Ted Phillips believes....do you?

We’d have won many more games…

A real top notch QB can hide a lot of crappola… and make everyone else look good.

We have to understand that there are 32 teams in the NFL. All of which have the most elite and competitive athletes in the world. We were in the Super Bowl 2 years ago, a great feat. We are trying to build a Super Bowl winner. I believe Lovie Smith is the builder of our Super Bowl winner. We have to stay the course. For now. We can’t just fire everyone every time we have a bad year. It takes time to build this team that Lovie envisions. Forget about Ron Rivera already, it’s been over 2 years! Oh, and you know continuity all to well don’t you? You will continue to dwell over Ron Rivera forever won’t you? Not me, I’ve moved on, I believe!

looks like Chris Collinsworth had one too many Mai Tais.

Anyone can point out the failed draft picks, and FA pickups, but how about giving some credit when its due? This organization was an absolute disaster when Angelo took over as GM in ‘01. They hadn’t been to the playoffs since ‘94 (Wanny’s second year), and couldn’t send a player to the Pro-bowl in four straight years. Give JA credit for drafting guys like Briggs, A. Brown, Harris, Tillman, Hester, Manning, Olsen, Anderson, Vasher, Orton, and even Berrian to an extent (Should’ve franchised him). Last year’s draft may turn out to a very good crop for JA when it’s all said and done. Forte is already proven himself big-time, I’m confident Williams will this year, Harrison showed flashes of big-play ability, Bennett will get a chance to get over his rookie year, and finally Davis, Steltz, and Bowman all contributed well last season. Other acquisitions like Whale, Tait, Hillenmeyer, Muhmammed, Gould, R. Brown, St. Clair, and Ayanbedejo all helped fill holes en route to the SB appearance. Not bad for a team that had a mid-to-late 90’s from hell. I wouldn’t say he’s drafted poorly at all.

you’re exposing 2/3’s of our offense

Not having the testicular fortitude to put Lovie and his cronies in his place. In Halas Hall, the warden doesn’t run the asylum, the nurses do.

But he hasn’t been terrible at drafting. Here is the Bears draft history. Not counting 2008 or 2001 (Because that is when Jauron still had final say on all roster moves) Angelo has drafted decently. There is at least 4 players from each draft still playing on a team in the NFL. Although that does not take into account that some were let go and turns out they are decent players (Mike Gandy and Marc Columbo) or that some are in fact head cases not worthy of being on our team but have since found “productive” homes elsewhere (Tank Johnson and Ced Ben)

So you can’t say he’s a terrible drafter.

Don’t get me wrong though he should still get the axe. But he isn’t as terrible as I thought. He just needs to do two things better: Evaluate talent on the roster (Gage, Wade, the aforementioned Gandy and Columbo) so as to not let good players go for nothing and two pony up during FA instead of saying “We won’t overpay..blah blah” which is code for “I am going to lock up players who may or may not have shown all their potential (Vasher) and cheap out on getting dec replacements in FA”

the superbowl in 06 I could see how we could keep brining it up and say yeah we were good look what we did. But we didn’t so I don’t want to hear about it anymore. I remember winning 13 games a few years ago just to lose to the Panthers in the first round. I’m sure we all remember that. I’m not sold on the way things are going up at Halas Hall, and I really don’t care what Ted Phillips thinks. If were happy that we’ve won 40 games like some other teams have, some of them have lombardi trophies and we don’t and for the life of me I can’t figure out how the organization is ok with just being close once. We haven’t won it all since 85!!!!! I can’t be the only one who knows this….

Jerry Angelo has drafted pretty damn good. Even some of the so called bad picks that have been pointed out weren’t that bad. We got some damn good play out of Grossman including some excitement on the field that we hadn’t had in years. Mark Bradley was a good pick unfortunately he got hurt ultimately leading to his release. I will never understand how some of you think Angelo is so terrible. The biggest strike I have against Angelo is Bernard Berrian but even that, when you look at the money the Vikings gave him for a young receiver who had one good year? I didn’t think he was worth that much money. Gm’s have to make money decisions, what were we supposed to do? match the Vikings offer? Good decision on Angelo’s part or bad? Were on our way back to the Super Bowl, these things don’t happen over night.