Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Mike Florio talks Bill Belichick's first-ballot Hall of Fame snub (Hour 2)

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

In the second hour, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote were joined by Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk to discuss legendary head coach Bill Belichick being snubbed by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot. Florio also discussed the latest developments in the NFL coaching carousel. After that, Harris and Grote discussed whether the Cubs have gotten any closer to reaching the National League Championship Series with their moves this offseason. Later, they held the Halftime segment.

This hour is being sponsored by almost-freeteeth.com, affordable implants, life-changing smiles. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who's got a massive brain. Mike Florio. He used to be a lawyer, then he decided to take his talents to the internet. NBC sports. I'm sorry, I'm late. I was talking to Robert Kraft. That is at the time for an airing of grievances.

Pro football talk. I got a lot of problems with you, people. No? Give me name. hear about it. On Chicago Sports Radio 670 the score. Yes, sir. Mike Florio is indeed the creator and editor-in-chief of pro football talk.

Joining us now on the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline is Mike Floreo. Circa-Los Vegas.com. Mike, how are you? You know, I am a child because I look forward to the ability to flash the thumbs and activate the fireworks. And I've learned you only get one chance to do it. After you do it the first time, the thumbs don't work anymore. Okay, we'll be monitoring you.

We'll be monitoring the situation. I'm sure our friends on Twitch will be monitoring the situation. Things are so good here, by the way, Florio, that we just did an hour of radio on the following question. Is Caleb Williams the greatest quarterback in Bears history? We can do that in Chicago, Mike. Wow. Well, and I'll give you a little nugget that I picked up yesterday from Chris Sims. We do PFT Live three or four times a week. He ran into Michael J. Fox, of all people, last weekend at dinner. And Michael J. Fox is a big Caleb Williams fan. So he has that going for him, which is nice. That is nice. Anytime one of the Keaton gets on board, so you know you're doing well in life, at least financially, because I know, I know.

know how Mr. Keaton rolls. Listen. Now I'm running for all the names. We had Alex P. Alex P. We had Mallory. Mallory. Yeah.

Yo Mallory. Who's his name? Who was the boyfriend was Nick? Right? Remember Nick? Oh, hey, yo Mallory. The meathead, yes. See, now I'm actually am acting like a boomer.

That's family ties for all of you who are not quite to the boomer stage of your life. Like Margrody is. Which we are not. But if you're over 37, you're a boomer. Yeah, he was called a boomer earlier today. hit him a little hard, Mike. And I said there's nothing wrong with being a boomer. That just means you have lived a good long life.

That's all that that means. We're all, hey, if we're lucky, we're all going to get there. That was how I dealt with, I think, turning 40. Mitch Album's book Tuesdays with Mori was a great perspective check. Like, the idea is we all get one ride from cradle to grave. And the goal is to keep the grave part from happening as long as possible. and to live every moment, every year, get the most out of everything that we do.

And so I don't care. 40 bothered me more than 60. The only one that bothered me really was 23, because you spend your whole life getting older and looking forward to something. I can drive when I'm 16. I can vote when I'm 18. I can drink when I'm 21.

You get to 22, you're still 21. You get to 23, and it's like, there's really no other number to aspire to. There's no other good number out there. I would argue 25 just because you can rent a car without paying the extra surcharge. That be my number. But I agree. I see what you're doing there, Mike.

I definitely agree with that. Speaking of waiting a while to get somewhere, you say that at the same time, I saw Mike McCarthy's introductory press conference for the Pittsburgh Steelers, a team that I covered when they hired Mike Tomlin. And I just thought it to be such a shocking other side of the coin, if you will, from not only what the Steelers have done over the last 60 plus years, but also. just Mike McCarthy coming home. Oh, that part of it is such a great story. We rarely see that. A guy coaching or playing for the team that he grew up rooting for. And Mike McCarthy oozes Pittsburgh.

You can hear it in every word that comes out of his mouth. But at the same time, they got some work to do to get the Steelers fans on board with it. And I think at the core, and I've been thinking about this for a few days. and I'm in Steelers country. I'm 100 miles south of Accrashire Stadium right now. A lot of Steelers fans around. They were all perplexed. And I think that the core is they feel like they should be getting guys who are in demand.

And McCarthy hasn't exactly been a hot commodity. John Harbaugh gets fired. They're lining up for a chance to hire. Teams that haven't fired their head coaches yet are calling John Harbaugh's agent. to inquire as to whether or not he'd be interested. McCarthy was fired, contract not renewed, however you want to apply. When your contract's not renewed, you're fired. By the Cowboys last year, he got one interview last year with the Bears.

