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Peppers on Panthers: 'It was a little sour'


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(By Joseph Person, [email protected]) For most of a 20-minute conference call with Charlotte reporters Wednesday, former Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers took the high road when talking about his time with the Panthers and what it means to play his old team this week with the Chicago Bears.p/But near the end of the teleconference, Peppers took a couple of shots that drafted him in the first round in 2002 out of North Carolina.

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The FO made him the offers, he refused. Now he thinks it's 'sour' because they didn't explain themselves to him? If he wanted to stay the ball was in his court the entire time. Don't expect people to keep offering you millions of dollars when you already turned it down, twice.

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Sounds like, "yes they offered to make me the highest paid DE in the league twice but that doesn't matter because they didn't do it after this last season with an even higher offer. And they didn't tell me they weren't going to do it."

yeah, OK Pep.

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