A Bear is shitting in the woods while playing with a rifle. Does the rifle make a sound when it shoots the eye out of the Midway Monsters? Bears don’t know how to use this kind of weapon, landing the Red Rifle this off-season. Bears have not grasped the idea of how to fire the musket at the quarterback position. All the options out there at the quarterback position, and the Bears picked their poison by signing Andy Dalton to a one year deal worth ten million. Andy Dalton was a quarterback available last year who the Bears could have traded for but instead went down the Nick Foles road making a deal with the Jaguars. Dalton eventually was released by the Bengals, and the Bears could have signed him. Instead Dallas signed Dalton where he played in 11 games due to Dak Prescott going down with an injury. By adding Dalton, are the Bears a better football team than they were last season? Did GM Ryan Pace once again misread the quarterback listings available this off-season? Pace seemed like he had all his eggs in one basket trying to pry Russell Wilson out of Seattle. Then in a panic as teams started plucking the quarterbacks off the market, Pace had to make sure he had at least another body behind center with some kind of decent track record. Last year, if GM Ryan Pace had waited patiently, the Jaguars may have released Nick Foles. Plus, the Bears could have gotten an Andy Dalton from the Bengals for a reasonable cost cheaper than the Foles deal. If Pace waited, he could have signed Dalton the day he hit the streets from being cut by the Bengals.

The Red Rifle is 33 years old with ten NFL seasons under his belt, as he was drafted in 2011 out of TCU. Andy Dalton has played 9 seasons in Cincinnati leading them to the playoffs multiple times. Last year was Dalton’s only season in Dallas. He played in 11 games and had a 4-5 record for the Boys as a starter. Dalton completed 64.9% of his passes with 14 touchdowns and 8 interceptions with a Cowboy offensive line that was in shambles. A former Bear linebacker, who plays for the Team of Washington, put a lick on Dalton last season to knock him out of that contest with concussion. Dalton would miss the next week but did return. In 2017, Andy Dalton turned into a folk hero for the Buffalo Mafia as he connected with Tyler Boyd with 44 ticks on the clock that beat the Ravens which knocked them out of the playoff picture with the loss. The Ravens’ loss earned the Bills their first playoff berth since 1999, one of the longest droughts in sports. Career-wise, Dalton has a 74-66-2 record as starting quarterback in the NFL. Dalton has a 62.2 % life time completion percentage with 218 touch down passes and 126 interceptions.

When you hear the name Andy Dalton as the Bears quarterback most fans are pulling their hair out. Bears fans wanted a nice shiny sports car as they would paid dearly for Russell Wilson’s services. Dalton is starting quarterback in the NFL. Some think of Dalton as the next Mike Glennon. Glennon should not even be at the same dinner table as a Andy Dalton if you wanted to compare them. Dalton is better option than Nick Foles. Foles was 2-5 as the Bears starter last season as he completed 64.7% of his passes with 10 Touch down passes and 8 interceptions. Can you say Dalton is better option than a Mitch Trubisky? Trubisky had a 6-3 record last season with 16 touch down passes with 8 interceptions and completed 67% of his passes. Obviously Mitch Trubisky has to move on so head coach Matt Nagy can stop blaming him for everything that went wrong in the Bears world. We have been down this road before as Andy Dalton is linked to the Bears offensive coordinator Bill Lazor which both worked together in Cincinnati. It’s once again I know him. As Nick Foles had history with the Bears coaches.

I like Andy Dalton as a quarterback. Dalton needs a surrounding cast around him like most quarterbacks need. Dalton is not Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady and makes everyone around him better. But Rodgers and Brady have a thing called protection, an offensive line that GM Ryan Pace needs to address. The Bears are like the chicken with the head cut off with their plan this off-season. I think you need a strong plan to make Dalton be able to do his best which needs a solid running game and not abandoning it in the first quarter of the ball game. Bears made a one year offer to Lions receiver, Kenny Golladay, a one year deal worth 10-12 million. The New York Giants land Golladay’s services for a 4 year deal for 72 million. Was this a ploy just to get Allen Robinson to sign the franchise tag? I would have liked the idea of Robinson and Golladay with Andy Dalton. The Bears brain trust still has intentions of trying to land Russell Wilson even though they promised Andy Dalton he would be the starter. Mike Glennon once was promised to be the team’s starter and GM Ryan Pace drafted Mitch Trubisky. The Bears have tried everything including the kitchen sink to get Russell Wilson. If the deal with the Seahawks and Bears worked out, you would have to rebuild around your young guys and clean house with veterans. Does releasing corner back Kyle Fuller have you thinking of something else in the works for GM Ryan Pace and the Bears? Could the Bears move up in this year’s draft and find one of those talented options at quarterback? Can the Bears brain trust pick the right option not the booby prize in door number three or 20 where they stand today? Andy Dalton is decent. Andy Dalton will not solve the Bears main issues which is the front office led by Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy. Dalton is the old new jenga piece that will not fit because the tower has already collapsed for this regime.