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...
colleges generating tough
It's a tough position. It's a supply-and-demand business, and the colleges just aren't generating enough of them.
excited next position step
It's the next step on the rung. It's an important one. We're real excited about being in a position to do it, but we've got to go out there and take it.
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It's like standing on top of the John Hancock. This is the best we've been.
best compared continue develop good john kyle standing stay top
It's like standing on top of the John Hancock (building). Compared to where it's been, this is the best we've been. ... Rex has got to stay healthy. Brian's got to continue to play at his level. And Kyle has to continue to develop as well. It's a good situation. We like it.
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It used to be you never took a tight end in the first round. But they're looked at as athletes now. They're looked at as a skill position.
evaluate obviously offense receiver running team unique value
That's a lot of money, but that's a unique offense. A receiver in that offense is obviously of more value than, maybe, a running back is. That's what each team has to do. They have to evaluate the positions.
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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.
agency drafted felt free good gotten players wallace
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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I thought Day would have gotten drafted and Wallace could have been drafted. They looked at our situation and they jumped on it, so we were real happy to get both of them signed.
course days few good next revisit talks
We probably will revisit that here in the next few days or week, what course we're going to go into. But we've had some pretty good talks with him and nothing has really come to fruition.
calling locker message pick player sending talent toughest type
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.
felt john matter player
It was a matter of another player in John St. Clair that we felt was a better player in his role,
agreement contract failure fair huge reach reasonable
The failure to reach an agreement on a fair and reasonable contract has been a huge disappointment.
best great last player position process sit year
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.