Bears Keep Briggs

In a strange end to one of the odder sagas I have ever seen unfold in the National Football League, the Chicago Bears re-signed linebacker Lance Briggs to a six-year, $36 million deal over the weekend, keeping Briggs in Chi-town for the foreseeable future, according to the Chicago Tribune.  The Pro Bowl defensive player had promised to never play another snap for the Bears during bitter contract negotiations last year, but has apparently changed his tune after testing the waters.  Briggs found, to his dismay, that there just wasn’t much demand.

Briggs had to come back to Chicago with his tail between his legs.  Anyone who believes that Briggs ever planned on staying in Chicago is naive.  It’s just the nature of the business.  In the supply and demand NFL, middling wide receivers are commanding more money than Pro Bowl linebackers this offseason.  It isn’t particularly fair to a player of Briggs’ profile, but it’s the way things work.  At the end of the day, Briggs is just lucky that the Bears chose to give him the money he deserved rather than low-balling him after they knew he had no other options.

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