A Week Before The Season, You Ask Lance Briggs To Be Traded
As a fan of the NFL is the season when you have every right to feel good about your team. Your children are probably relatively healthy. You're probably thinking you will win three or four more games than it actually is. The best possible scenario for the home team seems possible. Even likely.
That's why you do not need Lance Briggs (note) makes this disgusting in your Cheerios this morning.
Briggs took over right away, when teams must meet before the start of the regular season, to request an exchange. Bears linebacker wants to give him a new contract. They do not want. So now, with his agent Drew Rosenhaus to help pull the strings, the Bears Briggs asked to release him. Chicago Tribune:
"Bears have made their decision, now I have mine done," said Briggs. "It's just how the business works. It will not remove what I do on the ground. I am 100 percent a bear, until I am anymore."
Somehow, I think that is true of us all.
Kevin Seifert ESPN did a great job of breaking the situation down. I usually find myself on the side of the players in contract disputes, and on the surface, yes, Briggs is expected to be underpaid (but not criminally so) to $ 3.65 million this season.
But the six-year contract, Briggs signed three years ago (things are kind of catty as well) was quite heavily front-loading. He earned $ 23 million over the first three years of the contract. The last three years is worth only $ 13 million. All in all, it is six years and $ 36 million, which is not unreasonable at all for Lance Briggs.
He's not going to get the job he wants, either. He is 30 and apparently he wants a lot of money, and now everyone is already an idea of what their list will look like. I doubt there many suitors for him, and although it is unlikely to play a system that fits Briggs, and Chicago do.
The timing of this does not make the Bears a favor. Briggs is not going to get what he wants, either. But other than that, well done, Lance Briggs and Drew Rosenhaus.
Briggs took over right away, when teams must meet before the start of the regular season, to request an exchange. Bears linebacker wants to give him a new contract. They do not want. So now, with his agent Drew Rosenhaus to help pull the strings, the Bears Briggs asked to release him. Chicago Tribune:
Somehow, I think that is true of us all.
Kevin Seifert ESPN did a great job of breaking the situation down. I usually find myself on the side of the players in contract disputes, and on the surface, yes, Briggs is expected to be underpaid (but not criminally so) to $ 3.65 million this season.
He's not going to get the job he wants, either. He is 30 and apparently he wants a lot of money, and now everyone is already an idea of what their list will look like. I doubt there many suitors for him, and although it is unlikely to play a system that fits Briggs, and Chicago do.
The timing of this does not make the Bears a favor. Briggs is not going to get what he wants, either. But other than that, well done, Lance Briggs and Drew Rosenhaus.
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