Thread: Interesting: "7 stages of grief for the impending loss of Brian Urlacher"

I've never seen the Bears play without Urlacher, and I can't imagine a Bears team without him... but the show must go on, let's hope Phil will draft us another Urlacher.

I'm thinking three more as well but they may write for four depending on what kind of upfront bonus they give him. I'm thinking they'll want most of it in salary so that in the event he sustains a career ending injury or his play just falls of a cliff (unlikely as that may seem) so they can retire him with minimal cap damage.

This one could be tricky. They can't be too frugal about it but they can't go overboard either. Urlacher wants to remain here. He's said that already and indicated he owes the Bears some consideration on this contract since the essentially re-wrote the one's finishing up now.

The Kruetz thing aside no legendary HOF Bears MLB has ever played for any other team but the Bears. Not Bill George, not Dick Butkus, not Mike Singletary and it sure as hell isn't time to break with that tradition.