Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Olin Kreutz talks Bears hiring Eric Studesville as running backs coach (Hour 2)

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

In the second hour, Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris were joined by Score football analyst Olin Kreutz to react to the Bears hiring former Dolphins running backs coach Eric Studesville as their new running backs coach. Kreutz also previewed the Patriots-Seahawks matchup in the Super Bowl on Sunday. After that, Rahimi and Harris discussed a polarizing topic leading up to the Super Bowl. Later, they held the Halftime segment.

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I like a little disturbed on my Thursday morning. I like talking to Olin Crutes even more. We do it here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 1043, the score. He joins us via the Cirque Resort and Casino Hotline. Circa, Las Vegas.com. Olin, newly inducted the College Football Hall of Fame class of 2026. That happened seconds after we talked to you that day. Olin, congratulations.

Yeah, I really appreciate it. You know, that was a surprise to me. They called me the ball. They send you a ball through the mail, and you're supposed to open it and to get the call from the athletic director. But the ball actually went to a house I used to live in. When an athletic director called me, He was like, oh, and congratulations.

And I didn't know. First, I was thinking, you know, did they want some more money? What the hell did they want from me, right? University of Washington. But he told me I made that College Football Hall of Fame. And I'm sure as you guys know, man, when you go through something like that, it's really humbling, it's a chance to thank everyone that helps you get to where, you know, those kind of awards, those kind of accolades.

But really just humbled and shocked. And it'll be a good time and just grateful to actually, you know, get recognized by the College Football Hall of Fame. I was at Washington. I played three seasons there. So they didn't really know if I would make it or not. I didn't have a long college career, but obviously humbled and grateful I did.

Well, and I get their email lists, and I feel like they are a foundation and an organization that if they don't have a lot of like stipulations as to like when you get in or when you qualify, like if you're good enough, you get in. It's a wonderful group of people who contributed to the game in a lot of ways. Yeah, it definitely is a great group.

of people and if you look at their board and go through it, you realize why it's run so well and why they throw such a great event every year that, you know, I've never heard complaints from people who went out and enjoyed it and took their family and it was part of the ceremony. They always leave, you know, really satisfied at what they, what kind of event it was and what, you know, what they put to put on there in Las Vegas. Olin, one of the things that's true, every football off season, really, really bad teams and really, really good teams have one thing in common. They have openings on their staffs.

The Bears on the right side of that for once this year with openings after seeing Eric B. Enemy move on, after seeing Declan Doyle move on. What do you make of those openings and now knowing that Eric Stoosville has been hired as the running backs and kind of reunited with Ben Johnson? Yeah, a good sign for Chicago Bears that people actually want guys off of their staff, right?

We've gone through a lot of years around here where we were trying to figure out who we wanted off of other people's staff. So a good sign of Chicago Bears are moving in the right direction. Coach Ben Johnson really puts himself together really strong staff and losing Coach B. Enemy, the standard he set in the running back room, the way he was demanding on his running backs. You could see that through Manung guys play. You saw that through Swiss play and the way they played football.

Obviously a great reflection on Coach Bianney. You know, in the coaching business, they always say, your film is your resume. And he had really good film from this year. Declan Doyle moves on to the Ravens. And, you know, thankfully we haven't heard anything about Al Harris yet. But it's just, it's a good sign. And it's a good sign for Chicago Bears.

And we still have the play caller here and Ben Johnson. And I'm sure he's looking right now to replace Declan Doyle, will it be somebody on staff, right? Would it be Matt Aponte? Would it be Jack Cable, Robert Baccaro, press Taylor, T.J. Barrett. You know, those kind of guys, will they do that? Or would they look outside the building? But I'm sure he'll find somebody out there, put him in Declin Doyle's spot

and keep that train moving the direction that Coach Ben Johnson wants it moving in. Well, and Olin, as a former player, I feel like the best staffs I read about are the ones who disagree a little bit. You know, it's the ones who may look at a blind spot that you may have or they keep you honest because when they contradict you,

it's usually because they see something that perhaps another team is keying in on. And I'm not saying that necessarily happened with this staff. But they did have a group of varying personalities where I feel like they didn't necessarily get the typical people in the building. Eric B. Enemy is a great example. And then you hear Andy Reid talk about how direct Eric Bienemy is and how much they seem

to want that in Kansas City. You know, what does that say about just not being afraid and being confident enough to bring in some different opinions who have some real experience on your staff? Yeah, a really great point. And critical, right? Critical that, you know, we used to say in the football building, leave your feelings at home, right? Leave them at home because we're going to say the things that need to be said. We're going to challenge each other.

