i had never heard this all i remember was him very publicly reluctantly taking on the role as the lead guy once urlacher was gone. Bernstein or someone on the Score has been saying this since last year Wrong. The story was told that last year's LB coach was some bum (name escapes me) I believe from the CFL with Trestman that was never a NFL LB coach and he basically had no idea how to run Lovie's system of defense. So Lance had to command the LB room and run many of the meetings. That coach was fired, taking the hit for Mel Tucker along with Mike Phair, last year's Dline coach. That's what I meant. Briggs knew the defense better than the coach.