Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Evaluating Tyson Bagent’s performance in Bears’ win over Jets (Hour 1)

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened their show by breaking down the Bears' 23-12 win against the Jets on Sunday at Soldier Field and by evaluating backup quarterback Tyson Bagent's performance in his first start since 2023. Later, they opened up the phone lines for Score callers to celebrate the Bears' victory that lifted them to 3-1.

Hi everybody. It is the Rahimi and Grotie show on 104.3. The score you are listening to a Plummers 9-1-1 Football Monday, presented by Busey Bank and Gray Clips, and we are talking all day about a bear's 23 to 12 win over the New York Jets. And I just realized that, Layla, I have to start the show being angry at you. You spoke the Minka Fitzpatrick interception into existence by bringing it up on Friday that the streak was broken for the Jets. How dare you, ma'am? What do you have to say for yourself at this moment here at 10.08 on 104, 3, the score. How dare you? If you're accusing me of this and I'm taking everybody down with me, Patrick Finley asked about it in a press conference. We've had many, many broadcasters talk about this streak that have been ongoing.

We brought it up. Then there was the trolling of Aaron Glenn, a former defensive back by trade at the end of the entire season last year in 2025 where his team didn't have an interception. It was only a matter of time, but I didn't want to be the Bears the one that do it. I didn't want the bears to have to be that team, that guy, don't be that guy. Don't be that guy. But sadly, the Jets were due. We get to talk about this in a funny mad way because the bears whooped them. And that's the beauty of this.

They did whoop them. But they lost the turnover battle. Now, now this week, you don't want to lose the turnover battle. Green Bay sucks. Green Bay sucks. Green Bay sucks. Green Bay sucks. That's right. We're not going to talk about this Jets win. We're going to preview the Packers all day today.

Well, apparently, you know, that's what's funny is I don't know why, but I was very zeroed in on the Jets. I think it was the whole Aaron Glenn. You know, like the jets are kind of like a, you just don't want to lose to them. We had the discussion about who was going to start, whether it was Tyson Bayesian or Case came. And I don't want to hear from all the people who are like, well, technically it wasn't Tyson Bayton start. You know what we're talking about. If you want to do that episode of your private episode of you talking to this. ether, you go right ahead. But we all know Tyson Bajit was the starter for the actual intent and purposes of this. I don't understand what the... People are like, well, Tyson Bajit didn't really start the game because he has...

Case Keenum, we're both in the same... Shut up. Not today. You can do that, but like, I'm not going to acknowledge you. You're like, go, go yell it at a wall. That was a great... That was the greatest wink at a football stadium since, quite frankly, Matt Nagy, in 2018 at Lambo Field when he started his tenure with the Bears in the T-Formation.

That was the greatest wink ever. Ben Jonson hears it all. And if you don't know what Layla is talking about, what we're talking about, the Bears, after a week's worth of all of us talking about who should start, the second stringer or the third stringer in this hilarious conversation that we're having here in Chicago. And then they start the game at Soldier Field with Case Keenham and Tyson Bayton on the field. a little flip to DeAndre Swift for two yards

and then Case Keenum scoots off the field Tyson Banger becomes your quarterback and Tyson Bajon on the day 25 of 34, 268 yards, did not throw a touchdown did throw an interception and the way I characterize it like if Case Keenom's performance last week was good

you're like really good that was good I go with the high pitch good for Tyson Bajon I look at him and go it was good Not good, but it was good. It was decent. It's just an inflection difference in the word good, literally for me. It's good. Case Keenum, good.

Tyson Begant, good. What about fine versus just fine? How are you feeling about that? I was unpurposely leaving that out because I think that that connotes average. And you've got to take everything into account, right? This is his, this is Tyson Beijan's first start since 2023. Yeah, we said the same thing for Case Keenum. Absolutely, absolutely.

And he thrived in it. But he had had, Case Keenom had had a career worth of experience that Tyson Bajon didn't have. So there is a relativity factor that has to be included into this. So like on the overall, was it a good, really good, great performance by Tyson Bajon? No, it was good. It was decent. Okay, fine. It was fine.

