Brian Urlacher likely out for the season with wrist injury

By Vaughn McClure

Brian Urlacher appears to be out for the season after dislocating his right wrist, the linebacker said Monday. The team has not given the official word, but Lovie Smith is expected to address the issue during his afternoon press conference.

Urlacher injured his wrist in the first quarter of Sunday's 21-15 loss to the Packers. He was ruled out after halftime.

When asked about his status Monday, Urlacher said in a text message that his ``season is over.''

He was scheduled to undergo surgery Monday morning upon the team's arrival back in Chicago from Green Bay. A dislocated bone had to be surgerically put back in. The surgery might have revealed more extensive damage.

The Bears defensive co-captain and team leader entered the season healthy again coming off back and neck injuries. He had three tackles before leaving Sunday's game. Hunter Hillenmeyer replaced Urlacher in the lineup Sunday.

Starter Pisa Tinoisamoa also might be sidelined for a bit after spraining the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Nick Roach stepped in for Tinoisamoa. Jamar Williams has to fit into the linebacker mix as well.

``We can't think about it,'' Tommie Harris said of life without the injured linebackers. ``We just have to go with the guys we have. It's a long season. They need to get healthy and get back out there. We're going to miss them if they miss time. But that's why the guys behind them get paid just like they do.''

Urlacher, in his 10th NFL season, is a six-time Pro Bowler and was the 2006 Defensive Player of the Year. The 31-year-old veteran is signed through 2012 and wants to play at least 15 NFL seasons, if possible.

That sucks.

P. Mannelly's never botched a snap before during his career with the Bears. I suppose last night's is an asterisk - it was a laser dead into Wolfe's gut but...

Urlacher's '09 season - we'll always have him levelling Rodgers to remember. Now he has plenty of time to whine about money & knock up parking lot lizards.

Great game to watch. For awhile, anyway...

Adrian Peterson will explode on this defense.

I was going to give it a day before I mentioned this. And while the Packers are fun and unpredictable on passing downs, they're very beatable on the ground, especially with AD. It's a shame that Urlacher's out, but I'm feeling really confident about the Vikings's chances in this division today.


EDIT: At least you're getting the Steelers while their best defensive player is out as well, right?

And he still hasn't, the snap was fine, the question is, dont the Bears give him guidelines for when he can call audible, and why the fuck was he calling audible at that spot? Madden 101, you only run a fake near midfield with only a few yards to go, not 4th and 11 on your opponents 35. And dont give to Wolfe, hes never broken a tackle or a big run that i can recall. Urlacher is done for the year and Tommie Harris is done for his career. Really don't see things going well Sunday and then a trip to Seattle that will be tough.

That play was really bizarre. There was no question that he intentionally snapped it to Wolfe. I was thinking he did it to get the snap off before the 12th guy ran off the field.

Pretty sure that's what he was doing, he pointed to Wolfe(who didn't see this, neither did Maynard), then waited a few seconds to snap it. He was so slow with it and with all the confusion I think there's a lot of explaining to do. Plus, it was a bad spot to try and get the 12th, i get the logic but it's way to risky in a close game, on the road, where they had it. Mannelly is really good so you have to keep him, but that was a cut him on the sidelines kind of moment.

if you watch the replay wolfe points that the 12th man got off before manelley points to him but manelley did it anyways...regardles this isnt the reason we lost the game and shouldnt be that focused on...it was just another boneheaded play on a bad night for pretty much the whole team except for adewale and earl bennett...and hester had a decent evening as well

smh @ my coworkers jumpin off the cutler bandwagon. dont think ive ever been so optimistic about a dude after watching him throw 4 pics. first game jitters did him in. hester looked gr8 btw

mark my words. we're gonna beat the steelers

With Urlacher out, it's going to be a long season.

When do the Blackhawks start playing?

first home preseason game this sat against the caps...see ya there suckas

Urlacher hasn't looked good for a couple years anyway. He's been getting by on established name and rep more than play, like Ray Lewis or Alan Faneca. I'm not sure what the Bears had on defense to begin with but I don't think this will affect their season's outcome that much one way or the other.

it will in the respect that briggs and urlacher have great chemistry...dudes the leader on the d and is very smart out there regardless of his decline in athletic ability...hunter hillenmeyer at 100% is about urlacher at 60%...if piso is out for an extended amount of time too this will really hurt our D... the d line has putt decent pressure on qb's so far thus making the lb's job a little easier and grants them a little flexibility in what they call

rumors of derrick brooks abound now

Shut your fat, useless mouths, Chicago Park District --- you rebuilt the stadium with our money as it is --- put up the fucking statue and do it soon.



