Panthers should learn from Patriots

[magnus]

We could get away without Peppers this year, if we had to.

We don't want to, though.

And trading a player with an existing contract is so much easier than trading a player who has a tenative one year deal worth eighty billion dollars. Add that Pep is worth mroe than Seymour, and you have what would be a prohibitive amount of layout for a player in a salary cap world.

Plus, I'm sure the Pats tried to push Seymour on us to get Pep. The Seymour trade rumors have been out there for a while, and whether he wants a new deal or not I get wary when the Pats want to get rid of players they can use.

[OneBadassCat]

You say that but then everyone would bitch and complain about how stupid we were to let Peppers go because we couldn't replace him. Kemo gets hurt, then Everette Brown gets double teamed and taken out of the game. Then we have 0 pass rush and 0 run stopping ability.

[raleigh-panther]

Hello Magnus.

I'm not sure about anything other than that we have Peppers in 2009, for better for worse.

Perhaps Julius will surprise and be the player that the great Deacon Jones and others say he 'should be' with his physical gifts.

We shall see.

[raleigh-panther]

You say that but then everyone would bitch and complain about how stupid we were to let Peppers go because we couldn't replace him. Kemo gets hurt, then Everette Brown gets double teamed and taken out of the game. Then we have 0 pass rush and 0 run stopping ability.

Hello, let's see how much the Panthers have with him this year.

Julius, specifically, and the defense in general, will have plenty of opportunity to show how stout it is with the first 3 games.

One has to ask, with as much of a preminum Fox puts on the Defensive Line and its ability to get push for his schemes, why a DT was not drafted ahead of Martin. I just sit and wonder.

[Jackofalltrades]

Who should we have gotten rid of? Who do we have that is disgruntled?

Oh, I assume we're blabbing about Peppers again, senselessly. People forget the NFL is a business, it's a game that's played every year by someone. Boldin and Briggs are two other recent examples.

Let's look towards the season and stop pointing fingers, because if we do well and Peppers is one if the reasons why there will be a people around here looking like idiots.

[Fireball77]

FTR, Seymour has bitched a lot more publicly than Pep ever has even including what Pep said this past offseason.

Being disgruntled doesn't mean being traded though. As long as you aren't going to give them adequate value in return, you stay there.

[SMACKDAB]

FTR, Seymour has bitched a lot more publicly than Pep ever has even including what Pep said this past offseason.

Being disgruntled doesn't mean being traded though. As long as you aren't going to give them adequate value in return, you stay there.

I've been wondering where you were, and when you would chime in.

:cheers2:

[Kevin Greene]

But then we wouldn't have had Pepper's dominating play last year in the playoffs.

Wow, we would have sucked.

[raleigh-panther]

Who should we have gotten rid of? Who do we have that is disgruntled?

Oh, I assume we're blabbing about Peppers again, senselessly. People forget the NFL is a business, it's a game that's played every year by someone. Boldin and Briggs are two other recent examples.

Let's look towards the season and stop pointing fingers, because if we do well and Peppers is one if the reasons why there will be a people around here looking like idiots.

I am not pointing fingers.

If Peppers does well, and for a $1 million a game, he better do a lot better than 'well', I'll gladly look like an idiot.

[Udogg]

This should be a rule:

Before you complain about our front office, do not use for example any trade that either A) the Patriots (best FO in the league) or the Raiders (Worst FO in the league)

[Fireball77]

I am surprised the Raiders keep trading with them to be honest. Especially after the way Big Al whined about Belichick "fleecing him" on the Moss trade. Obviously that was Al's ego at work, trying to save face. lol

[Blitz]

I believe the bottom line is Peppers value is not as high as he believes it is and the panthers front office hands were tied in keeping him. If Jarred Allen can get the highest defensive contract ever by the vikes who also gave up two first round draft picks to get him, then its clear there were no takers for him. Much like the situation in Texans with Dunta Robinson. Clearly no team was willing to give him what he was in search of as well as what it would take to get him, picks. Getting a first round pick is all fine and good, but the reallity is as much as the media blows Peppers up front offices and coaches arent fools, they truely know his worth.