What's it going to take for the Bears to beat the Patriots?
00:00Love you, Chuck.Welcome into Rahimi and Grotie on 104.3, the score.You are absolutely listening to a four-seasoning, air conditioning, plumbing, sewer, and electric football game daypresented by your local four dealers and Advent.It is the Bears and Patriots in primetime part of this.If you'd like to call it, the Bears' primetime gauntlet with this game, then at Seattle on Monday night football.And we think Sunday night football against Tampa Bay, the week at the next.that unless it is flexed, which is not out of the realm of possibility.
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00:53312, 644, 67, 67 on Twitch and YouTube.What's going on, everybody?Good to see you. Hope that you are getting the opportunity to see us here as well today.As we get right into the Bears and Patriots, I am pumped up for prime time.It's been a weird week with just coming off the Falcons win,and now it is the Bears and Patriots, two big markets, two big-time quarterbacks for the Bears.And I think that's a good place to start, Leila, and that is how do the Bears stop Drake May?who is like we've got the Caleb Williams bias,
01:31but at this point,Drake May has accomplished a little bit more than Caleb Williams hasand is simply one of the best quarterbacks in the leaguedespite his terrible start to his season.He's been great in his last three games.Yeah, and I guess if you're Dennis Allen,you're trying to figure out how to replicate that successthe Seahawks defense had against Allen,
01:50or may rather.And I think part of the issue, though,is that he was pressing.We knew that.Three of the interceptions in that game were in the fourth quarter,quarter. So are you going to seethe Drake May that, for example, showed up?I don't even count the Jets game as much, but the
02:04Raiders game, for example, or are you going to see the DrakeMay that showed up earlier in the season?Scuttleblot out of Boston seems to bethat they are concerned about thelack of consistency out of New England,out of the Patriots, and then combinethat with the injuries, especially to that offensiveline. That's where DA might be
02:22able to cook. But here's the other flip side ofthis. If we're going to do fake edge NFLmatchup, that's what we do. Is itRahimi and Grotie NFL matchup.Match up. It was a good show.But it's that your pass rush isn't great right now either.It's certainly not at 100%.And this guy can throw the ball.
02:40So when your secondary is your best pass rush, what are you going to do about it?What are you going to do about it?I'll tell you what the Bears are going to do about it.And Drake May, by the way, three consecutive games with at least three touchdowns.And that's just one stat to illustrate how good he has been recently,despite the bad start where everybody was piling on Drake May.It seems like he's back to being Drake May.But the reality for the New England Patriots is that their offensive line is in big time injury trouble.
03:10They will be, it is official now, they will be without both of their starting guards tonight.Elijah Vera Tucker is out.Ben Brown, not our Ben Brown, their Ben Brown.Well, Ben Brown has also been out, so yes.Poor Ben Brown. Is his neck okay?All Ben Browns are out, unfortunately.The quick baseball report.Ben Brown's still out. Will Vennible got some sort of award as a manager.
03:34Sporting news manager of the year.That's it. Sporting news manager of the year, which is good and well-deserved.And Jared Banner is with the Orioles.It's a Cubs anniversary winning the pennant to go to the World Series.And didn't even mention it.This is I think the 21st anniversary of the White Sox winning the first game of the World Series.My buddy Dorfman just texted me that right before the show started.So there's your baseball report.
03:54report in all of this. But those twoguards are out. Vera Tuckerand Ben Brown, and while I'm atit, their right tackle.Morgan Moses isquestionable. That was my Pat Somerall right there.He is questionable for the game. He is50-50. Welcome to
04:10Lambo field. RyanMundy. He used to play for the Bears.He was a safety. It was a great... Well, justyou want to do here is this bird onthe field and I'm going to circle it with mytelestrator.Boom! Right there!Look at that hit.
04:25Boom.And that's who taught me football.By the way, kids, yes.John Madden.John Madden, kids, used to be an announcer.I'm sorry.He announced football.And you know what, Leila?
04:39Because the kids don't know.He was a head coach for the Oak.There was a team called the Oakland Raiders, too.Did you know that?Did you know that Buter Ball?Buter Ball so young, he may not have even known that.I knew about the Oakland Raiders.I know.