This year he had two with the Titans and with the Giants. And then the Steelers had a vacancy and he became one of the candidates and he got the job. And they hired him before they even had a chance to do an in-person interview with the Rams candidates. So it's just so different, so dramatically. different from how the Steelers have done it in the past. And to hire someone that it feels like he didn't have a plan B, it's not like he's choosing between the Steelers and the Browns, the Steelers and the Ravens, Steelers, and the Titans, Steelers, and this, Steelers, and that. It was the Steelers or nothing, by all appearances. And I think Steelers fans have a much higher regard for their team than that

outcome would suggest. What about the Aaron Rogers part of this? Does Mike McCarthy really want that Aaron Rogers to still be there? Would Rogers want to reunite with McCarthy? The reporting from Tyler Dunn, who was with Bleacher Report at the time in 2019, paints a picture that would suggest to a reasonable observer that Rogers doesn't want to play for McCarthy again. And I would assume that after more than a decade with Rogers, McCarthy isn't interested in a 42-year-old version of Aaron Rogers being his quarterback. Now, it's important for the Steelers to say all the right things, and McCarthy said yesterday, he definitely wants Aaron Rogers back. But that's just a one-year band-date. And at some point,

Father Time is going to win. Father Time is going to kick your ass if you keep playing long enough. We've already seen Aaron Rogers' mobility diminished to the point where he's a pocket passer, who's got to get rid of the ball quickly. And I suspect that the Steelers know they need to let Aaron Rogers be the one to say no thank you. Look at what happened last year. I don't think Rogers wanted to stay with the Jets, but the Jets were the ones who told him no thanks. And what occurred? He put the Jets on blast when it came out that the Jets didn't want him, and they made him fly cross-country, and they didn't want to hear his input after all his years of experience.

It was just, we're going in a different direction. We're done here. So I think they just need to be very careful, and they need to let him make a decision while they make plans for the future. And it sounds like McCarthy really likes Will Howard. So it seems that if Rogers does it. come back, Howard's going to have the chance to develop and play, and we'll see where it goes. You know, McCarthy's lucked into some very good quarterback situations in Green Bay and Dallas.

We'll see if they can develop a guy in Will Howard. Mike Floreo, the editor-in-chief and the creator of pro football talk joining us every week here on Rahimi Harrison Grody. Mike, the biggest news concerning the NFL is what did not happen, and that is Bill Belichick, not becoming a first ballot hall of famer by reporting. out of ESPN. I got to ask you, how shocking is this? And what do you think happens because of this? Well, Peter King put it best in words that we can't say lest we all be fined and or fired and worse. But it was stunning. And I said something to Tom Curran, who covers the Patriots for NBC Sports Boston on PFT Live,

when Belichick made it to the point where he was on the T for consideration. If this guy doesn't get in, on the first ballot. It's a travesty to end all travesty. And I guess at some level, I sensed, given the way that they've operated in the past, Chris Carter got passed over for a couple of times because they didn't like him. Terrell Owens got passed over once or twice because they didn't like him. And the process is conducive to people acting out on whatever petty grudges they hold with someone. So the process itself is a problem. The way they vote now, I won't belabor the point and go into the details. But it was stunning that he didn't make it because if he's not a first ballot Hall of Famer, if he's not a Hall of Famer,

there's a lot of busts in Canton that need to be melted down and turned into cufflinks. Because there are people in there who should not be in there, if Bill Belichick should not be in there. And hopefully it's going to spark an overhaul to the whole process. How they do the voting? Who does the voting? There's a lot of people that have no business voting. And I'm not saying that because I want to vote because I don't. But I think they need to go back to square one. and look at this whole process again because it's clearly flawed and it undermines the integrity of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which indirectly undermines the integrity of the National Football League. Is the solution transparency? How much more will we get a better process if we just had public ballots?

