Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Dan Wiederer: Bears' window of contention is open (Hour 4)

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

In the final hour, Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris were joined by Dan Wiederer of The Athletic to reflect on the Bears’ progress in the 2025 season. After that, Rahimi and Harris pondered if the Bucks will trade star Giannis Antetokounmpo ahead of the deadline on Feb. 5.

The score. This hour is brought to you by Cars for Kids. Dan Weider, 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 Weaver 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 Weeder. Thanks, Coach. We'll go first to Dan Whedier. on Chicago's sports radio 670 the score. Weezy. Dan Weider is the senior writer for the athletic covering the Bears. He is also the co-host of the Take the North podcast.

And he joins us via the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline, Circa Las Vegas.com. And yeah, for everybody saying, the new Buffalo Bill Stadium, it will be a, technically it's a canopy. It's like Texas Stadium, in my opinion. but that was a dome that just had a mistake. So they had a hole in the roof. That's not good. They finished what they could.

Sometimes that's what you've got to do. But yeah, technically it's a canopy. But the point is people aren't going to be shoveling and stuff. It just won't be as bad as it used to be. Dan Weider, we're talking about the weather affecting the games. And so that was brought up. I know you can chime in on this as well. Yeah.

I mean, look, it was fun to watch the end of that game in Denver yesterday just visually. it was quite an appealing site to see some snow football. Obviously, we got a couple games here in Chicago this month with playoff action with some weather involved. You know, I don't know which way I lean on this because it is fun to see it. You also understand the purpose behind going indoors and all the things that you're trying to get done with that. So we'll see. We'll see which way the ball turns, if that's not the right analogy, but you get what I'm saying. I think that that is an appropriate analogy for the result of that.

that game. I said if you like defense and you like weather, which a lot of people who listen to this station do, then that was probably a game they loved. Yeah, you know, it felt like Denver, obviously they missed the opportunity to put some game pressure on New England in the first half when they bypass that field goal early. You know, I don't know. For me, I love the aggressive plays more often than not, but there's certain times where you've got to understand the situation when you're in and you're at home. You've got a quarterback two playing for you. You know, you've got a chance to go up double digits in a game that is probably

going to be low scoring all the way to the end and felt like one of those ones that will haunt the coaching staff for several weeks, if not months after that game ends. Dan, I'm looking at this weekend, and I was trying to look at it through the Bears' lens, and I don't know that we discovered anything major that we didn't already know in terms of the NFC West being the best division in football and the results. certainly could have gone either way. Home field advantage, of course, Advantage Seattle.

Do you feel like there's anything you learned about the Bears plight through watching football this weekend? I don't know if you guys felt similarly, but it just felt like, you know, you were watching a party that you were a part of, right? Like, you know, in previous years, the playoffs have seemed so foreign.

They seem so far away to people that have watched the Bears all year. And it's like, yeah, that's a different realm that those teams are living in. And this year, you're just like, no, that's the realm the bears were in. It's the realm the bears could have stayed in if they had made one or two more plays against the Rams the previous weekend. And so I think it just does give you a little bit that hope that your window of contention is open. And then as I always say, what you're trying to do when those windows open is, you know, find the strongest steel rod you can to put in there to keep it open for as long as possible.

And so we'll see what they do this offseason to kind of keep that window open because it's clearly there. and it didn't feel like any of those teams playing yesterday were worlds away like they usually are when we're watching the playoffs. Well, and that's it is on one side of it, you have the thrill of getting to the playoffs, but then you have the agony of the pressure of, it is not just the agony of defeat.

It's the agony of the expectation that occurs right afterward. I mean, we're talking about a bill's job being open because of that very thing. So when you consider the details and how much more pressure there's going to have to be to, for example, fill in the draft with lower draft picks. You know, that becomes magnified in all of this.

