{"id":2749,"date":"2014-03-18T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2014-03-18T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:01:02","slug":"the-game-drafts-angelo-as-football-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/03\/18\/the-game-drafts-angelo-as-football-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game drafts Jerry Angelo as football insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2750\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/03\/18\/the-game-drafts-angelo-as-football-insider\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2750\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2750\" alt=\"Jerry Angelo\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Jerry-Angelo.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Jerry Angelo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Bears general manager Jerry Angelo has signed an exclusive agreement to appear as lead football insider on Tribune Broadcasting sports\/talk <a href=\"http:\/\/thegamechicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WGWG LP 87.7.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting this week, Angelo will join midday hosts David Kaplan and David Haugh at 10:25 a.m. every Wednesday on The Game 87.7 FM.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of good football insiders, but there\u2019s nobody like a former GM when it comes to having great intel on the process, the free agency and the draft,\u201d Kaplan said. \u201cHe can provide a perspective that no one else in Chicago can match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angelo was general manager of the Bears from 2001 to 2012 after serving 14 years as director of player personnel for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>Calling him \u201cnothing but class,\u201d Kaplan said of Angelo: \u201cHe\u2019s never going to fire on the Bears whether he\u2019s pissed that he got fired or not. [Bears GM Phil] Emery\u2019s been there a couple of years, and now he figures he can analyze football and have some fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the man who acquired quarterback Jay Cutler from the Denver Broncos in 2009, Angelo has been critical lately, writing on <a href=\"http:\/\/thesidelineview.com\/columns\/nfl\/former-bears-gm-jerry-angelo-rates-every-quarterback-2013-nfl-season\" target=\"_blank\">thesidelineview.com:<\/a> \u201c[Cutler] has all the physical tools, but inconsistent in the clutch. Mostly due to a lack of poise. He\u2019s not comfortable reading defenses and consequently locks onto a favorite or pre-determined target that may or may not be the right choice. The less he\u2019s asked to see, the better he is. A better half-field general than a full-field one.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Angelo joins a roster of expert analysts on the fledgling sports\/talk station that includes Todd Hollandsworth on baseball, Eddie Olczyk on hockey and K.C. Johnson on basketball. Terms of Angelo's deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/02\/17\/wgns-new-fm-let-the-game-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\">debuted<\/a> Feb. 17 as the FM counterpart of Tribune\u2019s news\/talk WGN AM 720, under a local marketing agreement with Venture Technologies Group, which owns the low-power station\u2019s license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bears general manager Jerry Angelo has signed an exclusive agreement to appear as lead football insider on Tribune Broadcasting sports\/talk WGWG LP 87.7. Starting this week, Angelo will join midday hosts David Kaplan and David Haugh at 10:25 a.m. every Wednesday on The Game 87.7 FM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}