Chicago Bears: Brian Urlacher Signs Contract Extension
“Got to admit, I feel a little be confused…
Sometimes it feels to me, as if I’m just being used.”
--Roger Watters of Pink Floyd from the song “Dogs” from the album Animals, 1977.
Brian Urlacher just signed a contract extension that was worth 18 million dollars and 6 million dollars added as a signing bonus.
Let’s look at that.
He signs a contract a few years back that makes him the highest paid player on the team and the highest paid defensive player. Times change, inflation being what it is, and he is now NOT the highest paid player on the team nor the highest paid player on Defense and so, after a sub par year last year, he demands an extension.
Do contracts mean ANYTHING?
Let’s see, my district negotiators for my own union negotiated a 2% (yep you read that correctly knowing full well cost of living is a mere 3.9%--teacher’s are not always the brightest people for the record) and I have to live with it: like it or not. So may I walk into the office and renegotiate my salary, considering I have two years left on my contract? Yeah, I thought not.
I have no problem paying Urlacher what he is worth, AFTER his contract expires. He had no complaints four years ago. Even last year he said he would take a cut if they kept Lance Briggs. They did, and he wanted a raise. Huh?
I have no problem with Brian Urlacher the player, although it seems that offenses were keying up the middle last year and gaining some big yardage (isn’t Urlacher the MIDDLE linebacker—yeah I thought so), and it is obvious that he is the “face” of the Chicago Bears. I agree further that this man can literally take control of a game. All that said, I think the Bears have bowed to his cheesy threat of retiring (ala Favre) and taking his ball and going home.
Check out the video included, here. I mean, the guy is great; but what message does this send the working folks? I want the Bears to win and their record will be better than last year’s and the Defense will dominate again. That said, Urlacher’s raise isn’t about money to me, as it is about principles.
In essence, Brian Urlacher was just paid $24 million dollars for an extension of ONE season. Do the math, his extension runs through 2012; his contract was up in 2011.
I wonder if he could handle a two percent raise of my salary?
Sometimes it feels to me, as if I’m just being used.”
--Roger Watters of Pink Floyd from the song “Dogs” from the album Animals, 1977.
Brian Urlacher just signed a contract extension that was worth 18 million dollars and 6 million dollars added as a signing bonus.
Let’s look at that.
He signs a contract a few years back that makes him the highest paid player on the team and the highest paid defensive player. Times change, inflation being what it is, and he is now NOT the highest paid player on the team nor the highest paid player on Defense and so, after a sub par year last year, he demands an extension.
Do contracts mean ANYTHING?
Let’s see, my district negotiators for my own union negotiated a 2% (yep you read that correctly knowing full well cost of living is a mere 3.9%--teacher’s are not always the brightest people for the record) and I have to live with it: like it or not. So may I walk into the office and renegotiate my salary, considering I have two years left on my contract? Yeah, I thought not.
I have no problem paying Urlacher what he is worth, AFTER his contract expires. He had no complaints four years ago. Even last year he said he would take a cut if they kept Lance Briggs. They did, and he wanted a raise. Huh?
I have no problem with Brian Urlacher the player, although it seems that offenses were keying up the middle last year and gaining some big yardage (isn’t Urlacher the MIDDLE linebacker—yeah I thought so), and it is obvious that he is the “face” of the Chicago Bears. I agree further that this man can literally take control of a game. All that said, I think the Bears have bowed to his cheesy threat of retiring (ala Favre) and taking his ball and going home.
Check out the video included, here. I mean, the guy is great; but what message does this send the working folks? I want the Bears to win and their record will be better than last year’s and the Defense will dominate again. That said, Urlacher’s raise isn’t about money to me, as it is about principles.
In essence, Brian Urlacher was just paid $24 million dollars for an extension of ONE season. Do the math, his extension runs through 2012; his contract was up in 2011.
I wonder if he could handle a two percent raise of my salary?
posted by Eric Sweetwood at 8:38 AM
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