Lance Briggs was aware of the talk from inside the Panthers' locker room regarding his hit on Jake Delhomme in the third quarter Sunday. "If I hit him late, I would have been flagged for it," Briggs said Monday. "The play was clean. If he hadn't taken extra steps, he wouldn't have got hit. "I'm not a dirty player and never have been," said Briggs, who insisted he would appeal any possible fine. "They pay me to be mean on Sunday. It's football. You can't spend the rest of the game or after the game crying about hits. Not taking anything from Jake Delhomme; he's a great quarterback. But this is football. You're going to get hit." When Delhomme got up he had a conversation with MLB Brian Urlacher. "I told him to get off the field," Urlacher said. "It would have been different had they gotten the first down. Then I would have been ticked. But it was fourth down so, 'Go to the sideline. Your field-goal team is coming in.' "