Well, I think that's part of it. And you're going to have some people who don't want their vote to be public. Well, fine, step aside for someone who has no problem with making it public. Why shouldn't people be expected to put their name on their vote? There's a power that comes with the anonymity, especially because of the current process. It used to be each finalist had an up or down vote. You voted for him or against him, and it was an 80% threshold. Now, and I will delve into the details a little bit,

just to show you how ridiculous it is. Bill Belichick was in the same bucket with Robert Kraft, Ken Anderson, Roger Craig, and L.C. Greenwood. finalists. Of those five, each of the 50 voters voted for three. So nobody voted against Belichick. They voted for someone else. And it's possible of all the reasons that have been articulated, and there are many possible reasons for not putting him on the card, it could be that someone just wanted to help the other guys, and they thought Belichick surely getting in. There's no reason for me to vote for Belichick. And all it takes is 11 out of 50 to not put him on the card, and he's

bounced. Yeah, so it could be just egregious in that he was left off because they thought someone else would do the work that they were there to do. Exactly. I mean, who knows what the reason is because, number one, we don't know who voted no. And it would be nice if the folks who did would identify themselves and explain their reasoning. I'd love to know. Surely there's a reason why he didn't put him on the list. Why did you put Kraft Greenwood and Anderson or Anderson, Craig, and Kraft, or whoever,

whoever. But you know, the way this thing works now, of the same five, it wasn't the same five people, but it was the same category that resulted in five. Only one guy made it last year in Sterling Sharp. I think they need to go back to once you have your list of finalists in every given year, it needs to be, let's take up this person and let's do a yes or no vote and not get caught up in this weird mechanism that can leave people out accidentally. It is a very odd mechanism. and we'll talk more about DeBelichick and the whole thing here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie a little bit later on. But Mike Florio, for God's sakes, the Cleveland Browns have a head coach. Somebody finally raised their hand, and it was Todd Munkin.

Now the ex-Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator takes that gig, and I think that's a pretty good product that Cleveland just got. The guy that interviewed with the Bears for their head coaching job that I supported and would have at the very least like to have seen be the OC of Chicago. What do you think about that hiring? Well, as of a week ago, Jim Schwartz was gaining momentum in league circles to be the next head coach of the Browns. And as one source put it to me, the Browns have to decide, do they want to promote him or do they want to lose him or risk losing him? And there's been reporting in the moments we've been on the air, and I apologize for my dings that have been coming through.

But Schwartz is out. He wants out. He's under contract for one more year. He doesn't want to stay. And if I'm Tom Munkin, I don't want the guy who finished second or third in the building because I need to take control. of this team. And I don't need an offensive defensive fracture when things start to go south because they surely will for every team at some point. Nobody has a perfect, well, the dolphins did, but very few teams have a perfect season start to finish without some speed bumps. And if you have two coaches in the locker room, that's not going to be good. So they're going to have to find a new coordinator. And Schwartz has been there three years. In 2023, they finished first in the NFL and total defense based on yards allowed per game. This year,

They finish second, just one yard per game behind the Texans. That's how good they've been. And maybe they're thinking, you know what? We'll find a coordinator because we've got good defensive players. It's more important to find somebody to fix the offense because the offense has not nearly been good enough. And we look at the way that this is kind of shaken out. I think the biggest news for me concerning the Browns was this.

But the second biggest news is Shador Sanders is a pro-volar. And I'm sorry, Mike. I can't take this seriously. What are your thoughts on the Pro Bowl existing in its current Pro Bowl games form and the way that they go about naming players and then, of course, alternates? And that's how we get a guy who had 10 touchdown, seven interceptions and not very good stats. Well, Tyler Huntley was a pro bowler as the third string quarterback of the Ravens a few years ago. When you have a system that allows injured guys and the Super Bowl participants to tap out, you're going to dip deeper and deeper, especially because usually the Super Bowl participants

of teams that make it, they've got a bunch of guys that made the Pro Bowl. So you've got a lot of spots that you need to replace. As long as people watch whatever they put on the air, they're going to keep doing something. You know, even when the Pro Bowl was too hand touch in full pads, it did a good number. Skills competition on the Sunday between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl

did a good number. This year, it's a Tuesday night, more of a studio-based flag football game, and they're really leaning into the whole flagged football thing in advance of the Olympics. Let's see what kind of number it does. If it ever gets to a point where it's not profitable, they'll get rid of it. But, yeah, it's a joke in comparison to what it once was,

and I'm not suggesting there should be a full contact, full speed, go get them pro bowl like there used to be when I was a kid, and it was exciting because there's no reason to get yourself injured. If you're healthy enough to play a football game in early February, you shouldn't be playing a football game in early February and getting yourself injured for the two months that you have. to relax. You don't want to be getting surgery. You don't want to go through rehab. You don't want to hurt your potential free agency value. So I think they just need to get rid of everything but naming the