That's what it was for Tyson Bajun. That's where I put it. A lot of good throws, a lot of bad throws. Yeah, it was serviceable. Okay. And I think that that's what we saw. We saw a guy who, you know, the bears were very big on pounding the depth chart. And Ben Johnson told you Tyson Baygent was starting after the game against the Eagles.

He said that. That was the last comment in his press conference was, you know, there's a reason we named him the number two quarterback. I just didn't see as much of that. The reason why they named him the number two quarterback against the Jets as I would have liked to have seen. The better question than becomes is, isn't enough to where you feel like your confidence starting him at Green Bay. And that's the part that we have to figure out this week. We get the whole week to figure that out.

Yeah. In the meantime, I also didn't realize that the bears, as I was going to say, I was focused on the Jets for all the reasons I told you. I didn't realize how much the bears were looking forward to this week going up to Green Bay. Oh, this. Because when you heard the post game comments, whether it was Ben Johnson, Colson Loveland, some of the other bears in the locker room, they clearly were like, we don't want to overlook.

look this game, knowing what's ahead. And I was like, you were, you were slay. You knew it was a problem. You knew it was something you had to contend for. And I wasn't even thinking about it yet. Ben Johnson is the first coach to take the Green Bay series as seriously as one Michael Kellerdicka. And that's just not me projecting and wanting to say Michael Kellarditka.

That is just the absolute truth of the matter. So, oh, it's going to be a great week this week talking about Bears and Packers. The Packers did win yesterday, but I was already tapping into what they're talking about in Green Bay. They were saying things like I was saying last year about the Bears. Like, it's a win for the Packers yesterday, but a bad win for the Packers. Like I was fighting for last year in the Vegas game. Remember that last year, Layla? Yeah, you hated that way.

I hated that win. And I loved it because they won. Well, yeah, but I couldn't look at it that way. I was like, I need the style points. I need the legitimacy points to go along with it. Look, Tyson Bayesian made a lot of good throws, though, in this game. Even from the very beginning, like, they should have scored on that first drive. Obviously, D'Andre Swift doesn't get into the end zone.

But on the first drive, he had a throw to Roma Dunesay for 21 yards. I throw to Luther Burden for 20 yards. He finds Colston Lovin for a dozen yards on the first drive of the game. So look, we're picking it all apart. But there were some terrific moments in this game, not just early but late for Tyson Bayesian as well. Yeah, the scripted stuff looked great, just like it did with Case Keenum. If there's one thing that I know, it's that Ben Johnson working with all three quarterbacks,

you're going to have well-executed scripted plays. And even Bejant talked about some of the things that I think he's still trying to hone in on that you don't have the years of Case Keenum experience. like he talked about taking some of the checkdowns rather than trying to hunt for the intended receiver. And that was something that we even saw in glimpses before he suffered that concussion, you know, against the Vikings. So, okay, how are you honing your game to be able to do that? I do want to put this out there. I don't know where this Tyson Bayesian's first start came from.

And it was even set on the post game show on Fox. People thought it was his first start. How he long mentioned that. Yeah, I mean, I saw it a bunch on social media and just this was his fifth start. He was two and two as a starter. we talked about it. It had been a couple years, just like it had been for Keenham. But that's part of it for him, too, is he doesn't have the same amount of starts, but it definitely was not his first. Is that, did Tim Brando say that about Tyson Badgint? I mean, oh gosh, he said Badgint. I can't

believe that. I don't know about you guys, but they didn't really focus on the fact that Keenum and Bejit were both in on the first play. And then there was the, there's, they didn't mention that because I was kind of did, but then they're like, there's Kay's Keenum. Like it was, that's how it was acknowledged. Really? I don't, it was a, I feel like at times they came back from break late. I feel like they were missed plays. Like some, I'm like, wait, did I not see that play? Like, Ray, I said that on the text line. I don't know how. You were producing too, but I just, I don't know. I feel like we were missing stuff. Oh yeah. Then there was the, the score being wrong. The score was wrong for a good period, I believe in the third quarter. The Dio O'Dango pass

