Andy Dalton isn’t any good.

He’s pitched a quarterback rating over 90 twice is his entire NFL career.

He doesn’t throw enough touchdown passes. He throws too many interceptions.

He’s a more-than-capable backup in the league and probably could fill a role like that for years to come. But the Bears are giving him $10 million. (And they hope more!) That’s not what you pay a backup. That’s what you pay a quarterback you’ve identified as your starter of choice.

Ryan Pace and the club made a valiant attempt to acquire Russell Wilson, offering what Ian Rapoport referred to as “a lot” for one of the game’s best players. As someone close to the organization said to me, “Pace and the Seahawks were speaking almost daily for a month.” In the end Seattle decided they were not ready to rebuild. Pete Carroll decided not to relinquish his most lethal weapon because, quite frankly, he’s getting too old for this shit.

So the Bears, with an old white statue of a quarterback currently on the roster at double-digit millions, decided to add another. One has to assume Nick Foles will not be on this roster come September but based on how this leadership has handled the quarterback position, how can one assume anything?

Instead all attention will now turn the draft next month where the GM who has done nothing but get the quarterback spot wrong will get another opportunity.

Oh, and say the Bears trade up for Trey Lance. Does anyone think Lance is gonna play a down as a rookie? What would this mean for Pace/Nagy? Would they still have pressure to win in 2021 after being responsible for choosing for the QB for 2022 and beyond?

This is a bleak moment for the franchise.

Angela’s Ashes bleak.

Never have the Bears faithful on social media seemed so unanimously convinced the coming season was hopeless. The organization’s fatal flaw in 2019 and 2020 was the quarterback position. Today, it’s impossible to argue they’ve improved it.

“The worst thing about some men is

that when they are not drunk they are sober.”

-Yeats

Three weekend thoughts:

• More I think about the Glennon signing the more I think the Bears have identified their quarterback of the future. Is that quarterback coming by the end of April? I’m not sure. But there is no chance Ryan Pace & Co. evaluated Glennon’s game tape and saw a player capable of leading a franchise for a decade. No. Chance. My guess? The Bears don’t take their guy at 3. They trade back in round one by the end of Thursday night and bring a QB with them.
• A Tweet from Greg Gabriel Thursday: “Hearing that Bears could indeed have an interest in S. Thomas at #3 but not as a 5. More of a guy they would play all over, both up & down.” Remember, I’ve been saying this on the Twitter for months now. Thomas has way more J.J. Watt in him than Aaron Donald. And I hope he’s not available when Tom Coughlin picks fourth.
• I used to work at a little arts complex called the Irish Arts Center in NYC and the former head of that place was Jim Sheridan. If you’ve never seen one of Jim Sheridan’s films, you haven’t seen the best of Irish cinema. My Left Foot, The Field, In the Name of the Father, The Boxer. You can’t go wrong with any of them. Instead of puking on the sidewalk, celebrate Ireland with one of these pictures this weekend.

Enjoy a pint of the muck and have a lovely weekend.