Jerry Angelo Quotations | Page 2

After missing all of training camp, we want to make it abundantly clear that the Chicago Bears have made their best and final offer to Cedric Benson .

The Chicago Bears have always placed a premium on having our players in camp on time. The failure to reach an agreement on a fair and reasonable contract has been a huge disappointment.

It's the next step on the rung. It's an important one. We're real excited about being in a position to do it, but we've got to go out there and take it.

It's not an indictment on the tight ends we have, the same guys we had last year. We want to create more competition at all positions. We just weren't able to get that done (drafting).

You can't minimize great quarterback play in great games, so he's probably my personal pick.

There wasn't a filter that a lot of us who maybe coached or played college football identify with. Maybe we aren't as objective as we should be.

There's absolutely no misunderstanding. We made that very clear. He understands the dynamics of it, and now it's just a matter of whether this is as good a fit for him as it is for us.

There probably could be two tight ends that go in the first round for sure one we know that. You're going to see probably a pretty good run in the second and obviously the third round. I think the bulk of them will be gone by then. And there will be a few if they fit with what you want scheme-wise that you may like in the fourth.

It's a tough position. It's a supply-and-demand business, and the colleges just aren't generating enough of them.

It's just too hard to find a quarterback. When you think you've got one, if there was any ray of hope, we were going to play the string out.

We're going in with the hand we dealt ourselves. We said that going in and we're comfortable with it. We feel good about our football team. If we're contingent on just one player, then obviously we didn't build this team to win.

We want to create the best competition we can, really, at every position, but we're going to look hard at the punter this year.

It's like standing on top of the John Hancock (building). Compared to where it's been, this is the best we've been. ... Rex has got to stay healthy. Brian's got to continue to play at his level. And Kyle has to continue to develop as well. It's a good situation. We like it.

It's like standing on top of the John Hancock. This is the best we've been.

There will be a few teams that'll come out (fast). I know I've heard of some things going on right now. So there will be some pretty big deals that will come out like in normal years.

He's interested and we're interested. It's still early in the process, but we will talk to Frank. It's just a matter of seeing what the market price is going to be.

He called us and said this is where I want to be. So right now we have some pretty good competition going on right there. We like his confidence.

That 'hundreds and hundreds' was taken totally out of context. When I was making a point to this person, I was making a point that over my 31 years in the National Football League I've seen a lot of changes. There were hundreds and hundreds of things over those years that I've seen that have gotten better. Domestic violence is one of those.

There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.