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Briggs plans 10-game holdout to combat franchise tag

March 27, 2007
BY MIKE MULLIGAN Staff Reporter
PHOENIX -- Remember when Lance Briggs vowed never to play for the Bears again? Brace yourself for the new plan.
Drew Rosenhaus, Briggs' agent, said Monday at the NFL owners meetings that his client will line up for the Bears next season -- but only on a limited basis if the team refuses to remove the franchise tag it put on the linebacker. Rosenhaus said Briggs would sit out the first 10 games, then return for the final six to accrue a played season under league rules.

The maneuver apparently is an attempt to avoid sitting out the season for no pay and allowing the Bears to have the right to use the franchise tag on Briggs for two more seasons.

''That is the plan, come back and play the last six games of the season,'' Rosenhaus said.

Franchise-tag rules changed with the new collective bargaining agreement signed last year. Teams can use the tag on the same player for two seasons while paying him the average of the top five salaries at his position. That number is $7.2 million in 2007. If a team uses the tag for a third season, the player must be paid the average of the top five salaries in the league, regardless of position.

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10-7-07 Bears 27,Packers 20
12-23-07 Bears 35, Packers 7
Then Brett Favre became a Jet...

Professor

This makes much more sense then his nonsense sit out the whole season crap. LOL

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