breakup. Was it at the light of scrimmage? They showed several replays, but they didn't even talk about Dio on that play. Dio, Sackbo, you mean. We'll give you credit, Dio as much as hell as we've given you, you get credit for that because that was great. The batted, the batted ball at the light of scrimmage. Oh, yeah, man. No, Dio had a sack in the game. He'll Austin Booker getting a sack. Devin Bush getting off the snide getting a sack in this game. Hey, Buterbaugh, you were at the game? Did you, did you guys in your section, were you guys noticing that there were two quarterbacks on the field? I mean, that's a subtle thing, but did you guys notice it or no? So, unfortunately, I missed that part because I was trying to.

and run to the bathroom right before. But I kind of caught in from the window where I was sitting. I was like kind of looking. I was like, wait a minute. Why is Case and Tyson Bajun in the lineup there? But I didn't get a chance to see the actual play live. But I heard people talking about it. I could hear it through the bathroom.

People are like, there's two quarterbacks in at the same time. And I was like, what the heck is going on over here? Hey, man, bathroom strategy is a real thing when you go to a bear's game. You could do the halftime thing, but you're going to miss a good chunk of the third quarter. There's so much strategy that goes into it. give you all sorts of the little pregnant wife you got a spicy meatball into the equation but don't do what the kids are doing don't be wearing diapers out there are they really doing that have you heard about this yeah kids are wearing oh the lollapalooza diaper thing was real here's the thing gross if baby diapers smell

what do you think human diapers do well yeah and what happens too if like like your part because it's a party situation and then what you go out and then like you meet somebody it's like I can't I just wet myself. I can't hang. I can't make out with you. Well, they're doing it to like keep their spot at a concert or something, but it just seems a little misguided. I would say very misguided. Bottom line, don't wear adult diapers to concerts and just wasn't Tyson Bayesian's first start. Bears win. That's right. The Bears win. The bears are three and one and they look good doing it, doing it. There was domination in this game and we've got so much more to get to. We've got Anthony Heron coming up at 11 o'clock. We're going to let you hear some really good sound.

from Tyson, Beijing coming up here in a second. And I already see the phone lines are already popping. Let's go. Yeah, you know what? Let's go. We're opening up the phone lines. Come on in, line up, and we will take a bunch of calls in this hour. 312-644-67. 67 is the number. We are broadcasting

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midday, 10 a.m. to 2 on the score. And why not bring both of the law, right. It's Keenham pitching the DeAndre Swift to open the game and Bejit in the game with for a moment Keenham was out there. He did come out onto the field and there's Bejant as Keenham exits. There he was out there for a moment. Tim Brando on Fox. Was it Fox? Yeah. Okay. Sorry. We were at Sports Corner and we're just watching it on the monitors and all of that and hearing the Tim Brandoisms. I guess they did notice that there were two quarterbacks on the field to start the game. Yeah, but it was the way it was said.

Yeah, like they were being told. There's that guy and there's that guy. And wait, what? There's a whole play there. Yeah, there's been a whole week's worth of quarterback talk here in Chicago. As we do welcome you back to Rehemi and Grotie on 104. So, thanks for being with us. We'll get to your calls in a second.

312, 644, 67, 67. But we got to get down to the bottom of everything that went down during the week leading up to Tyson Bayesian, indeed being the starter for the Chicago Bears. So let's play some cool audio for you from Tyson Baygent. He shared with the media yesterday when he knew he was going to start Sunday's game against the New York Jets. So when did you find out you were going to start? Pretty early on in the week.

Been lying to y'all all week. We heard that Casey Kian was the one who told you that you were going to start this week. How did he deliver that message and what did that make the comment from him? Yeah, he, well, I was getting worked on at my house. My body work person was at my house. We were getting working on Tuesday. I, or no, this was Wednesday morning. And Case kind of hit me like, hey, man, what time you get in here today?