We're going to tell you when we don't think a play is good. When you don't think you're playing, we don't think you're playing well. And that's the kind of people like you're talking about Ben Johnson put in the building. Same with your guys' radio show, right? If you agreed on every topic, the show would be boring and you'd be off the air. So you need guys in there with different opinions who will challenge each other, who will talk about different subjects. Look, I've seen the player run this way.

I don't like to play it run that way. I think we should do this, not that. So Coach Ben Johnson did a really good job. finding those guys the first year, guys who would challenge him, guys who would help him grow as a head coach, as a play caller, help him get to the plays that he needed to get to, present ideas. Obviously, Coach DeAnnemy, been around for a long time on a lot of coaching staff.

Andy Reid, people would argue the best play caller in the NFL for a long time. He brings his ideas, and then you've got Declan Doyle comes from Sean Payton, and Sean Payton is a great play caller, right tight in coach Jim Dre, Coach Dan Rochard from New Orleans. Was that too lame? All these ideas like you're saying in one building, man, challenging each other. And that's going to be, you know,

Studysville, as Marshall mentioned, Sudaville was here. I was coached on him. He's a great running back coach. He'll bring new ideas. He was just down in Miami. With that coaching staff and running the offenses, they wanted to run.

So maybe a big reason that he is here is to bring those ideas. And it's just going to be interesting to see how he replaces these coaches he had and keeps this thing moving in the right direction. Olin Cruz joining us here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, The Score. He is our football analyst, also a Bears Center from 1998 to 2010. He is a college football Hall of Fame in the class of 2026.

Olin, I wanted to ask you about the uniqueness of offensive line. We had our Bearses award show the other day, and the question was, who should be the MVP on this team? I put my vote, I said at the top of list, should be Joe Tune because of what he represented and his flawless play. Are you upset that they're just now getting around to this new award, the protector of the year? Yeah, I mean, it's a cool award, man. Honestly, it's something I've ever thought about when I play.

And I heard a little tidbits of Joel talking about the award and being up for it. And obviously, he's deserving. And that's a great pick by you with the culture and the winning and the winning ways he brought and teaching the young guys how to prepare, how to attack every week, how to stay focused, how to stay ready for the season, as it gets late in the season, how to keep in your playbook, keep moving the right direction, stay on your fundamentals. But for me, it's something I never thought about. I heard Joe say, like, you don't even think about getting honored as an offensive alignment,

right? You think about your offensive line and are you playing well together and how's the team doing and are we all moving in the right direction? Are the running back playing well, or the receivers getting the ball because we're blocking well. But it would have been pretty cool while we're doing. we're playing to have that award, something to strive for, something other than the Pro Bowl, other than all pro, an award as protector of the year. Pretty cool idea there by Dion Dawkins out of Buffalo to come up with to honor guys,

and they've got a great committee that's voting on it, and I'm sure they'll pick the right guy, and I think it's today. Yeah, the NFL honors are tonight, Olin. Our segment with Olin is sponsored by Almost Free Teeth.com, Affordable Implants, life-changing smiles. And, Olin, one of the other things that I think is, is at least, The NFL is starting to understand this, and you were on this earlier, and I don't think you just said it because you play center. But how left tackle was always the standard for the most crucial part of the O line.

It was one where that was always the original traditional position that meant the most. But you're seeing how center is really becoming crucial as well. I feel like having this award for the offensive lineman, just with more people watching tape, they just realize how much more the line is really essential to a quarterback success. You know, what do you think about everybody getting smarter in a good way? I feel like I can't say that very often right now. Right, no, but, you know, social media has really helped for that, right, guys who understand line play, who watch the film, putting their thoughts out there on Twitter, that who are the good offensive alignment,

what's actually happening on plays, what you're actually seeing from different guys. And, you know, the NFL, I was just talking to a coach the other night, you talk about centers, and he was saying it's a third down league. And by that he means, you've got to adjust to the blitzes and all these pressures that these defense, that the coordinators are bringing nowadays, and it's really complicated up front to direct protection, to change direction, to get guys on the right guys, and that's when a good center comes into play.