Yeah, and you've got to make some difficult decisions with your salary cap and, you know, veterans that have high salaries and you've got to, you know, start to put that puzzle together and figure out your path to sustaining success. I was absolutely enamored by the way Ben Johnson set the tone last week and the end of season press conference and just being very firm and stating that, you know, this is, going to take us right back to the bottom of the mountain. And this climb is going to be just as grueling as it was in 2026 as it was in 2025. So there's no time to sort of exhale and pat yourself on the back and feel satisfied about what you achieved because the NFL doesn't wait around for you.

And so if you fall behind with the work you're putting in and the way you're building your roster and the, you know, amount of investment that goes into sustaining success, you're going to be in big trouble. And Chicago knows that as well as anyone. We haven't had three consecutive winning seasons in this town since the 80s. That's incredible when you say it out loud, you know, and so you understand how difficult it is and you've got to go about doing the work that put yourself in position to achieve those things. And looking at where this team is and you start trying to figure out, okay, what can be restructured and then what are the priorities? Are you looking at certain deals and saying, well, they're going to probably have to do something with this current contract? just to buy the space that they need,

whether bringing back someone who is a free agent or to go out and get a need, say, I don't know, defensive line. Yeah, I mean, you're going to have to start to work those numbers. I think one of the names that comes up often in this conversation is Tremaine Edmins and, you know, is there an opportunity there, you know, to move on and create some more salary cap space for yourself. Now, you've got another starting linebacker who was extended last off season who's now going to be rehabbing from a pretty serious injury in T.J. Edwards. And so that's going to

factor in to your decisions. And so there's a lot of this stuff that you can't look at, you know, individually. It's all part of a bigger picture. And you've got to start to go through that process with Ben and Ryan together figuring out what fits do you like? What fits would you like to improve? And then how do you just kind of marry all that together? We all know that they're going to probably need to figure out an answer at left tackle going into next season to give themselves the best chance. So what does that look like? Is that a draft pick? Is that a free agent on a short-term deal? And so all these things kind of blend together. There's going to be a lot of discussion about DJ Moore in the next month, I would imagine. And, you know, is he a trade chip? Is there anybody out there willing to give you a draft pick to help you clear a broom there?

I don't know, right? So this is all going to be fluid here in the next month, month and a half. And the bears have to be really serious about what they're trying to get done and then very calculated in how they go do it. We're talking to Dan Weirer. He is the host of the Take the North podcast, and he is the senior writer for the athletic covering the bears here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 670 to score. We got the news about Jonathan Gannon, expectedly, reportedly, becoming the defensive coordinator for the Packers. Where do you think this leaves Al Harris, who also interviewed with Washington? Well, I think you connect the dots with Mike McCarthy going back up to Pittsburgh, and you wonder if there will be some heavy interest there.

and if so, whether Al would be ready to roll up there and go rejoin Mike McCarthy in Pittsburgh. You know, you get some good news today that Declan Doyle is sticking around and pulled himself out of consideration for the Philly offensive coordinator job. And so now, yeah, like this is part of the puzzle that we're talking about. You're going to have to figure out where your coach staff is going to need replacements. And, you know, that's going to kind of sort of really crystallize here probably in the next week. And then you'll have a better feel for how you're filling in those pieces because I think you, you know, when you look at the Bears roster as it currently stands, development of the players that are on, you know,

rookie deals or guys that you're trying to bring along, that's going to be a big part of this puzzle is can you get the most out of those types of guys? And the more continuity and stability you have in your coaching staff, the better your opportunity to do that is. And so it's going to be really interesting to just see how this all settles when all these musical chairs games are over. What's been the most fascinating opening to you, whether it's filled or unfilled so far as far as head coaching jobs?

I guess my gut instinct would be to say Buffalo just because of how high level their success has been, you know, for a long time after a period where they had no success for a long time. You know, and so they just have been such a reminder to me over the last month of just how difficult this league is, just how cruel this league can be. And, you know, I just, I haven't shaken the image of Josh Allen crying at the podium after that playoff loss as a reminder of like, even when you're a league MVP, and even when you go win the division, you know, a bunch of years in a row and you put yourself in the mix year after year after year, your season often ends in really, really traumatic pain, you know? And so like this is what the bears have to come face to face with as they go forward and just understanding the difficulty of all this. I mean, how many times in Chicago have people, you know, laughed at the idea that Aaron Rogers never made it back to a Super Bowl after he won is won? Reminder, it's really, really hard to get back, you know?

