Comments on: Briggs says he’s not the only Bear who needs a new contract

By: illinibutkus50

illinibutkus50 — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:59:22 +0000

Dear Mr. Briggs:

As a Bears fan since 1974, and a fan of your play, especially when Urlacher was out for the season, please shut up and sit down before you hurt yourself. You signed a front-loaded contract after proclaiming never to play for the Bears again last time. You took the money, and now want your contract re-worked again? Then, after complaining to the media and on social websites within two weeks of the start of the season, you state you are not going to let this interfere with your play and you are “100% a Bear”. This is the way you prove it? Your stats and exposure have been overinflated due to the scheme run, and your pattern of actions and words is a distraction to the team. You do a disservice to all of the players you call your teammates, who are working (hopefully) with a singular focus-to win a Super Bowl.

If you can’t see that you are hindering that and your own selfish cause by acting and speaking in this way, I fear the other commentators are correct about your future and I don’t want you on the Bears any longer.

By: backindasaddle

backindasaddle — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:12:56 +0000

Him now saying: ‘it’s not just him that needs to get paid, it’s other players too’, is nothing more than camouflage for the reality that, again, he’s unwilling to play out his contract, wants to feed his enormous ego via the big contract, and in the end is just a selfish, greedy, egotistical guy.

By: deiong

deiong — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:15:50 +0000

damage control cause everyoen see’s his greed is getting the best of him?? sad….

By: randolph32

randolph32 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:08:37 +0000

Will anyone please print out this post and mail it to Briggs, so he can see how much the public loves and stands behind him?

What a knucklehead….and for the record, he didn’t crash a Limo, it was an Italian sports car, can’t remember the model, worth at least a quarter million….chump change for a big shooter like him.

By: ronniemexico

ronniemexico — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:52:13 +0000

Kreutz and Briggs have one thing in common, they both overvalued themselves when they were unrestricted free agents. Lance, the Bears offered Kreutz $4 million; He walks away from it; then signs with the Saints for $2 million. And you blame the Bears front office?! These guys are nuts!

By: cliffordc05

cliffordc05 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:32:27 +0000

Briggs does not understand what a contract is. He agreed to his deal when he was an unrestricted free agent. The Bears should tell his agent to test the trade waters to determine his worth. When Lance finds out he is not worth a 3rd round pick he just might shut his pie hole.

By: riverhorsey

riverhorsey — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:24:18 +0000

Chicago has lost control.

By: thephantomstranger

thephantomstranger — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:10:15 +0000

greenbay4ever says:
Sep 9, 2011 1:27 PM
Briggs, please keep talking. Don’t ever shut up. Start throwing teammates and coaches under the bus. Talk about Urlacher and how over rated he is. In fact if you could keep complaining the entire year that would be awesome. .

Sincerely,

Packer Fans.
_________________

Kind of negative, aren’t you?

By: mikeyz6

mikeyz6 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:01:47 +0000

he wants a new contract yet he is not even the best linebacker on his team,,, nevermind the NFL

LEWIS, WILLIS, BEASON, HARRIS, TIMMONS, R MCCLAIN, C MATHEWS, B SCOTT, GREENWAY, DANSBY, URLACHER, VILMA, TULLOCH, POLUSZNY, RIVERS, BULLOCK, BARNETT, EJ HENDERSON, FLETCHER, A CURRY, AJ HAWK, DJ WILLIAMS, AND A FEW OTHERS

By: dfeltz

dfeltz — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:51:38 +0000

I am pretty sure fellow Bears fans will agree, Olin Kruetz was no longer playing the position at the caliber his teammates claim he was. There is clearly friendship getting in the way of this. Briggs is a good player, but he plays weak side LB in a mostly Cover 2 scheme, he too is replaceable.

By: trollaikman8

trollaikman8 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:44:55 +0000

Is Briggs even a decent football player anymore?

All I know about him is that he crashed a black lambo and staggered home instead of reporting it, and that he asks for more money every offseason.

By: phillyisinvading

phillyisinvading — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:43:10 +0000

Trade him to the eagles for a 6th rounder.

By: jeffz303

jeffz303 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:30:56 +0000

Anybody else come to the conclusion that no matter how much money they give this idiot and how many times his contract gets renegotiated–that he’ll be flat broke within 5 years of the day his NFL playing days are over?

By: willyalistentothis

willyalistentothis — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:30:35 +0000

He is right. Kyle Orten could use a new contract……oh wait a second……..never mind.

By: fanblackout

fanblackout — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:29:14 +0000

@ themars211 – I’m sure release is part of the contract terms. Players seem to have no problem with keeping money when their play diminishes so teams should have no problems cutting them for the same reason. If they are worth more in the marketplace (as they so often feel) then someone will sign them and pay it when they are released by another team. I don’t see the furor here or the logic.

