Julius Peppers will be on WFNZ's Mac Attack tomorrow to talk about his status w/team

[Mr. Scot]

One thing I gotta wonder...

The interview was conducted via phone. Peppers wasn't in studio. That means he could have had pre-written notes to go from or even could have had Carl Carey there to prompt him and no one would likely have known.

Gantt mentioned that Peppers tends to be "a better interview by phone" than in person. This could be why.

[Fiz]

Gantt mentioned that Peppers tends to be "a better interview by phone" than in person. This could be why.

more comfortable when not in front of the interviewer.

[Mr. Scot]

more comfortable when not in front of the interviewer.

Also possible. I just wonder...

[Happy Panther]

After being held to a career-low 2½ sacks in 2007, the Panthers still offered to make Peppers the NFL's highest-paid defensive player. Peppers on Tuesday provided conflicting reasons on why he rejected the contract.

"That deal was to make me the highest-paid defensive player, but slightly, very slightly," Peppers said. "I didn't really feel the sincerity behind that deal."

But later in the rambling answer during the radio phone interview, Peppers also indicated he wasn't worthy of such a deal.

"I had 2½ sacks that season and they're coming to offer me being the highest-paid defensive player. Like, I can't even accept that," Peppers said. "I'm not deserving of that."

Peppers bounced back with a career-high 14½ sacks in 2008, then announced he wanted to play elsewhere and pleaded with the Panthers to let him leave in free agency. He said Tuesday he wanted out because he was upset with the team's direction under then-defensive coordinator Mike Trgovac.

Get this idiot out of here

[frash.exe]

i don't even think peppers knows what he wants anymore

[Samuel L. Jackson]

i don't even think peppers knows what he wants anymore

This is probably more correct than anything...

I'm pretty sure Carey was the one fueling last year's desire to get out of town, and probably this year's "why haven't you called me?" sentiment...

Pep is a loyal dude who just wants the team to do good while at the same time being the best he can be... He always has been that guy...

Therefore, I'm sure he feels he owes the Panthers and his teammates to some extent...

So he's being pulled both directions pretty hard, and he's caught in the middle... His loyalty to Carey and the Panthers are what is putting him in that position...

In the end, hopefully, he'll realize that his best opportunity is sticking with us and what we have going instead of starting from scratch somewhere else...