finding ways to strengthen your roster everywhere you can strengthen it to understand that you're in a different class than you were in at this time last year. Like you have elevated yourself into the level of being a team that is a playoff football team that has a chance to stay there.

for the rest of this decade and beyond. And now you just have to figure out the keys to sustaining success that gives you the maximum number of opportunities to try to get hot in January. Right? Like, that's what this is all about because there is a lot of Super Bowl contenders that never play in a Super Bowl.

You know, and so you can be a legitimate Super Bowl contender and never get to play in that game just because of how difficult this league is. And so I think the Bears' next step is figuring out how to sustain success in order to give themselves the maximum number of opportunities to play in January.

like I said, get hot and ultimately be in February one day. Right now they are trying to replace success, if you will, at the offensive coordinator position. They have hired a press tailor. Yeah. And Dan, this is a great question for you because you talked to Press Taylor quite a bit this year in the hallway at Hallis Hall. We were afforded that opportunity a couple times a month to talk to the assistant.

But it feels like you spoke to him, it felt like just as much, if not more than anybody. What's he all about from your conversations? with him. Well, the two places I'd start, Grody, is this is this guy who's very bright and he's bought in, you know, and that's very important for this position because you essentially are going to have to be somebody who amplifies Ben Johnson's messaging. If you're, you know, helping with installs, if you're leading post-practice, you know, film review, whatever it may be, your voice has to be almost identical to the head coaches. And it has to spit out all of the points of emphasis that the head coach needs. And so for them to be able to hit the ground,

running. Obviously, you said they hired, but it's a promotion. You know, Press was the passing game coordinator last season. And so he knows what Ben's all about, right? Like, he watched Declan Doyle in that role. He knows what's expected of him. And I think you're going to have a guy that's truly dedicated to helping Ben be at his best, which then helps Caleb

be at his best, which then helps the football team be at their best to make a run as long as they can make it. So it's going to be interesting to see how that evolves. Well, and also, Dan, I feel like Press Taylor was another one of these names that, you know, it's kind of similar to Eric Bien of me, there might have been a previous assumption of him or a previous understanding,

but flourished with this coaching staff. You know, the same can be said for Eric B. Enemy. Now the O.C. back in Kansas City. What do you think about Press Taylor, just having talked to him yourself and who he is as a person and what you can tell us about just like discussions you've had with him and how he'll fit into this? Yeah, you know, I mean, obviously he had experience with Chip Kelly when he first got in the league and then with Doug Peterson and Frank Reich.

And so he's got, you know, some knowledge from some people that. have done this at a high level. A little Chicago-related tidbit. Press was a quality control coach, I think, at the time that the Eagles uncorked the Philly Special, and he was the one that lifted it from the Bears playbook, right? Like the Bears ran a version of that play in Minneapolis against the Vikings in a meaningless game, and then the Eagles took it.

They applied their own sort of twists, formational, and schematic twist to it, and ran it in the Super Bowl on a fourth down to win the biggest game that the franchise had ever won up to that point. And so that's a little nugget there of a guy who's always looking for creativity. And that's going to help a head coach in Ben Johnson, who's got the creative tendencies and the willingness to try things and take ideas from any angle. And so look, like this is going to be, again, like this is a continuation. And the bears have to lean into continuity in 2026 with everything they're bringing back on the offensive side of the ball.

From the quarterback to the play caller to, in this case, a coordinator who is here last year, to all the personnel that they have in the offensive side of the ball. They've got to take a leap forward because of the continuity, and press will play a small part in that. Interesting to see exactly how big of a role he plays going forward. Another position that's open right now for the Bears is that of assistant general manager. How do you think that gets filled? Do you have anybody that you're looking at that might step into that spot, whether internally or externally? Yeah, I don't know that they've made any decisions there.

