Lance Briggs Thinks Brian Urlacher Should Get a New Deal - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

Rex Grossman may not be inclined to discuss Brian Urlacher's contract situation but Lance Briggs is. Freed from fathering his brood for a trip to Wrigley where he threw out the first pitch, sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and delivered a plea for his linebacking brother-in-arms.

"I don't think it should be an issue. I think everybody in the city of Chicago knows what Brian Urlacher has meant and continues to mean to the city of Chicago. Whatever is going on, I believe it will be worked out. He is definitely due. He has outlived that contract, and I'm the biggest supporter of my big brother."

Color me shocked. A guy who just signed a contract that he's already unhappy with and, like Urlacher, is skipping workouts thinks that a guy who entered, willingly and alertly, into a nine-year deal should get a new one. I was really expecting Briggs to side with management in this case. Just when I thought I had all the answers, Briggsie, you changed the questions!

And, while we're at it, can we drop the what he means to the city business? If civic pride is going to play a role in these things it has to work both ways. "Well, he means so much to the city, we've got to pay him more" makes no more sense than "He should care so much about the city that he'll play for nothing." Both are silly appeals to something that has nothing to do with the question at hand.