04:52I'm just giving you crap, man.But more that John Madden was a head coach for the Oakland Rangers.Layla might be a better John Madden than Nicholas Cage.Well, you know how I feel about that movie.I don't know how you feel about that movie.Adam Venetary.One of them in there is too good looking to play somebody.One of them is too good looking to play.
05:10I'm like, I don't need good looking actors messing up my Summerall in Madden.Also, that's not what I'm doing.The trailer just looks horrible.Drake May.Isn't Christian Bale in that movie or something?Hot Christian Bale.I don't know.Like, I don't need Christian Bale distracting me for my football.
05:26He is a haughty.There is no doubt about that.Yes, you're right.He's Al Davis.Yeah, that's, yeah, I do not need Christian Bale as Al Davis.Like, no, you guys remember Al Davis.What about him says Christian Bale?Like, I know, that's enough to make me not watch the movie.
05:43Does he not look like Al Davis in the movie?Not enough.Really?He looks like Christian Bail is Al Davis.I have a hard time believing that in this era of high.Hollywood. You can make anybody look like anybody.Layla's right. I'm looking right at the picture.She's too good looking to be Al Davis.
05:59I can't. No, I don't sign off on it.I don't sign off on this.Then it boom.Look at this off.It's a line sweat.Elijah Vera Tucker is out.Morgan Moses might be out.So I think, all right, look, it's very easy to then, in this case, say, like,
06:18here comes Kyler Gordon again.maybe Austin Booker has a day, again, James Lynch.But how about this?How about Grady Jared breaking on through in this game?How about Cantavius Street, who had a nice game last week?How about he's busting through?I'm talking about the interior defensive lineman busting through that battered offensive line.And I am not taking away from the fact that they probably have caught, like Matt Pryor, former Bear, is one of their backup.
06:46So you will see the former Bear Pryor out there tonight.It doesn't mean these guys are bad, but they are vulnerable in that spot.How about our guy, Neville Gallimore?How about Neville Gallimore breaks on through in this game?I would like to see an increased snap count for Neville.And frankly, is this a time for the increased snap count for Jordan Vandenberg?I was just going to say him next.Yeah, I think so.
07:06It's about time.Yeah, run the 13-man rotation, so to speak, that we saw the Bulls do yesterday with your D-line.What's stopping you?Who's the Patrick Williams in this scenario?Oh, who's going to just sitting on the ventral?Who's going to sit there a whole time?You know basketball brain sneaks into my head and then that's all I can think about.You know I'm going to be thinking about that for a while, right?
07:28Like you just know that I'm going to be like sitting there in silence and I'm like,I can't believe this happened when you had a 13-man rotation.I think that you're just, I think that's latent anger from you and Haw and everybody elsejust about Patrick Williams being a bust for the Bulls.Like you don't really want to see him play, do you?If you're going to give everybody.else minutes and a 40 point loss.Give him minutes too.
07:53But why? For what? Because we're all suffering.And therefore we all deserve to suffer together.Oh, so this is just, you need to be out there and to, we want you working.I'd rather see all the young bulls.Like, I saw what I wanted to see.Caleb Wilson playing 32 minutes last night.If it's about fits, then you want to see what all the fits are.That says a lot.
08:13Going back to the Patriots game, I do think that it seems like for them.that when you when you hear the word on the street, whether it's WEEEI, whether it's NBC Sports Boston.How we do it, everybody.Yeah, take your pick as to who you want to hear.I love the Boston accent because it's such the opposite of mine from where I grew up.They used to say Laylor and I just thought that was fascinating.Laylor.She's the Layler.
08:36I do have to rewind the town many times to figure out what Blake lively is saying.All of that said, they seem to think that, from what I heard, the overwhelming majority of opinionists that I,I consumed are more concerned about the game in 10 days that they have against Miami and theirdivisional record, which kind of sounds familiar if you're considering what the bears are dealingwith, but the bears don't have the luxury of just focusing on divisional record.And then that the injuries combined with the short week and it being a road game might betoo much to bear for them.Bear.
