Lance Briggs

Ravens Q&A: Leach relishes the contact of a great block

Each week, we bring you a Q&A with a Ravens player, coach or team executive to help you learn a little more about the team. Today's guest is fullback Vonta Leach. What does it mean to be an undrafted rookie in 2004 who has been voted to the Pro Bowl in...

Tags: Arian Foster, Ron Dayne, NFL Network (tv network), Joe Flacco, Junior Seau

Biggs: Observations from Bears OTAs

Under a beautiful blue sky in a perfect spring setting, the Chicago Bears took to the practice fields behind Halas Hall on Wednesday morning for the second organized team activity (OTA) of the offseason. Keep in mind, training camp is more than two...

Tags: Tim Jennings, Tyler Clutts, Charles Tillman, Mansfield Wrotto, Chicago Bears

Eddie Vedder gives impromptu performance at Stanley's, Patrick Stump admits he has thin skin, Gary Sinise flops during first pitch

It looks like life-long Cubs fan Eddie Vedder didn’t take his team’s loss to the White Sox in the Crosstown Classic too hard. The Pearl Jam rocker partied with former Blackhawk Chris Chelios and the now retired Kerry Wood at Stanley’s...

Tags: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Celebrities, Wrigleyville, Chicago Cubs, Jerry Azumah

Briggs not worried about new Bear Marshall

From the moment Brandon Marshall was introduced as a Bear, there was talk of how a strong locker room would play a crucial role in taming the sometimes-volatile wide receiver. Lance Briggs understood the thinking. But the seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker...

Tags: Jay Cutler, ESPN (tv network), NFL Pro Bowl, NFC North, Football

Briggs: McClellin to play with chip on shoulder

Tribune Reporter

Lance Briggs has yet to take the field alongside Shea McClellin, but the Chicago Bears' seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker has a sense of what to expect from the rookie defensive end. "From what I’ve seen about the kid, he comes from a small town, so...

Tags: NFL Pro Bowl, National Football League, Football, Chicago Bears, Rod Marinelli

Reader Q&A: Dan Pompei's Bears mailbag

In your opinion, is this the most talented post-Super Bowl 41 Bears roster? -- Chris Jensen, from Twitter Yes, it is. I thought the previous most-talented Bears roster post-2006 was the roster from last year. And the 2012 roster is better still,...

Tags: Stephen Paea, Chicago Bears, Shea McClellin, Marcus McNeill, Dwight Freeney

The blame stays the same

Jerry Angelo used to be a centerpiece this time of year, but now he's living in exile and self-imposed silence. Bill Polian, like Angelo a guy who lost his job after the season, gets to broadcast his thoughts on ESPN. People want to hear from Polian....

Tags: NFL Network (tv network), Chicago Tribune Columnists, ESPN (tv network), Chicago Bears, Jerry Angelo

'Jersey Shore' stars The Situation and JWoww coming to Chicago area, Matt Kemp spotted at Cuvee, rapper let down by meeting with Michael Jordan

If you’ve always wanted to meet a “Jersey Shore” cast member but have yet to do so, you must not be trying very hard. There were three cast members appearing in the Chicago-area last month – Snooki, Vinny and Ronnie -- and there...

Tags: Smashing Pumpkins (music group), Tim Jennings, Chicago Cubs, Fred Evans, Matt Kemp

Bounties, Seau's death shine spotlight on head injuries

Growing up in Sacramento, Bears linebacker Lance Briggs found inspiration from a fellow Californian who threw his No. 55 jersey around with reckless abandon the way Briggs eventually would. Imagine Briggs' thrill when he finally got the chance to have...

Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Sports, Hospitals and Clinics, Jonathan Vilma, Junior Seau

Players in mold of Urlacher and Briggs needed

What the Bears really could use in this draft is another Brian Urlacher and another Lance Briggs. That's all. What is another Urlacher? It is not necessarily a middle linebacker. But it is a young player who leads by action that the Bears can build...

Tags: Melvin Ingram, George Connor, Victor Hobson, Trace Armstrong, Bill George

It seems Emery knows what he's doing

My advice for Phil Emery days before running his first NFL draft as Bears general manager is to address the receiver issue before anything else. The receiver on Emery's telephone, that is. Make sure it works and everybody in the draft room knows who's...

Tags: NFL Pro Bowl, Andrew Luck, Chicago Bears, Eric Weems, Whitney Mercilus

NFL Network counts down “The Top 100: Players of 2012″