He has to ID who the O-L-Line's going to when you want to redirect protection, slide one way, slide the other way. So you are right that people are now, like guys like the Charles Bentley, Duke Mannyweather, Brandon Thorne, they're out there. You hear from them, you hear them talking about Mitchell Schwartz, putting stuff on Twitter, breaking down film,

breaking down tape AQ Shippley's another guy so there I just mentioned a bunch of guys that are trying to teach everybody about line play what's going on out there because as you guys know most games are the quarterbacks talking right retired quarterbacks are the color analysts and they're talking telling you what's going on in the game and obviously like I always say I'm always biased towards offense alignment by that I mean I'll tell you why it wasn't an offense alignment's fault right I can make the film say anything I wanted to say honest I can grab clips from two or three games and that's what people got to watch for because I mean I'll tell you why it's because people can present us any story they want from two or three clips on what that happened in a game. And a quarterback is going to tell the story from a quarterback's perspective or why the quarterback couldn't make the play. So it is nice to have guys who understand the game from a different point of view. Talk about the line play, talk about how important it is, talk about how important a guy like Joe Tunney, Drew Dalman, Jonah Jackson, Darnell Wright, right, Ozzie Tripilla going in and out, those guys, how important they are to a football team and what's actually going on. when you're watching a game. Now, Olin, I love that you brought this up

because it brings me back to like a bigger point in society right now because social media exists in the way it does. There's so much misinformation, disinformation. You could argue that we have the most educated football fans we've ever had in the history of the game, right? But at the same time, there is stuff out there and people can tell you what they want you to believe

using the film. How do fans, how Chicago Bears fans, what should they do? What steps should they take to differentiate between what is true and what is false out there? That's a great question, man. And that's really every subject, right? On Twitter, how do you differentiate between what's true and what's false in the political

world or in football and basketball and anything that you're looking on, you know, Twitter for information? There's so much information, so many accounts out there. But, you know, you find people you trust and think that, you know, they say something in three or four or five weeks later that ends up being true. They're just giving you exactly what they see on film, exactly what they think is happening. Now, there's bias in everything, right? And people don't like to think there is.

You know, the big problem with the Pro Bowl for years is, oh, there's bias in the Pro Bowl, right? Now you see there's bias in the Hall of Fame votes, and it's bias in all pro votes, too, right? That's just natural. People want to tell the story. They want you to believe what really benefits them or somebody they know, right, the information people get out of a football building. whoever gives you that information. I always tell people from the Bears building, don't call me in season because you're just going to tell me

what you want me to think about what happened on the player, right? I want the video, the film to tell me exactly what happened, and then that's what I say when I'm on radio. So I don't even like hearing from coaches. I don't want to hear from players because they just tell you from their perspective, their point of view, they just tell that story. So, you know, Marshall, I couldn't even give you a good answer on that. Like, how do you find people to trust to believe?

I would just say, man, good luck. Wow. I appreciate the honesty. Yeah, that is completely understandable. If you have an answer, make sure you text one to me. You know what I mean? I got no idea. We're talking to score football analyst.

The Bears Center from 1998 to 2010, Olin Crutes, two-time All-Pro as well. And Olin, we talked about this earlier. You know, you are our coach. I just saw a video of you doing a drill with two of your kids on Instagram. I wanted to ask you about that. but then it also got me thinking about just how we saw 10 head coaches get hired in the league, and not one of them is a minority. And as a minority yourself who is in coaching, who wanted to get opportunities in the NFL,

on the offensive side where we're seeing a lot of these coaches get the head coaching jobs. You know, what do you think about the level of opportunity based on the outcomes that we're seeing for a lot of these head coaching candidates? Yeah, it's it's perplexing to say it at least, right? I don't know what the answer is. I know they're trying. They're doing the Rooney Root. They're doing interviews. That doesn't seem to be working out the way they want it to work out.

You talk about I'm coaching. Obviously, I wasn't looking for opportunities in the NFL, but, you know, I remember going to the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame, which I'm a member of, and talking to Maatana Vasa and Jesse Sapolu and asking them, how did you guys come up with this idea? and it's exactly what you're talking about. They created the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame, and they created the Polynesian Bowl, which is turning to one of the biggest high school events in the nation.

