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...
asked fact given hard perfect position positions problem risky terms throughout tight
I think the tight end position is probably one of the risky positions in terms of the durability, but that's given the fact of what they're asked to do. It's very hard, very hard to find the perfect tight end and durability is a problem throughout the league. Not just with our team, but a lot of teams.
certain draft investment irrelevant needed pick player sure terms time
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.
best coaches conference easy good jumps people stand talent terms
We know some people down there who have been in that conference for a long time. They've had some pretty good players. Those coaches said, 'Jerry, he'll stand with the best of them in terms of his talent.' The talent was easy to see. That just jumps out at you.
draft family foundation happy strong terms
He's got a strong foundation in terms of his family and very grounded, and we're very happy to have him as our No. 1 draft pick.
agent good problems relationship since tampa
We've always had good working relationship when I was in Tampa and since we've been here I find him to be a very, very good agent and (have) no problems with him at all.
antithesis certain drafted mike needed playing third year
When we drafted Mike we were in a different scheme. We were the antithesis of what we are now. Now is that to exonerate him not playing because of the scheme? No. Part of it, he needed to get better at certain things, but he didn't. He's got the tools. We got into the third year and we didn't see a big advance.
until
We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.
possible situation
We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.
anybody
We're going to look at anybody that's out there.
bring offensive takes time
Usually, it takes two years for an offensive lineman to develop. So this would be the time to bring one in.
history position rookies
We feel the history of his position for rookies bodes well.
draft history learning partly position rookie
We feel that the history of (Benson's) position as a rookie bodes well (for learning fast), and that was partly why we did what we did on draft day, too.
plates
We've got as lot of plates in the air.
bit jump patient players sure until
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.