team. And then you don't have to worry about replacements. You don't have to worry about the teams that make it to the Super Bowl and adding more guys to the Pro Bowl roster. Just name the Pro Bowl teams and be done with it. Yep. Yep. And we all know that being named All-Pro is the much bigger deal. And we talked about it before we even came on. I mean, like, Mitch Tribisky was a pro bowler in the year 2018. Of course, the now famous backup quarterback. Mike, thank you so much for your time. We always appreciate you coming on with us, man. Thanks, Mike. Thanks, guys. Good talking to you. Yep, absolutely. There goes Mike Florio, pro football talk. By the way, the reason I have a little bit of affection and affinity, I suppose

he could say, for Todd Monkin, the new head coach of the Cleveland Browns is because he is from the area. He is from Wheaton, went to Wheaton North. More importantly, to me, It's either as dad or uncle. I should know. Bob Munkin was a famous, famous of the right word, but a great head coach at the high school that I attended, Lake Park High School. Bob Munkin was there for decades and decades. It was an absolutely classic.

And Jeff of the Munkins is the, I believe he's the head coach at Army. So it's a football local football coaching community. Todd Munkin is Bob Munkin's son. He is. Okay. So Todd of the Munkins is Bob of the Munkins. is Bob of the Monkin's son. I went to Lake Park with

Bob Monkin. Never played football for him. I made my choices. I did. When we return here on Rahimi Harris and Grody, I thought we slide in real nice, like, let's slide in a little baseball talk. I see what you did there with the play on words. Oh, yeah.

Just slide right in, like your PCA. Because the Cubs have gotten better, but do they have what it takes to go further than what they did last year. We'll discuss next on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score. Rahimi Harrison Grotie, midday's 10 a.m. to two on Chicago Sports Radio 670, the score. 100%.

And for me, one of the things that you need first and foremost is the people. And from the Cubs front office to the coaching staff, to the guys in that clubhouse, they're winners, and I'm looking forward to taking the field with them. The Cubs got Alex Bregman. Why do you say that was such disbelief and shock? Because sometimes stuff just re-hits you. It didn't feel like that was going to happen. It didn't feel like the Cubs were going to spend the money to do that, and they already

struck out the first time they tried to get Bregman. So it's really nice to, again, bring that to the center stage here on Rahimi Harris and Grody on the score that Alex Bregman is here and we all know what an upgrade that is just for the team in general. You bring in a promising young pitcher in Edward Cabrera. The Cubs are better. The Cubs roster right now is better than the team that won a playoff series last year. And what a nice ride it was now as you look back on it, the Cubs won a playoff series.

It didn't work out against the Milwaukee Brewers, but they won a playoff series. So now, in theory, you set the bar higher. I know the Cubs are better right now. What I don't know, and I am a little bit concerned about, are the Cubs good enough to go beyond winning one playoff series, to get to the National League Championship series, to win multiple series in the playoffs? Are they good enough to do that?

And the reason I'm hesitating and maybe even saying, right now is because of the scary upgrades that have occurred throughout the National League. We know the Dodgers. That's the usual suspect right there, getting Kyle Tucker, just adding on to a team that already won the World Series against the Blue Jays. The Phillies, a 96-win team last year, they re-up with Schwabber and Real Muto. And the Mets, everybody's like, what about the Mets? Yeah, the Mets.

A team that was 83 and 79 last year, Bobesham. is there. Freddie Peralta is there. Your guy, Luis Robert, is now there. Is he my guy? He is your guy. You are the White Sox guy here. So that is therefore henceforth, the way it works here at the score. He is your guy. But we got rid of him. But he's still your guy. Okay. Play the game with me. All right. I'll play the game. He's your guy. I'll play the freaking game. All right. So you see what I'm cooking up here? I'm a little bit concerned about the upgrades and teams sprouting further like the Mets in terms of getting in the way of the Cubs advancing on to the NLCS is where I'm setting the bar right now and be real nice to see them

in the World Series too. I mean, let's just go straight to the team that took one of the best players off of the Cubs and added to their roster, along with a closer, by the way, the Los Angeles Dodgers. If you show me where the Dodgers are in the playoff bracket, I'll show you how far the Cubs. can go. Because the Cubs can beat all the other teams. Absolutely. They can beat all the other teams.