I actually cast some lines on that late last week, and I still feel like they're making that decision. And Jeff King is the obvious in-house promotion. You slide him over, I think his current title is Senior Director of Player Personnel. He's been here since the early days of the Ryan Pace regime. And so he knows everything inside that building and has been a trusted resource for Ryan Paul. So we'll see if they decide to make that kind of easy slide over promotion or if they've got other things in mind. But yeah, that is something that they're going to have to kind of get solidified soon. You know, two weeks from now, we will all be at the Combine in Indianapolis.

It comes quickly. And so most teams like to go there with everything kind of intact so that they can go do their business with maximum efficiency while they're down there. A couple of business items here. A score employee, Pardt has suggested that we need to get you a weed man lawn care endorsement. That's one possibility for weeds. Yeah, oh yeah. There it is. There it is.

We're an edible endorsement. I mean, let's be broadcast here. Yeah, yeah. It's all out in the open. The other one, one of the text is hilarious. I won't do it. I'm not going to read it. Is it from 574?

That is pretty funny. Read it to me later, Groddy. We'll send you that message offline. Oh, that is definitely offline material. Hilarious. I've been dumped one too many times on this program, so I'm not going to be the one to read that. I don't know. Could I read?

No. I'm not going to do it. Mark, don't do it. Mark? If I have to ask, I'm losing my fastball, I guess. All right, Weedsie, will there be a vacay for the Weedsie family anytime in the offseason? Well, spring break, we usually kind of attach spring break to one side of the owner's meetings, right? And so we'll go enjoy that.

It usually works out pretty well. So that's a month away, I guess, just a little bit more than a month away. We'll be heading down to Arizona where the only meetings are this year. But on the front end, we're going to do Sedona for a few days and Scottsdale as well. Hold on. That's not a vacation if it's with a weekend. The Ediffal Ours meetings. No, no, no.

It's before the owner's meeting. So you go and you do the full week and then I stay and everybody else goes home and then I go back to work. When the owner's meeting starts. All right. Now the serious question. You've seen the reports. Max Crosby apparently told Tom Brady there is no way he would ever return to the Raiders. Is there a scenario where the bears would have enough wiggle room, so to speak,

to entertain even the possibility of somebody like Max Crosby on the bear? Bears. To me, the amount of gymnastics that would need to be done to not only come up with the, I mean, you have the draft capital, whether you want to use it to trade for somebody of that caliber, but then you've got to pay them for a long time at a high price tag. And they're already strapped up against the cap. And so I just, I don't see that being realistic this offseason. I know it's going to be a major talking point among Bears fans until Max Crosby has a new team. But it just, it doesn't feel realistic with the stage that the bears are at right now. to be able to make that work. You know, Grady, we talked last week and just about the number of big ticket expenditures they've had over the last 18 months. There's a ton of them, and there is still a salary cap here in the NFL.

It's not like Major League Baseball where you can just go do anything you want if you're a major market team. And so I just, I don't see that being practical or realistic for them at this point. Oh, they can't do anything they want either, as we have learned. But to that end, Anthony Heron did ask this.

And Brad Biggs gave us an update on I want to say somewhere around the time Micah Parsons was available. So August is what the bears are spending specifically out of their cap relative to the rest of their spending on the defensive line. It's a significant number and he asked one of the scribes, aka Kevin Fishbane, Brad Biggs, et cetera, to try to figure that out. Do you have a relative number at least on the top of your head because a significant portion of their salary cap is going to the defensive line?

Yeah, I mean, look, I don't have the percentage right off hand, but you're talking about the contract they gave to Montess Sweat. You're talking about the contract they gave to Diwa-Dangbo. You're talking about the contract they gave to Grady Jared. You know, those are three pretty big expenditures there. And so, like, I think people in this town are going to have to become comfortable with the idea that a good chunk of their 2026 improvement up front is going to have to be in-house improvement, guys that just take the next step in their own production. And then obviously, you're going to try to find some bargain signings. and obviously the draft to add impact there, I wouldn't be surprised if they put some focus on the interior of the defensive line over the next six weeks or so to try to get that a little bit stronger and then find their way through the draft and get the roster set there.