And so even getting there the first time is going to be a monumental challenge and just knowing how difficult this is, that one really kind of stands out to me. Dan, I asked the question earlier, if there was anything you learned more about the Rams after they lost to the Seahawks in that exciting NOC championship game. And I say that because sometimes you want to be that you want to know that at least you lost to the team that ended up winning the entire thing or at least getting close. What did you think about the Rams in that game? Well, you know, those two teams have had three really good clashes this year, and it's been fun to watch those play out on bigger stages. We know the one late in the season that got wild there at the end and really ultimately decided who was going to be the one seed in the NFC. And it's a reminder that that one seed is important because when you can play those games at home, you've got a little bit of an edge. And it helps in a lot of ways.

I love watching the receivers in that game yesterday, whether it's Puka and Devante for the Rams or JSN in Seattle. you're just talking about guys that do that at a high level and how fun that is to watch when they're when they're playing at that level. The bears were right there with the Rams. And I really did think that those two teams yesterday were the class of the NFC and just realizing that you were in overtime with one of them, it gives you hope, right? Like it does. And that hope is very real. Now again, it's got to be married up with all the things we talked about with this understanding that, you know, as Ben said last week, this doesn't carry over. There's no building off this, but you do see that you are competitive at a level higher than you've been.

been in many, many years. The nature of Ozzie Tripillo's injury and what we understand about that specific injury and how long the recovery can be and sometimes players don't recover from it, I'm curious as to if you think they will draft another left tackle to play that position or sign someone. How do you think they're going to address that? Yeah. I mean, you have to go about addressing it as if there's nothing in place, right? Like, you just have to.

and it's where you're at in your journey right now is that you have to go try to find a guy that can be a full-time starter for you. We know the revolving door that was there this year for the Bears from the first day they stepped into training camp to the last playoff game they played. You know, they just never got that position solidified for a variety of reasons this year, and you have to get that solidified next year. If you want to give Caleb his best chance at taking the big developmental leap, if you want to give your offense the best chance at being one of the top five, offenses in the league, you've got to make sure that you go out and you're very, very serious about what you do at that position. And so they're going to have to figure that out. What does that look like? But I would certainly put that near the top of my list along with some pass rush help, although last week you kind of heard out of the building that they feel like some of their

elevated pass rush improvement in 2026 could be from guys that are already here, you know, whether that's a Dioa Dangbo coming back from an injury, a Shamar Turner coming back from an injury, Austin Booker taking the next step in his growth. We'll see where that goes. But those would be the top of my list right now in terms of priorities would be the left tackle position and adding some teeth to your pass rush. Yeah, they basically said we have Max Crosby at home,

which is not what people wanted to hear, but that did feel like it. Dan, I also want to point out, the Rams had Coleman Shelton as their center. And, you know, that's something that I think a lot of people realized or may have seen for the first time in the playoff game against the Rams. But, you know, once again, I think he had as good of a season as to be anticipated

and given the Bears work to try to get Drew Dalman, I thought that that was a compelling aspect of it, too. What's interesting about that, Leila, is that you're talking about Coleman Shelton having a really solid season with a very established veteran as his quarterback, whereas I think one of the underrated values of Drew Dalman was how much he could take off Caleb's plate and how much he could help Caleb with the, you know, the stuff at the line of scrimmage and being able to really kind of free his mind in that regard. And so it is kind of a win-win when you look at it through that lens. And you get a guy that in Dahlman that's going to be back at the Pro Bowl games this week for the first time and just really brought that extra element to your quarterback.