09:10Yes.Pun intended.Obviously, yeah, it's out of conference game, AFC, NFC matchup.It would be, boy, it would be neat to see these two teams play in the Super Bowl.Mike Florio even came on yesterday, and he was lamenting a previous game that had been built up as a Super Bowl preview matchup.This might be.I mean, this could be.Would these two teams four and two have had some bad moments this year?
09:36But both teams are rolling right now, and there was a certain Super Bowl 20 that looked very good in a 46 to 10 fashion once upon a time ago.That was John Greenberg's.score prediction.Was it really?Oh, shout out to Greenberg.Nice job, Greenberg.I appreciate that.4610 absolutely never goes out of style.
09:57So we have, I think, two teams that mirror each other a bit in some of the scoreaberrations.This is what you came here for, statistical analysis.Score aberrations, yo.So, for example, yes, it's on Sunday morning.So the Raiders win was 45 to 17.That's kind of how I judge, like, peak Drake May, peak Patriots offense.But then on the, on the.
10:17flip side, you know, that's, that could be the equivalent of the Bears 5937 win over the Panthers.Yeah.Except the Raiders didn't score nearly as much.So, so, you know, how are you evaluating that?Like, you prepare for the best version.Like, I'm sure the Patriots are preparing for the Bears best version.But, like, I don't know.You might argue that the best version was the game last week for them.
10:38Sunday, this past week.I don't know how to explain time.Bears, Atlanta.Yeah, this week is very difficult.You're talking about the Bears beating of Atlanta.Yes.Yeah.Yeah.
10:46Yeah.like what was the best, the Bears best win this year?And actually, I'm going to say, I know it's the recency bias, but yeah, like in terms ofoffense, defense, and special teams, except for a few hiccups, I think that was the Bears'most complete game.I mean, you look at the Carolina game and the offense was spectacular, but we were, what wereworried about?I was worried sick about the defense after the Carolina game, and they have recovered relatively
11:14nicely since then.Well, as well, you should.be. But I think at the same time, you saw what Atlanta did to try to get two quicktouchdowns in that game. Damns can break any time. Yeah, no doubt. Right. You take thefoot off the proverbial gas pedal, as Ben Johnson did in that case. But just looking at thewins that New England has had this year, you mentioned the Vegas game where they ran it up.They did win at Buffalo. They just came off an ugly win, by the way, over the New York Jets.So that was the 26 to 19 win.
11:49And that was sort of the consensus out of there that they got away with one against what is starting to show themselves.So there's another bad Jets team.They also beat the Steelers.They lost at Seattle.They lost at Jacksonville two quality teams.Oh, yeah.And they got whipped by Jacksonville.They did.
12:05Jacksonville might be really good.Oh, no.I think so.You know I had Trevor Lawrence in my list of top 10 quarterbacks of 20s, 26.Yes, you did.So the thing about the Patriots Bills game, not.just that it was incredibly exciting, but that it's kind of the mixed bag game for Drake May,where he overcame his turnovers. So three touchdowns to the two turnovers. So that's also
12:27good analysis on this team has been inconsistent enough to where if you factor in the injuriesand the travel and the short week and maybe what their priorities are in their division andvice versa compared to the bears, you already kind of know which way I'm leaning. The guys in Bostonkind of sent me over the edge with that. Ah, well, tell you.What? Why don't we do this when we return on Rahimi and Grotie?Let's go ahead and tap into Boston and their sports talk and what they're saying.You've been hearing us all week.You'll hear us all day today.
13:00But to Layla's point, let's eavesdrop a little bit and hear it from their side of things.The mob is checking in.Yes.The score Chicago on Twitch on YouTube.Hi.Hi, guys.Dan's plastic pants wants me to tell you, please tell Mark, bears.for me. Bears. Right here. I'm wearing my Bears shirt. So that's the word. Yeah, the word
13:22up. I appreciate it. Glad that you guys are all here. We may even slide in a phone call.312, 644, 67, we are open for you. We are talking bears and patriots on Rahimi and Grotie on 104.3, the score.
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