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Scouting Report on Peppers (Pro Football Weekly)

Mr. Scot

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He's developed a few, but the fact that he still gets stonewalled even with those bothers me.

I can remember games when Charles Haley was unstoppable, and I believe Peppers has more raw talent and athleticism than Haley. Just not the motor.

I have to admit, he'll be missed as far as field goal defense. Batted passes too. Those long arms came in handy (so to speak) :(

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Well I've always compared him athletically/ability wise to Jason Taylor but he doesn't have Taylor's motor either. Perhaps the challenge of converting to a new system if he does go to a 3-4 will get him going for awhile, but it's a big change and requires effort to do long term. Not sure I would spend that type of dough he will likely require to find out if he could do that or not. Yes, Jenkins made the transition from penetrating DT to 2-gap NT, but he fell off a bit towards the end of the year and who knows how he will fare this coming year?

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Anyone know how much influence Jenkins has over Pepp? I'm just throwing some stuff out here, but Jenkins was not a fan of the Panthers front office and, apparently, neither is Peppers. Jenkins got traded to a team that runs a 3-4 and now Pepp wants to work in a 3-4.

Maybe Jenkins leaving really poisoned the water for Julius, who knows.

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Well I've always compared him athletically/ability wise to Jason Taylor but he doesn't have Taylor's motor either. Perhaps the challenge of converting to a new system if he does go to a 3-4 will get him going for awhile, but it's a big change and requires effort to do long term. Not sure I would spend that type of dough he will likely require to find out if he could do that or not. Yes, Jenkins made the transition from penetrating DT to 2-gap NT, but he fell off a bit towards the end of the year and who knows how he will fare this coming year?

Really we will see how well motivated peppers is cause its gonna take alot more learning and unlike most people think he will have to cover a RB and TE at some point if he plays the 3-4 or it will make him a one dimensional player and will let teams exploit that. IMO he is not very open to learning because he never seemed to change much of what he did here.

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Really we will see how well motivated peppers is cause its gonna take alot more learning and unlike most people think he will have to cover a RB and TE at some point if he plays the 3-4 or it will make him a one dimensional player and will let teams exploit that. IMO he is not very open to learning because he never seemed to change much of what he did here.

I definitely think you're onto something. I have a funny feeling that in 5 years or so, whichever team picks up Pep may be regretting it by that time. (If it's a 3-4 team and he's playing OLB)

Then again, he could be a top defensive player.

Just a feeling....

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Really we will see how well motivated peppers is cause its gonna take alot more learning and unlike most people think he will have to cover a RB and TE at some point if he plays the 3-4 or it will make him a one dimensional player and will let teams exploit that. IMO he is not very open to learning because he never seemed to change much of what he did here.

I think your overestimating just how often guys like Porter and Ware actually cover someone. Peppers had more pass defenses than any of the top pass rushing OLB.

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I think your overestimating just how often guys like Porter and Ware actually cover someone. Peppers had more pass defenses than any of the top pass rushing OLB.

Pep is also alot bigger then them and also even though greatly athletic not as fast in coverage. Both Porter and Ware cover people thats why its a 3-4 and not a 4-3.

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