Peppers Hasn't Signed His Contract

[Easyt65]

Peppers Demands To Be Traded

Peppers is Franchised

To Be Traded He Must Sign The Contract

Peppers Hasn't Signed The Contract

What The....?!

So JP demands to be traded and specifies several teams he would be willing to play for...but it looks like those teams haven't shown him much interest yet.

(WHY? The fact that being asked to step to the front and be a leader freaked the Freak out?! The fact that he has a pi$$-poor year in '07 and had an impressive 'contract-year' bounce back, or.....?!)

To get the ball rollin' all he has to do is sign his franchise contract....which he hasn't done yet.

(Why? 1) He's a dumb@$$, 2) He intends to sit out a year, 3) He plans on signing the contract AFTER the draft in order to $crew Carolina out of a 2009 draft pick (and thereby helping his new team, which would benefit in 2009 by having their 1st round pick and JP) 4) He's still trying to find a way to get a Dwight-Freeney Like / Highest-paid-defensive-player-ever Contract)

I wonder if his agent is reporting back to him that teams aren't that impressed, especially after the Cards coach said before that last game that they weren't worried about JP because they could handle him easily...and then did!?

But the question on my mind this morning is:

Why hasn't the man who has demanded so adamantly to be traded signed the papers that can get that ball rolling?

Enough of the drama and BS - sign the papers and get your big @$$ outta Charlotte already!

[Delhommey]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_yDWQsrajA[/ame]

[mantal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_yDWQsrajA

Well what else can we talk about, Jay Cutler - oh wait!

[TerriblePizza]

I'm starting to have a bad feeling that Peppers is willing to sit out.

[rayzor]

ugh....

i think the thing i will be the most happy about when something is done is so there won't be anymore stupid repeat threads about it anymore.

have mercy.....

[MadHatter]

Peppers Demands To Be Traded

Peppers is Franchised

To Be Traded He Must Sign The Contract

Peppers Hasn't Signed The Contract

What The....?!

So JP demands to be traded and specifies several teams he would be willing to play for...but it looks like those teams haven't shown him much interest yet.

(WHY? The fact that being asked to step to the front and be a leader freaked the Freak out?! The fact that he has a pi$$-poor year in '07 and had an impressive 'contract-year' bounce back, or.....?!)

To get the ball rollin' all he has to do is sign his franchise contract....which he hasn't done yet.

(Why? 1) He's a dumb@$$, 2) He intends to sit out a year, 3) He plans on signing the contract AFTER the draft in order to $crew Carolina out of a 2009 draft pick (and thereby helping his new team, which would benefit in 2009 by having their 1st round pick and JP) 4) He's still trying to find a way to get a Dwight-Freeney Like / Highest-paid-defensive-player-ever Contract)

I wonder if his agent is reporting back to him that teams aren't that impressed, especially after the Cards coach said before that last game that they weren't worried about JP because they could handle him easily...and then did!?

But the question on my mind this morning is:

Why hasn't the man who has demanded so adamantly to be traded signed the papers that can get that ball rolling?

Enough of the drama and BS - sign the papers and get your big @$$ outta Charlotte already!

Because if he signs the tender, we can trade him to anyone we want....as long as they will take him without a long-term contract.

[Fireball77]

This is true, MH but I don't see any team as being that stupid. Not even the Raiders, the Pukes or the Skins!

[Sandy Claws]

This is true, MH but I don't see any team as being that stupid. Not even the Raiders, the Pukes or the Skins!

You don't see any team being stupid enough to pass on draft picks in order to pay a tempermental DE almost 17 million for one year with no committment for anything longer? Isn't that what we're doing?

[Fireball77]

Touche..haha...point taken SF. I hate, loathe and despise the amount of cap hit he's using. He isn't "worth" that actual money, no doubt. But sometimes a guy is more valuable to their current team than to a new one.

[Montsta]

Touche..haha...point taken SF. I hate, loathe and despise the amount of cap hit he's using. He isn't "worth" that actual money, no doubt. But sometimes a guy is more valuable to their current team than to a new one.

*cough* Matt Cassell in KC in 2009 *cough*

[Snake]

I'm starting to have a bad feeling that Peppers is willing to sit out.

That would hurt him next year cause he will be 30. Most players stock goes way down when they turn the dreaded 30 and he will be unproven because of sitting out a year. It really would hurt him more then us but it would hurt us really bad cause we have to carry that cap number.

[rayzor]

him sitting out would be a horrible thing to do for both parties....moreso him than us, though.

his clock is ticking and sitting out will make him look really bad. who wants to have someone like that on their team? he'd be seen as an athletic freak, incredibly talented player, and a passive aggressive turd who will sit and wait until he gets what he wants. not exactly what discerning owners with championship teams are looking for.

[SMACKDAB]

That mysterious illness must have really fried his brain, and decision making ability. Such long lasting, lingering effects this illness has.

Hope I never get it.

[Kevin Greene]

Here's another rehash of the rehash of this rehashed story.

CHARLOTTE - The Julius Peppers Saga continues.

And the Julius Peppers Saga continues to amaze.

One would think that if you're a Pro Bowl defensive end and your top priority is to sign with anyone except the Carolina Panthers -- as Peppers stated shortly before he became an unrestricted free agent -- then you should be able to cut a deal with somebody.

One would think that even if you pare your list to teams that play 3-4 defenses and teams that could be Super Bowl contenders -- as Peppers has also stated -- you should be able to find a new team in six weeks or less.

But Peppers remains unsigned. For that matter, he hasn't even signed the one-year, $16.7-million tender from the Panthers, who protected their investment by designating him as their "franchise" player. Technically, that's a move that must precede anything else.

The conventional wisdom is that this will now drag on awhile. Since Peppers wasn't part of the first wave of free-agent signees, there won't be a real sense of urgency on anyone's part again until closer to the April 25 NFL Draft.

Even after Peppers and his agent find the team that will allow him to maximize his potential -- his words again -- the process will be incomplete until that team works out compensation with the Panthers. Until then, the Panthers will be hamstrung by the $16.7 million salary-cap hit, unable to sign any significant free agents at other positions.

Peppers originally stated that he didn't want to "cripple" the Panthers as this evolved, but that's in essence what he has been doing.

Amazing? Well, the case could be made that nothing is really amazing when it comes to free agency, that posturing is part of the business and deals often aren't cut until the 11th hour. Jared Allen, who set the defensive end's compensation bar when he left Kansas City last year, didn't officially land with Minnesota until shortly before the draft, either.

But no recent free agent has been so publicly adamant about leaving his current team, and it's hard to come up with one who has torched his bridges the way that Peppers has. The last time that Peppers spoke to the media, on Feb. 14, he reaffirmed that he would never re-sign with the Panthers. He was given several opportunities to back off previous statements, to leave the door open to returning, but he wouldn't.

Options dwindling

Peppers' agent, Carl Carey, has failed to come to his client's rescue. There were reports out of Peppers' camp that he had a list of four teams that he would be willing to sign with, and later reports that the New England Patriots were one of those teams. But there have been no face-saving, fence-mending comments that would allow Peppers to return to the Panthers even if only for next season.

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/apr/09/dragging-his-feet-panthers-still-waiting-on-pepper/sports-professional-football-panthers/

Who wants Spam with that?