But the Dodgers feel like. And I could be wrong because injuries happen and things happen and you can make acquisitions. There's guys out there right now. Frambler Valdez, Zach Gallen. There's guys you can get right now if you wanted to make a stronger push. I think they need that still. Like as good as it's been, hey, Jed Hoyer, it's been a really good offseason. But I think if you want to do better than you do.

did last year. Even having a better roster right now, there needs to be more done. Now, the safe haven, and I'll put that in air quotes, is the division in which you play. In the National League Central right now, the Cardinals are letting everybody go. Everybody must go.

There goes Nolan Aronado. Oh, we don't need Sonny Grey anymore. Wilson Contreras, no longer with the Cardinals. So you see what they are doing under new management right there. And I hesitate here. You can just speak on Milwaukee if you want, because the Peralta is not there.

It ain't going to be you. He's like, someone can naysay them, but it won't be Mark Grody for a third straight year. Mark Grody keeps doing that, and he wants to do it. Have you learned your lesson? Is the third time the charm? He wants to do it really badly right now. What do you want to say? I want to say, you're

damn right, Milwaukee can't beat the Cubs next year. What happened the last time you saw the Milwaukee Brewers and the Cubs on the field? Someone was flying the L. They were. They got the best of the Cubs. They won. They beat the Cubs in the playoffs. They did. They were better than the Cubs.

Cubs ran out of juice. They ran out of arms. I don't think this Cubs team, hold on. It's what panel counts, right? What are you doing? Knocking on the way. Oh, knocking out wood. I don't think the Cubs will be as ravaged arms-wise as they were this past postseason. But I got to tell you, the Brewers look like the only true threat. Now, the Reds could come up with something because they've got Tito managing them. They've got some young players.

They've got heart. They made the playoffs last year. After I told one Ryan Porth, big Cincinnati Reds guy, that they would make it. He didn't believe me, but they made it. And I just think

the division is there for the Cubs. And if not the division, certainly a wild card spot. But if you want to talk about do they have a good chance to play in the NLCS as opposed to the NLDS and not going beyond that level?

Show me where the Dodgers are and I'll tell you what your chances are. Chances of beating the Dodgers, not high at all. Chances of beating everyone. one else, I like their odds. So just at all costs, stay as far away from the Los Angeles Dodgers as you can. Get away.

Drive, run, must go faster. They've got better players. They've got more better players. They've got future Hall of Famers and MVP's. They've got the biggest payroll. They've got Edwin Diaz now as their closer. When you really look at it, you need the Dodgers to have a very bad year. for the Dodgers not to at least get to the World Series.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't even know what word to use to describe the Dodgers. I mean, it's not fair. It's crazy. Inevitable. It is exciting, though, to think about, to your point about the Cubs starting pitching,

it does look promising, man. One thing I'll say about Craig Counsel. Yeah. When he has had healthy arms available to them, he has utilized them very well, with the exception. of Imanaga, end of season and playoffs, which I'm well documented as to my stance on all of that. We can go back to it, but you understand. Other than that, though, they've made the most out of not much.

Now they've got more. Now it feels like they have more than the bare minimum. When we're talking about Justin Steele coming back whenever he does early in the season or even mid-season, they can slow roll it with a six-man rotation if they want to. The Cubs have options as far as pitching. Offense is where I'm more concerned. Can PCA give us something closer to the first half of the season versus the last half of last season?

Can say a Suzuki not go away for long spells at a time? Can Bregman simply just be Bregman and be the guy that you're paying him to be? Can Ian Hap have a bounce back and be more consistent? There are questions there. Can Michael Bush, going up against lefties regularly now, produce and hit 35 to 40 home runs? Yeah, yeah. I mean, and it is fair.

Like somebody said on the text line, asked us about Ian Hap. Why is he, why we went out circling him? He's got to be circled. Yeah, in terms of you want more consistency from Ian Hap. Has to be circled, but at the same time understand that man has a no trade clause. That's true, too. That's part of the equation here when you think about it. Yeah, no doubt.

And yeah, let's see if the PCA can get it back on like he was in the beginning of the season and Seya, for that matter, and Bush. Like there is. There's tons of promise through. throughout all of this. But yeah, at this moment, I just don't know. And I don't know. I'm not sure what the bar is for Cubs fans, like how hungry.

I know how hungry Cubs fans are. But did they need it to go to the next level for it to be a successful season? Absolutely. I think they will be very upset if the Cubs don't get past the D.S. And they need to be in a position where they're playing for World Series. I'd say the same expectations of Cubs fans as maybe Bears fans. Bears fans expect to be in the NFC championship game next year. That's the place they expect to be.

