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Bears' Matt Nagy Re-Emphasizes Plan to Have Andy Dalton Start Week 1

Bears head coach Matt Nagy re-emphasized this week that the team's plan is still to have Andy Dalton be the team's Week 1 starter.

“I mean, Andy is our starter," Nagy told PFF's Chris Collinsworth on an episode of Collinsworth's podcast which premiered Tuesday. "Again I can’t predict anything. You know how it goes. There’s so many things that can happen between today and Week 1. But Andy is our starter and Justin is our No. 2 and we’re going to stick to this plan.”

In early June, The MMQB's Albert Breer noted that the team's quarterback situation is "very status quo," with Dalton taking the first-team reps, and Fields, who was selected No.