But yeah, like this is part of building the roster up and building it for sustained success. And some of that is with players you already have, you have to get the return on investment of what you put into them. And so, like, that's why some teams fall off the side of a cliff and other teams keep going up the mountain because that's really hard to do. And that's something that the Bears are really going to have to focus on. This is as optimistic as you've been about the Bears offseason since what year?

2019. Okay. Yeah, that was a, you know, that was a big offseason. People tend to kind of revise the history of that in terms of what the anticipation for what that season could be. Obviously, I think that the most notable difference this time around is you feel like your quarterback has a much higher ceiling than you had, then. And you feel like your head coach is more proven, you know, and in terms of what he does best. And so that you look like, Matt Nagy was the coach of the year that offseason. There was a lot of juice in terms of what people thought he was going to be in this town for a long time.

But yeah, that year, like, people should put themselves in the cold tub time machine, go back to the summer of 2019 and remind themselves of the juice that was here in the city then. This is going to be every bit of that, this offseason for sure, and headed for wherever they decide to play their opener. Maybe it's in Seattle. September. Yeah, all the bears needed in 2019 was a kicker. And they let us see all the kickers out on field four at Halas. A lot of them. Saw a lot of them. They might have needed it. Hey, everybody thought, you know, based on the fourth quarter against Philadelphia, that's how specific it got.

Because he got good in that game in 2018. They lost to the Eagles. They was like, oh, man, if you could just build on that. And no. But you're right, Dan. like we were talking about it earlier. I brought up the fact that get ready, get ready for not just us, because we know what's going on, all of us do with this team year to year, but the national audience is going to be on the Bears bandwagon to start this season. It's going to begin soon. Don't you feel like that?

Like Caleb Williams is going to be predicted as potential MVP. It's all coming, man. It's all coming, right? And so it's one thing for us to acknowledge that. It's another thing for the players and coaches inside the building to understand that and know how to deal with it. Because I'll be honest with you. And I've said this a couple times in the podcast forum that I thought that that 2019 team wasn't fully equipped for the level of anticipation and expectation and everything that comes with that. Even in training camp, you could almost feel this attention exhaustion that they were experiencing.

And you've got to set yourself up for success in that regard because you don't want to get to the starting line. of the season and be like, man, I'm drained because every single national media member has come through our training camp in the last six weeks. There's been all these extra curricular activities. That year we had the Bears 100 convention in Rosemont. That was super fun. But I think was another thing that, you know, it requires fuel to go through that for some guys. And so, like, you've got to be prepared for the level of expectation that that's coming your way this season. And it's part of the, it's part of the equation for sure. And I think sometimes it gets overlooked. Adam, we, Adam, Dan, we appreciate the time.

Sorry, I was just reading something from Adam Schaefter. Nothing of note, though, unfortunately. Sorry, guys. No problem, Dolores. We'll talk soon. Not Dolores. That's wild. Dolores. Okay, listen, I can't just call you weed and be like, okay, thanks, weed.

Yeah, weed. I'm a no on weed. I just want to be on the record. Like, thinking weed just seems unstable. Again, you guys to make whatever decisions you need to make, I'm here for all of them. So I'll be, I'll be flexible with what Weedman, Weedman, Weedman. DeLis does not know what to do yet.

That is now my alternate name. Weedy. Enjoy your week. Thanks, Dan. That's Dan Weiderer. And, yeah, I was checking to see the latest from Adam Schaeffer just to see if there was any more on Max Crosby. But unfortunately, no.

Why do you have a problem with weed man? It's hilarious because he says since childhood, he's talking about middle school. I'm like, there's a weed man in middle school at a lot of places. Maybe we were asking the wrong questions. to Dan Dan? I didn't want to put him on the spot like that. Did you make a little extra money in high school, did you? Yeah, he did.

You know how? He got out his weed whacker and he's cutting weeds and doing yard work. Oh, that's what it is. That's part of the text, by the way, that device you just mentioned. I know. I saw the text. It's pretty funny. That text sent me.

