Andy Dalton is the Bears’ red-colored Band-Aid, nothing more

Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty ImagesUnjust narratives are a part of the circle of life for the average football observer.

Whether these narratives are justified is irrelevant. Their validity in the moment is also beside the point. The nature of a news cycle in the age of tweets, memes, Tik-Toks (you are missed, Vine) is new information dispensed in one moment, and entirely fresh hyperbolic assessments being churned out in a breathless huff the next. Most narratives, like proverbial books being written on great coaches that fail in January year after year, or one statistic of minutiae that highlights a transcendent quarterback’s ostensible fatal flaw, only exist to feed the ceaseless machine of…