I said, I'm going to get in there at around 11. Would you like me to get there sooner? He said, yes, I would like you to get there sooner. So I told my guy to get to leave and I left the house, went to the facility, got in there. and he was telling me how appreciative he was of me throughout his week, you know, preparing and preparing for his start. And I really did more of the same. I mean, he's a top two friend, teammate that I've ever had, and he's definitely, you know, not too. So I can't say enough about Case Keenham and what he means to me, what he means to really, I mean, my family, I love his family.

He was very vital and helpful throughout the week. but his delivery, he was just telling me that, you know, he really hopes and praise that I'm able to have a night, kind of like he did on Monday, and that I will, and that that week is going to be this week because you're starting. So he kind of hit me with that at the end, and, yeah, just gave him a big hug, told him how much he meant to me, and then we just, you know, business is business going forward. All right, this is getting pathetic. Now, not only did the Bears have three credible quarterbacks, I'll say, I think that's a good word, three credible quarterbacks on their roster, and we're living.

in a world where backup quarterbacks had impressive wins in back-to-back weeks. But now they're going to be best friends. Now Tyson Bayesian is going to be best friends with Case Keen. Do we deserve all of this? It's unbelievable what's going out with Chicago. Can we just take a moment everybody to appreciate this? Like take a deep breath, meditate on it a little bit even. What is going to – let's all do this as a collective, Rahimi and Grotie show,

and our vast listening audience. Let's all just take a moment. Think about that. Think about what you've been through. And now think about what you have seen in the last two weeks, winning backup quarterbacks, winning backup quarterbacks who are best friends. And now you may proceed. Winning is fun and fun is winning. Go Ozzy.

That's the best medicine here. When everybody's winning and you believe in your leadership that is strong, then that filters down and you see what's happening. You also have two willing role players. These guys are both very willing role players. They know who the number one quarterback is. Great point. There's some fun with this. Did we just become best friends?

Yep. That's what happened. And the winner is really the Ben Johnson system because that's what this comes down to. Real coaches, good ones don't care about just who their guy is or who they want or, you know, they're not starting conflict of their own with say, I don't know, Justin Fields and Andy Dalton a quarterback. They say, I'm going to put anybody in a position to succeed. and I'm going to put this person, I'm going to give this guy his own set of plays

and I'm going to give this other guy's own set of plays and this is what we're going to do and it's supposed to be joy and that doesn't happen very often. The egos are head coaches have gotten the way of this a lot and what you're seeing right now is a bunch of guys who don't have enough ego to care.

I think it's rare in life. I'll go Ditka again kids and I'll continue to explain Mike Ditka. It is rare in life when somebody genuinely wants the best for you. And that's what it feels like with Case Keenum, that he's kind of a made man, he's got gratitude, he's got appreciation for his lot in life and seems to appreciate Tyson Bayesian,

and it's reciprocated. Like the only people who I could think of that in life genuinely want the best for me are my parents, right? Like, or maybe a friend or two along the way, but we're all competing for something in life, right? Yeah, I mean, I would say Ray and Tyler and I also are in that category. I would say that, yeah, because we're all in this together. I guess I didn't really necessarily mean us. I hope we all want the best for each other because if the four of us don't want the best for each other, then we're probably not going to succeed as a show.

So that's true. It will end in violence, and that violence will be broadcast from 10 to 2 on the score. Oh, maybe you want a little bit of that. Yeah, who knows. Let's save that for during the baseball lockout. We've got to work on programming for the baseball lockout, by the way. Lockout programming. Number one, violence.

Yeah, we promote violence. profit. I do think, though, that this, like, yeah, this is the week where you can say this. You know, you had a win against the Eagles dominating Monday night football, surprise, check. Then you had the dominating win where you ran 89 plays against the Jets. Check, here's where the risk comes in. This is the spiciest part of it all, is what does happen? Are you in a position to make a decision you might regret or do your emotions get the best of you? Or, you know, you really want to start Tyson Beijing because you love him.