Nothing against Coleman Shelton, but he's able to go turn a lot of that other stuff over to Matthew Stafford, who obviously has seen it all over the time he's been in the league. And there's another great reminder of a guy that, like, you know, he's done it. at a high level for a long time Matthew Stafford has. And he gets the one run to the Super Bowl a couple years ago. And really, you go look at his playoff history. There's not much beyond that. And then also, you pointed this out on your Twitter feed, big ups to Bears cornerback, Nashon Wright,

who has been added to that Pro Bowl games you just mentioned, Dan, as a replacement for Quinnion Mitchell, a nice reward after a breakout season with nine takeaways. So that's good news. I think he deserved to be recognized. It made sense as to why other people may have been selected before, but that was great to see. Pro Bowl games will be back near his hometown out there in California as well.

So that's a fun little sort of footnote on his storyline. But yeah, good little reward for a season that was very deserving of it, in my opinion. And so it's good to see Nashan kind of get that last piece of punctuation on the year that he had and the breakthrough he had under the guidance of both Al Harris, as we talked about earlier, and Dennis Allen, who found ways to give him a role that mattered. And he sees that opportunity and he went a long way with it. And now he gets to go enjoy the Pro Bowl because of it. I'm so curious, Dan, do you get time off now?

How does this work? I mean, I know you're not used to working and covering the actual beat this late into the season. But hey, here we are. Yeah, it slows down. It'll slow down a little bit. Now, I always remind people that the Combine comes a knocking, you know, and I think we're like four weeks away from being an indie for the Combine. And so, you know, we'll have some content here over the bridge here as we cross it.

but it will slow down here, which is a beautiful thing, Marshall. Believe me, it's time to take a deep breath and sit back for a little bit and hopefully reconnect with my family for a few weeks. It was good to wake up on a Sunday yesterday and not have to go anywhere. So that was a fun piece of the journey to lean into now that we're here. Yeah, what is Weedsie's first, like, item on the agenda now that you have a slower season? For what? For personal levels or for anything?

Your actual first item on the agenda. I'm looking to just dive into Netflix sometime this week and catch up on, you know, five documentaries that I've gotten my list, right, that I haven't gotten around to see. And so we'll find some veg time here. That's my top priority. And then we'll get into a simulator somewhere here soon and start to get the golf swing in shape for when the weather breaks.

We can't obviously take any outdoor swings anytime soon. As an Odyssey employee, we do have a golf simulator. So if you have an Odyssey email address, so you can get up there to our golf simulator. Where is this at? You don't know. Okay, Grody's a bad teammate. Yeah, it's at the upgraded gym.

Yeah, where was Grody on this? Grody should be told us. Do you host a show on our network or not? You do. Like, I'm coming in to co-host with Speeks later this week, and so I may get there a little early and get loose, you know, to get some swings off. I think that's an excellent idea.

You need to have a conversation with, well, Grody, really, but either Ryan Porth or Mitch or Mitch. Or at least Ray. Dan, I got you. I'm sounding this out loud. This is great. Dan, I'll bring you there before your pre-show meeting when you're in. What day you're in?

Excellent. Excellent. I'm in. Yeah, what are you in? What day are you hosting? I'll be there Wednesday and possibly Thursday as well. Okay. All right.

Oh, so you're TBD. Well, well, well, we're getting answers on this show. Sounds like we've had some determinations made, perhaps. Our schedule. Still working some pieces. Our schedule looked like, how do I put this? It looked like a starting rotation for a bad team in August. Why are you bringing the White Sox into this?

TBD is like, when TBD is your fourth or fifth starter, we just wanted to know. Not that you're our fourth or fifth starter. Just say, you know, when you're looking at it from a calendar perspective, I just didn't know what was happening. So now we have some answers. Dan, this has been very informative. Thank you. You got it. We'll talk to you guys soon.

That's Dan Weirer, who we're going to try to hook up with you. amenities of our building since he's an employee. I put that on Grody. Squarely on Grody's got to tell him about stuff like that. Does he even know that Dan wants to play in the golf simulator? I feel like they spend enough time together that they should know each other's wants and desires. I mean, I've known Dan a long time, but this is the first I've heard of it. But this is why we ask these questions.

