Brian Urlacher: Where's the Outrage?

Personally I like Urlacher for 3 reasons:

1- He claims to have grownup as a Redskins fan

2- He banged that whore Paris Hilton

3- He's a great LB

The football world doesn't revolve around the Redskins.

Blasphemy, I say! How dare you!?

I believe the difference is that the two sides (player/management) don't generally agree to the "franchise tag." It's simply a right the team has to exercise, it's different from two sides agreeing on a contract

Now though, Briggs shouldn't complain. He was a free agent and on the market and, for whatever reason, he agreed to a pretty crappy deal (in relative terms).

You are certainly right there. And it is not suprising that a guy is unhappy if he feels he's been short changed. I was just addressing the original point that his original crying was not when he was a FA, but bound to an agreement (in essense, a contract) which gave him no more real right to complain than B.U., that's all.

Was his FA deal crappy? I really don't know the particulars. Hard to imagine that after all that posturing about how the system failed him, he wouldn’t have done better for himself.

Lest we think Chad Johnson holds a monopoly on complaining...why aren't we all up in arms over this? Because he's not as "loud" as Chad Johnson?

"Urlacher feels he has outplayed his contract and is demanding more money. He's boycotting the team's voluntary offseason workout program and threatening to hold out of minicamp, organized team activities and even training camp if he doesn't get a new deal."

Brian Urlacher situation is tricky business for Bears :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Sports (http://www.suntimes.com/sports/901866,CST-SPT-bear18.article)

The Bears have so many players who want new deals (Harris, Hester, Gould, even Briggs is allegedly complaining). They're a mess
I don't care, because there haven't been any rumors about him showing up here. I'll bet if I started a thread and posted some sort of BS link, rumoring him to be coming here, it would get the same attention and responses the CJ threads have (until folks found out it was bogus).

That being said, Urlacher needs to play under his current contract. Sound to me like his agent/s trying to get paid one last time before his injuries catch up to him. Also convenient that the Bears have $ 16M of cap space. The tactics many agents use are sickening (I know the teams are not saints either).

I have more respect for CJ, I know money is always an issue, but I don't think him wanting out of Cincy is solely about money.

Personally I like Urlacher for 3 reasons:

1- He claims to have grownup as a Redskins fan

2- He banged that whore Paris Hilton

3- He's a great LB
1. Cool

2. Cool, but he's on a pretty long list.

3. WAS a great LB, his best days are behind him.

I am not saying that you cannot have an opinion. I am saying that it has been noted that he is not doing this for money, and despite those reports you still affirm that he is in fact doing this for money.

Edit* This whole dialog is based on what you said about CJ. How does it not make sense?

All I said was that I believe this is more about money than winning - meaning, I'll be shocked if Johnson takes a paycut (or even just a modest pay raise) in order to sign with a contender. There are no "reports", there is just what he is saying right now. That means all there are right now are opinions, and time will tell which is correct.

First of all, I have not seen that much outrage against Chad Johnson. If I was him making half of what TO does, I would be pissed also. Not to mention stuck with the Bengals. Urlacker probably deserves a better contract also.