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Panthers are # 5 team for best fit for Cutler. Look at this part though. Cutler is good, but demanding more than Peppers for Cutler?

The Broncos could demand current starter Jake Delhomme or promising backup Matt Moore as part of the deal. One caveat: Denver would have to be willing to offer Peppers a mountain-sized contract extension. He is currently slated to earn $16.6 million for 2009 as Carolina's franchise player.

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you have to admit you saw this coming after the Cutler news broke, too bad for them it will never happen, that's right people it's not going to happen, so please quit it with the threads.

As much as I would love it to happen, he's right. It'll never happen. Hurney's head is too far up Jake's ass.

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Here is where the front office gets off their ass. Even if it isn't true. Get the rumor going. Feed it. Make NE think they are going to lose Peppers. In the long run we get a better price for Peppers. We force NE to cough up more than just one 2nd round picks.

Go Panthers

Now that actually makes sense.

Suddenly, I'm all for it :D

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Because 21 threads about Culter to Carolina isn't enough?

Jeez.

:(

I guess they should only have one big Carolina thread, because theoretically, everything would be about the panthers. Maybe that way all the babies would quit complaining about all the threads. Isnt multiple threads about the same thing just like righting the same responses to all the threads? Just curious. Maybe theres a cool group of people that should start righting responses to the " man there is like 21 of these threads already". Then there would be 2 cool groups of people on the huddle.

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