Urlacher and Briggs, Sittin' In a Tree...

Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher is elated that bestest buddy Lance Briggs has solved his contract dispute with the Bears and will be in training camp today.

The closeness between the two didn't waver during the dispute but Urlacher is relieved to have it behind them.

When the two players weren't hanging out at Urlacher's house, they constantly sent text messages back and forth to keep in touch. Not to mention Urlacher wore Briggs' No. 55 during the last day of organized team activities as a show of support.

"Just talking [trash] to each other," Urlacher said of his conversations with Briggs over the last month. "I'm [really] happy he's coming back. I know what Lance can do, know what he's capable of. I love playing with him. We have great camaraderie. We feed off each other. And we kind of have a competition between each other—tackles, picks. In everything, we want to compete against each other."

No offense, Brian, but say much more and I'm gonna get creeped out.

In his interview with the Chicago Tribune, Urlacher touched on a number of other issues, including his thoughts on Michael Vick.

"I like Michael. He's a good guy. Just a bad deal, man. You have to be smarter than that. I feel for him. Until proven guilty, he hasn't done anything wrong. But at the same time, you can't be involved with stuff like that. … I've heard of chicken fights. They had that in New Mexico. I didn't even know [dogfighting] was to the extent that it is. I just got a dog. I got him Father's Day and my daughter named him 'Bear.' Dogfighting, that's not right."

Reading this, it suddenly occurred to me that if the NFL really wanted to punish Michael Vick, they should have just let him play this season. Imagine Urlacher racing toward Vick in the pocket yelling, "This is for Bear, motherfucker!"