{"id":7704,"date":"2015-03-06T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T23:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2015-03-06T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T23:15:37","slug":"another-one-bites-the-dust-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/another-one-bites-the-dust-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another One Bites The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lance-briggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7706\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lance-briggs.jpg\" alt=\"lance-briggs\" width=\"512\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lance-briggs.jpg 512w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lance-briggs-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>For the third straight off-season, the Bears have told a long tenured fan favorite that his time with the team has come to an end. \u00a0Lance Briggs, who was drafted by the Bears in the 3rd round of the 2003 draft, became a starter his rookie season and was been one of the anchors of the vaunted defense under former coach Lovie Smith. \u00a0Over the past seasons, under new (and now former) coach Marc Trestman, Briggs has appeared in just over half of the Bears&#8217; games due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs announced last November that his time in Chicago was likely winding down and sources close to the Bears reported this week that Briggs was officially informed that he will not be offered a contract for the upcoming 2015 season. \u00a0With a new coaching staff and new defensive scheme coming in, Briggs was thought to be a poor fit.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-time Pro Bowler finishes his Bears career\u00a0with the fifth-most games played and the second-most tackles in franchise history. \u00a0He may find himself in the same situation Brian Urlacher did 2 years ago: looking for work and forced to retire before he was really ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third straight off-season, the Bears have told a long tenured fan favorite that his time with the team has come to an end. \u00a0Lance Briggs, who was drafted by the Bears in the 3rd round of the 2003 draft, became a starter his rookie season and was been one of the anchors of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[20,2813,2501,5501,2812,5502],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-bears","tag-brian-urlacher","tag-draft","tag-lance-briggs","tag-lovie-smith","tag-marc-trestman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}