Briggs honored by peers

Briggs ranked by peers as one of NFL's top 100 players

By: Larry Mayer | Last Updated: 5/13/2011 3:30 PM



LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Bears linebacker Lance Briggs was voted the 92nd best player in the NFL in a poll of league players conducted by NFL Network.

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Lance Briggs covers Donald Driver during the NFC Championship Game last season at Soldier Field. Last season Briggs became just the sixth player in Bears history to be selected to six straight Pro Bowls.

He ranked second on the team with 121 tackles and seven tackles-for-loss. Briggs also posted two sacks, two interceptions, seven pass breakups, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. “The position he plays is very demanding,” said defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli. “It’s a playmaking position and that’s all Lance has always done. He makes plays and has great instincts. He’s always ready to play, and he’s a performer.”
NFL Network is in the process of announcing the Top 100 Players of 2011, a group that accounts for about six percent of the entire league. Numbers 81-90 will be revealed at 7 p.m. (CT) Sunday.

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well...better then being 93rd i guess.

He had 91 written all over him.

If not for the car accident he caused that killed all those children in the school bus he would have gotten it too.

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Originally Posted by jackiejokeman

He had 91 written all over him.

If not for the car accident he caused that killed all those children in the school bus he would have gotten it too.

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So you're about as thrilled with it as I am huh? Ya' think the guy could at least rate in the top 50 but I suppose playing next to Urlacher hurts in the voting. Too much credit to Url's and not enough to Briggsy. To me there the equivalent of one another.

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Originally Posted by soulman

So you're about as thrilled with it as I am huh? Ya' think the guy could at least rate in the top 50 but I suppose playing next to Urlacher hurts in the voting. Too much credit to Url's and not enough to Briggsy. To me there the equivalent of one another.

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Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is Urlacher's equivalent. Urlacher is still one of the ten best defenders in the league in my estimation, and is certainly a top five linebacker even at his ripe old age. Whenever he finally wins a Super Bowl championship, he will finally have something to throw up in the faces of all of those who keep propping Ray Lewis up over him.

Be that as it my Dags I think Briggsy is every bit the player that Urlacher is. To me he should rate a higher ranking than that but since he's a defensive player on a team with Urlacher and Peppers he gets overlooked.

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Be that as it my Dags I think Briggsy is every bit the player that Urlacher is. To me he should rate a higher ranking than that but since he's a defensive player on a team with Urlacher and Peppers he gets overlooked.

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I would dislike that statement, but you're my pal, and I do happen to think that Lance Briggs is deserving of a Top 50 spot. There must be an anti-Bears bias in this voting.

Speaking of Uracher and Peppers..... I didn't see them mentioned in the article, so who is to say they even made the list?

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Speaking of Uracher and Peppers..... I didn't see them mentioned in the article, so who is to say they even made the list?

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There are 100 players on the list. In all likely hood, they are ranked much further up than Lance Briggs.

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Originally Posted by Dagan81

There are 100 players on the list. In all likely hood, they are ranked much further up than Lance Briggs.

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But do you not think the article's title would not have been better suited as

"Briggs Among three Bears to be honored by peers"

Finding it odd he was the only Bear mentioned. Why ignore the other two?