5 On It & sharing our Bears season predictions (Hour 3)

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2:02The hour is brought to you by four seasons heating, air conditioning, plumbing, sewer, and electric for all the right reasons called 8664 seasons. It's time for five on it. Bring you five topics on their minds today. It's a football Friday so that means you're listening to a four seasons heating, air conditioning, plumbing, sewer, electric football Friday presented by your local four dealers and advent. Here is question number one on a scale of 1 to 10 on the fired up meter. How fired up are you for the first weekend of the NFL season? I am at about a nine. I'm at a nine on the fired up meter and it's not a 10. I was a threat to be a 10. But then I looked at some of the matchups like Jets Tennessee. Yeah. Cleveland and Jacksonville. Oh, Miami and Las Vegas. That gets you going.

3:02Let's go week one. Quite the choice for a week one. Atlanta and Pittsburgh. But then I saw Buffalo in Houston and what really raises the roof is we all need a Bears game. So badly bears and Carolina on Sunday. I'm ready, man. And I guess maybe what pushes it down to a nine from a 10 for me to is that baseball is still hot and heavy. And I'm still going to be focusing on that a lot of this weekend. So it's not at a 10, but it is at a nine for me for the start of this NFL season on Sunday. What if it begins in earnest after these first two games that we've had? I think I'm at an eight. Because of partly what you just said. Also, I was looking at the bear schedule while I was listening to you. You were very focused. I was distracting myself from your football with football bears pause. Uh, yeah. So that's that's where I'm at with this. My football is distracting me from my football part of my issue was you know how I felt about this. I hated this stupid Australia game from the very beginning.

4:05I wanted to see Rams 49ers in its own place. I want to see it 325 on a Sunday. It's somebody's home stadium, not some other stadium across the world. What do you hate? Australia. I don't hate Australia. I hate the toilets. I mean to see if they flush the other direction. Why do you hate cricket? I don't hate cricket. That's a cricket stadium. I played it. I mean cricket takes forever to play. I don't know how people find the patient. What's up with that flat bet? I think that's more of an Indian pastime than Australian. But I thought too. No, you're right. It is because my my buddy Faz always educates me on such things. Yeah, if you could sit through a cricket match that lasts up to several days, you're a G like baseball is nothing to you. What up G in the meantime in the meantime. I was really fired up at this 49ers Rams game until I found it was in Australia. I was really fired up for the rematch of the Super Bowl with the Patriots and the Seahawks. Those are the marquee matchups I was really here to see aside from bears, right? I especially since I was getting a healthy 49ers team and what I thought was going to be

5:06a better Rams team. But instead the travel became the story, I know we have another question about it, but it's impossible to talk about on the first weekend of NFL season. If we're going to do this crap, which is put one of the best matchups that will affect the NFL season and the best division in football in another place like this, give people time to make it make sense. Kind of like the London game at least that had a buy on the other side of it. This is ridiculous for both teams. You could have given them another game. They'd have been happy with a Jets game in Australia. Why'd you give them like a major game? Jets Tennessee could have been there. Could have been in Australia. Would have been more entertaining for all of us, but instead you give them one of the marquee games of the season. Yeah. Okay, so I ate. You're going to go, I feel like you should go down. I think you talked yourself down. I'm giving seven. You're at a seven. Don't talk for me. I am. You're a seven. I'm not in your brain. I don't talk for you. Would you like my taco? No, I gave you some chips too. Oh, you did. Which taco did you go with? I think it's a steak taco.

6:07Nice traditional classic. I think that's what it is. Yeah. No, it's chicken. That's definitely chicken. I just grabbed the taco out of the box and when you asked me, I guessed. This taco tastes like chicken. There was like eight boxes back then. So many jokes. So many jokes. My box. My taco. Pause. Caronji number two. I don't know that anybody should have had the Jets in Tennessee game. Well, Jets in Tennessee even want the Jets in Tennessee game. No. They should do what they do in like pro wrestling. Like that's not on a TV one. That's just the one they do at a show where they don't actually have the cameras rolling. Just let them play. Don't put it on TV. I miss that. I feel blackouts. Watch me. Maybe the best game of the week. Like that's just our luck. Do you guys know that like there used to be NFL blackouts even in Chicago? I did not know that. If the soldier field wasn't sold out and it wasn't always sold out in the late 70s and the earliest of the 80s that the home games were threat to not be on TV terrifying for a young child like me. What? A lot of FOMO there. Football FOMO. Question number two.

