NightLink: Professor Jerry Talks About Urlacher
by Dane Noble on Jul 14, 2009 5:00 PM CDT
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General Manager Jerry Angelo continues his series of interviews with Larry Mayer on the Bears official site, and has some good things to say about Brian Urlacher. While a lot of folks seems to think that Urlacher is washed up, getting old, or on a downhill spiral, Angelo seems confident that Urlacher can regain his 2007 form.
Brian spent the whole offseason here, and that’s a big thing for me personally to have him train with us because when he played his best football for us he was here in the offseason. The last two years he wasn’t here for varying reasons. That’s part of it, not all of it. But he did look good in OTAs in terms of his movement. There are some things that I’m sure he’s going to be more focused on to do better than what he had done maybe last year. But I feel that he can get back to a Pro Bowl level. He expects that of himself and we expect that of him as well.
What are the chances that Urlacher can be 100% healthy for the entire season? I certainly don't know, but I do know that we will need him headed down the stretch if we are going to make a push for the North title.
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Wow, not much new here at all. This off-season can’t end any sooner. Come on, the hands of time!
Bears Den….like sands through the hourglass, fans eagerly wait until the paint drys.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
Only 17 days til Training Camp
and 32 days til Pre Season game 1.
LSU Tigers Baseball... NCAA National Champions- 2009.
Damnit Man!!
Look what you made me do. Now I gotta find a new pair of pants.
Thanks a lot pal.
Camp ifuwanna, we hold you in our heart...
by ifuwannacrownem on Jul 14, 2009 7:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Huh?
Did you get some wet paint on them?
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
Oh it's paint alright
Just not the kind you’d wanna paint your house with.
Camp ifuwanna, we hold you in our heart...
by ifuwannacrownem on Jul 15, 2009 2:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Dries
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
Cant Wait...
Ive been checking WCG every five minutes it feels like. I need more info. The funny thing is we just keep rehashing the same info over and over. But seeing everything from a new perspective. 17 days is way too long… LOL
So guess who decided to show up at my job yesterday
The Bozo Cowboys fan, this time decked out in full cowboys attire from head to toe. he looked at me with a smirk. I shouted out to him “who do ya think you are? Crazy Ray?!” He just waved me off.
When he came up to pay for his items, I just started stocking cigarettes while whistling Bear Down. “catchy tune” he says. I told him he’s gonna start hearing it alot more often this season.
Well, I’m off to work. you guy’s have a wonderful evening.
Camp ifuwanna, we hold you in our heart...
by ifuwannacrownem on Jul 14, 2009 7:59 PM CDT reply actions
I really hope you meant he came in
wearing boots, a ten-gallon hat, a bandanna and chaps. Also with handlebar mustaches and a long, pointy beard and two six shooters in holsters at his belt. And hey, what kind of job lets you smoke ON THE JOB!?!?! That must make for a sweet confrontation with the cowboy man as he walks in and says “I’m looking to get me some Bear skin rug, Mister.” And then you calmly take a last drag of your cigarette and crush it with your boot as the whistling from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” starts up in the background. Sorry, just fueling my own imagination…. God it’s a long off season.
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I believe he works at a gas station.
I'm teaching fools some basic rules.- MR.T
by Ditkavsworld on Jul 15, 2009 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Whoa, buddy! Ease off that four letter word.
We are a Convenient store. We just happen to sell gas on the side…
Camp ifuwanna, we hold you in our heart...
by ifuwannacrownem on Jul 15, 2009 2:13 PM CDT up reply actions
F*ck my bad.
I'm teaching fools some basic rules.- MR.T
by Ditkavsworld on Jul 15, 2009 2:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Like the Texan in the Simpsons
Yee-haw….gunshot, gunshot, do a little dance.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
What do you want Angelo to say...
Look, we all like and respect Brian Urlacher and his historical contributions. But to deny that he is a shadow of his former self on the football field is to live with one’s head up his keester. Urlacher still have value on this football team and still can be an asset. But he ain’t every going to be close to what he was.
$136 million payroll for a .500 style ballclub. Good work Jim.
Well, be prepared to eat a little crow during and after the season.
I think several Bears have bounceback years. Urlacher, Vasher, and Ogunleye are all motivated and fired-up.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
I sure hope highly paid professional athletes are "motivated" and "fired up"
Do you even know what you are saying there???
$136 million payroll for a .500 style ballclub. Good work Jim.
Motivation
Urlacher- is one year removed from surgery, and wants to prove all the critics wrong.
Ogunleye- is in a contract year. He wants to make out on more contract before he’s over the hill.
Vasher- has the ability and has done it before, just needs to stay healthy.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
And you can add
the fact that Devin Hester has heard 90395075094309576098576 times (okay, so the number’s not EXACT—I may have rounded down) this off-season that he’s NOT a #1 WR, that the Bears have NO receivers…
You don’t think each time he hears that the chip on his shoulder gets a little bigger?
And then all the Cutler-bashing, the blaming of the defensive line for not getting a pass rush, and the criticism of the coaching—and you have a WHOLE TEAM with a wholehelluvalot to PROVE.
No, not every player is motivated to his fullest in each season, nor by money alone.
When the talent is already there (and I believe, with the Bears, at most positions it IS) a TEAM can win or die based on emotion and attitude alone.
How many times did the Bears blow a game in the 4th quarter last year?
There’s a lot to be said for emotion, intensity, attitude, motivation, and desire—it’s why the same exact team can play so well one day/season, then implode the next..
It’s the very reason the saying, “any team on any given Sunday” exists.
It might be a trite platitude, but attitude IS everything.
(assuming, of course, the talent is there).
by Amishbear on Jul 15, 2009 10:59 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Random PMA quotes:
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, “Already Gone”
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
btw- well played AB
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
Attitude is huge in the NFL
Joe Montana & Tom Brady have one thing in common: They had a huge chip on their shoulder regarding their draft position and worked their asses off because of it.
The problem I have in the NFL is this. Many players don’t have the right attitude and ‘inner motivation’ ala Joe and Tom.
That’s why teams need coaches like a Mike Ditka.
(Dan Hampton: "What kind of coach was Mike Ditka? A prick. But he was OUR prick’).
Fear is one of the greatest motivators out there (fear of failure; of being embarrassed; of losing one’s job, etc).
A HC that ‘offfers’ that kind of motivation is what’s needed in the NFL.
Defense
will be in the top 8, offense in the top 11, bring on the division. I love haters.
There are only three types of people; makers, takers, and fakers. Which one are you???
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