Good job. Good job, Lou. Love it. All right. Coming up next here on Rahima Harris and Grotie on 670, the score. How do I put this? We have an interesting piece of audio from Eric, from Andy Reid on Eric B. N. Me that I think we should acknowledge.

But then additionally, we don't know if this is goodbye for a major star. And then on top of it, if it isn't a story we told you about earlier, should we touch it on at all? Should we just do it all? I like potpourri. We'll do it all. Next. Rahimi Harrison Grody. The great Kevin Harlan. I just pulled through the Taco Bell.

drive-through and I've got a couple of big nasty Supreme burritos right here waiting to beat. You know the first thing they ask you now, are you using the app? The app, no, I just want my burrito. I don't want to use an app. Bring a lot of mild sauce because I'm going to squirt it all over the way. Put some hot sauce

from my burrito, baby. Rahimi Harris and Grody. Midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on the score. And picked up by Janus, Yonis over the mid-court line's going to dribble it out. And Janus, all the way to the rim with a window. Right-handed slam!

Are you flat out kidding me? Seriously. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 670 to score. We have a little bit of potpourri, if you will. It's kind of like one of those jeopardy categories where, you know, it's all a little different. So I'll just give you a preview of what we've got. You could call it the request line if you want. I see what you did there, Tyler.

Number one, we're trying to figure out if this is LeBron's last trip to the United Center. The reason why I ask is he's 41 years old and the Lakers are here tonight. And the Lakers crowd, whether or not you want to admit this, brings a little energy to the building. And then my favorite part about it is the Bulls crowd brings the retaliatory energy

to the Lakers fans who are in there with energy that they brought themselves to the building. Wait, wait, I'm following you on everything you just said, but I feel like tonight will be less of a Lakers crowd more of just a straight-up LeBron crowd. Also, there's that too. And LeBron famously is wearing a patch to commemorate himself I can't get on board with that

I cannot get on board with that We haven't discussed it because well What is there to say The patch has a color That represents every team he's played for Throughout his That's a fair assessment

So yeah But like why Why did the legal out of where this patch is the thing Is it because he's secretly retiring Because he's old and still doing it And maybe he is secretly retired So there's that. There's us trying to figure out what LeBron is doing, Evergreen.

Then there's this note that has been posted via social media. Stop me when you may have heard this already. The Milwaukee Bucks are coming to the realization that training Janice and Tadacunpo might be best for both sides, per Jake Fisher. Leila. This is news? Didn't we know this? What do you mean coming to the realization?

Well, I think a couple of things have happened, right? Janus gets hurt and is going to be out four to six weeks with a right calf injury. That's well beyond the actual trade deadline. The injury plaguing our association at this time. Is it not? No, but seriously. It is the injury of our times or the Achilles. And it's the precursor to that, the Achilles injury.

So you have to be careful. That's why Kobe White out here has played one back-to-back all season long, because then he felt something to his calf, and they had to shut them down again. So it's going to be interesting with five games and seven days this week what the Bulls do, including a nice little best of three

against the Miami Heat. I don't know if you saw that on the schedule because of the makeup game from the mop gate. Would you say that it is a playoff series of sorts? I think it's a, I think to me it's going to feel like a play in series,

but yeah. Of sorts. Who's counting? So back to that Jake Fisher tweet that you were talking about. In the story, here's what's said. The buzz was building all week long.

Numerous NBA front offices began operating under the belief in recent days, arguably with greater conviction than ever before, that at Janus Antecoopo trade before the league's February 5th trade deadline at 2 p.m. Central had become unexpectedly possible. That wasn't the case back in January 8th. That's two weeks ago and some change, where Janus insisted he would never ask for a trade. But now it looks like the bucks are ready to listen to offers.

And this would be a nice time to have, I don't know, a first round unprotected New Orleans Pelicans pick. They don't have that. They don't. Yeah, that went to another team actually. The Atlanta Hawks. Because they decided to trade with the Pelicans. Behind the Bulls.

