DeMarcus Ware Says Longer Season Will Shorten Careers

Here's what's happening around the National Football League on Thursday, June 24, 2010:

• Add Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware to the growing list of players lining up against Roger Goodell's proposed 18-game season.

Ware told ESPN Radio in Dallas that an extended season will shorten players' careers.

"18 games. That's a lot of games," he said on the Galloway and Company show. "People don't realize. We already have five games in the preseason this year plus 16 regular season. If they're trying to take away two games from the preseason and add them to the regular season, there are going to have to be a lot of changes.

"It's a lot of wear and tear on your body too. A guy like me though, I like to play football, so I'm ready for it ... When you think about it, people and just players in general can barely make it through a regular season. When you two more games to it, it's going to just make it even longer. We've already got 53 guys on the roster. You're going to have to bring in extra guys for help, to be honest.

"This is a different kind of sport. This is not basketball. It's not baseball where you can play 100 games. We only have 16 games because of how brutal it is on your body. You have to look at that. People will probably have shorter careers because of that."

Ware also spoke on a number of other issues, including Albert Haynesworth and Dallas' decision to let his good friend Flozell Adams go.

• Devin Hester has reached out to recently retired WR Isaac Bruce to help him get a handle on new Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz's complex offense, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

''I called him a couple of weeks ago, and we talked about it,'' Hester told the paper. "We'll get on a field, watch some film and everything. I can't learn from anyone better."

Bruce earned four Pro Bowl selections running Martz's "Greatest Show on Turf" offense in St. Louis. He scored 48 TDs in the seven seasons Martz was either offensive coordinator or head coach and helped the Rams to a victory in Super Bowl

"It's just a perfect fit," Bears coach Lovie Smith said. "I can see why a guy like Devin would reach out to a guy like Isaac."

Transaction Wire

• New England agreed to a two-year extension with linebacker Gary Guyton. The contract, including a signing bonus, will top $2 million.

• The Ravens signed veteran cornerback Walt Harris to a one-year deal. Harris, 35, is entering his 15th NFL season. He missed all of 2009 with an ACL injury.

Injury Ward

• Seahawks wide receiver  cheap T.J. Houshmandzadeh jersey has been limited to individual drills as he continues to work back from a knee injury, The News Tribune reported. cheap Deion Branch  jersey was also held out of team drills -- he's dealing with the after-effects of his own knee injury.