Urlacher laughs off Finley's comments
December 13, 2012, 6:14 pm
Brian Urlacher doesn’t mind Green Bay Packers tight end Jermichael Finley talking unflatteringly about him. Just don’t talk about his “family,” as in his teammates.
Visiting with former Bear teammate and Comcast SportsNet analyst Jim Miller and former NFL GM Pat Kirwan on Sirius XM radio’s “Movin’ the Chains” show Thursday, Urlacher found all of the by-play between players from the two teams amusing. So he threw in a touch of his own toward Finley, who’d suggested that Urlacher had been looking slow and maybe the Bears would be better with someone else in his place.
“A couple of years ago [2010] he tore his ACL and the Packers were better without him,” Urlacher said, laughing. “They won the Super Bowl.
“I hope we can duplicate that as well. It won’t hurt my feelings if we go out and win the Super Bowl.”
[More: Briggs calls Finley "an idiot"]Urlacher laughed also about the regularity with which it seems shots are taken at him, whether from a Green Bay tight end or a publication declaring him the most overrated player in the NFL.
“People can say what they want,” Urlacher said. “I think I deal with something like this every year, people saying something about me. It’s a revolving door.”
One revolving door Urlacher adamantly did not want to see turning was one involving the head coach of the Chicago Bears.
Urlacher has long been a supporter of Lovie Smith and took strong issue with some criticisms of him and with the two-faced character among some media.
“He’s done a great job with our team,” Urlacher said. “It’s so frustrating to hear people say he doesn’t get fired up on the sidelines.
“Then our quarterback gets fired up, shows emotion, gets pissed off, and the media kills him for it. I just don’t understand that. When it’s time to go, Lovie lets us know what we need to get done. We love playing for him.”
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