Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Score callers react to Bears trading receiver DJ Moore to the Bills

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote opened up the phone lines for Score listeners to sound off on the Bears’ trade of receiver DJ Moore to the Bills.

Rahimi Harris and Grody. I don't want to break time. Can we handle more Anthony Herron? Middays 10 to 2 on 1043, the score. If you are just joining us, we are following the breaking news for Adam Schaefter and multiple other reports that the bills and the bears are in agreement working to finalize a trade that would send DJ Moore to Buffalo. Compensation still being discussed.

Trade can't be processed until the news. new league year begins, but both sides are pushing to make that happen. We just had James Big Cat Williams on telling us his perspective on not only Drew Dalman's retirement, but DJ Moore being moved as well. We want to get your perspective. 312-644-67. 67 is our number here on Rahimi Harris and Grody. This does with the cap-saving. This opens the door to other interesting, bigger, maybe even better things like Tyler Linderblum, like Max Crosby as a possible. that is out there. Do we have some fresh Adam Schaefter here right now? They're working on it. They're working on it right now. Okay. I got you. And let me just,

before we take some of these calls, 312, 644, 67, 67, right now I'm looking at because I was naming guys off the top of my head, like of the Bears' all-time wide receivers in the top 20. Yes, DJ Moore right now, 17th overall in Bears history with wide receivers. I mentioned Alshon Jeffrey Lela, he is number three. He is number... That is Jeffreys to me. He goes to the Jewels. That's right. I've seen him at the Jules. Many times. The number four receiver

for the Chicago Bears is Walter Payton, followed by Mike Ditka. Curtis Conway, the old USC wide receiver and bear. It is sixth overall. Alan Robinson, who by the way, will be joining us at 1 o'clock today. We just found out our guy, Alan Robinson, will be on the show. He is...

is number 11 currently on the all-time Bears wide receiver list. Brandon Marshall, number 13. James Scott, back in the 80s, is number 14 overall. Dennis McKinnon, number 20. Cole Comette. Colquette is number 19 overall on the Bears' wide receiver list. A couple years ago, he was the team's leading receiver. He was.

So there's that part of it, too, as well. I think that was the pre-DJ Moore year, as I recall. As text her asked me here, hey, Grotie, this doesn't mean that DJ isn't going to be on DTN. Doesn't necessarily mean that. He could still be on Take the North. I do have a text out to him. We'll see if he responds on this day. Probably doubtful, but we'll see.

312-644-67 is our number. Here's some more news. This from Jordan Schultz, the NFL reporter. Schultz report on Twitter sources say teams in the trade market have gotten the sense that the Raiders are more open to the idea of trading Max Crosby, and it's a situation that is only going to intensify. He also said, I do not get the sense that the bears are done on the trade market. Those are two separate posts. Wow.

I just want you to know, those are two separate posts. Who else would be vulnerable to trade on the Chicago Bears? Well, I guess Tremaine probably not. I mean, he is. That's not a splash, though. Yeah. Yeah, that's likely going to be a cap casualty. Who else are we thinking about here?

Who else? Well, it just depends on who there's which, at which position do they feel like they have depth. And then at which position do they feel like they could free up enough money? You know, Cole Cavett was discussed as a possible cap casualty that was in Kevin Fishbane's story a few days ago because of how his contract is structured. So is he possibly next? My first thought when I heard this was because of the fact that this frees up $16.5 million in cap space that this could be freeing up for possible. money to get Tyler Linderbaum, the free agent center, who was tremendous out of Iowa, had a wonderful career so far with Baltimore. So Tom Pelliserro is now reporting that it is a done deal.

The bills are sending a 2026 second round pick to the Bears for DJ Moore and a 2026 fifth round pick. So I think that that is important to note as well. Two draft picks for DJ Moore. And now DJ goes to an MVP quarterback and Josh Allen and his former offensive coordinator with the Panthers, Joe Brady, who is now part of the staff, of course, as we know in Buffalo. Big news. The fact that it was a second round pick, despite how high he was paid, the familiarity with Brady, I'm sure helped. And then now Buffalo has their WR1. I think that's pretty good. I think that's like, I don't think that's an insulting getback for the Bears right there, 2026.

second round pretty good and then add in the fifth rounder as well. The way it had been sounding from what I was hearing, it was going to be lesser than that. So it was good to hear. I'll take that. I'll take that for DJ more. So let's go to our phones. 312, 644, 64, 67, here on Rahimi Harrison Grotie on the score. We'll do it the next segment as well as we roll through.

Let's start with, who should we start with? Jeremy in Albany Park. Jeremy, you're on Rahimi Harrison Grotie. Hey, thanks for taking my call. You know, I totally get the business side of this. I just feel like as a Bears fan, it's like we can't have nice things in some ways. And I know that this can free up money. But going into the off season, I think about players that inspire confidence.