They wanted to go further than it did a year ago. Point blank, period. Do you have lower expectations for either of those two teams? No, I don't. I don't. Man, now you're getting me thinking about the Bears thing. Am I thinking too much like Ben Johnson when it comes to that with the idea of you're not bringing back?

this ain't, it's never going to be the same again. No. It's never like this is, we got to start from scratch. We've got to do this whole thing over. Well, I think that's true because I think there are going to be some major roster changes for the Bears, but I think several things will be consistent. Luther Bird and the 3rd, Colston Loveland, Caleb Williams, four-fifths of your offensive line. That by itself should say we should still be a top five, let's say top eight offense at minimum.

And really, you should be a top five offense, if not. of top three offense in the NFL given where Caleb has gone from game one to game whatever. With this Cubs team similarly, the PCA of it all is PCA go back to what you were doing a facsimile of the first half of the season

and you'll feel much better about where this Cubs team is headed because he was a problem. C.A of it all. That is I like the way you put that. I think also because I understand the in have concern. He was not as good he has been in years past.

And the inconsistency really sticks out when Craig Counsel refuses to adjust his lineup accordingly for long stretches of a time when you feel like, why is he and Hap still hitting here? You could just shuffle him around. It's not that big of a deal. But I think Craig Counsel wants his players

to be as comfortable as possible. I wish she would take a page from Ben Johnson. Get comfortable being uncomfortable. And when you see some of the at-bats that all the players had when they were going through their hard times without Kyle Tucker in the lineup that first time, that exposed to me that you've got to be a little quicker to make adjustments if you're a Craig Counsel. Yeah, and I'm not sure what the form of that is.

Like if you're just sitting a guy for an extended period of time, you're putting them, because some of that worked. Like, Danesby Swanson at the beginning of the year. Remember, they put him down in the lineup. Then he caught fire for a while when they put him down in the lineup. And then kind of lost it. dramatic with those players last year. Like, again, the PCAness of it all, with Sayas Suzuki, the way we're like, is this guy an MVP? We probably ask, was this guy an MVP candidate? Same with

PCA. Remember, he didn't make the All-Star game. We didn't make the All-Star game. We would do full hours on PCA and justifiably because he was doing some incredible things, but the rate at which those guys fell off the table is something that you're going to have to make sure as smooth. Like, looking back on the season now, when that happened, I was like, oh, man, is this, like, is this what it is? Is he somewhere, it's like PCA, just using him as the example. Is this what he is? Is he somewhere in the middle between being a star and not being a star? Was he overachieving?

I look back on it now, and I do look at it from the optimistic point of view, that he is still going to be a star, and that he will, maybe he'll never be at that as the pace that he was at in the first half of the season again in his career, because it was, extraordinary, but I still tend to think that he is more of what he was in the first half of last season as opposed to the second half of the season. And that's because just of the tools. We saw it. We watched the majority of the games that PCA played in. He's got it. He's got something. And I think that that will be smoothed out, but it has to be smoothed out. And career? Yeah, career. For Alex Breggman specifically, he has to be the stabilizing force that the Cubs thought he was when they paid him all the money, right? When you go back to Alex

Breggman's introductory press conference. And he talks about the interest in winning and wanting to win a third title and that's why he chose the number three and understanding how a clubhouse of a winner works because he's been in clubhouses

of winners. When you look at the Houston Astros, it's funny because he was in that same clubhouse with Kyle Tucker, right? But it's a completely different attitude he's bringing than the one we heard from Kyle Tucker. Yeah, Kyle Tucker. just had really nothing to say about anything ever.

But I did enjoy the hell out of the first half of the season and watching him play and do what he did. But I guess he's gone now. But you know, think about that. How many of those types of guys are on this team? You've got Bregman, who it's all about winning. Hap is probably about there. I know he's going to make more money in his career still,

but I do look at it that way. You know, PCA, Horner, Suzuki, Bush. they probably got a little more hunger for other things, but just to have those guys, those made men on a team like Bregman, as you brought up, is absolutely invaluable, unless not forget about Carson Kelly. I would say this, it's more on Craig Counsel more than ever, because now Craig Counsel has a chance to say, I have enough players on offense, I have to figure out how to get the most out of this lineup every day. And when to rest guys is part of that. whether it's Ian Hap or Alex Bregman even who says he wants to play every day.

