How will Caleb Williams and the Bears handle ball distribution? (Hour 2)

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1:25Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Get in the snap and hand it the ball off and throw in the ball to the right receiver. He's doing all the things that good quarterbacks do. So he's going the right way. I know we talk about him every session we get. Guys, he's had a really good camp and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it comes together for him. 17 plus games to share. We're going to talk about Caleb Williams. It's Rahimi and Grote as we are broadcasting live from Cody's public house in Lakeview

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3:30It's happening. Oh, man. It just sat there, too. And everybody in the NFL world. Texting somebody I shouldn't. A terrible decision. A terrible. The worst. I don't know. I made some terrible decisions in the recording of the Take the North podcast yesterday, which I believe I believe the latest episode is up and running right now. Take the North and we appreciate your support. It is our bear's podcast that is performed by myself, Neymar Grote and my guy from the athletic Dan Weeterer. But we do an episode every single year, Layla, where Dan and I challenge each other to make some uncomfortable predictions about the bear season. Yeah. You guys, you guys put yourselves in a real pickle and every break you were stressing out over what you were going to do. I was and I guess the one that I was especially stressing over because it's and by the way, we do the prediction episode. We've got seven or eight predictions we make and at the end of the season, we then revisit it to show you where we made all of our mistakes.

4:33And most predictions do not come true. Most people are wrong on predictions and data. What? Yeah, I know. I know. Except for you yesterday about the game. Yeah, I did have that prediction correct. That's right. I had an interception in a Seattle three point when I had a higher score. I'll admit that. But one of the categories that we had was most disappointing player on the bears. I don't know why you guys do this to yourself. That's not good for anybody. That's not good for our relationship with the players. Is that good with our audience? But you keep doing it. We keep doing it because we're not barbies. You know what I'm saying? Like we're hardcore. You can bend your elbows. Yes. You don't have to stand on your toes. We're fully pliable human beings. But we did. Yeah, most disappointing player breakout player. That's fun to do. Team MVP. I chose an MVP for the team. A bears record. A Super Bowl pick. And we'll do some of these picks tomorrow on Rahimian Grouchy, by the way. At least a bears score for you. Maybe a Super Bowl pick. We'll tone it down a little bit for our program.

5:36But Caleb Williams numbers is an interesting thing too. I think Leila, we all expect the next level out of Kayla Williams. I know you do. You would have at number six in your power rankings. Seven. Seven. Sorry, seven. Out of the top 10 quarterbacks in the league. Yes. Then the five is really hard. The five is, can you will your team to victory and also prevent them from losing? Also prevent them from losing is a big part of this. Because sometimes Lamar Jackson has thrown a league game interception. But can you will his team to victory? Yes. I think Kayla Williams has that potential. But you know, we've talked about this. There is a clear directive for Kayla Williams this year. And it is, do the basic plays. We know you can run the hard plays better than anybody else. We know you can make the impossible possible. That I do not ever doubt. But it's how are you going to fine tune the stuff that you may not love. It's not sexy. But, keeps everybody in business. Exactly. Exactly. He's talked about, look, I've heard him saying the other day, look, he's like, I'm a shot taker.

6:37I've always been an explosive playmaker. So there are times when Kayla Williams is going to do what he wants. There are going to be times where Ben Johnson will be like, and then maybe he'll make us spectacular play or maybe he'll throw into triple coverage and get the ball battered down. I was going to say get intercepted, but that's not really a part of his story so far. I think he hates throwing interceptions. He does. I don't think he makes the interception. For example, the Drake May did last night. The end zone. Probably not. I don't think he does that. That was a what I think he throws it away. Yeah. Terrible decision. He did get better at that. Obviously an interception ended the bear season last year, but we don't have to do that. It wasn't like that. No, it wasn't like that. That was it. That was that was classic Kayla Williams though. I mean, there were some easier passes to be made really quick before we get into this because I want to talk about Kayla Williams and the chemistry with his past catchers should note this that on the bears estimated injury report, Roma Dunezay does pop up on there. We'll learn more today. Not with a foot injury though, with a calf injury.