7:08Will the Bears take the North again this season? Yeah. Why not? I said it. I don't have a better option. Like that's it. You tell me who the better option is. We don't know how healthy Green Bay is. The Vikings are making questionable quarterback decisions where everyone involved. Which leaves, well, the Lions who are somewhat healthier, but I don't necessarily know if they're going to be good enough. So why can't it be the Bears? That's how I feel. I love it. I am picking Detroit to end the division this year. I've got the because I mean, they're going to redeem themselves after last year. They are healthier. They have still have all the talent in the world. The talent has not left. Maybe they have just finally adjusted to life without Ben Johnson. So unfortunately, I think this is a Detroit team that did beat the Bears twice last year. I do have Detroit winning the division followed by the Bears, followed by the Packers, followed by Minnesota.

8:08I do have the Bears still going to the playoffs. So don't worry. But I am, I do think Detroit wins the division this year. And I'm still thinking about it. But I don't know. I've argued with myself about this. You said the Bears. I don't have a, yeah, but then I'm like, oh, is my, am I a blind spot to myself? Am I being too biased? I don't. It's okay. I mean, I do think it's the Lions. I do. I do. I think the Lions lost in December really got to you. You think that I decide? No, it's really not that. Honestly, I mean, I know I just mentioned that the Bears were all in two against them last year. I like the band is still there. Like all the talent in the world is still on that offense. And it's healthy on that defense as well. Eden Hutchinson. Yeah. Healthy. Like it's not like there's anybody aging out at this point. Like they're still, they're secondary still questionable. Isn't it? I guess, but so is the Bears. Hey, hey, we did a whole segment on the Bears questionable defense.

9:12Yeah, but compared to the Lions, we spent a whole preseason talking about the Bears defense. You're such a homer. Don't bring facts into my conversation. Yeah, sorry. Oh, okay. We're going to be like, what's the number? Yeah, and we did the thing last time. Number three. Number three. All right. Wait, is there a living on sound effects now? No, no, we already did it. I didn't get it. It's all right. Yeah, you went back and tried to answer the questions. I'm questioning myself questioning myself. Okay. And you're going to question yourself again with this question. Oh, no. This is five out of one or four through the score by the way. You're going first on this one. Layla Rahimi and Mark Grotea. And it's a fabulous football Friday. But we're going to ask about this. What was your biggest takeaway from the 49ers 27, seven win over the Rams in Melbourne, Australia, mate? Such a buzzkill from the competitive game side. Here I was picking some sort of over 30 madness, you know, the two teams scoring more than 30 points and either one of them did. And the Niners put on a damn clinic. I cannot say that enough.

10:14A healthy 40-nighters defense is a ridiculously powerful one. A healthy George Kittle is an effective man and Trent Williams absolutely neutralize Miles Garrett. Yeah. I believe that I had that was reinforced yesterday. It is perhaps there is some equality that is happening between the importance of left and right tackle in the league. But at the same time, the very same time as in the words of future at the same damn time. Trent Williams told you what time it was. Here am I one of the best offensive linemen in the league, a hall of fame or a left tackle who gets paid when I want to get paid against the man who just broke the single season's sack record on the other side, the defensive player of the year, Miles Garrett, which one was going to win the matchup, advantage Trent Williams. And then they started running fancy run screen plays. I don't even know what some of those plays were. I feel like Kyle Shanahan was in his bag. Absolutely. Some of the run game concepts and fits.