And of course, Danes v. Swanson, we know his dance on playing every day. You got to figure it out. That's Craig's job. He gets paid handsomely to do it. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens. Swanson is another good example of a guy who at this point, I would assume the most important thing to him is winning. So good to have those guys around. Coming up next here on Rahimi Harris and Grotie, it is halftime. Marshall, you were put in charge of halftime today. Do you have something you would like to tease? I had different things that I went through, but it's been a long time since I had Taco Bell, but I've never gone to this links to get, you know, inside a Taco Bell.

Okay. That is coming up next on halftime. Rahimi, Harrison Grody on the score. What time is it? It's halftime. It's Rahimi Harris and Grotie on the score. Boy, we had quite the hour to begin the show today from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. We talked about Caleb Williams.

and Marshall Harris told us why he believes that Caleb Williams is the greatest Bears quarterback in Bears quarterback history. We also spoke to Mike Florio today and took some of your calls on that particular quarterback question. It's half time. Mark, what was the lesson? You had Taco Bell? Maybe about a month ago, I remember doing an Uber Eats to...

No, wait, hold on, hold on. Uber eats for Taco Bell. There's a Taco Bell. I know exactly how far away it is for you. It is one, two, three, four blocks from you. It's so cold, man. It's four blocks from you. You know the one I'm talking about, right?

Oh, it's like a canteena one. Yeah, just, just noise. That's a nice Taco Bell, the can'tina. How dare you, Uber Eat, shame me? Look, I got to tell you're so funny you say that. It's so funny. Honestly, I probably didn't necessarily know that, but I will give this to you that I am I have threatened to do this a few times. I've got a Jimmy

Johns basically in my building. I know exactly where it is. You know what I'm talking about. And I've come very close on a couple of occasions to being that. Speaking of Terry Boers, tales of laziness, I believe was something that they would do on Friday Fung, if I'm not mistaken. Bernstein and Boers and Bernstein, they would do that. And yeah, I haven't done. done it yet. But I fear myself. I'm scared that I might get a Billy Club from Jimmy Johns and have it rushed

up in my building. You're saying you're going to have someone deliver a Jimmy John sandwich when it's literally downstairs. I don't want to. I hope it doesn't happen. But you've thought about it already. It's gone through my head. Yeah, a couple times. All right, so I don't have to worry about you doing what this young man did.

Here's the headline. Shirtless Florida man sentenced for diving through Taco bell window and robbing it with a large rock. What? What he's holding up a rock? Here's the lead.

He's not your typical stoner. Because you know, Taco Bell stoners. You know how that goes? Yeah. Hand in hand. A bean burrito brain bandit broke into a Florida

Taco Bell through its drive-through window and then robbed workers and customers armed with a quote, large rock, end quote, authority said. Homeless man Cawarren Lee Anderson 40 was sentenced

months after he was captured by an Ocala Police Department K-9 dog who found him cowering behind a dumpster after his run on the border according to reports

Now he broke into the restaurant by climbing through the wind drive-thru window and they said he was clenching a large rock in his fist so it wasn't bigger than his hand

because he could hold onto it with one hand When I hear large rock I'm thinking you need two hands to hold on the rock. Yeah, I think he's going to tomahawk it. He started demanding money from the staff and the sparse patrons.

Obviously, this was not at peak hours. Even chasing them all out of the building so he could have free reign. That's according to the Akala news.com of the Taco Bell. He then fled the scene but didn't make it very far, thanks to a dutiful canine dog who tracked him down in minutes. When the pup surrounded the corner and started sniffing Anderson, he started to wail and held up his hands and surrounded. render. This is according to the body camera footage obtained by the outlet.

Wow. It's unclear how much cash Anderson may have absconded during his few minutes of freedom, if any. Unfortunately, Anderson said he was homeless at the time, telling police he needed money. And he then got into a physical altercation with another person incarcerated near him just six hours after his arrest, charged with battery by a person at a detention facility in August on top of the original. armed robbery charge.

He was just sentenced to four years in prison minus the 199 days. He's already served in the Marion County Jail. He's going to be breaking rocks? But I'm David Hall. This is such a sad story because obviously this is a homeless man, but like to drive-in through the drive-through window as opposed to using the front door to do it.

It's just a very disturbing story. The app, no, I just want my burrito. That is, of course, Kevin Harlan on with us. I'm a lot of mild sauce because I'm going to squirt it all over the place. I was really just hoping you were going to say he robbed the place just to get just for his nine hard shell tacos or whatever he was going to order and he moved down. Or he wanted free reign of the kitchen. Can I just tell you I used to house 10 packs of soft tacos? Oh, yeah?

