It makes it seems as though the Panthers have been holding him back. It also indicates a lack personal responsibility. Take owership of your own actions peppy.

I’ll be very interested to see how he ‘thrives’ at his next destination. The grass is always greener but I bet someday he realizes he never had it so good. Wherever he ends up does he think they will settle for him not being a big producer on a consistent basis? He will be sorely mistaken if so. If eanything he is going to have 10X the pressure as he has had here.

That way we get a refreshing list of the updates instead of just having to guess and hit F5 to refresh our browsers.

It will also give us an opportunity to comment on each new item.

17Mil bigger yes.

We don’t want another Dan Morgan.

It’s about not committing to a lot of money past this year when there’s no way of knowing what the financial makeup of the league will look like.

LOVE it!!!!!
man, if only I could get on twitter/FB at work, that would be up there… NOW!!!

So… Julius’ plan is to become a school teacher then. That way he can take his three months off without being criticized.

He can also keep schooling youngsters.

Stewart has the brand of always having some injuries, but the thing is they never stopped him from playing or even producing.

Certainly more than his choice of defensive coordinator, position coach, and the highest salary ever for his side of the ball. Because he was offered all of the above last summer, and he took two of the three.

Although I think that’ll have as much to do with understanding Meeks’ scheme from jump street as anything.

Charles Johnson and Everette Brown?

What team in the NFL does have two dominant DEs? As to Peppers’ stats, first off, he did not lead the team in PDs. His five ranked behind Beason, Harris, Marshall, and Gamble, and tied with Beason and Godfrey. His tackles and forced fumbles also hardly overshadowed the rest of the team. Godfrey (a secondary player) finished just one behind him, and Peppers’ 42 tackles ranked just one ahead of Lewis on the D-line, and just seven ahead of Hollis Thomas, whose primary responsibility was to occupy blockers. Add to that that other players (Johnson, Brown, Brayton) will have the opportunity to increase their snap counts, and their production is likely to increase by default. We might miss him, but that doesn’t mean we can’t replace him, particularly with the money we’re going to free up.

I’d relate it more so to being with a girl whom all the while is constantly looking for someone to leave you for. Then again, if you force her to stay against her own will (in a way) I suppose things become a bit more level. It’s too bad we can’t franchise women for a year like they do football players, huh?

Peppers was great for us, indeed. He’ll be missed but for the most of it I’m glad the saga will finally find closure. I mean, we’d have to move on eventually anyways, this year is as good as any.

I’d say that we currently aren’t aware of rather or not the talent we need to replace Peppers is on our roster but I certainly won’t say it’s not there.

Peppers rookie season seen him start 12 of 12 games for 35 total tackles, 12 sacks, 4 pass defenses, 1 interception, and 5 forced fumbles.
Browns rookie season seen him start 1 of 15 games for 22 tackles, 3 sacks, 2 pass defenses, and 2 forced fumbles.

I’d imagine there’s a huge gap in play time there (I wish I had snap counts but I only have Browns 401 for this year) but, with that, I don’t view Browns stats as being bad by any means. I don’t expect the second coming of Pep talent-wise but if given the opportunity to start a majority of games, I think Brown will surprise most of us. I could see him putting up Pep-numbers when taking into account heart vs talent.

Peps second year was a down year for him as well, so it’ll be interesting to see how Brown compares this year, statistically.

Overall, though, I agree with the points you made.

He’s always been a lazy player who played hard only when he felt like it. And what you and ST ignore is that Peppers’ production cannot be considered in a vacuum. Of course he’s going to produce when he’s on the field for the majority of the game. And while Peppers “produced” by the end of the year, he certainly didn’t come up big when we needed it most. Again, check his postseason record.

There is a lot of negative pub going on about his perceived lack of effort. The general consensus is “buyer beware,” where as Haynesworth was looked at as a sure thing (only to mildly flop in WAS last season).

Pep and Carey are going to want around that number.

I think the Bears first offer is going to be 5 years, $75 million including signing bonus.

Is that he comes from a small market team in Green Bay, and the perceived “splash” of signing him may not be as large.

I would really like to see this move.

Brown did well to show flashes of potential in the role he was given last year.

Would you buy something expensive when the sign next to it clearly stated it would be on sale the following week? No team would have bothered to give us picks and pick up the $ when they could simply wait and potentially get him a lot cheaper through free agency. If they get into a bidding war and lose, I’d say they’re better off that way than losing picks and cash on Pep. At least, that’s my take on it.

How about because nobody was willing to give anything for him?