Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh heavily criticized the Chicago Bears' front office on Tuesday for a botched draft-day trade, calling into question the Bears' honesty and ethical integrity. Bears general manager Jerry Angelo profusely apologized at the time, claiming to have made a simple mistake, but Harbaugh -- appearing Tuesday on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000 -- was skeptical about the team's intent, asserting what they had done "was just not honest." "It was disappointing," Harbaugh said. "They can get mad at me if they want, but I'm not buying the mistake thing. It wasn't a mistake. They knew what they were doing. "They put their guy on the phone. They agreed to a pick. They got their guy on the phone. They recognized he wasn't getting calls from the team behind them, and they basically stalled for over a minute, telling us they had called the trade in. They hadn't called the trade in. They said it was a mistake. Those guys have been doing it for a long time, c'mon." Sources familiar with the situation said at the time that Angelo delegated the responsibility of calling in the trade to a pair of team staffers, who didn't take care of the matter because each thought the other one had done it. Angelo apologized to Baltimore for the miscue, but the Ravens wanted compensation for the fourth-round pick the teams agreed to in the trade. "You communicate back and forth. And someone's responsible for calling a trade in," Harbaugh said Tuesday. "There's no way to not get that done. We saw on TV that they had their guy on the phone and he was who they were talking to, and then they drafted him. "So they basically just stole two spots from us, and that's not OK. That's not something ... it's not ethical, it's not right. And I personally agree with our owner Steve Bisciotti that they should have been held accountable for it. But also it is what it is, they didn't do anything illegal. We were just disappointed with it." Bisciotti expressed disappointment in the McCaskey family at the time, and it's clear that the Ravens probably won't be making trades with the Bears in the future. "Of course," Harbaugh said, when asked whether the Ravens would be reluctant to deal with the Bears in trade matters moving forward. "How do you know that they actually called a trade in? I know one thing, we'll be a lot more careful with all of our... we basically just took them at their word, and obviously that was a mistake." Source: ESPN Chicago
Didn't hear the show but I'm sure this is media driven due to no football. Still, you'd think Harbaugh would have been smart enough not to get led by the nose especially when the Ravens were proven to do the same thing the Bears did 8 years earlier. This no football is subjecting us poor fans to waaaay too much of what some of these morons think. :icon_rolleyes:
Harbaugh's got some serious issues. He needs to learn to let go of crap...cries about losing to the steelers, cries about playing in Heinz Field in primetime, crying about the Bears. Leg the crap go man...
