“Look, I love Jay, and I understand he’s a great player who can take us a long way, and I still have faith in him,” Urlacher said to Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports—via Not Qualified To Comment—trying to get to the nut of the Bears’ problems. “But I hate the way our identity has changed. We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we’d rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us. I hate to say it, but that’s the truth.”

Yikes. Why don’tcha tell us how you really feel there, Brian.

And, as NQTC tells us—who, despite what their name might suggest, are, as a Chicago sports blog, far more qualified to comment on the Bears’ problems than I—Urlacher “is COMPLETELY WRONG.  He’s not wrong that the identity has changed, he’s wrong that somehow Kyle Orton was the key to that identity.  The key to that identity was a run game that was remotely functional and a good defense.  We have neither of those.”

Yikes again. So… not only does he throw his QB under the bus, he doesn’t even have a reasonable reason for it. Well played, Brian.