7:38So initially Ben Johnson had said it was the other foot, not the stress fracture foot, but his other foot that he was dealing with. That's all wrong. Scratch that. It's been a rough year to getting things right for bears injuries, to calf injury for him. Tyson Begent, limited or would have been. These are estimations because they didn't have a full practice yesterday, limited due to a back injury and of course, Aussie, Dr. Pillow, you know, Patel or Tenden, knee, but limited. So he is still practicing, hasn't gone all out as of yet. So that's right. That's right. That's right. Of course, it is a pillow. It's going to be interesting to see you're too little with a lot of these wide receivers and the chemistry continuing to build. What is Kayla Williams saying right now about his wide receivers? Let's take a listen. Most of us say in eight talks, that are receivers and tell them like at this point, not really sure which receivers and being which packages and what groups. Have you had enough? Just like it. You know, with all of those guys. And if so, what's the advantage to having so many of them? Yeah. I have one. Yes, I have.

8:39I've gotten a multitude of reps, you know, between all the guys and then two having so many. I mean, we got, we got, we got a speedy group. And so I think at one point, we had seven or eight guys and 21 months or 21 miles per hour plus, you know, which is fast. And so, you know, it's, you know, coach said it and he said the best is that, you know, he owes it to us as a group. He said that. I mean, the coaches and so putting the best guys out there, putting the guys that know what they're going to do. We owe that to each other to be able to go out there and know where, you know, what we're exactly supposed to do and go out there and do it. And so, you know, it's up to them, you know, who goes out there? That's what coach said. It's up to them. It's up to them. Who's going to be in on, you know, this many plays, you know, you get this many packages and things like that. You got a block. You got to run off the ball. You got to know where you are. You got to know where you need to line up. And so, you know, I think, like I said, it's up to them. And, you know, we got, we got some good guys out there. I get so excited thinking about this with the progression of the guys that were rookies last year, especially Luther Burton and Carlson Lovelin, who were so good towards the ones they got going at.

9:39You're supposed to supporting player from last year. That's right. It was Luther Burton. It was, and I had a reason is because he was injured in the offseason program and for whatever it's worth. Here I am trying to justify my bad prediction from last year. Luther Burton did not. It took a little while. It took a while for him to get going though. Can you give me that at least? You did this to yourself. I don't know why it's, I, yeah, it's a mystery to me why you guys want to include this category every time. I blame Weeter. I blame Weeter for anything that goes wrong on the podcast. I'm sure he loved me. Yeah. That's right. Weed, man. Big part of the Rahimi and Grote show by the way. But don't you love thinking about like if last year they did what they did last year, Luther Burton and Colston loved it and Roman Dunes a while he was healthy and then you add on Xavier and Thomas and a couple of other guys in that wide receivers room like the sky is the limit with the command that Caleb Williams seems to have with the play the authority. He seems to have with these receivers and titans.

10:40I heard a directive there. I heard a run and if he's talking about receivers going more than 21 miles an hour, DK Matt calf comes to mind. He had interesting comments yesterday about Antarctica. But when it comes to when it comes to the skill of your receivers, if you know you've got guys who can just blaze down field or blaze across the field or they can create space, they can get open. You know, Tyree Kills prime, what did we say about him? He who had tremendous speed. Every game you go, how did Tyree Kills get this wide open on the display? What's the goal with guys with that kind of speed? That is your goal. So can they have that possibility and then you know what Caleb Williams is thinking because you can throw that deep ball so well, take the top off the defense. I know that that is something they want to do. I think that the play they ran with Xavier and Thomas and Tyson Beijing was a preview of what they would like to do. So how does that turn out in the regular season?

11:40I thought about picking Xavier and Thomas was my most disappointed. Unbelievable. What did he do to you? Because of the, I think it's the caution with which the coaches were speaking about him, especially press Taylor and saying, yeah, we got something really awesome out of him in that preseason game. We all saw the speed, but he gave the, he's got a long way to go before he gets the full boat. That's a trigger because now you were talking about possibly Malik Muhammad and I just stand. You can't keep picking workies, especially ones who are being responsible for some key roles on this team when they're fourth round picks. Well, well, you make the predictions, Layla. All right. Well, I told you I was thinking about it. Like, could it, was it Jedwork Will's? Jedwork Will's? Well, you could have done something easy like Braxton Jones. Yeah, but Braxton Jones is the guy who gave you a, a year contract. So he gave you the discount supply wise and demand wise for left tackle.