And DJ Moore, Drew Dalman, and I'm just like riding off the high last season. And I'm like, you know, these are great players. And I know this makes sense. I totally get it. But DJ Moore, you know, obviously that last, you know, playoff game not so great. But you look at what he did and was just, I think, you know, a safety net for Caleb Williams. So I think it's going to be a, it's going to be a, it's going to be a, huge loss and I'm definitely bummed about it.

I think you speak for a lot of people, Jeremy. There's a reason why I still thought he was the Bears' number one receiver. He was the one who could be trusted the most, especially when the game was on the line. He was a really good player for the Chicago Bears. Like I said when the news broke, that

was a good, he's the 17th best wide receiver. The franchise has ever had made monumental historic catches, had some great years with when it didn't matter as much, but he was terrific with Justin Fields and a clear number one at that time. I'm still thinking about right now about other bears who potentially could get traded if the

reports are correct that the bears could still be willing to deal. And unfortunately, there's a name that popped up on the text line and the texter is right. Cole Comette has always been vulnerable in this cycle. He'd be an $8.4 million cap savings. We know that Tremaine Edmins, if they can get him off. the books. That's another $15 million cap savings right there. And then you go to DeAndre Swift as well, $7.47 million in cap savings. So you got to look at those three guys right there. Yeah, that's what I was saying about Kevin Fishbane's story that Cole Comette was mentioned

as a possible cap casualties. I kind of thought he was in a safe place now, but then all of a sudden, not so much. Well, I was going to say, I wonder if he gets traded as well. 312-644-67-67 is our number we go to call in in northfield calling you're on rahimi harrison grody hey hey guys how's it going good man how are you this call is no longer being recorded what you're we're recording your call just so you know yeah we are we're getting all of it no go ahead man what's on your mind uh for crying out loud some some jagoff while i was waiting told me to hit record because they want me to send it to him but thank you for yeah we can't be saying that on the air. So guess

what? Your buddy and you. Something was a miss. Now released from our care. Let's go to Tony and Joliet. Tony, you're on Rahimi Harrison Grody. Hey, friends. Grody. Tony!

Love you! Same. It was an absolute dagger when I heard it. Because I believe we had that one guy that was going to we had been, but we had Gorman. And what he did in

Kansas City, and we got him young. And I'm like, this guy is awesome. He's going to develop Caleb. I don't think how we don't realize how important that guy was with what his history is. And to be healthy and to be where he was to do that to us, I know you guys, I know we don't know why he's leaving, so you don't want to be saying something and then look back like, oh, man, I didn't know that. But a guy with that pedigree and background and family background, if there was something else, I think he would have put it out. So we would understand.

So nobody's going to be like, oh, you screwed us. Now what are we going to do? He basically took us out of the Max Crosby conversation. It killed us. And just as our bears are looking like, man, this is looking great. Now all of a sudden DJ's going to Buffalo

where they could be there next year. We could be seeing DJ in the Super Bowl next year. And we're trying to replace players because this guy left us. I feel like he abandoned us. I feel like I don't know how to describe the hurt I have with this because we were flowing towards a couple days ago before this broke, guys. We were a favor to get Max Crosby now. I don't know how we make that move go.

It's just a real sad day. We still got a foundation. I still love our receivers. But, man, DJ was our best one. The catches he made in those games were some of the greatest moments in my Chicago Bears history. And guys, I love you. Just a real hard day for fans. And I just feel like, I just feel like I'd love to know why the guy's leaving.

But man, I just say whatever money we can get back off of him, if it turns out, he just decided, yeah, I want to be mechanical engineer. I don't want to do this anymore. Well, you should have known that before he signed with us because we could have done something else. Now we're going to have to get Linderbom. And what are we going to do after that? So, yeah, just very disappointing. Thanks for taking my call. I love you guys.

Show is great as always. See you, buddy. Thanks, Tony. So to summarize, Tony thinks that the Drew Dalman news led to the DJ Moore trade happening, or perhaps the Bears being more motivated to make it happen. And I don't necessarily know that that's wrong. I think that it's fair to understand how much of a game changer Drew Dalman's retirement was for the entire scenario, especially given the price of offensive linemen.

And let's face it, wide receivers get traded a lot in the NFL. So we understand that as well. big name receivers switch teams. We just saw Stefan Diggs, by the way, get reportedly released. On the move again. So this is something that happens where your big name receivers, they travel, unfortunately, just part of the discussion.

And Tony, just so you know, because he mentioned like what it means for the bears with the Dolman part, they do save $10 million in Cap room with Dolman having left. Right. So 312, 64, 64, 67, 67 is our number. We are going to forego halftime for this breaking news. news. DJ Moore to the Buffalo Bills. We now have the terms of it thanks to Tom Pelliserro telling us a second round pick and a fifth round pick this year. These are both picks this year coming from Buffalo. More with your reaction next.