Because the Pelicans wanted Dare Queen. Who was on the Bulls radar? Yeah. Something happens to the Bulls. They have players that you've, think they would draft on their radar and then they veer. It's the veering for me. They fall in love with teenagers. There's a joke in there somewhere. When I look at the report, though, I don't necessarily, I think this is more of the official announcement. Lou Canellis

talked to us about this months ago, well, seemingly months ago. It may have been like several weeks ago, where Lou had the report that Janus's people had approached the Bulls about a possible trait. It had since been refuted, at least by our tourist Karasovas that we understand. However, we don't necessarily know who was approached the Bulls either. We know the front office made sure to clarify. But I wonder if there was maybe something else going on. Like, were there other discussions like this between Janus's camp and others in the league? This is, this is like the worst kept secret. We all knew that at some point this had to be done. Yannis had talked about it in the offseason prior to this

about discussing wanting to play for a big market team. What's interesting about this is because he's out for so long, like basically a month to a month and a half, they're 11th in the standings, a good two and a half games back off the freaking hawks for the 10 seed. They're not even in the play-in. And they're probably not going to get back into the playing because they've got injuries to him, Kevin Porter.

They've got a bunch of entries. They are a hurting basketball team. The Dame Lillard trade didn't work out. Sure didn't. And I think that that was probably the last swing here. But regardless, I think what we're seeing is, with the trade deadline being next week, this is, I doubt they move him before next week, don't you think? Unless, hmm.

Unless some Luca Donchich type blockbuster happens. But I would think other GMs would. try to balance the assets a little better. I mean, if you're a team, like, let's say like the Indiana Pacers, who are not going to win this year because we know what's going on at Tyrese Halliburton, and you have a chance to get a guy like, Janus, why wouldn't you pony up? Well, and that would for sure make them a contender in the East for an NBA finals how many years in a row, as long as you know he's there.

The issue, though, is does it contradict what you? Yonis said about wanting to play for a specific team. I could see Yonis in Dallas. That would make all of it make a little more sense. So you've got Yonis and then Cooper Flagg? Yes. And then Anthony Davis goes the other way or to a third team and a three-way deal. But Anthony Davis is now injured. He has a hand injury. You know who else is injured? John Morant, Sprane UCL.

A lot of these guys that have been talked about is possible players who would be moved by the February 5th I can just say next week, they're now hurt. So you're kind of rolling the dice or if you don't need immediate return. Well, and my option is always when in doubt do nothing, which has been what the Bulls have done in years past prior to what they did dealing away Zach Levine. They've got a bunch of guys who are like at the season ended right now, they'd have seven guys that'd just be free agents. They have trade.

Yeah, they have, and that's the issue. You want to get something for some of these guys. You don't want another situation to happen with what happened with Andre Drummond where not only do you not get the post-season result you desire, but then you could have had two second rounders for him and you can't get him. It's an interesting situation to be in

and I just wish the Bulls had more draft capital so they could operate with a full deck. Now I mentioned there was something else that had come across thanks to our group thread here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie. And this was sent to us by Tyler Buehner Bob. This is a tweet from 96.5, The Fan, which is out of Kansas City. That's our sister station. Andy Reid sitting in his office and what appears to be on a Zoom. And the quote is, he's going to be very direct with the players, very direct with the coaches. It's a different

flavor. Andy Reid on rehiring Eric B. Enemy. So you mean to tell me. that they go through all this Matt Nagy redemption tour, and we find all these receipts, all these receipts where people are bringing up previous stories that were, say, in the athletic, for example, about how Matt Nagy wasn't communicating with his players. And then there it is. That's the quote from Andy Reed.

We have the audio. Let's listen. He does. He's going to. be very direct with the players, very direct with the coaches, and it's a different flavor. Both have been very productive in this system here. So I think it's a win-win for us that way.

But E.B. brings, there's nobody like E.B. on the field that way. That's one of his. And with the players, he does a great job there. Did Andy get an email while he was talking? Did you guys hear that little sounder? Might have been a tweet notification. He definitely didn't have his device silenced. You think Andy Reid's on Twitter?