I’m glad to see the infighting on the team a few days before they play my Falcons. Please Briggs…continue……LOL

By: niner13

niner13 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:24:14 +0000

It was worth losing a 5th round draft pick for alleged tampering, when the Niners tried to sign Briggs. He would have become the perennial malcontent here as he is in Chicago. Better the Bears than the Niners.

By: illiniftw

illiniftw — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:20:20 +0000

Kinda wish Kreutz was still on the team… to punch Briggs in the face and break his jaw. Now THAT was a team leader

By: bearsblow

bearsblow — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:14:15 +0000

Question from a GB fan.

To all the idiot Bears fans out there that still talk about the 85 Bears team. Would any of those players have pulled what this clown pulls?

Just curious?

By: metalhead65

metalhead65 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:13:09 +0000

as life long bears fan I say just shut the hell up! just because you are a veteran on the team does not make you any less greedy when it comes to your contract. as for your teammates that is why they have agents,guys who speak for them not a team mate who tries to include them in his contract talks. as for kruetz stfu already! he was offered a good contract by the bears and turned it down so it is all on him not the front office. I loved the guy but he was past his prime and had been on the decline the last 3 years. I am happy he was a good team mate for you but it was time to move on. now shut up and play some all pro football and maybe they will address your contract after the season. if they do not to bad you signed a deal that paid you good money up front that was guaranteed so stop whining!

By: tbf22

tbf22 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:02:10 +0000

@briggs:

u mad bro?

By: bullwinklethemoose

bullwinklethemoose — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:00:00 +0000

themars211: Here is what makes it OK for the Jags to cut Garrard – he signed a non-guaranteed contract. And he is a part of a union that negotiated the right for the NFL to have non-guaranteed contracts. That’s why they get such big signing bonuses, because they know that most of them won’t see the end of the contract.

By: pftequalsgreatjournalism

pftequalsgreatjournalism — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:54:10 +0000

Where is that idiot duece5? Like LB, he thinks that a division championship actually means something!

It’s the SB win that matters Lance – not the f’ing NFC North…

By: paulbrownsrevenge

paulbrownsrevenge — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:52:18 +0000

He makes a good point about Olin. That was a BS move by the bears front office. Every Bear on the roster wanted him back.

By: vahawker

vahawker — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:36:43 +0000

Every time he opens his mouth he just proves what a complete tool he is. No phosphorous on his match head.

By: sj39

sj39 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:35:54 +0000

Thing is themars211, he signed a very heavily front end loaded contract paying most of his money in the first 4 years. Now his yearly salary doesn’t look as good to him. Too bad, he already got paid. 10 to 1 though at the time his snake agent probably told him “don’t worry when we get to the back end of the contract you can just demand another one”.

By: dadawg77

dadawg77 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:34:28 +0000

The Bears have 19 million in Cap room and while it makes sense from a organizational point of view to keep large cap room this year as you can carry it over till next year. I think the Bears players became disgruntled with management when the Bears let Olin Kreutz go over 500K. Also combine that with the perception that the Bears are a cheap organization, it has created an environment where Bear’s players believe that the Bears won’t pay their veterans. Thus those veteran feel they might as well try to get theirs now or ask to go somewhere else.

By: deweyaxewound

deweyaxewound — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:32:08 +0000

Briggs has it all wrong on the Kreutz contract…it wasn’t the money (neccesarily) that made Kreutz unhappy — it was the fact that the Bears only gave him 24 hours to accept or reject their offer (and after 13 years, doesn’t he deserve a little more respect than that? blah blah)

But if the Bears were to go in a different direction, they had to act fast to get the player they wanted…as everyone knows, the NFL
FA market is a quick and fickle mistress. You move or you lose. This is Angelo’s explanation, anyway…and on this one, I tend to lean with management.

Much as I love(d) Kreutz, rather than being fair and reasonable, he got all thin-skinned and butt-hurt over an understandable and commonplace business-consideration: TIMING. I just never thought such a tough guy would get all butt-hurt so easily.

Oh well, now he can go give up sacks and commit poorly-timed holding calls for the Saints.

By: greenbay4ever

greenbay4ever — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:27:41 +0000

Briggs, please keep talking. Don’t ever shut up. Start throwing teammates and coaches under the bus. Talk about Urlacher and how over rated he is. In fact if you could keep complaining the entire year that would be awesome. .

Sincerely,

Packer Fans.

By: conseannery

conseannery — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:24:35 +0000

“I’ll be a man about it. But when you’re a leader of the team, you’re also a voice.

Funny how he equates being a bitcher and moaner with being a leader.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:23:15 +0000

1.) I want more money.
2.) But it’s not about me.
3.) And its not about money.
4.) You’re lying, Lance. To yourself, maybe, but you’re still lying.