12:41And then he's just doing his job as best he can. So he's not your most disappointed. Right. And that's just easy to do because he'll probably eventually be replaced by Aziz or Pillow at some point in the season. So it's easy to say that unless he's a revelation and Braxton Jones again, he's having a great career relative to where he was drafted. Yeah. No, I don't think that's the answer you. No, that's not. You've got me stumped on this because I believe in, I believe in topic development before something hits the air. Well, we're negotiating this right here. There's a page ourselves into a corner. Okay, how about this? Tori Taylor. Tori. Because how many times did we think he was going to boot the 60 yarder? And then he barely had time to get the puns off. But he had a great preseason. Exactly. So then what does he set you up for? Disappointment. Disappointment. Okay, see the logic. Okay. All right, Layla Rahimi has chosen Tori Taylor as her most disappointing player this year. For a season that has not happened yet.

13:42That is, that's, that's too easy as well. If I have to take it up with Tori Taylor later, I will. Oh, man. Well, check out the podcast. It's up now. If you want to know the answer, it's take the north. Caleb Williams. This is also a great part of this whole thing because we all play the game of who's going to have the most yards, who's going to be targeted the most for the Bears this year. And we know that the sort of cliche wide receiver wants the ball. The diva thing that we always place on wide receivers, which I think is like kind of a, it still exists. Wide receivers still, Terrell Owens, give me the damn ball and all of their Kishon Johnson will give me the damn ball, all that. I don't think that it is prevalent as a once was, but that's still part of the ego. So you wonder, give me the ball because I can make a play. No, give me the ball because I can make a play. So it's every receiver worth their soul wanting the football. Just Caleb Williams on how he's going to negotiate all of that. It was just about kind of want to your progressions. That's coach call of the plays, but is there anything on you to try to manage how those

14:44guys get fed and if they're all. No, I don't do that. That's not a coach has a long play sheet with the list of guys and plays. And like you said, packages with those guys and that's part of his job. His specialty has been able to get the guys the ball. My job is to go out there and read defenses and not force the ball somewhere and try and get a completion. Keep the, you know, keep the offense on the field as long as possible to be able to go in a score. And so I typically I think I do a good job over my years of playing QB that ball gets spread around quite a lot for me. I have a tendency or anything like that of who it's going to in certain moments. You know, it's just to live in a guy's a good ball and having trust in him. Well, and that that sort of system was in play last year where so many guys were had similar numbers like everybody had like 600 yards receiving last year except for Colson Loveland who had 700. So I thought he did a pretty good job distributing the ball last year. I do wonder what it would have been like if Roma Dunezay had played the entire season. I think we would have seen a huge jump in his numbers and maybe a little bit more lopsided.

15:47But I think I believe Caleb Williams when he says that. And when I think about the personalities of those wide receivers, I don't think there's the I got to get mine or I'm going to pout and be pissed off. Now, I think that's the function of the Ben Johnson offense. If there's only two or three guys catching passes, something hasn't gone right in the game plan. That's never seemingly how this thing is gone. They're best games. They had four or five guys catching balls. And that is indicative of the stats that you talked about. It's Colston Loveland in the regular season with 58 receptions, 713 yards. It's DJ Moore with 50 receptions, 682. Roma Dunezay with 44 on 90 targets though. So he's still finished the season as the leading target and received. That's what I meant. Like if he would have played 61 yards. But that's that's the number where you say, okay, receiver wise, where did Caleb Williams his completion rate go? Well, 44 catches on 50 on 90 targets.

16:47That's that's what it's got to improve. Then you got Colcomat at 347, a lot of the 313. He had 65 targets, by the way, a lot of days of Kias was targeted 65 times compared to Colcomat's 48. You're guy, a lot of day. Oh, wow, I just got the stare. No, he's my most disappointing player for 2026. And I don't even know who he's playing for. See, you do it the easy way. You do most disappointing after the fact. No, no, no, I I predicted Torrey Taylor just because of what we saw last year. Okay, all right. I'll be ready to read all this. I don't have a choice. That's my job. He's a good, hey, Australian football happening tonight. Shout out to Torrey Taylor. Australian football, but not Australian rules, but no, no, they will not be like that. They will not be wearing shorts out there. We, Raheemian Grote, we're broadcasting live from Cody's public house. It lags you. We'll be out here until 2 p.m. Come by, say hello, eat pizza and popcorn with us. Have a drink. We would love it if you did that again.