11:16I'm going to be looking at that film for a minute just to see what's going on. Coach Dan Casey is a tremendous follow on Twitter and he was illustrating some of the screen blocking that was happening. Just a lot of like really creative misdirections and they could do it all because they did not care about Miles Garrett. But the problem is the travel is going to be the story. People are going to say that the Rams lost that game because they decided to be the smartest men in the room and travel late and not do the thing that was traditional. And because of it, we didn't get the best representation of two of the best teams in the league. And that bums me out. Mike the Rams though are the 49ers pay in week two. Might day because they spent all this time at a different time zone. I sure did. Every time I come back from Asia, I sure do. Yeah, that was supposedly part of the Rand right science. That they're thinking about the way they're viewing it. They're thinking about the USA portion of the season. It's a really, it's a really bold, especially in a divisional game. It's a really bold choice to say we are going to risk losing game one to lower the risk

12:18slightly of losing game two. Right. So they may not regret this. Who knows what stood out to me was, you know, there's Brock Purdy again just being Brock Purdy out there and just being all efficient with his game 25 of 34 of the three touchdowns and seeing the veterans man like Mike Evans, Debo Samuel. Mike Evans. I mean, come on. Come on. You're guy, Lila. Right. I do love him. The mark is Robinson with the touchdown. And you know what else doesn't go out of style because we've seen the bears pull off such drives like Ben Johnson. That 99 yard drive pulled off by the 49ers. I made it 24 to 7 in the fourth quarter. That stood out to me. Meteority from Matthew Stafford stood out to me considering the season he had last year. Oh, coat drive. I'm with you on Miles Garrett. I kept watching him and zeroing in on him and they were doing a number on him. So those are the things that stood out to me in the 49ers 27 to 7 went over the ramp. That run game is going to break my brain for a few days. You love it. You're so good. Let's get you back in the film room. Number four, which cops player and he's have a big weekend in order to ensure a series

13:22win over the pirates. Oh, this is all of this is a stressfully loaded question for me. Oh, yeah. It's not PCA because he's been doing that. I think you have to have him to survive. So I don't necessarily know that you can just say I'll Willie Nilly that it's P. Crow Armstrong. I don't think it's that simple or easy. I think it's going to it might have to come down to today's starter. Mm-hmm. Good time. OK. Show to Imanaga. The pirates are probably feeling pretty good about themselves. Almost had a little no hitter yesterday against the old white socks. You're good to have in the second. Yeah. But in the meantime, this is a great get back game for show to Imanaga. Can you face a Pittsburgh pirates team who is not as consistent hitting wise and not as powerful, you know, as say the previous opponent that the Cubs have faced? Can you keep can you keep it in the yard today? And if you don't, can you keep it to a solo shot? Can you do that? And so winning game one of this series in particular would be so crucial for this Cubs team to just

14:22get back on track before a very stressful upcoming brave series that has my mind on some things. All right. Here's my name. Who has to have a big weekend for the Cubs? It's Daniel Polencia. Oh. It's Daniel Polencia because it's Jacob Web on the I.L. I forget. Is he hurt? I forget. So Cubs transaction. You need somebody in high leverage. And I know Daniel Polencia pitched the other day in Milwaukee and he was victimized by an error, but he did give up a hit in that or an RBI hit in that inning. They need somebody. Somebody needs to step up in high leverage. I am calling for Daniel Polencia to have his bleep together to have his competence together. So it is Daniel Polencia for me. Jacob Web, I have not seen anything about him on the transaction page for the month. And keep in mind they recalled a hobby or a sod on the fifth. What about a sod? Yeah. What about a sod? Yeah. Put him in high leverage. No, it's what about a sod?

15:23A sod is the new danks. I feel like it's the same mentality. It really is. Yeah. Because right, every time we talk pitching and we leave out a hobby or a sod, we get like 18 techs saying, what about a sod? That was the most, yeah, the most recent transaction on the page. He's always, he's always being transacted. Yeah, it was nine five, 26. Jack, skilly. Yep. Five on it. Number five. We just became a team. We've been hanging out too much. Five on it. I want to four three. The score. Here's our final question. I'm five on it. What stood out to you from the white socks being swept at the hands of those pirates? Okay. Number one. Thank God you avoided the no hitter. Like they haven't been hitting well. You've talked about that. I know they had eight hits in the previous game, but the point is that and then scoring runs and they also need hits. What was my angry five on a question? Do you guys, wasn't it? Do you need hits to win? Yes. No, it was, it needs hits to win. White socks. And white socks was in all caps and I was mad. And then I tweeted the baseball was making me angry.

