If there is a singular indicator of the scope of skillset of Brian Urlacher spanning his 13-year Hall of Fame Bears career, it is perhaps that he was voted to four Pro Bowls while playing in one defensive scheme that kept blockers off of linebackers, and four Pro Bowls in an entirely different one that did anything but. Urlacher initially disliked the latter – the Cover-2 of Lovie Smith – but in the end it was the showcase that took him to the heights that culminated in his selection for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And if the scheme ultimately brought out the best in Urlacher, he did the same for it.