Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Herb Howard talks DJ Moore's future with Bears

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris were joined by Herb Howard of the Bigs Media to discuss the latest Bears storylines, including receiver DJ Moore's future with the organization.

Laila Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, Rahimi, Harrison Grody on 104-3, the score. It's third and one. Here's a shotgun snap to May and a side-arm delivery. Got it to his running back, Henderson, who takes it by midfield. Down in here, sideline, 40, down in here, sideline 35, tap it at the 30. The clock is ticking two, one, and that's it. And the Seattle Seahawks of one Super Bowl, 60,

in pretty dominating fashion. 29-13. They win their second Vince Lombardi Trophy. That is Kevin Harlan on Westwood One. Impossible to concentrate with this song. This is Rimi Harris and Grotie on 104-3. The score. Herb Howard from the Biggs Media is here,

joining us in studio. And I'm dying, laughing at all these texts on the text line. Maybe John Fox can hire Matt Eber Fluse as the junior assistant. had coach. That's good. The 2010's called. They want their coach back. This is the equivalent of the

White Sox bringing in Tony LaRusa. Like, everybody's going on. I mean, he's not in charge in charge. He's just an assistant. He's just a senior assistant. He's not in charge in charge. He's definitely a senior assistant, though. Does this mean the bears get compensatory picks for

John Fox one text or something? I mean, the jokes, they just write themselves with this news. In the meantime, Herb did talk about going to the Super Bowl. You were there as part of the media, the contingent, the content machine. What were your experiences like?

What was some of the gossip you got? I know we mentioned your conversation with Brian Erlacker. What was it like out there? I told this to Lawrence and Speaks last week, but the thing that describes radio road the best to me was I walked in the door and one day I walked in the door,

the first person I see is flavorflake. And then the very next person I see, is Barry Sanders. And it's like you got this loud, obnoxious dude, and then you got the most mild manner, temperamental dude ever. And it's like, that's what Radio Row is. You run into all-time great athletes,

and then you run into like just superstar, socialites, entertainers, or whatever. And it's like, what is this place? And how is it all happening in the same space? Like, why is Barry Sanders and Flavreflav in the same room right behind each other? What is this? And I think that kind of encompassed what it was all about. There was a lot of good work to get done. You kind of float around and you bump into people.

And one thing turns into another. I was talking to Cal Long when I had the thing with Brian Erlacker. I was talking to Cal Long. And then my back is to where Brian Rackers coming from. But I see Cal Long get distracted by somebody. And then he got kind of like shoulder bumps. I look over and it's Brian Erlacker. And they say something.

I'm like, well, Brian Erlacker's here. Bring him into the conversation and shout out to Cal Long because he just, he immediately like turned into his own kind of reporter, journalist and he's like he brings him in he's holding the mic for him like how long you're the man bro so i saw call on the next day the next morning i walking there and i'm like cow what i'm like he like he like he's like hurry going crazy on twitter i was like yeah i saw it i saw you reposted it he was like man we got to do some more stuff i was like cool cool so uh just those types of experiences is kind of what it was like for us as the bigs out at radio row so my question for you is through the lens of a bears fan

What do you think was the most pertinent information that you got while you were out there? DJ saying that he will be back. I mean, that was one of the biggest questions, you know, since that Rams game ended, what's going to happen with DJ Moore? Should he be back? Do people want him back? Should you trade him? Is it the contract?

Is it the fact that, oh, they lost the game because of DJ, which is complete foolishness? We had that conversation. And, you know, he agreed that it was complete foolishness. You can find that video on the Biggs Media YouTube page. I was going to ask you, how did he? react to because he knew the question was coming, right? He knows like David, he's admitted

he sees what happens on social media. So he knows everybody's asking what happened, what happened, what happened? All that for him just for him just for like, you know, miscommunication. It seemed very like anti-clamatic. Yeah, I mean, I thought the whole conversation was just kind of unfair to DJ. I mean, DJ shows up. He answered

the bells every single, answer the bell every single week. He's tough. He's made two of the most dramatic, you know, iconic catches in bears history against the Packers in, you know, in two or three weeks or whatever. And it's like, then you go and put the loss on him. It's like, that's crazy.

But whatever on that part. But I just wanted to know, you know, his desire to be back. Do you even want to be back? What's going to be your role if there are some trade talks? Are you going to push back on those? Are you going to lean into those types of things? And he just kind of gave me that DJ smile and said, we'll be back. We'll be back in 2026.

Like I was saying earlier, I don't know if that's a conversation that he's had with Ryan Pohl's or restructure thing or whatever. But that was the biggest thing that I got for him. Also, D'Anre Swift told me he doesn't even want to play anywhere else. He's like, I don't want to play anywhere else, man. I've really enjoyed my time here. He was very, very grateful of an experience with E.B. with Coach Eric B.ini, who's obviously now gone back to Kansas City.

But Drey was like, yeah, I don't even want to play anywhere else. Well, and he's in a contract year. So that's a big deal. Like, he'll be a free agent after next season. Yeah, he'll be highly motivated there. I've heard some talks about, you know, the Bears save like 7.4 million or something like that if he he's like and do what like you're going to save the 7.4

and then you're going to do what? You got to, you still got to pay a running back, right? Or like I'm as much of a fan of common on guys than anybody else. You're going to leave him back there by itself. You got to pay somebody. So what are you going to do with the 7.4 that you save if you get rid of Dre? So it's like that doesn't make sense to me.

