Bears general manager Jerry Angelo indicated that timing was one of the reasons his team didn't claim Randy Moss off waivers today.
After the Minnesota Vikings waived him Tuesday, the 5-3 Tennessee Titans were the only NFL team to claim Moss, after 21 other teams -- including the Bears -- opted to pass on the receiver.
"We didn't think he was a good fit for us given where we are in the season," Angelo told the team's website. "Not to minimize that he is a very talented player -- his credentials speak for themselves -- but what we're trying to do and will continue to do is develop our players that we have and continue to show the belief we have in them.
"Don't minimize what a player has to do coming in at midseason to create a niche to help a team. How many players have come in at midseason and made a major contribution? Nothing is as easy as it looks," he said. "Just ask Minnesota."
Angelo added that there are reasons players are let go by their respective clubs.
"I don't want to get into those specifically, those have to be weighed," he said. "The player's salary also has to be weighed, as well as the plan for the player. All these things are very important when you're making a decision about whether to bring a player in, irrelevant of whether it's a big-name player or not. Again, there are very few players that go to a team at this juncture of the season and make an immediate impact.
"We're not baseball."
Randy is WAAYY too tall for us....we the midgets at WR !!!!
Jerry,
Best move you have made in a looooong time. With a lame duck coach and you on your last legs, Moss would have walked all over you clowns as well. You need him around Knox, Hester, and DA like you need a speech impediment. Not to mention, keeping him away from Cutler.
As I pointed out 1 month ago when the topic was how the Moss to Vikes would affect the Bears, I was the only one to say it wouldn't be that bad. And also for the long term, it benefits the Bears. He did in 3 weeks what I thought it would take a few months to do. {Help the implosion of the 2010 vikings.} Childress is not someone he respects or fears from a job security standpoint. As for his skills; He's not Moss of 2004 or 2007. His skills are greatly diminished. The 20 some catches are not a fluke. He was never a great route runner and doesn't like over the middle contact. From that perspective, he would have fit in great with the Bears. I am hoping the new GM, coach, or combo, fills the need for a big monster WR either through the draft, or by making a play for V. Jackson. Let Jeff Fisher put up with him.
Once again, Moe Howard {a.k.a. JA} good move.
There is no thinking about this -- we all know Angelo and Lovie are not good fits, but we have them anyway. So why not obtain someone that could help? Lets get this team some help now.
Any talented offensive player might not be a good fit with Chicago. Angelo is right. Look what the Bears have done with a young All-Pro quarterback. In less than two years they have nearly destroyed the promising career of one of the strongest arms ever to throw a ball in the NFL...and he has wheels, too, and he is smart.
So, who is and who is not a good fit. Frame this quote when Angelo leaves his office at Halas Hall for the last time which will be sooner than later.
I'm at the point with Jerry Angelo if he told me it was raining, I'd have to poke my head out to see for myself. "JA" has No "cred" with me, anymore, what-so-ever...
If Angelo is around in 2011, he'll probably(waste) draft picks on more- thin, undersized "D" lineman or another soft- alligator-armed "o" lineman, with a bad back.
Moss to another AFC team. Good! Unless he is on the Bears I dont want to see him in a NFC uniform. Hall of fame player, yes, Super Bowl winner, N.O
Hey Angelo! Ron Wolf, the former GM of the Packers picked up Andre Rison in mid-season in 1996. The Packers went to the Super Bowl... and won it. Arguable, Randy Moss is more talented than Rison was. You are an idiot and one who needs to be swept out of Halas Hall ASAP with all the other miscreants. The Bears are a joke and so are you. Go Bills.
I agree with most of the comments I see posted on these sites about the bears but I find the comments about Mr. Angelo to be the ones that hit home. Jerry Angelo must go and our good people with the Chicago press must start educating those bear fans that don't understand. Please some one write on the ill picks, the players he let go and the players he passed on that could have actually helped strengthen the system the bears run offensively or defensively. I don't care what coach comes here or would have came here under Angelo's tenure, they would have been set up for failure. As we say in the military, he sends them to war with a bb gun! So I plead with you as writers to do your research and educate us!
History lesson: 1985 Bears had a cast of characters. Won the Super Bowl and should have won at least one more while playing in another two.
For some reason all of a sudden we do not want players who have their own identity or is a little uncouth. Do you people remember Steve McMichael. William Perry, Jim McMahon? Walter Payton & Gary Fencik may have been what you would call gentlemen on previous Bears team.
Every one else did their thing! Of course it jelled together, but I am tired of Chicago sports teams running from a player whom has baggage.
Heck Dennis Rodman had baggage and displayed it as often as he could with the Chicago Bulls but he played the game and we won another three championships.
In other words, what you guys & ladies are saying is we do not have coaches and other players whom a prospective player will respect on the Bears whom will talk to them and state stop doing that silly crap while on the field. Apparently, Moss respected the coach and QB in New England long enough to get to a Super Bowl and almost won it!
We should have gotten Randy Moss, tried it out, if it doesn't work, release him!! Am I missing something here?
I refused to believe one player can disrupt the dynamics of a team. What that player has exposed is the weaknesses in the team right up front. Again, am I missing something here?
Bill cower we need ya buddy!! I say we all boycott the next Bears home game to send a message that IF IT SMELLS LIKE [crap] IT PROBABLY IS!!! Winning solves everything - I couldnt care any less how bringing in Devin Aramashadont and knox and hetser would feel or react to bringing in Randy Moss!! Just to spite Minnesota who we still have to play twice- we coulda got them back for taking our players all the time....Hester and Moss on each side ...That may open things up for the running game but what do I know I sell phones for a living
Anon,
Here's the real history lesson. Everyone of those players you mentioned had one thing that Moss does not. Respect for the game. Also not one of those players ever quit. Moss is widely known to be a quitter on the field. Even Rodman {who was an idiotic freak} played like a madman on the court. And also, in both the Bears and the Bulls you had a head coach who was bigger and more powerful than the players who were "charachters".
What does Moss bring you? As I have stated many times. The goal is not "to win the next game." Of course you want to win every game, but the "Wanny" philosophy was "win the next game." Moss does not make the Bears any closer to a SB. And I don't know what people are watching, but he's dropped off dramatically. Cutler is not Tom Brady and Lovie is so not Belichick and Moss couldn't perform there early in the year. For a receiver who doesn't run good routes, when your speed falls to above average from blazing fast, there's not much of an impact you are going to make.