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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PackerLegend" data-source="post: 138064" data-attributes="member: 518">Good lunk S**tcago have fun with this haha!BRIGGS WANTS OUT OF CHICAGOBears linebacker Lance Briggs, apparently frustrated by all the millions of dollars that guys not named Lance Briggs are getting on the open market, wants out of Chicago."There's a difference between the Chicago Bears team and the Chicago Bears organization," Briggs told ESPN.com.  "The Chicago Bears team? The coaches, players, city and fans?  Yeah, I could stay there forever.  I love it.  But the Chicago Bears organization?  I don't want to be there anymore.  I won't play for them and I'll do everything in my power to keep from playing there."Briggs is currently limited by the franchise tag.  Though he's free to sign an offer sheet with a new team, the Bears would have the right to either match the deal or to receive two first-round draft picks as compensation.  And the days of any player being worth two first-rounders ended with Keyshawn Johnson, Joey Galloway, and Sean Gilbert.Specifically, Briggs wants to be traded, or he wants the team to withdraw the franchise tag and allow him to shop his wares without a new suitor being forced to compensate the Bears.  The former is a possibility; the latter would only happen if Briggs gets hit by a bus.So his options are limited.  Since he's not under contract until he signs the one-year, $7.2 million tender, he has no obligation to attend any voluntary or mandatory offseason activities.  In fact, he can stay away from training camp and all of the preseason and still earn the full amount of the one-year salary if he signs the tender offer on the eve of the regular season.  The only risk he's taking is that the Bears can rescind the tag once everyone else has spent all of their money.  Or if he's hit by a bus.Briggs also can show up in Week Ten and earn a prorated salary and try to get to the market again in 2008.  But then the Bears could franchise him again.  And then he could stay away until Week Ten again.  The third time around, the Bears would be required to offer him the average salary of the top five players regardless of position in order to continue to hold his rights.We'd previously heard that the Bears are shopping Briggs.  But whoever wants him has to work out a deal with the team, and a deal with the player.  Given the contract signed by Adalius Thomas with the Pats, it's safe to say that Briggs will be looking for at least $20 million in guaranteed money, if not more.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</blockquote>

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