Could we be planning to trade Julius Peppers?

[RazzleDazzle]

Week 6 is the trade dead line, could they trade him by then? We did just add a new DE to the PS. I also saw them put E. Brown a little last week, probably doesn't mean anything but it could happen I guess. Give Brown a little playing time see how it works out, then possibly trade Peppers before the dead line?

[Zcustom]

You can't trade a franchise player, been discussed ad nauseum

[RazzleDazzle]

You can't trade a franchise player, been discussed ad nauseum

fug.

[Zcustom]

f**k.

amen brother

[mr beauxjangles]

No team (including the team that franchised the player) can sign a franchise player to a long-term contract after July 15th of a league year. So this pretty much negates any trade scenarios. The 49ers tried to trade draft picks for Lance Briggs in 2007 (Chicago's franchise player) but the league rejected the trade for the reason stated above.

[CLTPanther]

Besides, who would want to pay a 30 year old DE who shows up about 25% of the games to probably what would be Freeney dollars?

[PantherBrew]

Besides, who would want to pay a 30 year old DE who shows up about 25% of the games to probably what would be Freeney dollars?

the Carolina Panthers... Thats who!

[CRA]

If you go back and watch Peppers each play the past 2 weeks....there is nothing to bitch about. Same can't be said if you watch other guys on defense each and every snap. He was fantastic week 1 and was taken out of week 2.....which was smart b/c if you can limit Pep no one else outside Beason or Davis is likely to make an impact play.

[g5jamz]

Besides, who would want to pay a 30 year old DE who shows up about 25% of the games to probably what would be Freeney dollars?

[mountainpantherfan]

I don't think it is impossible to trade a franshised player during the season but there are very strick guidelines that have to be followed and they are not very tempting to the new team. The Briggs situation a couple years back wasn't rejected by the NFL, it was rejected by the Bears and the NFL fined the 49er's for entering into contract talks with a player during the season and while he was on another team without permission. So a trade could happen but the new team could have no future contract talks what so ever with the player, not even if they would be willing to sign with them after the season is over. So that would make any trade almost impossible of happening.

[dpanthersman]

you can trade a franchised player anytime before the deadline. they just cannot sign a new contract until after the season

[RazzleDazzle]

Damn, just opened my Mountain Dew and took a drink and I noticed I got diet. That sucks but I looked all the rules up and couldn't find nothing saying you couldn't trade him. If someone had the room and thought they had a good chance to make a run for the playoffs around Week 6, maybe they would take the risk. I don't know though, just a thought.

[rayzor]

the team would have to agree to the exact same 1 year contract that the other team is. someone would have to pick him up now and pay him $1mil/game knowing that the contract is completely done after this year. every bonus they are due would still be due them. all this with no hope of an extension until the season is over.

won't happen.

[RazzleDazzle]

the team would have to agree to the exact same 1 year contract that the other team is. someone would have to pick him up now and pay him $1mil/game knowing that the contract is completely done after this year. every bonus they are due would still be due them. all this with no hope of an extension until the season is over.

won't happen.

Yeah, there isn't to many teams with the cap space and most that do are 3-4. Your right, it just is highly unlikely anyone would be that stupid.