Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Score callers celebrate the Bears' 23-12 win over the Jets

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened up the phone lines for Score callers to celebrate the Bears' 23-12 victory against the Jets on Sunday.

Rahimi and Grody Hey Mark and Leila I just want to tell you first off that I really enjoy your show You guys cover all those sports I love And you do it with humor So keep up the good work Oh my God, my friends, my friend

I look forward to talk to you guys Listen every day Love you guys so much Middays Man love is in the air 10 a.m. to 2 on the score Yo it's Rahimi and Grotie on the score We do love you

Thank you so much for joining us here We all get to do We're all in this together Talking about a Bears win Everybody's debating the fact You have friends who also want the best for you, so really you just didn't acknowledge who all wanted the best for you. It wasn't just your parents. It's apparently all of our listeners, us and your friends.

Thank you. Well, and they should want the best for it because if you get the best from us, your ears and brains will be rewarded, right? Or at least you're taking some time off your Monday. That's true. Yeah. And we appreciate that. Let us waste time with you. 312, 644.

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

Good morning. Happy Victory Monday. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I agree with you. How great are our quarterbacks on and off the field? I mean, so good, so good. So good.

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

Wow. So good, better, best. Wow. I love that, Kim. I don't know if I would go Tyson better than Case because he wasn't. Like if we're really doing this, Case Keenham had a better game than Tyson Vagian had. It doesn't mean that it's not better for the organization, though, that Tyson

Beijing continued to be the quarterback. There's other factors that go into it. Also, our texters really want to talk about Case versus Begen, apparently. 312, 644, 67, 67. I think we'll be doing this all week. But yeah, go ahead. Say what's on your mind. We'll find your thoughts if you need you the next few days.

We'll be here. Amen. Yeah, we'll be here all week for you. Yeah, the texts are great. That somebody say, could Ben Johnson have made Peter Tom Willis into a good quarterback? I wonder. Now, I'm just like thinking about all of the Bears quarterbacks of Bears past. What could Ben Johnson actually have done with some of those quarterbacks?

Todd Collins. Yeah, could you have made Todd Collins into a pro bowler? And I do believe that Ben, as long as he had Kyleman, Nunn Guy on his side. He probably could have made that Collins into something special. Yeah, Kyle Monongai showed up yesterday. I mean, 30 carries. And we got to, well, and Ben said that in a career, he did not. Ben Johnson said after the game, he didn't realize it was that many. Unbelievable. Well, well, since he benched DeAndre Swift and who else was going to get the carries, Ben, you knew exactly what you were doing, pal. We want to get into that a little bit as well,

because that is clearly what that was. But yeah, back to the phone. I suppose. How about Frank and Oak Park? It's our guy. Frank! What's up, Frank? Hey, great to be there here. And before I do a breakdown on the squads,

I want to get into this backup quarterback thing. You're probably already getting call-flass messages recommending Keenum or Bej and replace Williams as starter before he gets healthy. Some may recommend a trade of the former Trojan before he's do a monster contract. The door to bear fan before he's a fool. has been opened. When a score listener steps through, I recommend you have a digital version

of a police car siren, one of those in-progress ones, be ready, and then you blow it. On defense, the Bears held a team a third team under 250 yards. This time was just 157. They only allowed 12 points. They got three sacks with motivated

Diio getting his third for the season. And by Monday night, the bears could have a top five defense. What? What? Yeah, check the stats. Check the stats. On offense, the bear line dominated.

Chicago piled up 232 yards on the ground for a total of a total of 492. Menongai scored two TDs with 146 rushing. Rome was solid with six grabs for 94 yards. But Bayesian threw too many lollipops. The jets took one. and had one or two taken off the board for penalties. Next week, it's the Pack and Lambo. Green Bay just added three vets to six a leaky O line.

With their skill guys, if you go minus two in turnover margin like this week, you won't win by 11. You'll lose by a touch. Wow. Coming strong like Frank does. Man, I mean, we've barely scratched the surface talking about the Bears' defense this week, but I kept asking the question yesterday in the postgame with Olin Pat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Go, wait. Thousand percent, guys, thousand percent. You know what I mean? And you know what? I think the most important thing is we're getting some, maybe some get, I heard we're getting some offensive line. and backs. And I believe the most important thing is keeping our quarterback up right so the band's plan can go to work on these packheads. And I know one thing, what would be

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

That was brought up. He got the extension. We can't be doing this. We can't be doing the quarterback every other play. This is the NFL. It's not good for any of us. Matt LaFleur, apparently, and we'll maybe play this later on this week. Did, like, had a reporter walk into his press conference and did it like the,

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

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

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