Back when they were. Oh, so I was always the hard shell still. So like that's really to me the- Why are you? The hard shell falls apart so angrily. I know. It's like you bite into it and the taste is good on that first bite, but then you're just... I need the crunch, man. I need that flavor.

I need that flavor profile. I need that crunch. The rest of it's soft. Why don't want just the whole thing to be soft? A little crunch in your life, Marshall. After you take the first bite, though, do you feel like, not feel like it's dissolved in your hand at that point? Can you keep it together for a second bite?

Not really. I don't really think about that. It doesn't really bother because we eating Taco Bell, you've kind of give it. given up as it is. So if it's going to be super messy, that's okay. If you've Uber-eated Taco Bell, you've given up on a lot of things. I don't know where that Taco Bell is. Maybe it's really close.

Is it that close to me? Maybe I don't know where there is. I'm going to tell you the people where you live. I'm going to tell you where the Taco Bell is. The Taco Bell is just above Ida B. Wells. Okay. On Dearborn. Okay.

Yeah. Probably could have. Does that answer the question for you? Oh, man. I'd like to share something while we have a moment here, because I don't know that there would be another opportunity for me to share. For this, whatever you're about to share? Something I'm about to share here.

Go ahead. As most people do, I have a device. I don't want to say the name of the device because I don't want your device to go off. Your AI virtual assistant, if you will. Yes. That device that sits there that you ask, you say, hey, fill in the blank, what time is it? What set my alarm?

And I am a big, huge user of that for just everything, playing music, I got my music set up on their alarms. The whole... You're the one killing the energy grid. The whole... Is that what I'm doing? So today, as I normally do, I said, hey, fill in the blank, what's the weather going to be today? And they told me.

She told me what the weather was going to be. And I said, bleep you, because I was very discouraged to hear the answer. And she talked back, didn't she? And she talked back to me. And it freaked me out, man. What did she say? She said, wow, this escalated quickly. Is there another answer or question you might have for me that I might be able to make you happy with?

And I'm like, ah! I'm like, sorry. That's when you realized. I felt bad. I was like, oh, man. And like, that's a woman voice too, so I'm being rude to a woman here. You misogynist you. Yeah.

Yeah, I just felt really bad. And I didn't know. Maybe that's the next level. Like, because I thought you had to say, I thought it was like Simon says. Like, if I respond to Jenny, like, I thought you had to say, Jenny bleep that weather report you just gave me, but you don't apparently. We can just have a conversation. Mark, you understand there are a whole adults out here who have committed monogamous relationships with their AI, right?

No, that's just a family guy episode, right? No, it's a real thing. You're kidding. You know what? For Valentine's Day, remind me, Ray, and that's what we'll do for halftime, either right before or around Valentine's Day. Are you saying like just like a friendship or are you saying people? In a relationship.

In a relationship with your AI device. It's broken up marriages in some cases. What? Yes. There is a movie from 2013. It's a great movie, her. And that is what it's about, basically, is a guy falling in love with an AI assistant, essentially, on your phone.

And this is really happening in real life. Like, this was once a movie, and it is now happening. Wow. Scarlett Johansson plays her in that movie. It's Joachianneux's the lead out. And it's only her. voice. And wait, when was this movie? 2013. Very pressing it, if you will.

So, Family Guy was probably just spoofing it because I do believe there is an episode where maybe maybe it's Brian that gets in the relationship. It sounds like something Brian would do. Yeah, yeah, in relationship with an AI virtual assistant device. That is the truth. All right, that's it, unless there's anything else. Anything else

from anybody here that you need to get off your chest? We have one more thing. Screwing you groat. The AI assistant coming back at you, Grady. That would have really freaked me out. I may not be here today if that had happened to me. Guys, I just, I got some mental issues today, man. I got a fight with my AI device today.

Screw you, gross. Yeah. Good point by 815. Should have gone for the Taco Bell in Devante Adams' house because, you know, he's got a Taco Bell in his house. He does. That's the commercials. Like, he's just at.

And he's had to move. And he's moved. He's had to move that Taco Bell. You know, he's moved to a different house. The greatest conversation. ever had with John Lackey of the Chicago Cubs was the I said hey you guys should have a Starbucks in this beautiful clubhouse here's he's like oh yeah man it's a great idea every time you see at Starbucks coming along all right we got a break five on it let's get this train back on the

road let's get linear y'all with five on it next on Rahimi harrison grody on the score and you get a couple of those in you and you're set for the day and then you just kind of wonder where the wind's going to blow