Angelo Has Strong Opinions on Holdouts

Wide receiver Michael Crabtree was the last rookie holdout in the league, finally signing with the San Francisco 49ers. His signing may have little to do with the Chicago Bears, but that didn’t stop Bears general manager Jerry Angelo from commenting about the situation. Angelo has dealt a few times with holdouts and has a less-than-positive view on players who refuse to sign.

Angelo said, “When you look at holdouts, the byproduct of the holdout for the player is bad. Everybody says it’s bad for the game and it’s bad for the team. It’s first bad for the player, then it’s bad for the team, then it’s bad for the game. I feel so strongly about it because in every situation that I have been involved (in) with a holdout, we had a bad result… People will say, ‘Well maybe it was just poor evaluation.’ Maybe it was poor evaluation, but it got the whole thing started off on the wrong foot. Instead of the cart going down the hill in terms of getting to what the player can do and accentuating on the strengths, it went up a hill. That’s what it does. Instead of taking the path of least resistance, you’re a first-round pick, you’re now going uphill and you’re carrying a lot of excess baggage. Missing camp, the karma with the players, the coaches, the media, the fans, all of that now has become your baggage that only you can deal with it. I can’t deal with it.”

It’s a good thing none of this year’s rookies were holdouts. Get your Chicago Bears tickets from StubHub.

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