Lance Briggs new deal?

[Brando19]

I found this on PFT:

A league source tells PFT that the Bears and linebacker Lance Briggs have reached an agreement on a long-term deal.

A two-time Pro Bowler, Briggs is playing this season on the one-year franchise tender he signed this summer. As part of that deal, the Bears agreed not to place the franchise tag on him again in 2008, meaning he would have become an unrestricted free agent this off-season. But now he's a Bear for the forseeable future.

Details of the deal were not available.

[packers11]

POSTED 8:02 p.m. EST, December 3, 2007

NO DEAL FOR BRIGGS by Michael David Smith

We're now hearing that the Bears and linebacker Lance Briggs have not come to an agreement on a long-term contract extension.

We had previously heard from a league source that a deal was in place to keep the linebacker in Chicago. But now we're told that the deal isn't done.

In one of his few public comments about his contract status, Briggs told Fred Mitchell of the Chicago Tribune that he wants to reach a long-term deal to stay with the team, and that if he gets an offer he thinks is fair, "I will retire a Bear. A happy Bear."

But no such deal has been reached yet.