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Julius Peppers

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By MichaelNewtonII,
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cbarrier90 Newbie

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Just glad the bridges between the organization and Julius were strong enough for there to be mutual interest in bringing him back this offseason. Didn't think he would ever want to come back or even retire a Panther (amazing what 12-4 does, huh?) Just as with Smitty now, it hurt to see one of the greats in Panthers history drag the team's name through the mud unfairly even though Pep took his shots more quietly and before Twitter was around.

 

Hindsight is 20/20 about the DE situation. Looking at the contract Green Bay gave him it just wasn't going to be in the cards. We would have essentially had to beat those numbers to pay for an upgrade in the Mario Addison role behind Hardy and CJ.

 

The one Hurney blunder that gets lost in the shuffle amongst the bad contracts is trying desperately to hang on to Peppers when he didn't want to be here and then not getting anything of value in return for him outside of compensatory picks in the 3rd (Sione Fua,) 6th (Zack Williams,) and 7th (Lee Ziemba) rounds in 2011. That failure virtually guaranteed the 2-14 record the following season.

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Just glad the bridges between the organization and Julius were strong enough for there to be mutual interest in bringing him back this offseason. Didn't think he would ever want to come back or even retire a Panther (amazing what 12-4 does, huh?) Just as with Smitty now, it hurt to see one of the greats in Panthers history drag the team's name through the mud unfairly even though Pep took his shots more quietly and before Twitter was around.

Hindsight is 20/20 about the DE situation. Looking at the contract Green Bay gave him it just wasn't going to be in the cards. We would have essentially had to beat those numbers to pay for an upgrade in the Mario Addison role behind Hardy and CJ.

The one Hurney blunder that gets lost in the shuffle amongst the bad contracts is trying desperately to hang on to Peppers when he didn't want to be here and then not getting anything of value in return for him outside of compensatory picks in the 3rd (Sione Fua,) 6th (Zack Williams,) and 7th (Lee Ziemba) rounds in 2011. That failure virtually guaranteed the 2-14 record the following season.

Me too. I'm glad to see that he even gave it a thought of coming back home. Peppers is one of the greatest Panthers ever.

But, I think we all know that his ill feelings were more toward Foxy and Hurney than the organization.

#FutureHOF

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I hope you know that he played a 43 his whole entire career here and in Chicago before this year in a 34.

 

Sure...

 

Seriously, why we only focus on the names that we are familiar? I didnt check it but I think there are more productive players who can help the Panthers, not only Peppers.

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