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20:58Raise your trade in and finalize your deal online. Save time on your next vehicle purchase at any of our feederships by starting your deal online at lacarguide.com. Rahimi and Grody. My name is Laila Rahimi and I love sports and I don't care who knows. We like sports and we don't care who knows. Midday 10 a.m. to 2 on the score. There's some luck here and there and it's always better to be lucky than good. 100% but I think they have a plan at the plate late in games. Especially first our bullpen is that they've been looking for off speed up. Short Cheerios. Pitch home run was a change up up and in. There's no place for that ball to go but to the seats. Laura at the end too was a curve ball. While it ended up down it starts with theobars. It curve ball goes up it's got this hump into it so he's looking for off speed up. So he sees the hump. So he already knows I got this curve ball. It's coming over the plate. So while it ended down he is now tracking it and he knows it's a curve ball early on to stay through it. So they're looking for this off speed up and that's why they're able to barrel it.

22:00Jason Kipnis right there on the marquee sports network from a couple of nights ago. As we welcome you back into Rahimi and Grody on 1043 the score we are broadcasting live in the wild in the great outdoors of Cody's public house out here in Lakeview. So nice out here the sun is shining we're ordering pizza we're eating popcorn we're having a drink. We've got pups out here which is absolutely beautiful. A couple of lovely golden retrievers have just made their way in out here. So it's a classic Chicago day if you're in the neighborhood or even outside of the neighborhood. We would love it if you came out here to Cody's public house and we are overjoyed now to have the opportunity to bring in our next guest. He is Jason Kipnis of the marquee sports network. He is an analyst for them. He's been doing pre and post throughout this brewer series where the cubs get swept by Milwaukee including the eight six lost last night to the crew.

23:00Of course Kipnis the former second basement of the cubs and Cleveland a two time all star. Maybe most importantly Mr Kipnis is a Northbrook Illinois native. I bet you love days like this at greater Chicago. I don't you Jason Kipnis how are you sir. I'm doing well gentlemen. Thank you for having me on and yeah no this time I'm after that 90 degree kind of human week. We just had last week. This is the perfect weather that I like in Chicago. Exactly. I think this is what we all wait for. We're all very selective here in Chicago. We get that we get the full path of weather but this is an absolutely ideal day out here at Cody's public house in Lakeview in Chicago. I love how you started the post game show yesterday Jason because you said you said let's just get out of Milwaukee. Let's just rid ourselves of this place and my question to you is why is there such a gap between the Milwaukee brewers and the Chicago cubs. It's not a gap necessarily in talent. It's not a gap in coaching.

24:00It's not a gap in effort. It's just sometimes teams have your numbers and I right now I think the brewers, especially this year that's had the cubs numbers. So I think it's one of those ones where you went in with a lot of hope that hey where we're in the last month of baseball we're getting close to the brewers. Maybe that's making this a series. What if we take two or three hell what if we take all three we can the division becomes very interesting down the stretch. So just didn't go the way the cubs wanted to this last series and I think by the end of there I think it's just one of those ones they know that they they still have a good post season rather than they know they still have a wildcard series to look at. So they Milwaukee just had their number and they were ready to get out of there. I think they they were achieved what they wanted to anymore and they needed to face someone else. No, I think you're right about that Jason and additionally I thought you had a lot of excellent observations on the post game show over the past few days just talking about what you're seeing. Having that experience as a hitter I would like to go back to not yesterday I want to get to what you talked about Kevin Gosman but two days prior where you noted the brewers approach against the cubs bullpen seemingly working through it with no issues.