They created that for the networking opportunity for Polynesian coaches to meet and fail them to get chances to get different jobs and to get to know each other and just create more opportunity. And that's what we're really talking about, right, is creating opportunity for coaches to get to know each other, get comfortable, and that's the way you get hired in any business, right? It's not just in the NFL. It's in any business that this is going on,

where we're trying to present more opportunities to people that usually would not have the opportunity. And if I, you know, just like the social media, I think like everyone else, if I told you I had the answers, I'd be lying, right? Even on the defense side of all, if you look at Mike McDonald them in the Seahawks, right, they almost, that group they had in Washington

with the Washington commanders in 2010 to 2013, where Shanahan, McVeigh, LaFleur, all those guys there, they almost had that thing in Baltimore, right, with the defensive coaches, with McDonald, Minter under Dean P's, under Don Wink Markendell, who I like to call Baba Yaga because all the blitzes he runs, but they have a group there right with Dernard Wilson and Lynn, the D quarter at Penn State and Zachary Orr,

and, you know, why did Jesse Minter and McDonnell get those opportunities that the other guys have not got, right? So it's just very interesting questions to ask, I think that you've got to make people uncomfortable. You've got to ask them the questions and get answers from them and try to get to a solution here at some point where you can move the Rooney Rule along. I think the Rooney Rule came about in 2003. So obviously we can update it.

We can make it better. And they have, right, we're pushing into coordinators in a different position where you have to interview, and they just got to keep working on it. All right. Your net worth is your net worth, as they say. So I completely understand everything you just said. with that sentiment. One more before we get you out of here. Who you got on Sunday?

And tell us why. Yeah, the Seahks are hard to pick against, man. When you look at their roster, when you look at their coaching staff, and you look up all the stats that they have put up this year and their defensive front and the way Donald is playing and Jackson Smith and Jibba and the way Mike McDonald-Paul plays and they look like they've been the best team in the NFL throughout the whole football season with their defense

and the way Darno makes plays and the way. Cubiac is falling plays there, but gosh, man, the Patriots, when you turn their film on, you're like, I don't see a lot of stars on defense here. Obviously, you've got Christian Gonzalez, right, the quarterback, but the rest of the team, but man, do they play good football? It's just brable. Guys, these two coaching staffs are an interesting study, man. They are very good at what they do when you turn their film on and the way they execute,

especially both teams on the defensive side of the ball. So I'm going to go with the Seahawks, but one or two takeaways, are there from the Patriots and they're very hard to run the ball against. Their film is interesting. You turn the film on and you're like, okay, I'm looking for a star here in their front seven. And there's very good football players there in their

front seven, right? There's very like Milton Williams, Kyriece Tonga, who was Ryan Pace's last draft pick here with the Bears, right? There's Robert Spillane, there's Harold Landry. But there's not guys that jump off to film, like when you watch the Seahawks with Leonard Williams, Brian Murphy,

Demarchus Lawrence. Like those are names everybody knows, right? So very interesting to me how good of a defense, the Patriots play, and where they rank, and that just tells you how good Brable is and his staff is at coaching football. But I'm going to see off through the reason they're favored, and they're a very good football team. Oh, and thanks, as always, for joining us. We appreciate the time. Thanks, Olin. Appreciate you guys. Have a good day. That is the College Football Hall of Famer, Olin Croutes, the six-time Pro-buller, two-time first team all-pro, joining us here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on 104-3, The Score.

Always great insight. Always. Absolutely. And coming up next, this is a, this story has gone viral. Like, there's no other way to put it. It's gone absolutely viral. The Athletic did their anonymous player survey. And the answers that we are going to examine when it comes to the Super Bowl and other things

are worth your time next. Rahimi Harrison Grody, middays 10 to 2 on 104 3 the score. Oh, that's appropriate. Bad Bunny. This is Rahimi Harrison Grody on 1043 the score.

And whether or not you like it, his performing at the Super Bowl has become a topic of conversation. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked at someone who is not, how do I put this? traditional for some people is drawing a lot of polarizing comments. You know what the funniest part about it is, by the way?

Tell me. The concept of A, Puerto Rico not being in American territory, which it is. I feel like this is a good history lesson, though. And Bad Buddy sings in Spanish, which he does. Do you know who the Super Bowl halftime performer was last year? I honestly can't remember. Rihanna. Do you know where Rihanna is from?

Trinidad and Tobago. Well, Kendrick Lamar was last year. Oh, that's right. Kendrick Lamar was the year before. But Rihanna was two years ago. Yeah. Kendrick Lamar is squarely from Los Angeles. But Rihanna was two years ago.

And Rihanna is obviously not American. Did anybody complain about Rihanna not being American? Well, there's a long list of non-American performers at the halftime show of the Super Bowl. Right. But Rihanna is for. from a Caribbean nation and everything. And Bad Bunny was actually in a Super Bowl halftime show. It was when Shakira was the headliner.