Against the Packers, this is the one time where you just don't want it to bite you. You know, this is the real test. Don't you think the – Now that you've passed these other two and we're going to celebrate those, this next test Sunday is the biggest one. I might start Case Keenham in that game, but again, I wouldn't feel horrible with Tyson Bejant going in. This is a quarterback who is, again, developing and winning and should be given the opportunity

to get better. If you didn't like the way he quarterbacked in this game, let's see what he does against Green Bay, but we'll get more into that later. and it is, man, I got to tell you, like some of these, the team statistics and the eye-popping numbers from this game, such as time of possession. What the? These were the top two teams in time of possession coming into the game with the Jets being number one overall. But the bears hog the ball 42 minutes and 45 seconds to 17 minutes and 15 seconds for the Green Bay Packers. Did you see the time of possession of the fourth quarter alone? The Jets had less than a minute.

Dude. Less than a minute. That's not real. Let me tell you that that, let me, maybe the best part about the game yesterday was the final nine minutes and 12 seconds, where the bears held the football the entire time. The Jets never got another bite at the apple. I guess I wasn't paying proper attention because I'm watching the game out there

at Sports Corner, got Olin and Patrick Manley, got Ray hanging out, Alex Coon, we're all doing our things watching the game. Next thing I know the bears are kneeling. Like it's crazy that they held that they just wiped it up. You don't see that. There's always one more chance for the opposition in the NFL. And the bears just robbed the jets of that yesterday. And I really zeroed in on that because number one,

Ben Johnson, I know, really does want the NFL's best scoring offense. I know that's still a desire of his. And then number two, it shows you the respect he has for Aaron Glenn. Like I think that that was a big part of it. They purposefully wanted to kneel down in victory, even though they were so close to the goal line. And I think that that had a lot to do with it. And then did you see them talk?

Probably not because you had to go on the air after the game. Yeah. Like there was a conversation that I think for postgame at midfield was probably an eternity. I say that in quotes. Oh, with Johnson and Glenn? Yeah. You could just 10 seconds where you could tell they were just talking back and forth. Like there's a lot of respect between those two for having been on Dan Campbell's staff together.

And I think you really saw that in the what was a breaking drive for the Jets? but then also to not twist the knife. Do I think that if that happens again in Green Bay, it would be the same result? Hell no. Oh, you think he wouldn't waste nine minutes and 12 seconds? Do you think he would punch that ball into the end zone? Absolutely.

Absolutely. You're right. Now, here's the great part. That would be awesome if that happens again with that scenario. And you know what's funny is Green Bay led the league, I believe, in time of possession last year. And that was a big reason why they were so successful. Yeah.

That's what makes that compelling. And that was a big part of the game plan last year against the Packers was how to counterbalance Green Bay's Excellency at time of possession. This is Ben Johnson. He explained why he had both Case Keenham and Tyson Bayton on the field on that first play. What went into the decision to have Case and Tyson out there for the first time?

Well, I got all these memos saying that Tyson was starting before I ever made an announcement, so I want to get Case out there at first time. It was like his ceremonial first pitch out there, handing off the torch. You know, he gets credited with the win for that, right? Good for him. I think the team gets credit for a win. I love when Ben Johnson winks at everybody. That's all that was.

That was, hey, if you notice it where we am winking at you, I have two quarterbacks on the field, just like Matt Nagy's T-Formation in Green Bay in 2018. Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah, Ben Johnson, I'm going to challenge you to do something different then. Let's reverse psychology Ben Johnson into some result that's favorable for us. Who, Lela Rahimi, do? What should we do?

No, here it is. Who do you think? deserves the first non-receiver touchdown of the year. Who deserves it? Dernel, right. Is it Darno? Is it Jonah? Jackson.

Oh. Like if you want to go hipster, it's Jonah Jackson, maybe. As a possibility. Okay, so the tiebreaker is Jonah Jackson's on the score. That's true. But then the ultimate tiebreaker is Neville Gallimore is on our show. Oh, dear Neville. Let's get you in the end zone.

Neville Gallimore going into the end zone. And then he's going to be on the. Rahimi and Grody show. Yep. It's probably, it's probably Jonah or Dernel. Or do we need to think farther outside the box? They'd probably expect Darnel. Yeah. Well, yeah, because Ben Johnson did that with Penny Sewell. No, he had to throw the football against the Bears. Remember that? Well, and you know, we haven't even talked about this and it was such a big deal. And I actually think it affected the game for Tyson Bayesian is that Braxton Jones is injured, injured. And And for him to go on IR on Saturday, wasn't that correct?

