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Punters and kickers: 1-19 The difficulty of assigning numbers by position increased last year when practice squads expanded from 10 to 16 players. It's especially challenging for the Bears, whose 14 retired numbers are the most of any NFL team. Only time will tell if any Bears players change numbers. But it's interesting to note that: • Receivers Anthony Miller (Memphis) and Darnell Mooney (Tulane) and linebacker Roquan Smith (Georgia) all wore No. 3 in college. They could be tempted to switch to a single digit, but it won't be No. 3 because that number is retired by the B...

Carmen Mandato/Getty Images You might be aware of this already, but we have an NFL team in town that can’t get the quarterback position right. I don’t want to suggest that the Bears are cursed in this regard, but if they were somehow gifted with Tom Brady, there’s a good chance he’d immediately forget how to grip a football. You might be aware of this, too, but you have to go back to Sid Luckman to find the team’s last true star quarterback. That’s a bummer because he grew up with George Washington.

1 / 10 (10) Sam Acho (No. 49 to 93) The outside linebacker wore No. 49 in his first two seasons with the Bears in 2015-16 before changing to No. 93 in his final two years in 2017-18. Acho made the switch because he liked the number "3" following the release of defensive lineman Will Sutton, who had been wearing No. 93. 2 / 10 (9) Jim Flanigan (No. 68 to 99) After wearing No. 68 as a Bears rookie in 1994, the defensive tackle from Notre Dame wore No. 99 for his final six seasons with the team. 3 / 10 (8) Emery Moorehead (No. 43 to 87)...

Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images I’d never minimize a Bears fan’s pain. Never. Who am I to say that what you’re feeling right now isn’t what open-heart surgery without anesthesia feels like, which, given the social media response to the team’s signing of Andy Dalton, apparently is what you’re experiencing? But I am amused by all the anger and angst. You anticipated what, exactly? Something different from all the other disappointments in the Bears’ decades-long, bone-dry search for a quarterback? Now why would you, a normally clear-thinking, intelligent individual, believe that this ...