[CBFF] CT - Bears ignored nee... blah blah blah

[Tom Shannon]

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> From: CBFF-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com [mailto:CBFF-
> bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Jim Ferolie
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 6:44 PM
> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> Subject: Re: [CBFF] CT - Bears ignored nee... blah blah blah
> 
> No, I do see what you're saying there; I guess we just are weighing the
> proportion of what he was saying differently. I felt like his criticism
> was
> heavy on the "didn't fill needs" and lighter on the "reached with Manning
> and Hester."

I think this is true.  What really bothers me, and where he really hit them
hardest, was in these statements:

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In assessing the Bears' draft as a whole, it was the most curious and least
effective draft in the league. No team misaligned their draft board more...

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Jerry Angelo is well respected among his peers around the league,
including myself, but he must look hard at the guy setting up his
draft board, Greg Gabriel. His lack of football background is really
starting to show. Having someone with a strong football coaching
background, who can access a player's talent and value in the draft is
essential.
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This is a direct attack on the Bears ability to stack a draft board.  It
goes way beyond, "They didn't fill their needs" and "They reached on their
first two picks."  This is, "They don't know how to assess high end, first
and second round talent.  They don't know what they're doing."  That's
bothersome.  I'm not sure I believe it but it is bothersome.

Tom S.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did
not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
  - James M. Barrie