Jerry Angelo's draft blunders

Straight from my blog.

Since Jerry Angelo has joined the Bears in 2002 he has plenty and I mean plenty of draft blunders. Here's a list I came up with a help of a friend.

2002 - 1 remaining (Adrian Peterson)
2003 - 2 remaining (Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman)
2004 - 1 remaining (Tommie Harris)
2005 - 0 remaining
2006 - 3 remaining (Devin Hester, Danieal Manning, and Mark Anderson)
2007 - 4 remaining (Greg Olsen, Garrett Wolfe, Josh Beekman, Kevin Payne)
2008 - 6 remaining (Chris Williams, Matt Forte, Earl Bennett, Craig Steltz, Zack Bowman, and Kellen Davis)
2009 - 8 remaining (Jarron Gilbert, Juaquin Iglesias, Henry Melton, D.J. Moore, Johnny Knox, Marcus Freeman, Al Afalava, and Lance Louis)

Since Jerry Angelo became the Bears G.M. in 2002, the Bears have 25 players out of a possible 72 remaining on the roster that he drafted. I'm sorry Jerry, but a few gems here and there doesn't cut it anymore. He put the Bears in this position by having poor draft picks and trading and releasing good players. I have a feeling this will be his last year and good riddance.

If I made a mistake with my numbers, please let me know by commenting on this post

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Originally Posted by gammabears

Straight from my blog.

Since Jerry Angelo has joined the Bears in 2002 he has plenty and I mean plenty of draft blunders. Here's a list I came up with a help of a friend.

2002 - 1 remaining (Adrian Peterson)
2003 - 2 remaining (Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman)
2004 - 1 remaining (Tommie Harris)
2005 - 0 remaining
2006 - 3 remaining (Devin Hester, Danieal Manning, and Mark Anderson)
2007 - 4 remaining (Greg Olsen, Garrett Wolfe, Josh Beekman, Kevin Payne)
2008 - 6 remaining (Chris Williams, Matt Forte, Earl Bennett, Craig Steltz, Zack Bowman, and Kellen Davis)
2009 - 8 remaining (Jarron Gilbert, Juaquin Iglesias, Henry Melton, D.J. Moore, Johnny Knox, Marcus Freeman, Al Afalava, and Lance Louis)

Since Jerry Angelo became the Bears G.M. in 2002, the Bears have 25 players out of a possible 72 remaining on the roster that he drafted. I'm sorry Jerry, but a few gems here and there doesn't cut it anymore. He put the Bears in this position by having poor draft picks and trading and releasing good players. I have a feeling this will be his last year and good riddance.

If I made a mistake with my numbers, please let me know by commenting on this post

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Well I have to say that list is impressive but let me make a few adjustment that I think will happen this year.

Adrian Peterson I believe is gone. So much for 2002
Tommy Harris better wake up his lazy ass or he will be toast but not this year.

2005 one of angelo's better drafts

2006 Put Hester back on special teams only. Manning? Anderson is a one year wonder.

2007 Cut Garret Wolf please

2008/2009 is too early to judge.

Adrian Peterson is a free agent currently.

Can't deny the bad luck we've had drafting. I'm just happy to have Cutler.

now compare that to the league average of drafted players that are still with their teams, and you have an argument!!

Against a team like Indy, NO's, NYG's, Philly, SD it's very poor. I didn't go back as far as 2002(did 2004), and I only did the 1st 2 rounds, but they did very well(although my post was from last year). Think Indy still has all but 1 or 2 players from the 1st two rounds still on their team, and contributing.

I refuse to use league averages b/c I refuse to rank the Bears w/the Det's, Browns and Oak's of the league.

there is a reason we are below average and need to use FA as a crutch

this is redundant and if you look at his FA history it is just as bad

I'm not exactly an Angelo backer nor a basher, but how many of Angelo's picks have been traded or released and had decent careers elsewhere. How much can we blame some of it on player development/coaching vs overall talent of the drafted player. Just curious and not trying to argue one way or another, only curious of others thoughts about player development. Going from college ball to the pros is a huge jump not only in the speed of the game but comes the money/maturity level as well.

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Originally Posted by GSH Monsters

I'm not exactly an Angelo backer nor a basher, but how many of Angelo's picks have been traded or released and had decent careers elsewhere.

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Some people do seem to think that players cut or traded by the Bears go on to have really productive careers, but I just haven't seen it. There are a couple rare cases (Benson/Jones), but Benson kind of forced their hand and Jones, I will admit, might have been a bad decision. Other than that, I don't think there are really any players doing any better on their new teams then they did here.

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Originally Posted by Papa Bear

Some people do seem to think that players cut or traded by the Bears go on to have really productive careers, but I just haven't seen it. There are a couple rare cases (Benson/Jones), but Benson kind of forced their hand and Jones, I will admit, might have been a bad decision. Other than that, I don't think there are really any players doing any better on their new teams then they did here.

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I was just curious what people thought of players like Mark Colombo, yes he was injury plagued with the Bears but has went on to have a productive career with Dallas, another troubled past player was Tank Johnson, Chris Harris, Mark Bradley is a few off the top of my head. Some of these players are decent players but because of injuries or legal trouble got released. Hind sight is 20/20 or something like that.....LOL I'm sure if any G.M. had things to do over again they would do things differently. I look at things like would Aromashodu seen the field last year had Hester not gotten hurt.