Lance Briggs Isn't Staying Long

by WCG on Apr 18, 2008 7:05 PM CDT in News

The Bears investment in Jamar Williams and Michael Okwo when they thought Lance Briggs might be leaving may pay off in the end, be because Briggs is working on short timer's disease.

Briggs signed a six year deal with the Bears when he found the market to be dry for his services. The deal is worth 36 million dollars, but the Bears can void the deal after two years.

If you recall the deal had an extended roster bonus of 3.6 million in the 2010 season; the bonus normally due in March was pushed back to June. Briggs has already missed out on 250,000 from a workout bonus he missed by not showing up to workouts.

The word is Briggs is unhappy about his deal and this is his way of showing his unhappiness.

My thought is Briggs needs to shut the hell up and play ball. Is it the Bears fault his agent and he misread the market? Is it the Bears fault that Briggs completely turned off clubs with the tactics he used last year? Is it the Bears fault he signed our contract? I think not.

If Briggs were with us past the 2009 season I'd be shocked.

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Word

frickin WhineBacker

by SuperBowlXX on Apr 18, 2008 7:20 PM CDT reply reply 0 recs

What

a douchebag.

Who protests their contract a month after they sign it?

by tomas21 on Apr 18, 2008 7:53 PM CDT reply reply 0 recs

After he turned down our contract

and he found no takers, we could have pulled the deal off the contract and then he'd really be hosed.

by WCG on Apr 18, 2008 10:54 PM CDT reply reply 0 recs

Don't forget about his sports car wreck

Talk about a whiner; he seems to be forgetting his special hands - off treatment after he walked away from his car wreck last year on the Edens. The Police? "Hey Lance, no problem." The Bears? "What wreck? Huh? We didn't see anything."

by Dmac on Apr 19, 2008 9:01 AM CDT reply reply 0 recs

I agree on this one.

You can't be pissed about a deal you just friggin' signed.

OTOH, this club has a lot of signage problems on its hands, and when there are that many angling for paydays (your friggin kicker for crissakes), it's usually indicative of something bigger.

But Briggs is being stupid.

by tyger1147 on Apr 19, 2008 10:10 AM CDT reply reply 0 recs

This pisses me off

How can you protest something with YOUR SIGNATURE!? If you didn't like it, DON'T SIGN IT. He's only hurting himself though, already $250,000 worth. But still this stupid and childish. Lately the Bears seem like a bunch of cry-babies. But maybe this is indicative, as tyger said, of something bigger inside the organization (Like perhaps, they are CHEAP!)

by GallopingGhost on Apr 20, 2008 11:23 AM CDT reply reply 0 recs

Sniff Sniff

I smell a trade!

by bs1220 on Apr 20, 2008 12:07 PM CDT reply reply 0 recs

I am really pissed about this

Sure he can afford to blow off a $250,000 workout but FUCK HIM! I would kill a man for $250,000. Prick!

by Chad on Apr 20, 2008 2:00 PM CDT reply reply 0 recs

What's With All the Animosity?

Yes he said some pretty stupid stuff with his contract last year. But guys he is one of the top linebackers in the league and he resigned with our team. None of us have ever said anything stupid that we we might regret later - have we??
His contract is a win/win for both him and the Bears. He's not overpaid compared to the other linebackers of his ability. He is a proven commodity - Williams and Okwo are unknowns over the long haul. They have been injured most of the time.
Living on the west coast I've been able to watch Briggs through-out his 4 years of college ball and I was thrilled when the Bears drafted him. My opinion - if you don't think Lance Briggs is a great linebacker you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground about football!

by phastphil on Apr 20, 2008 3:11 PM CDT reply reply 0 recs

who are you arguing with?

we all think Briggs is a great linebacker. We all are thrilled that he re-signed with the bears. We all seem to agree that the deal was for a lot of well deserved money but gave the bears flexibility.

Our problem is that briggs is now whining about his contract that he just signed? That is bullshit. If you didn't like it, then you shouldn't have signed it. And it's not like he's in the middle or end of an obsolete deal that he has over-performed on (like urlacher). How about playing a couple of years and getting a DPOY award or two, THEN you can complain.

by Chad on Apr 20, 2008 3:43 PM CDT up reply reply 0 recs

Word

by SuperBowlXX on Apr 20, 2008 4:18 PM CDT up reply reply 0 recs

Who Cares What's Said in a Blog

Who Cares What's Said in a Blog from a Newspaper that's owned by Rupert Murdock. Key phrase "word is". It falls right in line with "overheard", "some say", and "undisclosed source".
Plus I believe that a lot of preseason shenanigans is done both by the team and the players having a good goof at the expense of a journalist.

by phastphil on Apr 20, 2008 5:38 PM CDT up reply reply 0 recs