He did. Yeah, so he's got to miss four games. He would have been my guy. He's really good in space. Braxton. I just got it. Braxton can move. I needed that.

I needed to breathe. Check me out, Hall. Check me out, hall here. This is what I think should happen. Either. You ready for this? It's going to blow your mind. Everybody.

Ray, pay attention. Here, I saw you talking to Tyler over there. I need you guys. Kids? Pay attention. Grotty, I'm checking you on, man. Hey, pay attention. Either Ozzie Tripillo

gets a touchdown when he returns. He was inactive again. Or Kyler Gordon. Oh, boy. Oh, man. That would be the greatest happy ending of all time. You can't reward that behavior with a touchdown? Man.

Well, hey, Ben Johnson referred to Kyler Gordon as a phenomenal player. We've turned the corner, Layla. But you're really. probably right. There's no way to hell that Johnson would give him that luxury. Or maybe he would. Come on, man. You know, Malik Mohamed. Malik Mohamed had a good game yesterday. What about him? As a rookie, no, no. He hasn't earned it yet. He's a rookie. I mean, there'd be veterans to be like, you know, bro. Here he is just leading the bears and tackles. And you're like, not good enough

rookie. Every single week. Dylan. Dianman is just out here sacrificing for you. He led the bears again with seven total tackles yesterday. we finish out this segment with some Olin Croutes because playing Olin Croutes is always good. Also, let's point out that Tyson Bejant told you the truth and Ben Johnson did not. He's like, well, I got all these memos

and Bejan was starting so I had to do something. Whatever, Ben, we know you knew. We knew that you knew that you knew. Sifting through memos. What's this? Oh, another memo? Another memo? Wait, who is starting here? A memo. The memos.

Like, actually think about that. Sir, there's been another tweet about Tyson, Oh, you mean a memo? I've got nothing to add there. Yeah, just a memo. Ben Johnson's getting faxes sent to him. Oh, my gosh. During 104-3, the Scores football pregame show, of which I was lucky enough to be a part with

Olin Crutes and Patrick Manley. Olin Croutes shared this note about how Tyson-Bagent got the news that he was making the start at quarterback. Came across on Twitter that Jeff Joniak said that Case Keenum showed up at Bejit's house with his car honking in balloons to announce that he was. he would start at quarterback so now that we all know that they were honking the cars and they had a parade for him and he was holding up the radio like and say anything and uh yes that great moments my favorite part of the whole show yesterday was that moment right there oh i do laugh at some

of that stuff you know the collegiate like so-and-so wanted to change his number for the injured player just to show support you know there's always one of those or like like it's okay for it's going to be okay. We have so usually on this show. Oh, and happy birthday to Tyson Beigeon's dad. Oh, yeah. The Beasts. The Beasts.

The Beasts. The Beasts. Striker. Stryker. Stryker. I thought for some reason, Stryker came to my mind. Stryker.

So coming up at 1225. No idea. Normally. Yeah, that's what people say to me. No idea. No idea. Oh, I thought you were going to say Stryker. Stryker.

I think there was a striker. Now we're just inside Grotie's brain. You are. Let's get out of it really quick. 12, today. Normally, I'd cover the home games. Like, I'll go inside the locker room and I'll bring everybody the audio that I get. But yesterday I was at Sports Corner with Olin and Pat. So at 1225, Layla actually came up with this idea that we need to do it inside the score post game show with

Pat and Olin live from the Sports Corner in Wrigleyville segments. On the score. We wanted to make the title of it nice and tight, nice and easy, nice and consumable. That's what we do here. Yeah, no word salads for us. No. Nope. Uh-uh. And we hope the best. No word salads.

No, we don't do that. We like to make things simple here on the program. Coming up next, let's get to you. I see all you guys lining up, we are going to take your calls. We'll be taking calls intermittently throughout the day, but we'll fire through a bunch of of them coming up next. We are talking about a Bears 23 to 12 win over the New York Jets. It's Rahimi and Grotie on 1043 of the score.