He'll be highly motivated in the contract year like you said lately. So bring Dre back, bring DJ back. Let's keep this thing going. Did he talk at all about why you guys didn't get to talk to him when they had locker cleanout day? Because that was rare for him. He's usually around. I didn't ask him, but my assumption was just that he was annoyed with the conversation. Because, I mean, he just didn't come in there.

It's not like the bears like he's not available. He just didn't come in there. But, you know, to be completely honest, there was like 10 people in that locker room. Like, he wasn't the only one that wasn't there. Everybody wanted to talk to him. So you noticed his absence. but there was like 10 people there in the locker room. So a lot of people that were missing that day.

But if I was DJ, I wouldn't have wanted to talk either because the whole conversation about this magical season ending because of something I did or didn't do when really I'm as big a reason why this was a magical season as anybody. Knock it off. Go talk to somebody else. Also, Rochon Johnson will still be there next year. Shout out to Rochon.

But he backed up Bijon Robinson. Which is probably why the backup. Running back didn't matter as much at Texas either. But don't worry about that part. Yeah, the conversation around Rochon, when he got drafted, it was extreme. Robust. It was like, it's going to be Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and Matt Forte and then Rochon Zosson.

It was like, oh, okay, cool. It was, and it was the whole like, well, I mean, he had to back up Bejan Robinson, but we never thought about the flip side of that, which was, well, maybe backup running back doesn't matter as much when you have Bejan Robinson. Or just like, what did you see? Like what did you see to make you think he's going to be the next great bears running back? On the tape. Like, what did you see?

Like, Bejohn's getting all the carries. He got his opportunities. He looks fine. I was happy to have him as a fourth round running back. And he's a fine. He's cool. But, like, the conversation was just wild. Sometimes we get carried away.

We do. Well, we also just, you know how it is. You fall in line to the bigger entity. You're like, okay, well, they're scouting more than I am. You know, I'm watching baseball games while they're doing a lot of the scouting. And if there was something that stood out to them that they saw, well, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Yeah.

Herb. Bired is back next season. I feel like you get name checked by Ryan Poles on the way out the door, and you say that you want to come back. Kevin Beyer will be a bear next season. Who else is going to be back there with him, is my question. I don't think it'll be Jaquan. I think KB comes back. I don't think Jaquan comes back.

I think the market for Jaquan will be higher than where the bear's play. I think good on Jaquan for putting, in my opinion, his very best game on tape in his last game, nationally televised, everybody's watching it, and he's out there bawling. He's getting sacks, he's getting PbUs, he's making tackles all over the place. Shout to Jaquan. I love Jaquine. One of my favorite players on the team. He's going to get paid.

I don't think it's going to be here. Tyreek Stevenson? Yeah, Tyreek will be back. He's still under contract. I think that's the reason, as much of a reason why Nashan won't be back. Nashan earned himself some money. He's not going to get it here. to Nishon, I think it's a great story.

He took advantage of his opportunity that came with Jalen's absence and let the league, let the league in takeaways. And he's earned himself a handsome payday. It's not going to come here. It's not going to come here because of Tyreek. And also, you get Smitty coming back. Terrell Smith is coming back off his injury. The bear still want to know what they have in Zay. Like, they got to figure those types of things out, Frazier.

So I don't think Nishon comes back, but Rick will be here. I think Rick is probably the pencil-d-den start. Crion, not crayon. Penciled didn't start it right now. Crayon works too. It's hard to get out. The wax. The wax you can't remove. That's more like a permanent ink style. Do you think that whatever the question was surrounding his snaps against the Lions and then against the Packers, do you think that that will factor into how they view his role next season? Because we never really got an answer as to why his playing time was limited in those two games.

Yeah, I got asked that a lot around that time. And to me, it just was very simple. As long as I've been watching football, there's two outside corners. And unless you're, like, developing some young player, a rotation isn't really a real thing. You're working back Jalen, so they had a bit of a rotation then. But once they felt Jalen was ready to play, you know, 90, 95 percent of the snaps, there wasn't going to be a rotation. Then the question just becomes, who do you think your other best corner is? And at the time, it was clearly Nash right. I talked to Coach Al Harris about this even prior to Jalen coming back.

Like what's going to happen when Zaylan comes back? And he said, listen, you look at the ball production of Nishar Wright. How do you take that off the field? I was like, I don't think you should. I'm just asking you what's going to happen. He's like, well, you got to leave that type of ball production on the field. And I think that's all it was. You got two outside corners.

You got your slot corner. Neither one of those three guys that play outside can play inside for real. He was the outman out. It was just that simple for me. I don't think he did anything wrong or there was some tumultuous things going on behind the scenes. You got two outside corners. one of the top two at that time as far as the coaches felt, he wasn't going to play. Okay, so we slated you for an hour, but I hear you're interested in what Kevin Duran had to say about All-Star.

I think Kevin Durant might be saving All-Star. Okay. You want to join us for the next segment? I'm down to hang out. Because we have some All-Star nuggets that include not only Kevin Durant, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but Mac McLung. And wait until you hear what Mac McClug had to say about the dunk contest. So we'll do that with Herb next.