I wrote a piece yesterday defending Jerry Angelo on the whole Matt Forte negotiations, but I do believe it is time for a change at Halas Hall with the General Manager. The goal of any General Manager is to win a Super Bowl, and Angelo has failed to do so in his ten years with the team. That is why he needs to go.
Getting close to the title isn’t good enough. The Chicago Bears are a pinnacle franchise and should be contending for titles every year. Considering the regressions from the 2006 Super Bowl run, it is time to ask why in five seasons this team hasn’t been back to the Super Bowl? Sure, last season was a somewhat successful one, but one playoff appearance since the Super Bowl is inexcusable.
There’s also been way too many wrong personnel decisions. Here’s one example from this season; letting Danieal Manning go this off-season was a joke. While I understand he’s not Ronnie Lott, he played well last season and was a standout on Special Teams. Considering the Bears are way under the salary cap and safety is Pandora’s Box with this team, Manning was a solution to the problem. In response to this miscalculation, the Bears signed Brandon Meriweather to a more-lucrative contract. How’s that working out? I can also highlight his lack of drafting skills, but that would take way too much time.
As far as player contracts go, there’s two in those transactions. For players like Lance Briggs to complain about a contract he signed is wrong. The Matt Forte situation isn’t fair, but negotiations require give-and-take on both sides. The Bears hold the cards with the option of the franchise tag, but for Forte to have a long-term deal, he’ll have to compromise a bit. And that’s not on Angelo. But believe me, there’s plenty of reasons why he needs to go.
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Jonathan -
Need your advice, bro. Should I feel bad about this? Like “Jerry Angelo” bad?
Okay, so this happened to me last week. One of my job responsibilities for my company is to attend unemployment hearings. I went to a hearing and got there about a half an hour early. The only reasonable thing I could think of to past the time was to pound the pud. So I started to browse Twitter to look at some sexy pictures.
After 10 minutes of searching I found the picture I wanted to use, and pulled down my pants to start sexy time. Not even 15 seconds later a car pulls up and parks right next to me. I look up with my hand on my dick and lock eyes with an attractive female. The only solution I had was to start my car and drive, drive far away with my junk still in my hand.
So I start driving and realize that I still have to go to this hearing, so I turn around a little while later hopping this attractive female was going to a different office then I was. I park and then walk up to the unemployment office. I breath a sigh of relief. A little while later my name gets called and I walk back to the referee’s office. Once I sit down and look up the referee presiding over the case IS THE GIRL THAT CAUGHT ME POUNDING MY PUD. My face turns bright red and I sit down and she is just staring at me with a face of disgust. All I get is a blank stare and a look of disgust. I ended up losing the hearing.
Why do I share this? Because it feels like Angelo has had his dick in his hand for the last few years instead of making our team better. Thoughts?
I don’t know what to say to most of that, but it seems about right
Really? Didn’t think it was that confusing…..
Jonathan, I know you will appreciate this, though:
Somehow I always get into the craziest of crazy cabs, like one driver telling me about how if he were President, he would ‘rubber fuck in the head’ (which my friend and I finally figured out was crazyspeak for shoot with rubber bullets) people who didn’t agree with him.
The latest in this series of cab driver absurdity: Rush hour cab ride on Penn Ave. Cab driver is prattling on about how hot it is and how terrible Asian women drivers are etc. Suddenly he turns around, while still driving and stares me in the eyes-
Cabbie – Are you Jewish?
Me – What? Seriously? No.
Cabbie – You look like a Jewish.
Me (head drooping) – I get that a lot.
Cabbie – What do you know about Jewish faith?
Me – I don’t know, not much I guess.
Cabbie – Tell me something you know.
Me – Uh well I guess they consider themselves the chosen people.
Cabbie (bursts out laughing) – Haha chosen by who?
Me – I dunno God?
Cabbie (still chortling) – Not my God. Also I want you to know I am laughing at the chosen people part, not that you look so Jewish.
As I was expensing the cab for work, I gave him a decent tip for an entertaining cab ride.
BUT SERIOUSLY.
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.