Peppers Situation UPDATE —Voth chimes in

[t96]

It's really curiously quiet on the Peppers front right now, now a day into the "legal" tampering period, and even before that. It's kind of fascinating to me that not a single report has come out about Pep other than "he's deciding on his future" from our own reporters. No other teams have had any connection whatsoever to Pep. Not the Pats, Bucs, Raiders, or whoever else was "linked" to him... I wonder if this means that the only thing up in the air is whether he'll play or not and that it is true that he'd only play here if he decides to come back. But he may just be leaning towards retirement coming off a serious surgery... Do you think the lack of chatter completely across the league points towards the likelihood that Pep either retires or stays here? Really interesting situation.

 

UPDATE: Just saw this:

 

Voth takes a stance that it’s Panthers or retirement. Good to hear. fug the Pats.

[Jon Snow]

He gone.

[chknwing]

it's actually pretty shitty.  Not knowing what Pep will do means Carolina may have to pick up a DE in free agency just in case.

[t96]

Just now, Jon Snow said:

He gone.

If there were truly serious interest from other teams and any kind of mutual interest from Pep's side, that would've gotten out by now. In today's day and age you don't keep any of that under wraps this far into the offseason.

[TheRed]

It sounds like it's a decision that goes beyond just money. If that's the case, with all the factors in play right now....he gone.

You can be mad at him if you want, but we basically all but packed his bags for him when he and the rest of the players were handcuffed from protesting last year.

[LinvilleGorge]

Who knows? You're also assuming that just because news hasn't broke of it that means no other teams have been in contact. That seems a bit optimistic. I doubt very seriously that Peppers hasn't had other teams reach out to him to check on his potential availability and compensation demands. Even if he's only interested in playing for us, I'm sure his agent is fielding those calls to get an idea of what other teams would be willing to offer. Kind of tough to judge the market value of a 38 year old pass rusher coming off of a double digit sack season. Not exactly many comps out there for that type of player.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, chknwing said:

it's actually pretty shitty.  Not knowing what Pep will do means Carolina may have to pick up a DE in free agency just in case.

I have to imagine the team has a pretty good idea of what to expect at this point. At least they should.

[pantherdad]

1 minute ago, JustAQuestion said:

The question is: Will he want to come here? It takes two to tango.

Jesus,  is that all you can say? Pls shut the fug up

[therealmjl]

3 minutes ago, JustAQuestion said:

The question is: Will he want to come here? It takes two to tango.

Pretty sad life to create an alt account just to troll a message board.

[Jon Snow]

Just now, thomas96 said:

If there were truly serious interest from other teams and any kind of mutual interest from Pep's side, that would've gotten out by now. In today's day and age you don't keep any of that under wraps this far into the offseason.

Didn't say it was to another team.  But you never heard anything about the Jags and Norwell either, so? If the Patriots don't sign him he will retire.  He ain't signing on with Hurney at the helm.  You guys need to accept that.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Pep ain't even thinking about all that right now. He's probably at home fuging the living daylights out of Claudia Sampedro.

[Shocker]

Man, really wanted Pep back...he was great last year.

[OneBadCat]

If Peppers is only playing one season I highly doubt he gives a sht that Hurney is the GM.

[Shocker]

5 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Pep ain't even thinking about all that right now. He's probably at home fuging the living daylights out of Claudia Sampedro.

lol