Just incase you needed more evidence that Peppers is a moron...

[Davidson Deac II]

I agree that Jake got well taken care of financially. I think Pep is moreso trying to intimate that people heaping all of the blame on Jake was a raw deal. I'm just reading into it- I could be wrong.

Yea I know what he was saying. But anybody getting a few million not to play is not getting a raw deal no matter what happened.

[Raskle]

And Peppers is right. Its impossible for a fan to know just by the numbers is a player is slacking off, or having a bad game, or if the other team is just doing a good job.

That being said, Peppers was wrong about one thing. Jake did not get a raw deal. He got a boatload of money from us, so its hard to see how he got a raw deal. He got let go because he didn't perform, and he still got a lot of money. Thats not a raw deal.

I disagree.. people who watch him week after and week, and a few lucky ones who make a living at it, can make that call. It's not exclusive to folks who are on the sidelines with him. Otherwise, we'd have no scouts, analysts, etc to begin with. Why bother? No such thing as an expert opinion?

To put it layman's terms... just because I can't paint, doesn't mean I can't crititque an artist's work, nor appreciate it when they produce a masterpiece. I don't have to be looking over his shoulder every single day to know when he is puttnig his soul into a painting, and when he is just half-asssing it. I have a brain and can distinguish between the two.

I understand that being in the locker room does present different facets the general public does not see. I understand you get to know the guys in there like family. But being on the team does not make you uniquely qualified to assess a player's performance and self-motivation. I'm a firm believer that results and hustle are big indicators of those. Anyone who watched Pep play can tell you he had days where he both under and overachieved. We hoped for the latter, but sometimes got the former. But that's Pep, and now he's Chicago's headache to worry over