He would have to be on Twitter in order to have a tweet notification. Okay, and Instagram. I'm very compelled by Andy Reid getting some sort of social media notification. It's a different flavor. But Andy is direct to the room with you right now? Thank you, Matt Nagy, Graphic. I'm starting to put pieces together in this thing. What are your pieces being put together telling you, Leila?

He's not interviewed for the Brown's job, right? He has not. Okay, so as far as we know, that's not an option. And he's not on the list at all. It's not that he has yet to interview. He's not even on the Brown's list for whatever reason, whether it be Matt Nagy's own choosing or the Brown's choosing. Now, listen, I don't want to discredit anybody here.

That very well could have been Matt Nagy's choosing, And I'd have been like, I see you. Fair enough. It is fair enough. That's the other thing. If he didn't want to coach the Browns, I get it. You always want to save up a little for what we like to call the blank you money. F, whatever you want to say there.

Just a little emergency fund where you can leave on your own terms confidently. For some of us, that requires less money. Like me, I have no responsibilities. Others, when you have a family, maybe a little bit more. but always something you want to have in mind if you can. Don't you have like a pet or a plant or something? My Zizi plant is very resilient. Doesn't need a lot of...

No. At one point it was growing too much because I was feeding it sun and water too much. And it was starting to take over like Audrey too. Okay, poison ivy. I see you. But the point is... I don't blame him. I just think he's starting to run out of things. And once people talk, that makes it a little bit more difficult. I can't wait to see where Matt Nagy ends up next season.

Not this coming, but the season after next season. Credit to Eric Bandyme, though. I like to hear that his directness and communication skills are a reason the chiefs wanted him. All just seems very interesting, or does it? Okay. It's a different flavor. He said both flavors were effective. It's like if Andy Reid was out of ice cream, he'll take chocolate or vanilla.

I promise you that. He's not going to turn down the ice cream cone. What if the flavor was something else entirely? Like rum raisin. I think Andy Ree would be a fan. I don't think there's... Has anybody ever actually had rum raisin? Is it a real ice cream flavor?

See, that's it. When you have to ask... Fair. Like, I'm not talking about legit flavors here. I'm not even talking about Neapolitan. Raisin brand. I like the cereal. You know me.

I love boring cereal. You know that about me. I love boring cereal. Prune flavored. ice cream. When I was 17, I loved grape nuts. Great nuts actually have some sweetness to them. If you add sugar, Grody backed me up on the grape nuts thing, but we got to get him some info to Dan

Weeter about the golf simulator. Okay, Adventures in Coaching. I don't necessarily know that the coach of the winning NFC team headed to the Super Bowl thought this through as he said it out loud. We will examine it. next. Rahimi Harrison Grody, Midday's Tindal 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 the score. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 670 the score. And there was an interview that was making the rounds yesterday during the NFC title game.

Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald was interviewed by King 5, one of the local stations in Seattle. Their call letters are K-I-N-G. Their channel is 5. this is not hard to figure out where they're called King Five. So take a listen to what he discusses when it comes to seeing his family during the week. I actually think I'm here less, which is, I wish some of us, our coaches took that as well. But on Thursdays, you know, I don't get to see Jack throughout the week as much. So Thursdays I try to get, which is today, I try to get home pretty quick to be with him for maybe a half hour, hour before he goes to bed.

and then I got a setup at my house where I can go and then I work on the game plan, but it's able to spend some more time at home and be with Jack. And also it kind of lets you kind of get away from everything and kind of see things from a different perspective. And it keeps you fresh, you know, so it's been helpful. His son is Jack. So he sees him for 30 minutes a week during the season? I know head coach has put in a lot of work. But that may have not been what he had hoped.

It may be what he can do, but I don't necessarily know that it was what he thought it was going to be. I would say this. Jack is one years old. Let's be clear. It's not like he's, you know, five or six. He's one. So I don't know. But yeah, it doesn't sound great.

