Jerry Angelo

Trading for Sauce Gardner when you have Daniel Jones at your quarterback, that reeks of desperation.

Trading for Jay Cutler in 2009, a Jerry Angelo move, that reeked of desperation because that was like the end of his tenure.

If you look at some of these moves – These are like at the tail end of coaching tenures, GM tenures, like Laramie Tunsil to the Texans.

Bill O'Brien didn't last much longer after that.

You know, you could have a great GM.

You could have – you know, because the Bears had decent GMs over the years, Jerry Angelo and, you know – GMs that got them to the playoffs, got them to the Super Bowl, didn't win the Super Bowl, but got them there.

But with the Bears, Ryan Pace wasn't bad in the beginning.

They went to the playoffs.

The second round pick was their first pick of that draft.

And I think it was still a Jerry Angelo pick.

Oh, that was Phil Emery.

Oh, was it Phil Emery? Yeah, because

They're you know, they're this is going to be a collective here, similar to Ryan Poles and Ben Johnson.

This is going to be a collective, you know, they're going to like Jerry, not Jerry Angelo, but what's the president for the Bears? this is going to be a collaborative

effort.

Yeah, it's going to be a collaborative effort.

Coach Dungy had got up.

holding me through Jerry Angelo, who was a scout, and he saw me coaching at three.

Anyway, he recommended, I didn't even know Jerry.

And that's the best type, you know, somebody you don't even know.

It was just the ball.

And we had the...

And I'm going to give Jerry Angelo credit because Jerry drafted a lot of those guys in Tampa for those positions.

You know,

"Can you or do you have a Ditka story?" I'll get...

I, I, I have one because of Jerry Angelo, who became their general manager, and also because Wannstedt being the head football coach.

I got a chance to meet Mike.

I competed against Mike's Bears.

"Can you or do you have a Ditka story?" I'll get...

I, I, I have one because of Jerry Angelo, who became their general manager, and also because Wannstedt being the head football coach.

I got a chance to meet Mike.

I competed against Mike's Bears.

They had quality talent.

Jerry Angelo did a good job getting, you know, Matt Forte a little later, but Matt Forte.

Jerry Angelo got some talented players on the roster, and obviously, that goes a long way.

But for the most part, even when Jerry Angelo was drafting better, Michael McCaskey was still running things.

You didn't have, like, this next-level organization, which is where the Bears are headed towards right now.

And I think it's hard for a lot of people that, uh, have gotten used to the Bears being in the basement, for the Bears being a poorly run organization, especially north of the border in Wisconsin.