John Clayton just said on ESPN Radio (Regarding Peppers)

[Jbro]

Just listening to ESPN radio, John Clayton said he would not be surprised if Peppers is traded in the next week or two. No link but it should be podcast on espnradio.com soon.

[CRA]

Carolina would have to lose the this week and next. Admit the season is done and trade him for picks. If they win, they have to keep him. Pep going at 75% is still better than the other DEs on the team.

[OneBadassCat]

Think Cincy would give us Carson Palmer for Peppers?

[AKPantherFan]

i didnt think you could trade a franchised player?

and who they hell would want to pick up that stooid ass contract, of course I guess they would have to re-negotiate a new one...

[Nicbsbll2]

With the way Peppers has been playing this year, we wouldn't be able to get squat for him. Hell, he's still better than what we currently have behind him, even with the way he's playing now, so I say just keep him unless we can get back into the first round.

[wes19d]

Trade deadline for franchised player has already passed.

[Jbro]

He said right after that Cleveland might want to trade Brady Quinn, I don't know if he was saying to the Panthers (I hope not) or if it was unrelated. I am drugged up on flu meds but my wife was next to me and I asked her if I heard it right (about pep being traded) and she said I did.

[Jbro]

Trade deadline for franchised player has already passed.

The deadline for all NFL trades is on October 20 at 4 PM.

[unicar15]

Trade deadline for franchised player has already passed.

I mean this is John Clayton...I feel like he knows his stuff regarding the rules. But like someone else said, we would have to be 0-5 for this to happen. I'm not worried about his trade value. Everyone in the league knows he is loafing because he doesn't want to play for us. My guess would be to the Patriots for one of their first rounders. They know that they need some serious help with the pass-rush in order to win the super bowl. I would actually welcome this scenario considering we would probably ask for their Raiders pick or their later 1st rounder with some extra compensation...

[Jase]

We'd have to find with the cap room and the stupidity, because his contract isn't re-negotiable anymore. Let's see. Cap room and stupidity, cap room and stupidity.

Oh tampa baaaaaaaaaaaay....

[klumme]

Pats has the Raiders 2011 1st not 2010.

[OneBadassCat]

I mean this is John Clayton...I feel like he knows his stuff regarding the rules. But like someone else said, we would have to be 0-5 for this to happen. I'm not worried about his trade value. Everyone in the league knows he is loafing because he doesn't want to play for us. My guess would be to the Patriots for one of their first rounders. They know that they need some serious help with the pass-rush in order to win the super bowl. I would actually welcome this scenario considering we would probably ask for their Raiders pick or their later 1st rounder with some extra compensation...

Yea I think I could only settle for a 1st round pick. We will need one next year.

[firstdayfan]

I mean this is John Clayton...I feel like he knows his stuff regarding the rules. But like someone else said, we would have to be 0-5 for this to happen. I'm not worried about his trade value. Everyone in the league knows he is loafing because he doesn't want to play for us. My guess would be to the Patriots for one of their first rounders. They know that they need some serious help with the pass-rush in order to win the super bowl. I would actually welcome this scenario considering we would probably ask for their Raiders pick or their later 1st rounder with some extra compensation...

Dont quote me on this but I think the Raiders' pick was in 2011. If Fox did this it would mean two things, 1) he has lost Peppers and probably other players 2) he is already gearing up for next season. I wouldn't mind them doing this as I think we have some DE's that can play and right now they are no better or worse than Peppers.

[Fireball77]

I don't think at this point he could contribute much to NE since he would be starting at square 1 even if they would want him solely as a pass rusher. Plus I don't think they have the cap room to take on 17 large nor do I see where that would come from. Yes the Seymour 1st round pick is 2011.

I doubt Pep gets traded this year, it just doesn't seem practical for any other team to do it.