I'm not going to lie. That did distract me a tiny bit. It was good. It was really good. And I will, yes, I'll screenshot it for you, weed man. And I'll send it to you. Oh, you did? His response was warboy.

So thanks to 574 and two texters who text us funny stuff because we appreciate it. Coming up next here on 104-3, The score, the discourse surrounding the Hall of Fame and its class that was honored yesterday at the Super Bowl

is continuing and in a very unlikely place where one member of a broadcast crew held another member of a broadcast crew accountable. And I don't know that any of us got the answers we wanted. That's next. Rahimi Harris and Grody

Midday's Tyndall 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 1043 The Score. This is Rahimi Harrison Grody on 1043 The Score or Dolores Harrison Grody, as I shall now be called. I like Dolores.

I do too. It's a classic name. It's a good alter ego for me. That was from Dan Weirer in our last segment. First, Dolores you think of. Crickets. I don't know that have a specific Dolores. Dolores? Dolores, I have a question for you.

What's your favorite cereal? Grape nuts. That tracks. That tracks. Dolores Leachman. Oh, Dolores Leachman. Corus. That's Chorus.

God. At least we're together. You know, at least like for every thought you have, we can find the pathway. Isn't there a radio show? Dolores? Doesn't she do that love show? That's Delilah. That one you did on purpose.

Oh, maybe. Okay, so all of this, we can have a good laugh about this among us. See how we're a team and we're like, sometimes things get heated if we have a topic and we all feel passionately about it. I did not expect the accountability for Tony Dungy's furtiveness when it comes to his Hall of Fame vote to come from his broadcast partner, Rodney Harrison, in the most watched broadcast that they have all year. Listen to this. I would say, coaches, any list that doesn't include Bill Belichick at the top. is absolutely wrong. And a lot of those players that we mentioned, there are great players. I play

with Drew Brees. I play with Adam Venetary. But there's nobody more deserving to be in that Hall of Fame than Coach Belichick. I've seen his greatness. I've seen him design defenses to stop your offense. And you just look at the players that he's impacted. He's been unbelievable. And when I look out throughout the Hall of Fame and even a guy like Tom Brady, Tom Brady wouldn't be Tom Brady without Billa Check. And that's the disappointing part of it, Coach. And you you guys got it wrong. Well, I feel your passion and I'm with you. And this is about more than Bill Belichick because in the last two years since the rule has been changed, we've had seven open slots, seven people who deserve to be in that didn't get in because of this rule change.

It has to change. We've been vocal about it as voters and hopefully it will change. And one last thing, Coach, I know you're talking about the whole process, but when I think of Coach Belichick, I think about greatness. I think about the greatest coach to ever coach. And it just sends a bad sign when Coach Belichick with six Super Bowl rings, he's not in the Hall of Fame as a first ballot jack. Rodney Harrison and Tony Dungey going back and forth on part of the NBC pregame show for the Super Bowl yesterday. And I didn't expect Rodney Harrison to represent a large amount of people in that moment who wanted to know,

A, how Tony Dungy voted, and B, ask him for answers, and then C, tell him why he thought that was the case. All right, several things when we go through this. Number one, Rodney Harrison, like, understand how this works. That's my biggest problem with the way Rodney Harrison went after Tony Dungy. Yes, Tony Dungy should probably make his vote public, although he was not required to do so, so I understand why he doesn't. In fact, they're working on changing the rule right now for next year so that the votes are public. They're also looking to reduce the number of voters.