16:25And partially because I thought it was great to see Hagen Smith quote, start and quote and throw two solid innings. And then how about Eric Fettie coming through? How about Eric Fettie coming through and then doing the damn job as well. So unfortunately it was a two to nothing loss. This wasn't, this wasn't some whizzing. Give up a ton of runs. So you wasted the Eric Fettie performance where you gave it just two earned runs, which should be enough over five and a third to win with this team. And then Hudson comes in and does his job and then Hicks does his job. It was a nicely pitched ball game. But unfortunately the white socks still could not get any runs across and that stinks. They only had three total hits or two total hits in the game rather. They didn't have one till two outs in the seventh inning. I got hopeful there and thought three but no. No, can't even have it. Thank goodness for Coleson my gummery. Right, double. Yeah. Tell you what, Hagen Smith not walking anybody stood out to me two innings for him in the start. Zero runs to give up two hits, struck out three.

17:25Again, zero walks over 33 pitches. He went full count on the first batter that he faced and I'm like, I'm thinking I'm at this guy is just such an adventure, but he settled in really nicely. The other thing that stood out and yeah, Fettie was fine, but he the home run he gave up to O'Neill, Freaking Cruz does that. But but but Laila, it was 117.4 miles per hour off the bat. Per Jesse Rogers, the hardest hit home run this season. It was a bull. That stood out to me. That was a blistering bomb of exit velocity off the bat of O'Neill Cruz in that game and the socks getting swept just kind of sucked and they've lost eight of 11 to it. It still was a better Eric Fettie performance than what we've seen. I'm just saying like what stood out to me was O'Neill Cruz's home run off of Eric Fettie. I'm sorry. O'Neill Cruz does that though. We've seen him do that. Not like that. That was the hardest hit home run of the year by anybody. I just don't keep getting making excuses. Yeah, I know.

18:26I'm not going to keep making excuses. I'm going to keep making excuses. Fair enough. They could have won that game. Laila, please allow me to talk about myself now. Tomorrow, join. I don't know why I have to read this, but I will tomorrow. Because you're getting more things. No, I'm just doing something tomorrow. Join one of four three. The score is available. Lesson doing something. Join the score. Laga Neeta's and Heineken at sluggers with me. Mark Grote from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Stop by for your chance to win a pair of passes to Riot Fest. That's right. I'm not coming in empty handed. While enjoying free samples of Laga Neeta's Hoppy refresher and Heineken 0.0, that's tomorrow with me, Mark Grote at sluggers starting at 11. We have come to the moment of truth on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, That's what I was looking at the schedule earlier. Yeah, yeah. I was double checking my work. We have Bears Predictions plural, including a final score for you

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21:32L.A. CarGuy.com is the perfect place to find your next car. Amy and Grody midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on 104 3 the score. It's a football Friday. Adra, Amy and Grody on 104 3 the score, moment of truth, bears, and Carolina. We are about to with bears 2026 season. And so we will challenge ourselves with four different predictions, with four different people here on the show, Laila Rahimi, Tyler Buterball, Ray Diaz, and me, Mark Grody. Ray, you will be the master of ceremonies. You get to ask the questions, which we will all answer. Sir. Yes. First and foremost, bears. Bears, bears, bears, bears. The music. Yeah, here we go. It's good question number one. Yes. What will the bears record be in 2026? I guess I will start our predictions.

22:33I have the bears going 10 and 7 this year. And obviously that is one fewer win than last year. But I think it makes sense to me. It's a more difficult schedule. You're not, I mean, the regression areas are real. You're not going to have, probably not going to have the same turn overlooked. As you did last year, you cannot depend on the crazy fourth quarter magic. Hopefully that will take care of itself in the first two quarters of the games this year. But I do have the bears at 10 and 7. Not to mention a pretty difficult schedule as well. And then just the weirdness of the beginnings of seasons, the first five games, always scare me and an NFL season and specifically with the bears 10 and 7. I double checked my work during five on it and got distracted because I had a random football thought during my football talk. Football football. Bears. Yes. What do you got? And I said, self, did I really do this? Layland, did you, did you really do this? A done did 11 and 6 for the bears again, even with their schedule.

