Beginning of the End For Brian Urlacher?

This is my first go at the Bleacher Report, I guess I could have picked a happy story, but this is what's on my mind right now. My first recollection of a great player declining before my very eyes was the hero of my teens, the great Dick Butkus. Dick's knees were gone by the early '70s and he played on until he could hardly walk. There is a particular NFL films clip on Butkus pointing out players exacting revenge on a gimpy Butkus who terrorized the entire league in his prime. It's really sad to watch. Since then, we can recall any number of great athletes (save Barry Bonds better living through chemicals) whose skills deteriorated before our eyes and left their teams in a dilemma...honor them as long as they want to play or move them out. Either way it always seems ugly. In Chicago we are seeing Brian Urlacher's play deteriorate before our eyes. He spoke out in a Chicago Tribune article yesterday essentially saying what we see is not what is real. ... (link)