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Urlacher s presence is his best bargaining chip
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Showing up simply represents the best negotiating ploy for Urlacher, who still will be seeking a new contract Friday when he enters Halas Hall.
If he is cleared to participate fully in practice, this would give Urlacher a great opportunity to disprove any doubts about his back and surgically repaired neck. Nothing backs up Urlacher's words that he has recovered well from neck surgery and got in shape in Arizona than showing it on a practice field in Lake Forest.
No doubt Urlacher's popularity has taken a hit due to his contract demands, but it's na ve to think that would last long. The Bears' best player in a generation has built up too much emotional capital here during eight NFL seasons to suggest people will hold this dispute against Urlacher if he returns happy, healthy and dominant.
Watch how many people already will start to soften this weekend simply by seeing No. 54 on their TV screens during newscasts playing football again.
Besides swaying some public opinion back in his favor, by Monday morning Urlacher also could strengthen his contract position if he looks more fluid and athletic in person than a guy whose body has been described as breaking down.
A boycott would have been interpreted as an attempt by Urlacher to embarrass the team, which he hasn't done during a pretty amicable contract dispute.
He has missed all the organized team activities, but OTAs are more overrated than Urlacher has ever been accused of being. Skipping OTAs creates a ripple that's like skipping a rock in the ocean.
As far as contract protests go, in fact, Urlacher's will never be used by the NFLPA as a training video for superstars seeking to drive a wedge between them and their employers to get their way. The deepest line in the sand Urlacher has drawn involved threatening to skip mini-camp and now that's a moot point after he has bent.
Unlike Lance Briggs a year ago, Urlacher hasn't issued any ultimatums or vows to never wear a Bears uniform again. He even has tiptoed around the idea of a training-camp holdout because, above all things, he wants to play football in Chicago.
Briefly, there was a farfetched notion floated that the Bears could turn this into an ugly negotiation and go after millions of dollars in prorated bonus money to Urlacher if he blew off mini-camp. But a team source scoffed at that idea. As popular as Urlacher remains among teammates who support his cause, that'd be like lighting a match near a puddle of gasoline in the Bears
Sure, the Broncos did that to Ashley Lelie two years ago. But in NFL circles, Ashley Lelie is to Brian Urlacher what a tugboat is to a yacht. There's no comparison.
No, the Bears have been just as careful as Urlacher in not saying anything too incendiary. The closest they came was when Jerry Angelo offered a witty one-liner about Urlacher holding a "water pistol" to the franchise's head during a radio interview. Tame stuff.
How many contract disputes include the team giving the player at the center of it a humanitarian award, as the Bears
On the surface, the $18 million extension sounds robust until you factor in the reported $9 million base salary for the extra season in 2012 written into the deal. Urlacher would be 34.
If he's even still playing for the Bears at that point, you can bet a case of Vitamin Water the team will rework his deal before paying him $9 million for a 13th season.
So in reality, the offer isn't really worth $18 million just as the deal Urlacher signed in 2003 wasn't really ever expected to hold up nine years.
Like it or not, long-term NFL contracts are written to be rewritten.
Reluctantly, the Bears have fairly done so with Urlacher's contract after initially being cool to the idea. It now awaits his signature.
At this point, Urlacher should view the $5 million signing bonus as part of the Bears' $18 million extension a reasonable meeting point. The money up front matches the bonuses given Alex Brown and Desmond Clark and represents the respect Urlacher craved.
He has made his point, the Bears have made theirs.
Now give the guy a pen and don't let the weekend end without getting his autograph.
dhaugh@tribune.com
I am at the point I don't care whether Benson is innocent or not he has disgraced us ever since becoming a Bear, a team drafts you and how do you show your thanks? By holding out? A position Sweetness Payton dominated for years has now become a complete joke, it's sickening.
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11:05 PM CDT, May 5, 2008
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