from 50 to a yet to be mentioned number to make it make more sense. They're going to go back to in-person voting, which has been a thing virtual since the pandemic. These are all things that could have avoided maybe how we got here. But the number one thing is when in 2024, they decided to tighten the way that they got people into the Hall of Fame, the voting process in the first place. And one of those things was to take away the five-year wait for a head coach and make it a one-year wait for a head coach to be eligible. eligible for Hall of Fame. When you did that pro football Hall of Fame, you made sure that whatever Log Jam existed was now going to be in direct conflict with a guy like Bill Belichick trying to get in because, of course, everyone's going to say, you're a first ballot hall of famer, you should go in

on the first ballot. But there's already people who are Hall of Fame worthy, who should be in the Hall of Fame, who are waiting for induction because they had to wait the five years, and that creates the backlog. That's how we got here. So Rodney Harrison, first of all, comparing players to coaches is dumb because the players are not selected from the same process that coaches are. So I had a real problem with that. Shouldn't there be an unwritten rule somewhere in all of this, though, that the Hall of Fame coach, Tony Dungey, should probably vote for his brethren in Bill Belichick? I actually... I mean, and what you said makes sense.

I actually think that if there was ever a time to discuss conflict of interest or bias, don't you think that a coach who perhaps used whether you want to call it cheating, whether you want to call it spy gate, deflategate, whichever, take your pick, if that really is part of the, the quote, justice, end quote, that came with part of this, who has a bigger vendetta against a guy like Bill Belichick? Is it going to be a writer who is observing his career from afar? Or is it somebody who messed with his opponent's money? Uh-huh. So Tony Dungey could be like, I'm not voting for this guy, man. This dude cheated, man. But that's my issue. But either way, there should be accountability, especially from a coach who has been in the broadcast space for so long. Like, you're supposed to provide the coaching perspective. You're supposed to provide transparency.

The idea of having a head coach or a former one on a broadcast is take us inside the mind of a coach. How does he address this? How does he assess this? And that's where Tony Jungy's vote should be public. Like, you can say that, but Rodney Harrison is also asking on behalf of our very else. Why aren't you talking about this? Because we are. So why aren't you? That is part of your job. I think the biggest thing is they're coming up with solutions to these problems. The problem, though, is I can't give you a lot of credit pro football Hall of Fame for coming up to solutions

to problems that you created when you thought of this and you did not have the site, the foresight to understand how this would all end up. Like this, I could see this train wreck coming from a mile away. If you just understood, hey, there's going to be these five days and they're going to, or excuse me, five names and they're all going to be contributors you can vote for, but you're really pitting them against each other. It should be a thumbs up or thumbs down. Either you're a Hall of Famer or you're not.

They got to redo how they do this. It does keep being weird every time they line up the Hall of Famers and you see the names and they're all great. I love seeing Roger Craig out there, man. That feels good. But no Bill Belichick, what? That's the thing. And that's a completely different category for people who don't know.

The contributors and the legends, Roger Craig, and the coaches are all in one category together. Yes. You got to get 40 out of 50 votes to get in. And then, because this is what happens when you have 50 people voting for three guys out of five, if nobody gets to 40 votes, and we don't know that anyone got to 40 votes, by the way. They just put in the guy who got the highest number of votes. So Roger Craig could be the Hall of Famer from that group with, say, 35 votes. See how that doesn't make any sense?

Yeah. Well, and that's the point of if you're going to make people jump through all these hoops, then go ahead and on the other side of this. Make your votes public. Stand on your business. If you're going to do this and counterintuitive to Rady Moss's opinion that players and coaches should be the only ones voting, I just presented to you why they shouldn't.

be because if a coach beat you and you don't want him to get in, then you have every right to vote against him or every reason to. That's why you need other people. You've got to diversify that panel. I like the diverse portfolio of people voting on these awards. I think a nice mix gets the best idea. You know what? You know who could use this?

Baseball could use this instead of just all writers voting. If you've earned the right, though, to vote for these people, for the ultimate honor in your business and in your industry, then the people who have their responsibility should be they should be brave enough to be able to explain why they made the votes they did.

Be held accountable. Yeah, and they've earned it. They've done something right in their career. They have been good to the masses in some way, so just keep being that instead of getting cocky with your vote. And we've seen many examples of that, even locally.

