Plus I think he has to play. I think he actually needs the money still.

There is no way this idiot invests or saves. He probably has people robbing him blind. He's probably spent a shit load of it. He has to pay a couple of mothers. You know he's gonna knock up a few more.

He should be set for life right now even if he retires. You just know that he's not set for life.

Obviously Im not a Bears fan. But I dont have a problem with him asking for more money, I just dont think the Bears owe it to him and I think it would be a bad business decision to give it to him. He's an asshole who clearly doesnt respect the team or the fans. I dont think fans get upset if a player outperforms his deal and wants a little more money, I think they get upset if said player is an unlikeable jerk who's best days are most likely behind him, which Urlacher is.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Nas, you, of all people, should know that I would pay any cost; truly suffer the slings and arrows of accusation and scorn to have Kevin Jones on my team.

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Nas,
He has FOUR years left on his deal. He signed it knowing what he was getting. I could understand if he had two years left but he has four of them. No one told him to sign a very long deal. He chose to because he got something out of it.

The Bears could cut him if he got injured, and that's why signing bonus money is so huge in the NFL. He could have gotten a guaranteed contract and he would have made the exact same amount of money. It just wouldn't have included a massive signing bonus.

Urlacher didn't outplay any deal. He was a great player when he signed the deal and he still is. This isn't some guy making $750,000 a year who has become a pro bowler. This is a guy who was paid as a top player and now wants to re-do his deal just because he wants more money. If that was the only criteria that mattered, then every NFL player should hold out every year since they all want more money.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That means nothing. He signed a long deal. He was paid very well when he signed the deal. Inflation and increase in salaries have lowered his ranking in salary but that doesn't matter. He has four years left on a deal that he thought was very good when he signed it. He probably got a lot more in his original deal by signing a longer deal, and now he doesn't like the fact that it's working out for the Bears now.

Urlacher is underpaid based off of his production. There are a lot of players that are like that. If payment was based purely off production then there are a lot of players that would be making a lot less and others making a lot more.

You don't get paid for your production. You get paid for your position at the time of negotiation. Urlacher may have been dumb to sign a deal as long as he did, but he had his reasons and received the benefit of doing so. Now, he wants to redo his deal because it's at the point where the Bears are getting the best of the deal right now.

By your thinking, every NFL starter should threaten to hold out because they are underpaid once they hit the second year of the contract.

Sorry, but Urlacher can hold out for the next four years if he wants. He wasn't tricked into signing his original contract.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I don't mind that he asks for more money. I also don't mind if the Bears say "fuck you" to him.

Make that three fans of this KJ. Nas, You don't remember the entire Fantasy season two years ago when I had Jones and you kept trying to get me to trade him to you every freaking week?

I don't think you understand the point. The contract includes a provision that allows the company(Bears) to terminate the employee(Urlacher) before the end of the contract with no penalty beyond the owed money. The contract is only guaranteed for the company. That may not be fair, but it's a negotiated system.

This is why guaranteed money is such a big deal and why players get huge signing bonuses. It's a reaction to the fact that the contract is not guaranteed.

It would be like if I negotiated with my company to give me half of my salary for the next 5 years up front, but to pay me 50% of my salary every year. 4 years later, I wouldn't be happy with my take home pay, but I already received the benefit of having a much larger bank account as soon as I signed the contract. The NFL is operating under this.

Urlacher got a lot more money earlier on by getting a big signing bonus. He was able to use that money right away, invest it, buy condoms, or any other option he wanted with it.

The point is that he signed a contract with the Bears, knew all the conditions, including the fact that the front loaded nature of the deal would mean that every year he would progressively fall in the salary rankings. This was obvious from the start. It's obvious that Lance Briggs will begin to see a similar thing happen to him.

The only difference between a guaranteed contract and what Urlacher has is that someone with a guaranteed contract has to wait to get the money. The money is the same but Urlacher got his much earlier.

I could understand if Urlacher had two years left on his deal, and wanted to work on an extension to finalize his career in Chicago. Four years is way too much and he shouldn't have signed the contract if he thought that the last four years were not fair. He obviously did then.

I don't blame him for wanting more money. We all do. I do blame him for taking advantage of the benefits he got for signing a long term deal(including a larger signing bonus) and then complaining with those benefits have run out and now he is not paid as well as he was.

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To me, this is what you are missing Nas. Also, what goes around comes around. Maybe if Urlacher wasnt such a colossal dick, in addition to being NFL-old and being injured last season, he would get that restructured contract. He's treated the team like shit while here, I have no problem with them returning the favor. I agree with you and Beardown he has every right to ask for more money. You seem to be missing the point that the Bears have every right to tell him to fuck off.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Well whats the problem then? I dont hear too many people telling him he shouldnt be asking for more money, I just hear those people saying he doesnt deserve it and the Bears shouldnt give it to him.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul