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I've never, we've done live playoff shows shows and I've never been more excited for a live show

than I am right now.

Like, countdown, countdown about to begin.

News breaks.

So we're about to start this, the entire thing.

And our producer Kent says, breaking news.

The Bears just signed Andy Dalton one year 10 million. And I said, are you serious? He said, yes, I am. So, all right. There's no other place that we can start. I mean, obviously, it's not the most important news of the day, but it is the most important news. Good thing you were in a good mental state when you got that news that news too, right? You're right? I'm scrambling to get my computer fixed. So there's a lot going on. There is. First of all, Sando was retweeting a bunch of old Andy Dalton takes. And I don't really need to hear that right now. These are outdated now, and he should stop doing that.

But, all right, so the bear signed Andy Dalton, one year, $10 million. I'm on record saying that I wanted the bears to do this last year and in the past. Some circumstances have changed, and I'll want to walk through that very quickly. When I was saying the bear should sign Andy Dalton or make a trade for Andy Dalton two years go at the deadline.

I was of the opinion that the quarterback was the major problem with the offense.

If they got baseline quarterback play, let's see what they can do. After getting Nick Foles last year and seeing just how hapless the offense looked when they had a quarterback that

wasn't Mitchell Chubisky and we saw some of the underlying issues that went beyond Mitchell

Chubisky, I changed my thinking about how much the quarterback is the issue and how much the offense as a whole is actually a problem. That's one thing. Two, I still think when they did what they did last year with Foles, they should have signed Andy Dalt. Andy Dalt was available for one year, about $6 million last year. Probably would have it cost more to have him be in the quarterback race for the Bears to be the starter.

But even if it's $10 million last year, that's better to me than signing, than trading for Nick Folles, giving up a fourth-round pick and giving him $21 million guaranteed.

So now a year removed from overpaying for Foles only for him to fizzle out.

They now sign Andy Dalton anyway with Folls still on the roster.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the guy who brought Foles in now like having more titles to his name and more power.

Like probably with the game planning and the play call.

Just awesome. I just I love the continued quarterback legacy of the Bears from I from few years ago texting after the Mike Glennon signing and then signing or drafting Trubisky. Like I remember that phone call with you. And then also now here we are a few years later. We're just going to keep it going. Keep the good times going. I will say this.

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