23:35Wow. You're such a Homer today. Hey, well, bears are winning the division. Do you know what happened is sometimes my unconscious sports thoughts are actually the ones that hit like the Jordan Walker Homer and Derby. Do you remember that I was like, why do I keep thinking he's going to do this? Okay, I guess I'm picking this or the time where I didn't know who was going to win the NBA finals. I'm like, I guess it's just going to be the Warriors and then it was. So I feel the same way about the bears again. I've seen North. Okay. But then I got to like double check myself and it's like, do you really want this? Are you really sure about this? Like you're just going to go slightly unconscious and say these things? Yep. I'm doing it again. And if I'm wrong about 11 and 6. Okay. But at least I tried. She done done it again. All right, guys, what do you got over there? Oops, I did it again. I played it with your heart. I got lost in the game. Layland, I'm one up in you. I got the bears finishing at 12 and five. Oh, my God. Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, I'm meetballing. We meetballing. We didn't talk about this at all. And I also wrote down 12 and five on my schedule. I went through.

24:35I'll let Tyler give his explanation. Go ahead. I think you're just going to see a big jump in the bears offense. You know, last year with Ben Johnson coming in, that was the, that was the honeymoon season. You know, because all exciting, the new, new Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams combination. Now they're serious this year. I think the offense is going to be scoring. Ton of points because obviously the defense, I'm still very skeptical about them. But I think the offense is going to be what gets them to win these games. I still win. They're going to win the division. So bears, 12 and five. We're the best. We're taking the North and never giving them. By the way, you and Tyler Farringle, I think, have the bears. Did baby T go, he said 12 or three. Why did you call your mentor and ask it? My mentor. You're mentee. Yeah. You know what I mean? My protege. That's the one I'm looking for. I got you. Okay, so here's the other thing too, as I always do this formula, where you know the bears are probably going to lose a game. They're supposed to win and win a game. They're supposed to win. Of course. Yeah.

25:35And then that's, that's where it gets tricky. But do you, do you guys really think that they won't be Minnesota twice this year? I think they will. I have the one. Those are some of the money makers for me and my schedule of production. Same. I just literally went through each game, put W's or L's and ended up with 12 and 5 because I'm drunk on bears collade. Clearly, it's ridiculous. But additionally, okay, Jets, that's a game they've got. Is there a tequila back there with these tacos or maybe the biggest. Maybe the biggest toss up for me is the Buccaneers game because an extended Baker Mayfield might be a motivated Baker Mayfield. But even that I still like the bear. I do have the bears beating Seattle at Seattle on the November second. That was my signature win on the take the North podcast. You have been beating Seattle, but you don't have them. What's it? 10 seven because of what we just said that like we're you win games that you're not supposed to and you lose games that you're not supposed to. We're going to have to keep you. I haven't beating the Packers twice and that's what did it for me. We're going to have to keep it moving.

26:36Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's go. I got to be out of 12 30 30 30 38 30. That's right. That's right. So question number two. How far will the bears go in the playoffs? I'm you know what? I'm going full parkins on this parkins and I are on the same page. I'm it's like why wouldn't they go to the full to the Super Bowl? No, I think the bears go to the NFC title game and lose the NFC title game. I also said that they were losing the NFC champion game. But but I also said they had the same record as last year. We got to audit to take out out guys. What do you got? The same here. I think they're going to win that get to the NFC championship, but they're going to fall. That's what I had as well. Oh man. All four of us. We are all going to the cool. Gary, give me the tequila. Give me the bottle. Growney, don't ruin your sobriety. Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah. You just eat more chips and tacos. If something would ruin my sobriety, it would be the bears. All right. The bears cannot ruin your sobriety. You're right. You're not going to do it to be bears. You're not going to do it to be bears. You're not going to do it to be bears. You're not going to do it to be bears. You're not going to do it to be bears.

27:36I'm going to throw for 4,000 yards this year. I mean, he threw for 3,942 yards last year. Yes, he'll have. I'm going to have him for 4,100 yards this year. Give me 4,250. Sick. I'm betting on the showcase. On price is right. Higher. I'm betting higher. Low. I'm not doing this $1 business. Nobody likes the $1 business. I will say yes, definitely. He's in a throw for 4,200 right in the middle. I'm not going to exceed it. I'm going to go for 4,000. I'm going to go for 4,000. I'm going to be quite happy with what I'm seeing on the field. So reasonable, right? Yeah. Yeah. So that's a yes. You've got a bear down on a daily basis. The bear is open the season against the path. The panthers on Sunday. So big question. Who you got? Okay. I had been a threat to pick Carolina, but Dustin Rhodes intimidated me and bullied me. Don't blame Dustin! No, no. No, no, no. I honestly don't let other people tell you what to do. You have to do it on your mind. And it is the bear is winning this game. It is the bear is beating Carolina 27 to 24.

