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[warthog]

Jerry Angelo takes blame for Ravens’ snafu
Posted by Mike Florio on April 29, 2011, 12:23 AM EDT
Jerry Angelo, Lovie Smith AP

Like the Vikings in 2003, the Ravens allowed the clock to expire on their allotted time for making a first-round draft pick. Like the Vikings in 2003, the Ravens were trying to trade the pick when they ran out of time. And just like 2003, the Kansas City Chiefs were the team that benefited.

This time around, however, the team that saw the seconds tick away won’t have to carry around the embarrassment. Per Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times, Bears G.M. Jerry Angelo has accepted the blame for the situation.

“It was our fault,” Angelo said. “They did everything according to the rules. . . . We had a disconnect. Whatever you hear, Baltimore did everything right.”

Angelo claimed that the Bears were trying to trade up in order to get the guy that they drafted with the 29th selection, Wisconsin tackle Gabe Carimi. Apparently, the Bears feared that the Chiefs would take Carimi with the 27th pick. The Chiefs instead took receiver Jonathan Baldwin.

Then again, it’s possible that the Bears were actually targeting Baldwin.

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Ravens want fourth-round pick from Bears
Posted by Mike Florio on April 29, 2011, 7:29 AM EDT

Last night, the Ravens’ 10-minute window for making their first-round pick expired, a development reminiscent of the misadventures of the other NFL franchise with purple in its color scheme. Like the Vikings in 2003, the Ravens were trying to trade their pick. Specifically, they were trying to trade it to the Bears.

And, like the Vikings in 2003, the Ravens were leapfrogged by at least one team before getting their pick in.

The difference? This time around, the Ravens had a deal in place to move down.

After round one ended, Bears G.M. Jerry Angelo took the blame for the cluster of fudge that unfolded, even though Chris Berman and company didn’t blast the Ravens nearly as mercilessly as they ripped the Vikings eight years ago. But the Ravens want more than an apology.

According to Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Ravens are looking for a fourth-round pick from the Bears, which presumably was the agreed-to trade compensation.

Per Jensen, Ravens G.M. Ozzie Newsome said that the trade didn’t happen because the NFL never heard from the Bears, one of the key steps in getting a trade approved.

“Everyone was poised,” Newsome said at a press conference. “I was on the phone with the other team. [A Ravens official] was on the phone with [eventual pick] Jimmy Smith. Once that agreement was made, then they have to call the league. . . . The other team never got confirmation with the league.”

Since the Bears claim they got the guy the wanted (offensive lineman Gabe Carimi), it makes sense for the Bears to honor the agreement. If they don’t, the damage within the league to the reputation of Angelo and anyone else involved with the trade on the Bears’ side of things would be far worse than the value of a fourth-round pick.

It would be fitting if, in the end, the guy who failed to make the call was Bears offensive line coach Mike Tice, since he was head coach of the Vikings the last time the clock expired on a team in the first round.

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It should be interesting to see if the Ravens do get compensated by the Bears. I think it's a little silly in that reportedly both teams still got who they wanted and the Ravens still picked ahead of the Bears. I think the Ravens want to have their cake and eat it too if they are in fact requesting the compensation. If I were in the Bears shoes I'd be willing to give them something, but probably not the 4th round pick.