25:09You know, can you expand on that just what you saw and how the brewers had the number when it came to just the data what they were seeing out of the pictures as a whole in the pen and how they were able to attack them. Well, it's a mixture of things. So I kind of I try not to be so much as an analyst as much as I am like just a former player and what I see and what I would be like if I was in the dugout watching what would be my approach. And so I take that into kind of any any bad any hitting one on one is kind of hunt the fastball get the off speed up and then you go from there and. Then you've kind of watched the game and see what patterns are forming from the other team or what's going on and you just notice that these guys were just. Sitting dead red fastballs and then hunting mistakes up in the zone they were barely chasing any of the bullpen's pitches out of the zone so it seems like they were just aggressive early in the at bats and for something up and. We talked about it a little bit even last night I think it was there could have been two nights ago where it's like as good as these pictures are getting with their the stuff on the throw in 102 and all this stuff when you're off speed is up in the zone it's just not as sharp it doesn't have that bite to it's a curveball that's not spitting the.

26:17Much so it doesn't break down or change up that floats rather than drops off and those are the pictures that hitters that we look for those are like the mistakes that you look for and. They also happen to be not as sharp but they also happen to be not located where the picture wants to be so those are the ones that there are hunting and I think. While the brewers don't have this big basher's lineup they have a lot of good at bats throughout that line up and a lot of good contact guys will make you pay for those mistakes especially if they're made late in games that's exactly what happened to series. Yeah man it's funny though like they don't depend on the home run to win their games but they've been hitting against the cups another three home runs last night against Gossman I guess that's the frustrating part like they can break that part out like their organizational philosophy is just so sound and I guess sometimes. And I guess this is where I'm going with this and even even the organization for which you used to play for Cleveland when you're not signing the big names sometimes you you tighten up in the best possible way in terms of making sure you win in other ways would you like to see more franchises play that way and could the cups afford to adopt any of that from what Milwaukee does.

27:27Every team at this league can adopt from what walkie does and what that's playing good baseball that's controlling the bat that's controlling the bat that's situational hitting they will bump it down they will get guys the best thing I could say by Milwaukee is that they don't beat themselves they don't shoot themselves in the foot they don't make really careless mistakes too often that cost them games usually they're the ones that capitalize on the other team that makes the mistakes and they're just they they lean on you and they they just lean on you for nine days until you break pretty much. So they're always there to capitalize on the stakes they don't let them pass so they're very an opportunity opportunistic team there but every team can do that I think as much fun as like an Aaron judges to have on your team and I don't think anybody would not like to have Aaron judge on his team but you could see how unless he's hitting the ball the ballpark sometimes in the playoffs he might disappear at times I think there's some guys where hey give me that high average that high contact rate guy in the postseason or something went because we're going to be able to do that. When emotions get heightened when adrenaline gets high you want someone who just put the bat the ball put it in play and I think that's where the best things happen in this game.

28:35Well, I think you bring up such a good point when it comes to you know you having played for Terry Francoina for example a guy who's known for making sure that his outfield is placed right making sure that the the productive outs are there all the fundamentals that speak to this. Yeah, I thought about you when it when you talked to about the say Suzuki play where he slides off the bag at third base and was that ball even even deep enough to be able to do that and you ask the question like why is he tagging and I think your observations are so driven back to that point that you just talked about the details you played for a manager like that even in that play you know what did you see there that that led to that failure in the breakdown. Well, I don't and I almost want to I'm glad you brought that up because I do want to talk about that a little bit so at first I was maybe harsh and I could have been because there was no outs and I thought there was one out because they put the one out up there real fast when he caught the ball. So I understand that say it was trying to get to third base to be there with less than two out so he could tag on a sack fly or a pass ball happens or something like that.

29:37And I don't want the cops to ever lose their aggressiveness I like that they put pressure on defenses I like they they create traffic that's what you want to do as an officer's a whole always that being said and that kind of situation I probably did have is you are the most important part right there you cannot run into an out no matter what and people are like well he beat the throw he was safe. It's not a play first base where as long as you beat the throw and touch the back first you're safe you're not safe until the play is dead you're still standing on that bag and if you can't get to third base without that slide and stay on the back you're not safe so I think it's a little bit of a say a learning lesson where especially that ball coming from left center. He knows that the throws going to be to the right side of third base that's where the third base was going to catch the ball he should already be starting his slide to the left side of the bag and he should be starting to slide with the under the control of I'm going to be as far away from the bag as I can and just have my hand there and I'm going to slide into my hand stays on the bag there shouldn't be any part of you that I have to be so fast and out of control that I can't keep my momentum onto the bag because that is just too big of a risk to even go and it while you're especially because you're already in scoring position.