She brought him out. I think this was like early in his career. Now, people did complain about the Shakira and J-Lo halftime show. How could you complain about the Shakira and J-Lo halftime show? What is wrong with you if you are complaining about the Shakira and J-Lo halftime show? They thought they shook it too much. They didn't pass the purity test. Come on, man.

So this is all connected to the Athletics Anonymous. NFL player survey. And it wasn't just, by the way, about the Super Bowl acts. It was also about Tom Brie's role, whether or not it was a conflict of interest, the fact that he's a broadcaster, meeting with teams every week and partial owner of the Raiders. And the tush push, which I feel like Nishon Wright did a lot on his own to devalue the tush push. And credit to Dennis Allen, too, because I was absolutely a coaching decision and strategy decision that they had made. But I did laugh at the fact that Rihanna had performed in the Super Bowl two years ago, not one. Thank you.

And I'm like, Rihanna's not from here? Is the who from here? No, right? They're British, aren't they? Is you two from here? No. Bruce Springsteen is from New Jersey. We can't confirm that.

Prince is from Minnesota. Lake Minnetonka. Shout out. So there's other performers. But that's kind of the joke in all of this. is that a friendly reminder, Puerto Rico is an American territory. As is Guam, by the way. Is Paul McCartney from here?

I'm just curious. No. Okay. I see. You see what I'm doing? And some of these quotes are incendiary, so much so that the athletic did say that they edited because one of the quotes didn't meet the standard. And I'm pretty sure it might be one of these that was in a previous edition of the article.

quote, I don't even know who Bad Bunny is, said an NFC offensive player. I always think it should be an American. I think they're trying too hard with this international stuff. Bad Benny is from Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. I'm so mad these are anonymous comments because this is the perfect time. Well, I mean, that was the only way you were going to get truthful answers. Some of them, but some of them actually sounded, I don't know, open-minded to things that they weren't used to. two? Oh yeah. There were a couple good ones. One of the NOC offensive players said, I do not like it.

I prefer anyone who's synonymous with football and football culture. I feel like there's tons of artists out there who are fans of the game. What is football culture? Does that mean they wanted jog jams played at the halftime show? Is that what we're doing? I'm trying to understand what that means. Yeah. Is it the band of your favorite university? Is that that synonymous with football culture having the band play at halftime. That's what they actually used to do back in the day, you know. And an AFC defensive player or an AFC offensive player said, quote, I think there are better examples of character and morality than bad bunny.

Is that a mic drop or just a phone drop? How would you describe what you just did? No, a mic drop is you said your point. That is not mine by any means. Oh, okay. He's got billions of views for his records. He's one of the largest artists in the one. He's currently the largest, as in the most streamed artist in the world, period.

Billions. Not millions. Billions. Tell me how that CBA thing works again, because they get more money than more people who watch the games and stuff. We're seeing reports that the salary cap might go to as much as $307 million. What do you think that comes from? The idea is to grow the game. And the one thing that alleged racism.

misogyny, among other things, xenophobia. The one thing that can knock that down every time, green, profits, more money. And I think the NFL is doing a good job of leaning into that to really open people's minds to new possibilities. Because if this wasn't a money-making thing, it wouldn't happen. Well, I mean, and this whole halftime outrage thing really started with people blaming Janet Jackson for Justin Timberlake taking her wardrobe off. Like he physically grabbed her top and pulled off a piece of her wardrobe. And she got blamed for that.

Is it bad that we're at this level right now where there's been kind of a reset of what the halftime show means? and that it's become so anonymous or sorry, synonymous with American culture that it has to be a certain type of American in people's eyes. Well, and that's it. And that's the whole point is look at a map and understand that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. Now, these weren't all the answers. There were some others that were pretty great. Added another NFC offensive player.

Heck yeah, it's going to be a good time. The girls like bad buddy. So, of course, we're going to like it. That's what I'm talking. about. And an AFC defensive player says, it's a little different, but I'm a fan of changing things up, exploring different musical genres. And an NFC offensive player said, I think it's pretty awesome. Some of his music is really good, man. When I was trading, I heard it in Florida. I heard his music all the time. And it's a bop. That it is. Now, you can have your own opinions on what you like

with music. Nobody's saying that. But these weren't the only answers. Then there were also, who is your dream Super Bowl halftime performer? And that question was answered has followed. 76 votes. Michael Jackson got the most. RIP. Ip. 13. Yeah. So hologram Michael Jackson. They want to see a hologram performer at half time of the Super Bowl. I guess they were saying like if somebody were to have performed at half time, they would have liked to do. This answer should have been stricken from the survey in my opinion. Wait, wait. Do you think anybody who was surveyed is old enough to have actually seen Michael Jackson perform at the Super Bowl in 1993? It's a great question, Marshall. But I think

Michael Jackson is the type of artist that transcends. You know, everybody knows Michael Jackson, no matter what age you are. That's not one of those artists, in my opinion. I feel like that young people don't know about. We don't people know about Michael Jackson. You know who is next? Drake.