28:37I know weird things happen on opening day, but there's just too many areas where I think the bear is can exploit Carolina. If they could overcome the offensive line that is the guards, they have two tackles that are coming off the bench to play in this game, including Monroe Freeling, who they concerted a project that they didn't want to have starting. So I think that there's that factor. And to me, there's just not a big fear factor on their offense. I'm excited. Teteroa, Mcmillan, Mcmillan, Mcmillan, Bryce Young, it was better, but he's still not a great quarterback. I've got the bears winning this game 27 to 24 over the Carolina Panthers. There. Done. You said 27, 24? Yeah. Are you copying me? Oh, sorry. Did you look at my page? I did. I did. I love your information. 27, 24 bears. The spread is three. And the bears are favorite. And that essentially means that Carolina lost the home field. So yeah, I think the bears win 27, 24. I think it can be that simple. Okay. Here's the issue is I do think it's going to be a close game because it's defense bears

29:42defense. Yeah. So that stresses me out. That's part of the sports things on my mind. You use the terminology bend, but don't break. There'll be a ton of that. There's going to be so much betting and not breaking. And they already kind of build for that with their defense. What they've been doing. Yeah, you do whatever you want between the 20s and we'll figure out what happens in the meantime. But I don't love that theory either. That's actually a lot of defenses in the NFL. But. And I get it. And it means like your tight ends are going to have a lot of yards. The opposing tight ends. But I think in this case, yeah, I'm going 27, 24 bears. This is what am I 11? I'm throwing another meatball out there. I think it's going to be a pretty big win by the bears. I think they're going to win 31 to 17. I like the offense here. I think we're going to see more consistency. Nothing from like the last second Caleb Williams, Hail Mary's that we saw last year. I think we're going to see a nice mature. But Ben Johnson offense with Caleb Williams. I have a absolute beating on the Panthers 31 to 17. My lack of confidence in the bears defense has me thinking it's going to be a shootout.

30:43Like a shootout type of game. High scoring affair. 3431 bears, though. That felt good, guys. Today felt good. This week felt good. Thanks to everybody who listened and watched all week here. Thanks for all your support for Rahimi and Grote. We trust me. We are just getting rolling on this show. Can't wait for Monday already. Our first bears Monday. And by all accounts, well, it's going to be a victory. Thank you so much to the people who supported this show and worked on this show today. If only he had an account of for 65% of the offense. Thanks to Ray Diaz, Entireler Buterbaugh. Our excellent score video team of Conor O'Donnell, Max Curtis, and Jacob Studz. The scoreshakago.com editor Cody Westirland. We thank him very much for all the work that he has done. We thank our guests on the show today. Eugene Robinson was on the program. We had Kevin Fishbane on the program today. Was that it? Is there any other guests that I need to thank? No, I think we should thank Hyundai, though, again. Thanks for sponsoring our studio. You know what? Thank you to Hyundai.

31:43We are broadcasting live from the Hyundai Studios, as we always do. Oh, and before Chicago takes on Carolina, tune in Sunday morning from 9 to noon for your local four dealers. Pregame show right here on 104, three, the score all recruits Patrick Manley and myself. Mark Grote will get you set for the game and then immediately following the game will have instant reaction on the Timbertech decking and railing postgame show presented by the Roman Automotive Group. This week's postgame show can also be seen exclusively on YouTube and Twitch. Have a great weekend, everybody, for Layla Rahimi on Mark Grote comes baseball next on the score. Thanks, man. He'll come. The ocean delights us. Some marvel at the colorful world below the surface. The ocean feeds us. Others find nourishment and it's bounty. The ocean teaches us. How our everyday choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean moves us. Whether we're riding a wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty. The ocean connects us.

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