Early child development becomes more and more prevalent when you see adults in our nation. I mean, that's a loaded statement right there. There's a lot of different directions you can go with that. Yes, and sadly, behavioral science dictates it as well. No, I'm not saying anybody's like, I'm not saying anybody's needs or not getting, you know, being met here. That's not it. But isn't this kind of like the life of a coach, though?

When you're talking about the best of the best, no time wasted, you cannot do enough. We just had the head coach of the Bears. Ben Johnson, what did he say once the season ended? Get away from football. because when I say they're fully immersed in it he said that to his quarterback Yeah Do you know where I think Ben Johnson is right now?

Not at home with the fam I think he's at work Well he's got First of all he's got to have Conversations with Ryan Poles And the rest of the front office And the scouts and everything They've got to get their plan together

The cap situation The free agent needs And then after all that Then he's got to be like All right here are our contingency plans in case one of our or more Eric B. Enemy, one guy, if several of our assistants leave, what are we going to do? It's a lot. I'm still laughing about the Eric B. Enemy being direct and that being a different flavor. I need like Kramer on movie phone. I need you to just tell me the name of the movie

you want to see. Just to be fair, he did say both flavors have been productive. I just want to make sure we don't lose sight of that because he gave the hat tip to Matt Nagy. What does the scoreboard you. What does the record tell you? Listen, the enemy wasn't with them last year and they went to the Super Bowl. They did win a lot of one-one possession games to get that done. They lost a lot of one-possession games this year. One-run games? Baseball sneaking in on you.

One-possession games. It's sneaking in. I have been thinking a lot about baseball ever since the Sir Anthony Dominguez signing for the White Sox. I'm not going to lie. We all have our reasons. We want to end our show. in the same spirit that we began it.

I'd like to play Tyler Buter-Baus open that he began our show with today, honoring the now late Terry Boers. You call the sports radio 6-7 to the score. Terry Boers, Brian Hanley. I have an induction. You seem resigned to the fate after the game, that there wasn't much fire in you, and you sort of stood up before the media and said,

well, you know, this is the way it is. Are you resigned to this fate? You're the same guy that wrote about me when I did have the fire. That was the wrong thing to do. So who you crapp? Well, I'm just asking me. No, no, no, no. I have an injury last year during the season.

It kept me back. But it didn't bother you say before last year's training camp began, because that was the rumor that you knew you were hurting and that you came and tried anyway. Not to my recollection. So it was all accumulated during last season. I believe we had a bad connection. Did they sell crack door to door?

Yeah, but who said that? The texture. Just like Les, is calling you giving traffic reports. A texter said that? You know why? Les cares about mankind. In the afternoon, when I would drive back to the city,

Boers and Burstein, right? That was the show. So I got my fill of that, and they made my hour-long drives memorable, memorable, right? Well, we've banned a little bit of the creamiest. You're flying boars, and everybody gets peanuts, and if you have an allergy and die, we just...

Screw you. Stop for you. flying, your comfort is not more important than the other 140 people on the plane. Now we're talking. Lizard bastard, get off the plane. Go somewhere else. Hey, me do this. Then don't take her out a plane.

Drive, ass face. So my favorite thing that's happened in the three hours that we've been here is watching Terry and Layla talk. Like just seeing the two of you interact because you're the two people that have done the most with the least. well you know already don't you're grateful to them being so kind to me today I appreciate them and I appreciate them in gentle as I've said before and I wrote that without guys like these and there's no show there's no Boris and Bernstein nothing happens so they're the ones you know they already say they're grateful to me no I'm grateful to you so how do I say goodbye for someone who's been I leave feeling great about what

what's happened in the last 25 years to this station and better yet about what the future is. Because I used to worry about the future. I used to think what happens. What happens now when all of the old veterans are gone and we're all done? I don't worry anymore. I don't give it a second pot. Plenty to go around here and there will continue to be at this station. That was Tyler Buehderbaugh's open to our show. If you missed it, we are going to honor Terry Boers tomorrow with a celebration of life from 12 to 7 right here on 670. the score. Terry Bores, gone too soon at 75 years old. Matt Spiegel and Anthony Heron are next.