30:45I thought that that was great analysis and Jason I do want to touch on the other part of that which is having played for Terry for Encona and knowing how he manages a game and the fundamentals that you talk about what were your biggest takeaways even in what you just said I feel like that's part of it just learning how those details get buttoned up the way they do. Well I mean he's one of those ones like I can sit next to him and we would just talk baseball and I would just love to kind of like learn the game because I I'd I know how I play the game I know how I would know the game but I don't know what a manager goes to his head or what he's thinking and stuff like that so it was always fun to kind of pick his brain and stuff like that and let's say that play happen to me when I was in Cleveland and I slip past the bag the first thing I know is Tito would have my back of the media and he would probably take the blunt of the the feedback the poor feedback and be like I was making up maybe as my falter I like that he's being aggressive and he had had my back of the media terms but I would still be be pissed off and he would still expect me to know whether I that I have to be safe in that situation and that's not something that you're putting the team kind of at risk there by running into an out that we just couldn't afford right there.

31:54So now you got me thinking here Jason Kipness of the Marquis Sports Network and former all-star former cub former Cleveland Guardian I guess you were Cleveland Indian technically back in the day. What you're excellent doing the broadcasting but is that a future broadcasting or do you want to like coach or anything like that like what are your goals young man where do you see yourself in five years from now Jason Kipness. Well I haven't been called a young man in a while so I appreciate that. You still are. I try to be. You know what I've been asked a little bit about coaching I think I help out with the high school that I went to one of my close friends got the head varsity gig in Glemburg North High School so I was helping him the last couple years. Coach in the North suburbs there I enjoy it I don't know if I enjoy the major league schedule enough to go back to it to do something like that but listen we're not. I never claimed to be the smartest guy in the world but one thing I did know was baseball and one thing I can talk about to him blue the face is baseball so I enjoy.

32:59I think after I retired I wanted to get away from the game a little bit I think because I was better at the game but I still wanted to play and I was just mad at it and I just needed to separate from it but now it's like I still love the game I still want to be a part of it I still want to give back to the game so I think this is the best way that I've been able to kind of like slowly. I think I did my toe in the water and kind of here's here's 25 games from our key here's a couple radio and TV for Cleveland so I think it's how I've been able to get back into the game get back into the limelight a little bit and I am enjoying it I enjoy talking about it so it's been fun so far I don't know if it's a full time future but I do enjoy it. Well we've really enjoyed your broadcast and also there is one observation that I got to make about Jason Kipness team no days off I think it was five days after the world series ended in 2016 I saw you at the gym in the morning no less dedication yeah. A lot of that might have that might have been blowing some steam off too though so you probably got me into this work out right there.

34:01It's a very busy gym in town and you could have been talking to a lot of people and they could have talked to you so I just I've made note of that was like dang that's what there is. Here you are out in a busy busy public chatty gym five days later working out that was pretty impressive. Wait a minute. I'm sure I had the headphones on loud though just to make sure I didn't get into any conversations yet. Yeah you were in the zone I was not about to bug you now. I'm sure you're not going to catch the white socks you do a little work for Cleveland the guardian is going to catch the socks are the two games you know what I. I live in Chicago I'm a North North suburb native and I'm working from our key but make no mistake I follow the guardians real close as well. They are in a tight playoff race same as the Cubs are right now too so I think they're buckle up for both fan bases because there's going to be some little moving pieces to these wild card standings for the next couple weeks is going to be some fun baseball so I hope they do. I know they have one big series left with the white socks that could be the end all.