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I look forward to talk to you guys, listen every day. Love you guys so much. Middays. Damn, love is in the air. 10 a.m. to 2 on the score. Yo, it's Rahimi and Grotie on the score. We do love you. Thank you so much for joining us here.

We all get to, we're all in this together, talking about a Bears win. Everybody's debating the fact that you have friends. who also want the best for you. So really you just didn't acknowledge who all wanted the best for you. It wasn't just your parents. It's apparently all of our listeners, us and your friends.

Thank you. Well, and they should want the best for it because if you get the best from us, your ears and brains will be rewarded, right? Or at least you're taking some time off your Monday. That's true. Yeah. And we appreciate that.

Let us waste time with you. 312, 644, 67, 67. Yeah, wherever you are. If you're in your office, you're driving around. You're the person that just got in your car, and you're like, I want to hear bears. Well, here it is, and we're taking calls. 312, 644, 67, 67. Let's start at the top with Kim in Palatine.

Hello, Palatine. What's going on, Kim? Good morning. Happy Victory Monday. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I agree with you. How great are our quarterbacks on and off the field.

I mean, so good, so good. So good. And that cool first play loved it. But anyway, I heard you guys talking earlier about the quarterbacks being good or very good or one is better than the other. So could we say Case is good, Baton is better, but Caleb is best? Good better best. I see what you're doing there, Kim.

Yeah, I mean, that's it. And now maybe perhaps the battle is between good and better. Yeah, wow. So good, better, best. Wow. I love that, Kim. I don't know if I would go Tyson better than Case because he wasn't. Like if we're really doing this, Case Keenham had a better game than Tyson

Bayesian had. It doesn't mean that it's not better for the organization, though, that Tyson Beijing continued to be the quarterback. There's other factors that go into it. Also, our texters really want to talk about Case versus Bayesian, apparently. 312, 644, 67, 67. I think we'll be doing this all week. But yeah, go ahead.

Say what's on your mind. We'll find your thoughts. If you need you the next few days, we'll be here. Amen. Yeah, we'll be here all week for you. Yeah, the texts are great. That somebody say, could Ben Johnson have made Peter Tom Willis into a good quarterback? I wonder.

Now, I'm just like thinking about all of the Bears quarterbacks of Bears past. What could Ben Johnson actually have done with some of those quarterbacks? Todd Collins. Yeah, could you have made Todd Collins into a pro bowler? And I do believe that Ben, as long as he had Kyleman, Manungai on his side. He probably could have made that Collins into something special. Yeah, Kyle Monongai showed up yesterday. I mean, 30 carries? And we got to, well, and Ben said that in a career, he did not. Ben Johnson said after the game, he didn't realize it was that many.

Unbelievable. Well, well, since he benched DeAndre Swift and who else was going to get the carries, Ben? You knew exactly what you were doing, pal. We want to get into that a little bit as well, because that is clearly what that was. But, yeah, back to the first. phones, I suppose. How about Frank and Oak Park? It's our guy. Frank! What's up, Frank?

Hey, great, great to be there here. And before I do a breakdown on the squads, I want to get into this backup quarterback thing. You're probably already getting call-slash messages recommending Keenum or Bejian, replace Williams as starter before he gets healthy. Some may recommend a trade of the former Trojan before he's do a monster contract. The door to bear fan before. has been opened.

When a score listener steps through, I recommend you have a digital version of a police car siren, one of those in-progress ones. Be ready, and then you blow it. On defense, the Bears held a team a third team under 250 yards. This time was just 157.

They only allowed 12 points. They got three sacks with motivated Dio getting his third for the season. And by Monday night, the bears could have a top five defense. What? What? Yeah, check the stats.

Check the stats. On offense, the bear line dominated. Chicago piled up 232 yards on the ground for a total of a total of 492. Menungai scored two TDs with 146 rushing. Rome was solid with six grabs for 94 yards. But Bajun threw too many lollipops. the Jets took one and had one or two taken off the board for penalties. Next week, it's the Pack and Lambo.