Remember this? I was snooping for a photo of Payton & came across this:

The park district’s refusal to allow a Payton statue outside Solider Field is more offensive to me than any of the crap that’s ever been pulled by the city.

That crap about allowing a Payton statue is a slight to other Bear HoFers, WTF?!?!
Those other players weren’t the best football player ever.

HERE we go

(do do, do do do dooo)

HERE we go

(do... do do do)

HERE we go

steelers

here we go

PITTBURGH a-goin to the SUPER BOWL



My prediction: Arians & Roethlisberger ditch the notion that they're a competent running team and throw all over a weak back 7. Cutler can't read defenses, will be confused and under massive pressure as old man Orlando Pace gets abused and possibly tears his achilles tendon trying to deal with James "leverage" Harrison's rushes. Pittsburgh marches on to victory and is one step closer to completing a historic 19-0 season.

crap emerger & shack. having shitty opinions is like a staple of your schtick

I would have been satisfied if the Bears didn’t get blown out yesterday. I win is a pleasant surprise. Cutler looked much better than he did in week one.
I’m still concerned with the lack of a running game, but I think they’ll get there.

Hasselback had to leave yesterday’s game with some rib injury. I wouldn’t mind if he couldn’t play next week. Seattle is a tough place to play. They’ve prolly the best 12th man in the NFL.

well done

beekman needs to come in so we can move omiyale to his natural position so we can try and get some push off the o-line and get the run game going

Was this such a bold prediction? They were playing without their best defensive player, their offensive line is a mess, and they were on the road.

Bears, playing without their best defensive player? Check
Bears, O line is a mess, no running game? Check
Bears, on the road? Nope.
Bears, defending Super Bowl champs? Nope.

on paper, the Bears shouldn't have bothered showing up for this game.

The Steelers offensive line surprisingly played pretty well. We lost because Santonio dropped 3 passes, one in the end zone, and Reed missed two field goals for the first time in I believe 5 years, but also because the Bears had a good offensive gameplan and Cutler executed it well. You can't run against the Steelers, so they didn't really try. It's hard to go downfield on them as well because they guard against the big throw & get pressure on long dropbacks. The best way to go is make 5 yard pass after 5 yard pass and inch down the field, which they succeeded in doing on their first TD drive and most of the second one. They did have that one big pass to Olsen down the middle (blame Carter) and Johnny Knoxville caught a TD over Carter, so Polamalu's absence was definitely felt on those two plays, but Cutler played the anti-Cutler game, taking no risks downfield & living by the checkdown and short underneath throw. That being said, Bettis still ran over Urlacher in that one game in '04, & that was sweet.

sure...pitts is the superior team even with polamalu out...and if not for 2 blown field goals we would have lost...as good as jay played and our d line came up with some big stops our best player yesterday was jeff reed

I guess so, I just thought it was a 'relax, it was just one game' comment more than it was a bold prediction. It's always tough to win on the road and the Bears aren't nearly as bad as everyone thought because they played poorly on the road last week.

terrific game yesterday. i was looking for this thread but it wasn't up near the top in the hour or two after the win. i hope they can pull off the W next week too (they should, but seattle isn't easy @ home. however they may be down a QB...)

Great game. We heard the outcome at the grocery store, while we were tivo-ing, and couldnt' believe it. Still had to watch the whole thing. I would still like to see more of a running game, though.

i think the bears picked their poisin...its almost impossible to run against these guys so they set up lots of screens and short routes hitting the steelers where theyre suseptible - the soft zone right underneath the safeties near the sidelines 10-15 years out - normally where polamalu is

i thought it was pretty well done on the offensive play calling side...and well go back to running the ball against seattle

Bears were 3 point home dogs in Vegas, so yeah, that's an upset. Who cares if you run the ball, throw it all game, screens and those passes at the line will be your run plays, you don't wanna see Pace try and run block.

Can someone tell me why Pace is on the left side?

Who ya gonna play at LT? Watched the game on a shitty online feed yesterday, how did Williams look on the right side?

