Jerry Angelo
Jerry Angelo
Jerry Angelois an American football executive who was the general manager for the National Football League's Chicago Bears from 2001 to 2011. Prior to joining the Bears, Angelo spent 14 years overseeing Tampa Bay Buccaneers' scouting department as their director of player personnel. Angelo graduated from Miami University in 1971...
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It gives us hope, it certainly does. Every player has his own circumstances, and we have to address each and every one individually. But we certainly want Lance here.
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I said this really the last couple years: Saturdays look like Sundays now, and that's good for football. They truly are training the players the way we want to use them on Sundays.
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I thought Day would have gotten drafted and Wallace could have gotten drafted, so we felt in free agency those were probably as good of players as you could get.
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If we're contingent on just one player then obviously we didn't build this team to win. So we feel real good about this football team, but it's a tough blow. I'm not going to sit here and say it isn't.
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Until we know for sure all that's out there, we're just not going to jump the gun, and we have to be a little bit more patient and make sure we know what players are out there.
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To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.
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We have a little bit more latitude this year. We want to stay with the best player available. Everybody says it, but we really want to stay true to that.
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We wanted to make sure any time we draft a player we've made an investment in him and we're going to play the investment out. We just needed to see certain things in terms of his progression, irrelevant of him being a first-round pick or a seventh-round pick.
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We could have taken a tight end earlier. We want to create competition at that position. There will be some veteran players flushed out, with all the guys who were drafted, and we will look at those.
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We liked this other player better and any time you have an opportunity to upgrade your roster irrelevant to whether he's a backup or a starter, we're going to look at that very seriously and that was the case.
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It's really the toughest pick because this is the calling card. This is the message we're sending to our locker room, the type of player we want, not only in talent but in personality and character.
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I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I feel great about our quarterback situation, ... I'd be remiss to say something like that. I feel this, though, I feel we have the best player at that position playing, and that's very important. There were times last year we really didn't know that, and we had to go through a process during the season.
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It was a matter of another player in John St. Clair that we felt was a better player in his role,
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The Chicago Bears have always placed a premium on having our players in camp on time. The failure to reach an agreement on a fair and reasonable contract has been a huge disappointment.