35:01Can this city see your qualified answer this question could this city handle a Cubs white socks world series are we capable there's a lot of people in the audience right now saying no shaking their heads no we couldn't we were we would not be capable of counterodontal shaking its head our video guy what do you think Kippness. I want that more than anything think about that think about as a sports fan as a whether you are a Chicago fan because I'm a Chicago fan too but think about if you're just a white socks fan if you're a Cubs fan. I want to have that experience in your life and that may take us from someone who played the world series lost in the world series but I love that I had that experience and I am grateful for that how cool would that be to have the memories that would come from that of meeting people at the bar to watch the game the friends the rivalries all the conversations the talks. I think that the cool things in the world that I think that be great for sports and great for the city so I want to see it happen okay okay I mean someone's going to walk away just hurts and lost forever but there will be fights but yeah there would be yeah the stakes are the stakes are high.

36:11You're right about that oh man I can imagine Jason be worthwhile fights. Well said Jason thank you so much we appreciate it and hopefully we'll get you back on Rahimi and Grotee sometime soon man thank you I love it thank you for having me on and thank you for watching our key what you guys do. Oh absolutely it's our pleasure Jason thank you so much. Jason Kipness yep take care man Jason Kipness of Marke. I'm not even kidding I want to say it was less than that the world series was less than a week over and he's working and he was at the gym in in front of a ton of people. I'd be blowing off theme two if I was that team I don't know that I would be running around in public like and that's you know that's a guy who cared about his gym time well I wanted to get back out there and you know days off probably got some sympathy from people I mean like nobody's going to be mad at Jason Kipness in Chicago like the comes one game seven and no but I'm going to do it. No but I just was like dang that's that's some dedication that is no doubt this Saturday join 104 three the score Laguna Tuz and Heineken at sluggers with me Mark Grotee I'm just reading the script here from 11 am to 1 pm I know this is very self indulgent stop by for your chance this is about you now this is your chance to win a pair of passes to riot fest

37:35while enjoying the thing keeps moving on me you're moving the thing on me I'm enjoying free samples of Laguna Tuz happy or happy refresher and Heineken 0.0 that's Saturday at sluggers starting at 11 o'clock coming up at his half time we'll tell you all the cool things that we've been talking about and our hangout here at Cody's public house in the outdoor patio in Lakeview we'll tell you all about that tell you what we've been talking about on the show and we just had Mike Floreo on yesterday talking about Mike Tomlin Mike Tomlin kept messing something up last night I get that people start have they need to start putting putting respect on his name this is on except you've been saying that about this player for a long time you've led the way for a wide receiver named Jackson Smith and Jigba we will have news on him coming up next year on were he me and Grotee live from Cody's public house on 104 three the score what's up hey alright almost here are you ready just grabbing my shoes that's what you said 10 minutes ago I just wrapped the video call uploading this giant file on my tablet looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat and of course still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone all at once yep story of my life that's why I switched to demobile they have the fastest 5G network okay multi-tasker I see you honestly I never imagined I could do all this at once

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42:19you know, and I'm not sure if it was the end of the season is not a good time because the last start previous to yesterday against Milwaukee that was not the case last night he was not good we talked about the white socks and Sam Antonacci triggering the Pittsburgh pirates we got into the NFL game from last night and Drake May with a deadly pick off late in the game last night Seattle be snow England 13 to 10. And we just had a terrific conversation I thought with Jason Kipness the former Cleveland and Chicago Cubs baseball player and he was a little too self-deprecating when it came to his intelligence level. Yeah, but that's what you do right what's he going to say like yeah I'm super smart. Well I think he's very intelligent makes good point. He is very smart I think the we've got Jason Kipness so there. You're smart whether you want to be or not and Layla is an influencer as well. Like we're in the neighborhood here it's somebody come by and say hi just to say hi to Layla.

43:19It was Evan Silva actually who was a score fan Evan Silva's amazing. Yeah, world football writer. He's tremendous so cool, but his daughter wants to get into broadcasting. She's a fan of Layla's came out here got her autographed that's the way it works. Well we're on remote. We want everybody. Keto loves me over here. That's right. Okay. I want you to go off and we'll take it right. Take care of that situation. I got some sanitizer that smells like cheap to Kila. There was a moment at half time last night during the NBC broadcast of Seattle's 1310 went over New England in the first game of the NFL. It was quite entertaining. I thought it might have made Layla angry, but Mike Tomlin. Of course the former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach is first. Here in broadcasting does a great job, but during the pregame show and yesterday season opener slipped up on pronouncing Jackson Smith and Jigbo's name. I think with a young and depleted running back core, which we've talked about. I think it comes down to Sam men and JNS. I think they got to deliver.

