Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Inaugural Bears Awards: Who was the team MVP?

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote debated who was the Bears' team MVP in the 2025 season.

We wanted to do something since we were all together, now that everybody is back in action. I'm sorry, people take time off when the football season comes to a close. You usually take a few days here and there. So that was me. And we'd been working on this for a while and we wanted you to join us. We want to give out the Bears Award. Yes. Our Bears Awards.

Ding, ding, ding, ding. So I, oh, there's music. So you don't have to listen to me do sound effects for the next hour. Ding, Ding. My favorite is when Grotie does the Law & Order. ding ding ding ding I don't know if it's much of a dink it sounds like more cute when you do like your law and order's cute it's like who stole somebody's a racer at school or something ding ding ding ding law and order sound effect is more like who murdered a guy but both are

valid kill the guy so okay we've got this lovely music and here are our categories for the bears awards I I suggested bears MVP MVP honorable mention because you probably know who the MVP is going to be. Best Offensive Edition, Best Defensive Edition, I'll add that to the list. I know where I didn't text these all at once. Player due to breakout in 2026 on

both the offense and the defense. Player who needs to improve or step it up in 20206. I think I said step it up. Like you got to step it up out there. We're going to be motivational with our statements. The best surprise of 2025.

The most Ben Johnson and like player. Best value player is a good one. And then I also had the submission of Glad they called That Guy Award. So one where the Bears called that guy and you like what they brought to the team. And if you have your own awards,

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So we will start with in our Bears Awards. Do we want to call these something? Like the FM inaugural first annual Bears Awards of the Award FM? That sounds very loud. Right there. She just said it. She just did it right there. I think that's it.

We need the drop. Like I don't know how you fit it on a trophy, but we'll figure it out. Please read it back to us. I can't. Guys, I'll write it down. Nice job. Yeah. Good work, everybody.

Please, I hope somebody got my first annual joke in there. At least that was a thing. So, all right, number one, Bears MVP. It's Caleb Williams for me. Shocker. I'm not shocked by this at all. He ended up with his postseason yardage and his running yards, the total yards from scrimmage for Caleb Williams, ended up being over 5,000.

He was just shot of 4,000 passing yards for the regular season. I didn't even need it that much because I was so happy with what I saw out of the offense as a whole, which was also based largely on the run game. his completion rate was 58% I don't care like that I'm that when it becomes an issue where it's losing you ball games then I'll care

but for now with this first year and the Ben Johnson offense and when you see how many knee jerk reactions and decisions have been made in the NFL for the teams who feel like they didn't get the quarterback question right that means that that is the most important position on the team it was the most crucial

the season was not going to to work if Caleb Williams didn't improve, which he did. So overall MVP for me, it goes to the quarterback. What's interesting about this question is every week on this show, Brahimi Harrison Grotie on a Friday before game day, or excuse me, I guess on a Monday after a game day, we talk about who was the most valuable player in that game outside of Caleb Williams because it's almost assumed that Caleb Williams would be the MVP, right? And so I did a deep dive and my initial reaction was, Of course it's Caleb Williams, but it's not. It's not Caleb Williams for MVP.

I'm going with a guy who is set to win the inaugural Protector of the Year Award. The MVP of this team is Joe Tooney. Let me explain why. Caleb Williams is a good job. Caleb Williams improved over the course of the season. But you know who the Rock was on this team from day one to the end of the season? It was Joe Tooney. Joe Tooney, the left guard, sometimes left tackle of the Chicago Bears,

is the MVP of this team. Here's why. The offensive line had a major overhaul, and he was at the center of it, not literally because that would be Drew Dalman because he plays center on the football team. And go Drew Dalman. You go Glenn Coco.

Let me give you this from Jack Andrade from NFL.com. In the regular season, the Bears led the NFL in success rate on run plays at 48.1% and average the second most yards before contact per carry, 1.8. That's according to next-gen stats. Tune, whether you go by PFF or next-gen stats, zero sacks allowed all season on his 643 regular season pass-blocking snaps, counting as the most logged by any player without a sack by next-gen stats.