I just assumed that when the Bears signed Pace, who the Rams of all teams cut because he was so bad for them at LT, they would have planned to put him on the right side where he belongs and have Williams on the left side where they intended him to play when they drafted him. I've liked Pace and I thought it was a great signing for that purpose, but his days blocking the likes of Aaron Kampman, Jared Allen, Antwan Odom, DeMarcus Ware, etc. while the QB's back is turned are long over. He's not nearly as quick as he needs to be.

Bears will win the division, Cutler knows what the hell he is doing. He tried too hard to impress the city in game 1 but is now taking it a game at a time.

This coming from a Falcons fan with no vested interest in your shitty team.

The performance from week 1 to week 2 of some of the receivers was an improvement.

Run blocking is awful and the pass blocking isn't much better. They should be 3-1 after this week.

fortes best game of the season thus far for sure, but still, they need to get a run game together quick. they got lucky w/ that overturned call that started off as a forte goalline fumble.

agreed they will definitely be 3-1 next week. i feel confident about our chances of winning the division thus far mostly because i'm not as convinced the vikings are as great as they're being touted as. they barely squeaked out a win against an average to good team on a play that had poor pass coverage yesterday (SF), and their first two wins were against arguably the two worst teams in football (CLE, STL).

San Fran might be the real deal though. although they didn't have Gore for the entire game, so i get what you're saying. i also think everyone is loving Favre right now, but there's no way he holds up during week 12, 13, 14, etc.

i like the Bears' chances. they'll be competitive. definitely need to improve the run game

That win yesterday was amazing.

If you look at the numbers of the game the Vikings dominated. The defense only let up once for their last touchdown, but other than that special teams blunders (one big return and the blocked FG) were the reason why that game was close. San Fransisco's offense isn't much particularly without Gore, but their run defense for the most part was pretty spectacular (save one 35 yarder for Peterson) with Patrick Willis and they did a great job on 3rd down all game in passing situations. I like their chances in that division to be a 9 win team.

As for the ROAD wins against bad teams. They basically phoned it in the first half both games and woke up at halftime. That's a concern, but they were played hard the whole game this time, just made a lot of mistakes. I do worry that the Williams wall isn't as dominant as it was last year. Basically I think this team isn't playing as well as it could and is 3-0.

I hope you're right. That certainly was the case last year. One X-factor is how Favre isn't going to have to deal with cold weather as a viking in second half of the season. Yeah, I know Green Bay weather sucked, but the last few years the cold appeared to have a pretty big impact on his performance.

Here's his schedule for the last 8 weeks of the season:

Wk. 10: Det @ Min
Wk. 11: Sea @ Min
Wk. 12: Chi @ Min
Wk. 13: Min @ Ari
Wk. 14: Cin @ Min
Wk. 15: Min @ Car
Wk. 16: Min @ Chi
Wk. 17: NYG @ Min

Sounds like his throwing arm will be nice and toasty, except for when he comes to visit the Bears. And I apologize for Farve-ing up the thread...so, Go Bears.

that was not fun

Vikings undefeated
Broncos undefeated

ugh

They got beat at the lines and just made to many mistakes. 15 snaps in red zone, 19 yards, 20 lost yards in penalties, 2 turnovers, 1 TD. So far I'm pretty pleased with Cutler, and i know he's gonna turn the ball over, but hes gotta cut down on that shit in the red zone.

Nobody posted in this thread for 3 weeks?

I was at Wilco so I missed the game. From the floor from upstairs you could see 15-20% of the crowd's cell phones getting score updates throughout Tortoise's set which was a pretty funny sign of the times.

cutler looks alternately really good and really bad. spreads the ball around nicely, which is necessary i think given the composition of the receiving crew. speaking of, the receivers did a really nice job last night aside from the pitiful attempt by bennett to catch that one high throw early on

the receivers have done a pretty solid job all season...none of them have been outstanding save for maybe knox sometimes...but for being the most disparaged part of this team coming into the season theyve been great...

the o-line is awful...and forte has looked pedestrian...

really excited about gaines adams coming in

and special teams last night cost us that game...the 12 men on the field penalty was killer...and that kick return at the end was a kick right in the junk

the 12 men on the field penalty didn't really cost the Bears anything as Ryan threw an interception on the next play.

yeha but we lost 20 yards of field position and the point is it really should have cost the bears....if atl puts up any points then off that bonehead play games over