So much for the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef. King. Yeah. Drake stands are out there. This article smartly said that Drake was somewhat part of the halftime show last year, which I cracked up at. Beyonce was also on the list. Chris Brown and Travis Scott.

Can we talk about the others, though? The ones that only got two votes. Because Chris Brown and Travis Scott each got three votes out of the 76 votes. Yes, we can. Several people who got multiple votes. And players were allowed to vote for multiple artists. Here's who got two votes. It's an interesting list.

It is a propper, a true popery. Justin Bieber. Creed. Creed? Yes, Creed. G-Hirvo, Whitney Houston, J-Z, Little Wayne, MBA young boy, Chris Stapleton, George Strait, Morgan Wallin, Rod Wave. George Strait got two votes? Listen.

Who's listening to the oldies? I'm trying to tell you, this all comes down to parenting. You can not convince me otherwise. See, Crete, now, if you want to talk about that phrase that came up in the survey, synonymous, you know, another synonymous with football culture, there's a thing. that people love creed. And for me personally, I don't get it. It's not my thing.

It's Creed football culture. It's corporate rock. It's corporate rock. That is exactly it. Like imagine dragons. Exactly. What I want to know is the person who said the thing about the football culture, who in their mind is synonymous with football culture.

Right. That would have been. That's the follow up. You got to, right? Because like I said, NBA Young Boy. When he said it, I was thinking, sir, his name is NBA. Apparently Jalen Hertz, I read a quote that he's a big fan of NBA Young boy. That was somebody he said he would like to see.

Jalen Verbs in a postgame interview told Pam Oliver that he was going to listen to some Anita Baker after the game. And Pam, Pam, Pam goes, what do you know about Anita Baker? And I was like, way to break character, Pam. You know why? You know why, Leila? Parenting. The man had solid,

foundational parenting. How do you feel about Anita Baker? Come on now. Put some Anita Baker on right now. Like, come on, man. Same way I feel about Big Luther. Like, same. same Aretha. It'll never be Jay-Z, by the way.

Jay-Z on the list of some of the other answers. It'll never be Jay-Z because Jay-Z is a part of the, he's the main person that is in charge of selecting who performs. Is that a conflict of interest? I think that's a conflict of interest. Earth, wind, and fire. It is a conflict of interest, but it's not. Because remember, the Super Bowl halftime show act does not get paid.

Just remember that. Well, and the other part is, too, is that, so we're running out of time in this segment. But you know, there were other answers when it came to. the discussion and you bring up Tom Brady like for example one of the questions in the survey was are NFL players okay with Tom Brady's dual role as an owner and a broadcaster and the quote says here that was pulled it's just a conflict of interest even if Tom is careful the optics are not good

and it could create an ugly situation down the road another quote says if he's getting information and sharing it with the Raiders so what they sucked anyway and then the next quote says teams just have to be mindful of of what you tell him, just like with any broadcaster or reporter. So that's a good scope and spectrum of answers there when it comes to how they feel about it. That is something that you want to know. Like it's one thing for us to talk about, but what do they feel about it? I'm sorry, I got distracted.

Now it goes. What's happening? Dale and Terry got flipped. What? So we're not we. I'm like, so we're not getting a center? Wait, what's happening now? The Knicks are sending Daly and Terry two second round picks and cash to the Pelicans for Grand Theft Alvarado.

Jose Alvarado. Okay, so that confirms that the Dalantary trade to the Knicks did happen then. Correct? The NBA is so wild this year that they're trading players who aren't even actually with the team. Yeah, sometimes they... Like, Uzman Jang's like, wait, how can I get traded by the game? the Hornets if I'm still with the thunder. Well, sometimes they make the trade and they agree to the terms.

They're like, hold up. Let's see if we can get another team in on this. And so that's how it becomes a three team or four team even deal as it progresses. So wait a second. Okay. The Knicks are sending two second round picks alongside Dale and Terry. I was like, Jose Alvarano and two seconds? No, no.