That shutout is more impressive when you take this into account. Caleb Williams, one of the best playmakers when he has extra time to throw, had the longest average time to throw among qualified passers at 3.2 seconds per play during the regular season and threw more passes on extended drawbacks, 94, and Scramble plays, 79 than any other player. Joe Tooney wasn't perfect, but he was close to perfect. And I think without him, the Bears don't have the success they had in the running game, having the third best rushing attack in all of football. Caleb Williams has more than the 24 sacks down from six.

68 in his rookie season. He is the rock, and where he goes, teams win. Check the resume. He's a future Hall of Famer, and Joe Tuny was the most valuable player on the Bears. It's a really well-thought-out answer, a good answer. So I guess I'm going to have to use all of my bullet points to tell you why I agree with Laila Rahimi that Caleb Williams is the MVP of the Chicago Bears. I love the Tooney thing, though.

But Caleb Williams, seven, this never goes out of style saying seven fourth quarter comebacks, broke Eric Kramer's single season pass record. Elite passes of consequences, for example, 25 yards to DJ Moore with 148 left in a playoff game against the Packers. 14-yard pass to Colquimette against the Rams where the ball actually traveled 51.2 yards in the air. A 46-yard pass to DJ Moore in overtime against the Packers in Week. Week 16. Week 15 against the Browns, a 22-yard pass to DJ Moore for a touchdown.

And all of that that I just mentioned right there, that was all in a month period at the end of the season. I didn't even go through some of the elite stuff in the middle and earlier in the season. So I am going to go with Caleb Williams as your most valuable player for the Chicago Bears in 2526. Guys, I hear you. I just want to say consistency is king. And before Caleb was doing all of that, Joe Tuny's play. allowed them to even be in that position. So we have like eight questions here. And I was like, I don't know, guys.

I don't know if we're going to get through all these in a certain amount of time. We'll be fine. So we're going to try. Yeah, you say that. And yet here we are after one question. Yeah, Marshall. We have more coming up here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 670. The scores are Bears Awards continue 1043 to score.

Guys, you were supposed to yell at me. You didn't yell at me. No, you were too busy yelling at Marshall. I'm just listening. You're like, we'll be fine. I'm like, it took us 20 minutes to get through one question. It wasn't 20 minutes. It was seven minutes.

Hey, I'm counting. If we have to do this the whole show, I'm in for Bears Awards. How often have we done this? Has this ever been done on the score? I don't think so. This is a great idea, Leila. I'm all for. We've never talked about the Bears on the School.

No, I'm talking about awards doing something this, like multiple sections of a show being devoted to how good the bears are. These are based. And even the question where we say the steps. it up. Like, you need to step it up. We're not even saying that you were that bad. We're just saying you need to step it up. Yeah, there's a little push. Looked off. And I'm raising my eyebrow at you, disprovingly.

And FM, yes, Ray? As Lila said, this is, I went back and I got the whole title of this award show. It is the quote, the FM inaugural, first annual Bears Awards. FM. All right. So

we'll figure that out. Very digestible. Did I hear another Bears in there? Were there two bears? FM. Two FMs. All right. We'll figure it out. Okay. I like it. I think it's catchy. We can put it on a trophy and a T-shirt and people will 100% read the whole thing. What would a Bears Dundee be called?

I think we just figured it out. A bearsie. A Bears Dundee, that's a good question. We've got to be at a Chili's in order to have a Bears Dundee. I feel George in this Chili's tonight. I need a Ksidi Explosion salad. How about the one where Pam got wasted? That was funny. Yeah. Well, it's One of the, because there's multiple Dundees.

Fair enough. That's the one. That's the one I think of. Okay. The one of the Chili's. Yes. So, okay, next time it's into Chili's. And we will continue this next.

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