Green Bay just added three vets to fix a leaky O line. With their skill guys, if you go minus two and turn over margin like this week, you won't win by 11. You'll lose by a touch. Wow. Coming strong like Frank does. Man, I mean, we've barely scratched the surface talking about the Bears' defense this week, But I kept asking the question yesterday in the postgame with Olin Pat.

Right. Is the Bears defense good? Might they be good? They were really good yesterday. Well, here's the other thing. What coaching up did you do, Dennis Allen? Yeah. Because it does seem like we are getting more of a burst at the line of scrimmage.

I also think we're getting a healthier Grady Jarrett. Yeah. To be incredibly fair. He is affecting the pass rush. He is. Yeah. when you've got four people at the line creating some havoc, it's working for you. Also, Devin Bush had a good game.

Yeah, Devin Bush. And he needed it. We talked about that in the pregame yesterday. Like, Devin Bush has not been very good for the Bears so far. He's been a disappointment. Like, I thought he was going to be better than Tremaine Edmins. I was like, I like this. I like the speed that this guy brings.

He's a good player. But he's not been a good player for the Bears. Well, because Dennis Allen falls in love with a trait that doesn't always translate on the field into production, which is speed. You know, that's the hard part about it. It's the marriage of the speed and the ability, and that's what gets you, I don't know, an all-pro player. But in this case, I think he dialed up a couple blitzes for some mojo too,

and that usually works. The blitz is a love language for him. You know, it's like, hey, I see you're a little down. You want a blitz? You want to make yourself feel better? Go get him. Go get the quarterback. Oh, you like it.

Oh, you like that. Oh, okay. Get him. Going to bring it. Wayne is in Lafayette. What's up, Wayne? How you doing? You're back on Rahimi and Grotie on the score.

What a happy day it is when that happens, Grotie, man. Oh, man. God bless you guys, man. Hey, I'm fans of yours no matter what, man. You guys know that big time. I'm always for your best for both of you guys. Thank you. Yeah, Wayne, you are, man. You have been, you've had our back since day one of the show.

Go,000. $1,000,000, you know what I mean? And you know what? I think the most important thing is we're getting some, get, I heard we're getting some offensive linemen back. And I believe the most important thing is keeping our, our quarterback up right, so if the band's plan can go to work on these packheads. And I know one thing, what would he mostly paralyzed is that whole Green Bay team and coach

would be just trade off on these quarterbacks every other, every other down. I mean, you know, every other set of down, you know, put them both in there and trade off with them. And then also, I think maybe we could beat them so bad we could get their coach fired. What do you think about that? Okay, well, first of all, we thought that that was on the line after the playoff game, remember? And then they extended Matt LaFleur and Brian Gutakunst. But there was that gray area where Matt LaFleur was up for an extension. That was brought up.

He got the extension. We can't be doing this. We can't be doing the quarterback every other play. This is the NFL. It's not good for any of us. Matt LaFleur, apparently, and we'll maybe play this later on this week. Did, like, had a reporter walk into his press conference? conference and did like the old stare-down thing to the reporter, waited for the reporter to sit down,

something like that. I haven't seen that stare-down since I got stared down by, and obviously this still sits with me, a little bit traumatic. I was once stared down by Brian Sutter. Brian Sutter, who was a Blackhawks head coach in the early 2000s, and I don't even remember the question that I asked, but he didn't like it and he stared me down. It's scary to get stared down by a sutter. That's right.

It's really just, you don't want to be the one messing up the flow in any press conference. No, you don't. Also, well, please, sorry, coach. Like, if you're going to stop, sorry, coach. So sorry. All right, coming up next here, we'll do more of your calls a little bit later on here today. 1145. 1145, that is your next time to check in with a couple of calls.

Coming up next, though, we've got Anthony Heron. He is going to provide his insult. like he does on this Bears win. The Bears beat the Jets 23 to 12. What did he think of Tyson-Bajah? What did he think of the defense? We'll find out next on 104-3 of the score. The door to Bear fan before he has been opened.