That was never happening. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. I was just reading the straight Schaum's tweet. You were. I was just impressed that Dail and Terry was one traded. at all and then two part of a flip. He's an expiring contract at the end of the day. Amazing.

We should also point this out. One of the Shams bombs that came across was him saying that the Milwaukee Bucks have indicated to teams that they are keeping Janus through the trade deadline and we'll start making other trades. So what happens to Sabonis then? Does he become the biggest big man name that's out there possibly? If Janus and Jha both aren't getting traded and the Pelicans have been not willing to trade Zion

Williamson, then yeah, I guess it's a bonus is, and the thing is... No, Zion's probably still the biggest, right? It's Zion and then Sabonus? I don't think the pelicans are willing to trade Zion, though. That's the thing. At the deadline, they might look at him in the offseason, but I think everybody's saying, okay, we looked around we're just going to hold.

Because also when you trade in the off season, Leila, this is the big thing. You know where everyone's draft capital is. You know what those picks mean in 2026 that you don't write the second. Also, yeah, I'm sorry that I forgot about Kendrick Lamar. That was the half-to-that was the Super Bowl I watched on Tobe.

I was in Thailand at the time. And our signal was going in and out. Shout out to To-Bee, man. You get some good movies on. To be interesting movies on three-b-a-threatter. The funniest was that, I was, everybody's like, how are we going to get the Super Bowl? How are we going to do this? And I was like, guys, I got it.

It's on To-Bee. And I thought of you immediately, right? Those To-B-B movies, they're a thing. And everybody's, everybody's, I'm like, Leila, how did you know about the Super Bowl on Tooby? Do yourself a favor. If it's a Saturday night or something, you're looking for something to do. But you don't want to go out, go ahead and throw on Tooby.

Put a movie on. It's some interesting independent movies on Tooby, man. Is Velocepaster on it? Velocepaster, you see what I'm talking about? These are the movies. Okay. We got to bring back. It's time.

Now the football season's over, we've got to bring back the movie club. I think Velocepaster should be on the list. You guys will not be disappointed. I don't know that we can get Grady on board with Movie Club. He couldn't even follow the one assignment we've given him so far. He's doing this now out of petulance. Yeah, basically. All right, it's time for halftime here in Rahimi Harris and Grady.

You, which story do you want to tell us about? Which one do you want? You know the two stories? No, it's your research. You get to pick. You know what? Vending machines, some would say they're passe. I would say vending machines like all of us have evolved.

Machine. What's all I, man, dude? The laptop. It's halftime. I'm laughing at our text line because we know now that the average age of our listener is 58, and sometimes you can just tell. We talked about the NFL player survey, and we got entertained by some of the answers. And also to the cool people and to people who are just respectfully disagreeing and don't cuss at us,

you don't count in this, you're timeless. We also talked for the 10 o'clock hour about what direction the bulls were going in as we tried to figure out are they any closer to who they want to be as a team making all these deals? And did they get enough in return for Iyotosumu when they made that trade

for four first round picks alongside with Phillips? And I don't, you and I are both kind of on the fence as to whether or not they did. No, I don't like the deal. I wanted them to resign Iyo straight up. Yeah. That's fair. That is a question of what that trade was worth and what it netted. But a lot of that has to do with my lack of faith, my lack of confidence in the current front office based on the moves that they have made since becoming the front office.

And we talked to Olin Cruz at 11 o'clock, not just about what was going on on the offensive line, but also just the discussion with the Bears coaching staff and talk to him about joining the College Football Hall of Fame. So great to chat with Olin as well. To be clear, I agree with Olin because that's the guy I have faith and confidence is when he talks football because he knows what he's talking about. And he understands that biases exist. He's operating from a place where a lot of people won't even begin to operate from. So I appreciate you, Olin. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Albert Breer, on the 1st of February, tweeted this at the airport and not sure if I should be impressed or

disgusted. That was the tweet. Accompanying said tweet was a picture. The picture was of a giant machine that looked like a vending machine. And on the side of the vending machine, it said, White Castle, home of the original slider.

Machine, you say. And I was like, wait, what? Is there someone in the machine? I'm so confused right now. I would love if there was someone in the machine, a White Castle employee. It's almost like the Taco Bell, Devon. Adam's Taco Bell, but it's at the airport and it's White Castle. Yes.

So, like, if you've seen the Devante Adams commercials with Taco Bell in his house, wherever he is, even after he gets traded, he always seems to have a Taco Bell in his casa. So I was like, let me find out more about this. And I find this headline. White Castle Automated Kiosk debuts at Logan Airport. That's in Boston, by the way. They put it in the Boston Airport? It will serve sliders in under two minutes. What? Do we believe that?