44:24I'm not going to let you do it again. I'm not going to let you do it again. What? JSN. JSN. You said JNS. I appreciate it. I think those two are going to do it. Sometimes you got to get. Oh right. Sometimes going to. You know, because usually this is the thing. Coach is always talking numbers. They're not having to say names all the time. I got you coach. You know what I'm going to white more talk about is 11th. That's what we're worried about. Maria Taylor is awesome. That's the other voice you heard there. She is the studio host for those NFL games on NBC. I was talking to you guys in the pre. She's got a great command. And that's pretty gutsy in that spot. I'm not going to let you do that again. Mike Tomlin Super Bowl winning head coach. The great Mike Tomlin. The great Mike Tomlin. Yes. Maria Taylor played that perfectly there. And she's right. Coaches do not say names necessarily. They say Jersey numbers because that's what a player seeing on the field. Stop 11. And you heard him. He's like 11. That is how he referred to him. JNS. There's too much disrespect. And I there have been too many really bad mispronunciations of Jackson Smith and JIGB is name.

45:32And a hyphenated name means you're respecting your family history in a way that I think is really cool. And I love that people are getting on board more with saying all three names and somebody goes by them. But the bottom line is a name is your name. And he of all people deserves his to be said correctly as well. He does. And that's a great point too. Because I would say this like when a player first players becoming a star or a player first comes into the league. And maybe it's a slightly difficult name. You can't use the abbreviated name right off the bat. You can't like. Here's an example. Moon to talk about me. When he first came to the white socks and his nickname is moon. That's what he was called when he played in Japan. When he comes here when he first comes here, nobody knows who he is. You have to use the entire name. You have to earn the right. I would say as a broadcaster or a journalist to use the nickname. Maybe you get to use it 20 or 30 times. Let your audience get to know who he is. And then you can go. Moon.

46:36You might mess it up, but you got to take a stab at it. So I remember talking to Tomas Satteransky. There's a good example. A former Chicago Bulls. Sierter and ski. But I said to him, you know, how do you say your name? And he told me he's like, it's okay to say Thomas. And I'm like, hey, you know what's under this court right now? NHL hockey ice. I like we say all their names correctly. And he's like, you're right. Tomas, it is. Yes, because that is your name. And you have to be a good guy. And you have earned the right to be there. And you have every right to have us pronounce your name properly. It is the least we can do. Right. Right. Absolutely. And I get it perfectly. We may not get it right every time. I mess up my own name. But you do sometimes. Yeah, there was a time Luke stuck my ear and I laugh about it all the time. There was a time where I messed up my name on something we did on NBC Sports Chicago. But that's the point. And people mess it mine all the time. And I don't care necessarily. But that's part of our job. Oh, yeah, I got the other day I didn't we've got this great new relationship with serious ex-Saturday radio. So we got like the synergy go. So I've been on like I've been a guest talking bears a couple of times. I was on a program. And it was like, oh, we're so excited to have our next guest on from Chicago. And 104 three the score on the

47:50Hemi and Groot Joe. It's Mark Groot joining us ladies and gentlemen. And that's happened before. Yeah, it is. I mean, but for us for broadcasters, especially for professional athletes who we do our job with, you know, I do believe that that is important. It is part of my job. Absolutely. It is. And I have learned to take that part of the job very seriously as well. So I'm glad that we are on the same page there. We are broadcasting live from Cody's public house and Lakeview come by say hi. It's a good time to come on out here. We'll get the pizza going. Yeah, we are dog friendly out here. We've had multiple pups out here. And I love it. This is such a great atmosphere. Outer come by and say hello to us. I will tell you about some of the cool things that are going on on the other side of the break. And we will also have for you five on it. It is next on Rahimi and Groot. I'm 104 three the score. Hey, all right. Almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped the video call uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat. And of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once. Yep, story of my life. That's why I switched to team mobile. They have the fastest 5G network. Okay, multi tasker. I see you. Honestly, I never imagined I could do all this at once.

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