Well, I don't even know if Tony Dungee was necessarily being cocky, but he just wasn't explaining, which his purpose on the broadcast is to explain. Yeah, the best explanation he gave was, yeah, we're all very frustrated with the process, which I just explained. I understand why he's frustrated with that, but I like the several people who have now come out and explain their vote and why they did not vote for Bill Belichick. At least they made it make sense. I get it. You can disagree with it, but at least you understand where they're coming from. It kind of still doesn't make sense in some ways to not make Bill Belichick a first ballot Hall of Famer? Because I know once you're in the

Hall of Fame, you're a Hall of Famer, but not really because most people who are first ballot Hall of Famers boast that they are first ballot Hall of Fame. See, you say that Mark, but at the same time, if you have someone in the ballot, that if you don't vote them in that year, they're not getting in the Hall of Fame. And you know Bill Belichichick is going to get more runs at it. To your point, once you're in the Hall of Fame, you're a Hall of Famer, but not really, once you're not in the Hall of Fame, you're never a Hall of Famer. If you only have one chance on the ballot, I understand why a writer would vote for you as opposed to Bill Let's get that M&M song going right now.

You only get one shot, baby. Let's go. On what planet should they only get one shot? Like, that's the other part of this. That's part of the process. Everything is messed up. When does all the fixings start? There's a lot of fixing.

When there's accountability, which is when exactly. The Rooney rule, there's a lot of fixing that needs to be done in the NFL. So I hope they get to all of that quickly. Well, that's just a big square dance, too. It's a joke. It's a joke that the NFL. NFL won't give compensatory picks to a team it incentivized to put this in place. And it's a joke that the Hall of Fame vote is so secretive where you have one of the

most popular coaches in the game because of his broadcast stature, not being able to explain himself in the game's biggest state. Where are we doing? Not well. They're doing not well. That is the truth of the matter. But there's room to fix this, not what happened to Bill Belichick. He's going to be a Hall of Famer, though, so I don't think it's as serious as everyone's making it out to be.

I get why they're upset. But overall, this is a great excuse to go and re-haul, just overhaul everything. Also, 847, I agree with you. The Hall of Fame needs more offensive lineman. That's facts. I approve this message. Hey, man, Jimbo Covert got in a few years ago. I do have good news, guys, over here.

I do have a little bit of good news. There is a Dolores of Note. Delores, Dolores O'Reardon, is the lead, of the cranberries. Do you have to let it linger? Okay, that's fine. Because I was just going to go, I remember I thought that DeLorean was very popular back and back to the future.

I did often think about the Dolores. That's as close as I could get. Nice job. Nice work. All right. That was good. And then people keep saying Dolores from Seinfeld. Yeah,

who's Dolores from Seinfeld? Sounds like a mother-in-law name on Seinfeld. I like DeLorese. Is that George's mom? Maybe. Maybe what? Maybe it was George's mom. What was Costanza's mom's name?

Costanza's mom? Yeah, she had to have a character name, though, didn't she? I don't know. But yeah, Dolores O'Reardon. Love it. Okay, we've got one. Unfortunately, we lost her. Oh, Estelle.

Estelle was Kistanz's mom's name. Estelle, okay. Thank you for that on Twitch. We appreciate you. Dolores died in 2018. That's right. Oh. Yeah.

Why'd you have to go there? I know. So now we have to go back to the Dolores tree. Good job, pretty. Don't forget. We need a living Dolores to lead us. me. I accidentally called Dan. It wasn't an accident. I was just being sarcastic and I called him alloicious. You remember that's like a part of a family name for Dan Weederer. Yeah, that's right.

Weed Man. He's our weed man. I also laughed because somebody said Dan Weeterer because one ER wasn't enough. That was actually funny. I loved that. Somebody texted us that. I had a good laugh about that. And then I messed up his name. Like I'd never heard it before. Have no fear. I've also messed up my own name many times. On air. Yeah. You have? Yeah. I said I was Luke Stuckmire once. Am I Luke Stuckmire? No. She'll read anything that's on the prompter?