Listen, it exists. See, I thought, I didn't realize these were hot and ready sliders. I thought you were getting like, yo, yo, when you get to where you're going to, put it in the microwave. That's what I thought this was. No. Vending machine, machine. Let me read this to you. It's a one-minute read.

Boston Logan, welcome to a surprising new arrival, an automated white castle slider kiosk. At first glance, it might look like your average airport vending machine. But instead of coffee or phone chargers, this one dispenses, this one dispenses. hot sliders in under two minutes. According to a December release, the kiosk was developed with food tech partners just baked and evolve ending and offer several of White Castle's most popular items, the 100% beef original slider, the classic cheese sliders, cheddar bacon cheese slider, and the chicken and cheese slider.

That's what I call variety. Travelers can find it in the Terminal A satellite concourse directly across from the children's play area. a nice location because kids get hungry and they're going to see that slider machine and be like, can I get a slider? Machine. Sarah Paulson, Director of Retail Marketing, Innovation, and Licensing at White Castle says this. Quote, our retail division has bringing sliders to Cravers outside of restaurants for nearly 40 years.

End quote. The launch comes after White Castle continues to lean into automation and robotics. The company worked with MISO robotics on its newest AI-powered Frystation robot. Flipy. Yeah, that's the name of the robot. And announced over the summer a new robot delivery service for some of its Uber Eats orders

in Chicago. Well, yeah, they got that little, what's it called Coco? The little white wagon on wheels that delivers by itself, but then it gets stuck in the snow. That's sad. I've seen that on the social media as well.

People clear out the snow for the thing, but you know. So my question... They just didn't think it through. Well, yeah, they need more stuff. So my question is this. Is this something that could work in Chicago? Well, A47 says if they bring this vending machine to O'Hare,

you all are invited to my impending funeral. Wow. So there you have it. There's one person that thinks it'll work. I will say this. Go ahead. I do love certain foods at airports that I may or may not eat more or less of in real life. Give me an example.

Like I, my ratio of eating McDonald's breakfast in real life versus McDonald's breakfast at O'Hare is out of whack. Like McDonald's Breakfast at O'Hare hits. There are several McDonald's at O'Hare, especially if you're in, what's that, the terminal C? Yeah, I believe that's where they're at, yeah. Yeah, the one for the American Airlines terminals also hopping. The point is, McDonald's Breakfast at O'Hare hits. It's a luxury. It's a treat.

And I get McDonald's breakfast. every now and then, like, out and about in life. But the ratio is much higher at an airport. I had McDonald's breakfast this very morning. You did. I didn't know what you were putting on your biscuit. You said it was strawberry jam. It was delicious.

But so, I think in this case, if you get something that, like, makes you feel good at the airport, and then it becomes, like, part of your airport tradition or your flow, then I feel like that's part of how this gets affected. 6-3-0 wants to know, is Harold and Kumar inside? Good question. That's a great question. That's a valid question. 773 says was thinking about next year's halftime show.

They should just bring out Hector Narris to throw batting practice to random football players. They would crush him. Signed crazy Dave. Crazy Dave. You're coming to Hector Narris out of left field with that. And I present the Super Bowl halftime show. Hector Narris versus football players.

I once saw J.J. Watt take batting practice. The ball never landed. Like ever. I don't even know where it went. I'm pretty sure it disintegrated. 2-6-2. Marshall, have you met a child? Toddlers don't eat sliders,

but their parents do. Corey in Whitewater, Wisconsin. I didn't know it was just toddlers who are allowed at the play area. I thought any kids of any age could be at the play area. 847, Ed O'Hare, they should just put it next to the bathroom

so you can just... Oh. So you can just throw it in the toilet because White Castle usually ends up there in 14 minutes. That's a very specific. time, a very specific experience. This goes back to our bidet conversation yesterday.

Shout out TGI Friday's O'Hare. A lot of them are funny. A lot of them are funny. You know what? I know. We have way more funny people than offended people. Yeah. If you didn't laugh, you would cry after the Bulls did what they did this week. We'll see how it turns out. More moves to come. 630. People go nuts for McDonald's at O'Hare.

I don't know what it is. It just works. Ray, I thought you were agreeing with me. Are you just telling me we got to go to break? Both. I agree. And it is time for five on it. So both.

All right. Both. Next.