just playing the thief to the bitter end this year

He has been out for what, 8 weeks now. He was out for around that amount of time last year. Any semi thoughtful player would have spent some of that time considering his own football mortality and would relish laying some deepness on reporters after the last game for posterity. This fucker was asked for his thoughts and responded that he had nothing.

His restuarant abscense encapsulted everything that was wrong with this team. This guy really destroyed his legacy in my mind over the last two years with his lack of dedication. I'd say his future will include being Buffone to Urlacher's Butkus but he is not nearly as lovable as Doug and I imagine we will not see his ass again until he is scrounging for dollars after he blows his nestegg on foolish investments like restaurants not located in the city where you are best known.

Shove off Lance, your lack of leadership is astounding.

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unlikeable guy for sure.

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Agreed.

Peanut did it right.

Fuck Lance "Pay Me" Briggs.

almost identical situations handled in completely opposite ways

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Yep, agreed. See ya Lance.

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Urlacher and Briggs are two of the least likable stars in the team's history.

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Frankly almost all of the Bears' stars are fairly unlikable imo. Including Butkus, Sayers, Ditka & Payton.

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still drunk from you birthday, I see

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then f sir as well

This was an even bigger prick move by Lance as he knew there was no way people would be looking for his deep thoughts with Trestman/Emery being fired

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This all comes back to the 0rganizaton and them doing nothing to keep these guys in the organization and nothing to be proud of. From the head down, they stink!

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The balls on this guy! He has showed up to training camp out of shape the last two years. He has missed significant time due to injury the last two years during which he has shown no leadership or coaching to other players. He has made it clear that football is no longer his primary objective.

Then I read in yesterday's Sun Times that Briggs doesn't think there is any reason he shouldn't be able to continue playing football and how much the younger guys will miss on his knowledge.

Lance, you made your bed. You probably could have gotten a one year contract for next year as a goodbye gift if you had simply been a professional. Now, you can go sell BBQ to vegetarians with whom you have no connection. We'll see you in a few years when only the fond memories of your career remain.

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Unless he did it to get out of Chicago.

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this was the last year of his contract

if there is a team looking for a 34 year old linebacker in bad shape, Lance is there for you

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I felt very similar about Lance the past 2 years, but after hearing what he tried to do in 2014, he was trying to make the best of the situation, but once again controlling this image is something an organization like the Bears need to do. If you shit on players when they walk out the door, you look bad and they look bad.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

So it's the Bears job to control Briggs image?

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Agreed on all but Payton.

I know that Payton was human and certainly flawed but I'm not aware of any situations where he disrespected his fans and the org. Not saying he didn't....I just am not familiar with any.
Sayers, Ditka, and Butkus all have countless tales of being first rate asshats to the general public.

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It is, kind of. Certainly it is within some employee's scope of employment at Halas Hall...not the full image, but how it is shaped in terms of Bear fan consumption

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what's the story with Butkus? seemed like an OK sort of guy who never wanted the limelight. that's why he went to HOllywood I guess.

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So it's the Bears fault for paying him in good faith and for him deciding to "play the the thief"

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He was just going along with theme of the rest of the organization Seacrest.

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I don't think for a minute that Emery or Trestman were playing the thief. Not for one second.

I think in hindsight, they should have dumped Briggs and kept Urlacher though. Briggs has zero leadership skills and that was the teams mistake in thinking that he did.

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seems like almost every decision Emery made was the wrong one.

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It sure looks that way now.

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all the fame he got from selling those newspaper burning portable grills really went to his head

Both should have dumped. Urlacher a better leader, but he wanted way too much money and physically couldn't stay on the field.

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I really want to see Tillman stick around as a coach. Fuck Lance Briggs. Get the fuck out of here now.

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So it's the Bears job to control Briggs image?[/quote]

It is, kind of. Certainly it is within some employee's scope of employment at Halas Hall...not the full image, but how it is shaped in terms of Bear fan consumption[/quote]


So it's the Bears fault for paying him in good faith and for him deciding to "play the the thief"[/quote]

That is a different question.

However, to your point, they gave him approval to go to his restaurant opening days before opening day. They also let him sleep in meetings with punishment.

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This was the original premise that this was somehow the management's fault.

Trestman gave him permission in his hierarchy of leadership fuck job that he was running.

No one shit on Lance Briggs. He shit on himself, as we both know that he had at least one teammate tell him what a horrible idea going to LA was.

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Sacramento. Going to LA wouldn't have been nearly such a bad idea.

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Yikes, my bad.

But what is the whole LA thing anyway.

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