Urlacher then earned two more Pro Bowl selections in and He recorded over tackles in each of those seasons and intercepted three passes in His last season in the NFL, though, was in He recorded 68 total tackles in 12 games that year. For his career, Urlacher earned eight Pro Bowl selections and recorded 1, solo tackles, which is No. Touchdown Wire also reported that former Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams could play for the league, too.
The Fan Controlled Football league is set to launch in February , and it actually has several celebrity team owners. He was a great practice player as well.
Everything you want in a Hall of Fame player, he has. He is a Hall of Fame player, no doubt about it. The nine years with Brian were the most rewarding coaching experience of my career.
Not only did I challenge him daily, he helped me become a better coach and person. He will go down in history as one of the best middle linebackers in NFL history and is a future Hall of Famer. He revolutionized the game as far as middle linebacker play.
We think of him as not only a great player but a part of our immediate family and always will. He just handled himself with total class. It's hard to imagine that you could have the type of work ethic that Brian had given all his God-given talents, but he worked as hard as any player we had in that locker room. You thought he was a college free agent the way he worked every day. He was the quintessential team player. That's what I loved about him personally.
He was about the team. Money never spoiled him. Regardless of what success other players had around him, he was as happy for the emergence of Lance Briggs and whoever else we that had on our team.
Sometimes, players can get a little envious of one another. You never saw that with Brian Urlacher. He couldn't be any more happier for his teammates. We brought Julius Peppers in, he was Julius' biggest fan. It just says so much about the person, and we all know what a great player he was. He had the skills of a safety as evidenced by the number of interceptions he had, and the number of tackles he had is unbelievable.
When you look at the whole picture, this was a pretty special football player, and I think it's really a tribute to him and the Bears that he spent all 13 years with one ballclub. That doesn't happen in sports anymore. You just don't see talent like that, with that size and that speed and that strength, with the attitude to go with it—and he had the attitude to go with it, there was no doubt about it.
He worked as hard as anybody and he played as hard as anybody, and then he had all that skill. He was just a great pro and a Hall of Fame player. He was a terrific playmaker. We thought we would break him in slowly outside, give him a feel for linebacker, and then move him to the middle so that he could run sideline-to-sideline. But it was clear almost immediately that he was more comfortable in the middle than on the outside.
He could get to anybody anywhere and he could beat your blocking scheme by technique, by skill, by going around it, by going under it, by going over it, any way he wanted to do it. He was just a terrific player. Brian did everything ever asked of him, and that's the most important thing about a player because if you don't have the willingness to either make subtle changes or accept what your coaches are telling you, you're never going to be as great as you can be.
Brian did everything he could possibly do here to be a great linebacker. I had a chance to play against Brian a number of times over the course of our careers.
We both really had the same type of approach to the game. Brian was on top of the game from a cerebral standpoint. You could tell he really studied his opponent every single week.
He knew an opponent's tendencies. When you combine that mental approach to the game with his unbelievable physical skills, it made for a special player. He had running-back type athleticism playing middle linebacker. He was the anchor of that Chicago Bears defense.
Brian carried that torch well, and I know the players of the past were proud having him carry that torch. He gave them great continuity at middle linebacker. I really enjoyed getting to know Brian over the years.
We played in a number of Pro Bowls, and I would see him at offseason banquets and events. I had great respect for the way he played the game. I am sad to see him not playing. Any time you played the Chicago Bears, you thought about Brian Urlacher.
The first time this league came to my attention was when someone showed me that Urlacher was coming out of retirement to play in it and down the wormhole we all went researching how insane this league is.
There are four teams in the league right now, all owned by famous people or famous athletes. The FCF league consists of 7-on-7 games on a field that makes the whole thing feel like a bonus play option in Madden. Bob Menery who is the co-owner of the Zappers announced the signing on Instagram.
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