“Good Morning Football” co-host Kyle Brandt has it right. The Hinsdale native and “The Real World: Chicago” alum suggested on his NFL Network show that Bears running backs Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen shouldn’t be called “Thunder and Lightning,” even though Cohen used it Sunday.

“We gotta change that. We gotta do better than that,” Brandt said. “’Thunder and Lightning,’ not only is it a little tepid, it’s been used before, it’s recycled, it’s been used multiple times in generations past."

There was Tampa Bay’s Mike Alstott and Warrick Dunn and the Giants’ Ron Dayne and Tiki Barber, for example. Even a pair of receivers used the nickname, the Jaguars’ Keenan McCardell and Jimmy Smith.

“GMFB” got the ball rolling on a new Howard-Cohan nickname, merging their names and making reference to a once infamous caffeinated malt beverage (before a recipe change), coming up with “FourHoCo.” Here are some other ideas:

"Tango and Bash"

"Hustle and Flow"

"Pain and Gain"

"Biggie Smalls"

“Howard the Truck and Tarik the Freak”

“Boom and Vroom"

“Twins”

"Muscle and Hustle"

"Shake and Bake"

"The Magic Man and El Diablo"

And finally,

"The Dragon and the Woof" (Most “Game of Thrones” fans will get the reference, but it also pays homage to Howard’s and Cohen’s college mascots, the Alabama-Birmingham Blazers’ dragon and the North Carolina A&T Aggies’ bulldog.)

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