Is that what happened? I'm Luke Stuckmire. Luke and you were similar in that you two are goofy. You get me laughing and stuff. I knew I like that, Luke. Oh yeah, Luke's got a great sense of humor. That happened to me. How do you mess at Marshall Harris?

Did you call yourself another broadcast name? So they put an incorrect font up. It said Marshall Maris. And they kept calling me Marshall Maris for like a week, like as a joke around the newsroom. and then I did a tag for a stand-up, and I called myself for a live stand-up, and I said, Marshall Marys. That's tough, man.

See, that's a dangerous game when you play the name game. That's why I don't play Vichol when y'all when y'all start playing name games. Come on, Marshall. Bring it home, baby. We're ready for you. You're playing a dangerous game, Mr. Harris. I had no idea Kevin Harlan would provide us

with so much humor on the show. It's one of the most pleasant surprises for me. I was a little bit disappointed with the play-by-play he did of the person who came on the field yesterday. It didn't have its usual pizzazz. Was it a streaker? Was it just a person on the field? Shirtless person is what it was.

It was running and eluding until one of the players on, was it Seattle, that ended up tackling him. And it was Mike Torrico just kept saying, well, there's a rocket scientist on the field. If it wasn't for this rocket scientist, we'd be playing football right now, but there's a rocket scientist out there. He was really leaning into it.

I like it. In the meantime, we'll get to the bottom of this Dolores business. Up next here on Rahimi Harrison Grody. Let's give credit where it's due to one of the Illini. Devin Witherspoon, telling us how he's celebrating next. Rahimi Harris and Grotie. Midday's 10 to 2 on 1043, the score. Third to 15, pressure comes from deep that time.

And it gets there in the sack. So the secondaries in the backfield multiple times. That's Witherspoon again. This time he got his bad. That's as good a rush by Devin. Weatherspoon is you will see in the national football league. Yeah, Devin Witherspoon had quite the game, as we saw. The sack was just part of his disruptive presence.

He came through on the blitz a few times and had an excellent playoffs overall, in my opinion. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104.3, the score. Also, to everybody who texted in the reference to Dolores from Seinfeld. Rimes with. You guys had me laughing. for a while. Did you remember the episode then as soon as that? Oh, I had to see it. So I love all of this. I, I also watch Seinfeld out of order like you do. Gotcha. So I, but, but everybody texting in. Just, just, just making us all laugh. Thank you for that. Uh, love all of the 50, 60,

100 texts we got. So that's tremendous. Getting back to Devin Witherspoon, victorious, had a great game, had a good playoffs, as I mentioned. You know, there's always the famous question. You just won the Super Bowl. What are you doing next? Go celebrate with him now I'm gonna have a drink, a two, or maybe three. Who knows? Hey, thank y'all so much for your time. Time to go celebrate with my guys, man.

Thank you. Thank you. Bye. I don't know what I and I, baby. I mean, let's go. I like the unfettered honesty out of Devin Witherspoon. Like, come on, man. Just one?

There you go. Let's do 10 cent beer night at the... Cam's? At Illinois. Cam's was more of a club, if I remember correctly. I don't know. I never got to go. I've heard about it.

Yeah. So yeah. Cam's, yeah, that is definitely, I don't know if Cam's is still up and running. Word on the street is they shut down the original and then built a new one. Refurbished it. And a lot of people say it's not the same. Okay. I believe they had a bar there too called the library, one of those sneaky, ironic college campus.

Is it champagne? Bars, I think, unless I'm conflating. I'm going to all the state colleges. Sometimes I get them mixed up. their party life. But anyway, that's cool. I know Pub 2 is Illinois State. That's correct.

I know CAMS is Illinois. That is correct. Yeah, that's a good base. You've got a good base right there. I wish I knew more about these things you're speaking on. It's okay. It's okay. Devin Witherspoon wants to party and have a good time.

That's all that matters right now. Does anybody go to Disneyland still, aside from like the Sports Center broadcast? Yeah, people go to Disneyland. Remember it's like Marshall Harris, you just won the Super Bowl. What are you doing next? That's definitely still a thing. I'll say this, Disneyland is not cheap, so people save up a lot of money to take their family to Disneyland and or Disney World. That's when I hack into my family's California residency.

Oh, that is very good. As an ABC employee, I believe, you get free access to the park like a certain number of days. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I miss, you know, my favorite is Space Mountain. And second favorite is the teacups. I don't have an issue with hurling. Space Mountain is freaky because you can't see what's coming at you.

That's the problem with Space Mountain. I can't remember Disney World or Disneyland. I've been to both. I guess we got to go back. About Epcot Center? Vagely. Vagely. What about it?

It's a small world after all. Yeah, and the Pirates of the Caribbean? Come on now. Wow, you guys have been more recently than me. I have been there relatively recently. Actually, remember I have young niece. Not for getting older now, but I would go on their little trips. We'd go to Disney World.

So, yeah, I got reinvested into Disney. Uncle Mark. Yeah, Uncle Mark, man. It was... Matterhorn. How about that one? That's a good one. Oh, what is it? Matterhorn? That was a Disney ride. Did you...

Or was it Six Flags? Actually, honestly, if you want to know, the best experience there, there's one called Avatar, the Avatar experience, like the movie, where you feel like you are part of it, like you are flying around. It's the most unbelievable, like, I don't know what they call like, real motion or something where you sit in the theater and you literally have to be... I just call them rides. It's kind of like a ride. Yeah, you move a little bit, but you move a little bit, but you feel like you're in it.

It's spectacular. I recommend it. Real and spectacular? I mean, it is something. It's real and spectacular. It's real and spectacular. I'll go with the theme, you know. Okay.

Also, did you guys ever watch Captain E. Captain Eo? I think Captain Eo was exclusively a Disneyland thing. Really? I think that was a Southern California adjacent. Yeah. Okay. It's a Disneyland.

Captain Eo was a show with Michael Jackson and some sort of space adventure. and I believe he danced his way to victory. So, of course, my family and I loved it. I remember Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. That's a video game where you dance your way to victory. Yeah, I mean, you should always dance your way to victory. There's one thing I've learned in life. But no, Captain Eo was pretty cool.

But yeah, I didn't know how relevant it was to like the rest of the world or whatever. But that was a favorite of the Rahimi kids. Confirmation on the Texan Geroady. No bar called the library. But there was one called the office. Yes, there was a bar. which I believe did have 10 cent beers on Thursday night. And it's not very far from where I went to college and normal.

And my brother went there. You went to school in the 1920s? That's fair. Excuse me, but even I remember a nickel beer night where I grew up. There's smaller cups. And you just get, so everybody would get like their own tray of beers, basically. Like just, I think of it. That surely ended well for everyone involved.

The obnoxious consumption that goes on in college. That's in the business what we like to call a loss leader. A loss leader, yes, yes. Sometimes you take a hit for the teen. It's opportunity to cost, all that kind of stuff. Wait, I haven't seen anybody. Are Spiegel and Holmes here? I've seen them. They're very quiet. They're here. Super Bowl Monday. They snuck in. They're very calm. I walked by them and they were very calm. It was like the light. There's Lawrence right there. I think Lawrence had headphones in when I saw them. It wasn't one o'clock yet, so it wasn't their official meeting time. But it was very quiet, very quiet back in the Spiegel and Holmes version of the off. It becomes the Spiegel and Holmes office at one o'clock. We take it over, but it's not.

really our office, but we take it over, because it's got more room. It's easier to meet in. Do we have, is there office space for us? I mean, is there another office space for us? We used to sit in the room with Connor, but like it was too crowded because like everything was going on in there, and poor Connor's like trying to direct Twitch and we're like yapping it up. I think Connor likes hanging out with us. I like Connor to also like, you know, not, not be focused and not have to be distracted by us is the thing. So we need Connor to focus. Okay. No, I mean, well, if he wants to, Spiegel and Holmes are next.