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Patriots Interested in Peppers per SI..

DelhommesTheMan

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"The New England Patriots remain interested in pursuing Carolina Panther star pass rusher Julius Peppers. According to NFL.com, the Panthers aren't going to use the franchise tag on Peppers. So, he'll undoubtedly hit free agency as the marquee player available on the open market. One year after the Patriots and the Panthers were the subject of trade rumors involving Peppers, the Patriots are apparently still thinking about making a run at him.

National Football Post"

I think him going to the team i hate the most outside of our division will make it way easier to dislike him for the next few years..See ya Pep..

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Will never happen. The Patriots are known for grabbing veteran players and getting the most out of them, but they are not known for getting veteran players and paying top dollar for them. I can really only see at team like Dallas or Washington grabbing Peppers. Could be other teams, but the Patriots and Steelers will never happen. These two teams never pay top dollar for players. The only way that Peppers will go to NE is if he decides to take a lot less $ for a chance to win a championship. I don't think he is that kind of player....

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I'm sure this has been asked in the hundred or so threads on JP but, if there is no cap this year, why wouldnt we pay the incremental increase (over last year) and tag him since it wont impact our ability to sign other players?

Because it is still Richardson's $20M walking out the door.

As much as fans don't want to admit it, the NFL and owning a team is still a business.

Just because there is no cap, does not mean an owner is willing to fork out that much cash again.

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Will never happen. The Patriots are known for grabbing veteran players and getting the most out of them, but they are not known for getting veteran players and paying top dollar for them. I can really only see at team like Dallas or Washington grabbing Peppers. Could be other teams, but the Patriots and Steelers will never happen. These two teams never pay top dollar for players. The only way that Peppers will go to NE is if he decides to take a lot less $ for a chance to win a championship. I don't think he is that kind of player....

They did sign Adalius Thomas to a decent contract back in 07 i think 22mil over the first 2 yrs. I wouldn't be suprised if they spent a good chunk on Peppers and I also wouldn't be that suprised if he took a little below market value to sign with them.

I love Pep and want him back but if he goes to the patriots he is dead to me.

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"According to NFL.com, the Panthers aren't going to use the franchise tag on Peppers."

^^ uhhhh, that article writer is blatantly lying, nowhere has ANYONE said we officially weren't going to use a tag on Peppers.

I can't wait till we tag them and make this A$$hole eat his words.

I hope they are doing some dealing now. Trying to keep it under wraps.

Last week someone posted a link about how many DE have flourished after the age of 30. Only one or two had great seasons after the age of 30. Peppers is a physical freak so I think he has 3 or 4 good seasons remaining.

Either way I don't see us letting him walk without compensation.

Go Panthers

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They did sign Adalius Thomas to a decent contract back in 07 i think 22mil over the first 2 yrs. I wouldn't be suprised if they spent a good chunk on Peppers and I also wouldn't be that suprised if he took a little below market value to sign with them.

I love Pep and want him back but if he goes to the patriots he is dead to me.

Not debating you but that contract was $7 million a year but was front-end loaded. i don't think anyone will argue against me that the Patriots have a history of paying top dollar for players. Maybe he will go there, but I don't see them paying him anywhere close to what he wants.

I personally don't believe that you should manage a team with an open check book, even in an uncapped year. If would be different if this was baseball, but this uncapped year will only last a year then look at what you have to deal with. Once you over pay one guy then the whole rest of the the team starts feeling like they are entitled to more $. Look at the success of teams that role out the big contracts. Simply, it normally doesn't work. You need players that want to be here that are grounded(relatively speaking) as a baseline. Pep wants to go and we have done everything to keep him here....LET HIM GO.

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Because it is still Richardson's $20M walking out the door.

As much as fans don't want to admit it, the NFL and owning a team is still a business.

Just because there is no cap, does not mean an owner is willing to fork out that much cash again.

Yeah, after wasting 24mill on Jake, which was REALLY smart. I can't believe Hurney still has a job. Pay Jake 20mill and let Peppers walk, genius!

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Yeah, after wasting 24mill on Jake, which was REALLY smart. I can't believe Hurney still has a job. Pay Jake 20mill and let Peppers walk, genius!

I really don't think you can blame this one on Hurney or at least not directly. I believe it was Fox's decision to extend him. Look how long he stuck with him when Moore was clearly the better option. While I do think the Guaranteed money was way to much but Hurney signed that deal to save cap. No I do blame this entire FO for not just letting pep walk last year. That put us in the position were we had to extend a guy who was coming off his worst game ever when he was in the last year of his deal to save cap room.

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