In less than 25 days...

[Samuel L. Jackson]

We will know a whole lot more about the Peppers and Gross situations....

Free agency starts on the 27th, but I fully expect us to threaten to tag one of them by the 12th at the latest.. That will give us a week before the deadline of the 19th to work out a deal or a trade, and then place the tag to use on the other player... The key being that we don't actually tag the one we first deal with, because once they sign the tag, then I believe it is not able to be rescinded at that point...

It's going to get very interesting between the 5th (the first day you can tag players) and the 12th in my opinion... So in essence, we could actually only be a good 3-10 days away from knowing SOMETHING on either of those two fronts...

[Murph]

I would think we would have Gross extended before we franchise Pep otherwise the FO backs itself into a corner.

If it is only a few days left during the franchising period and we still have not extended Gross, then they have probably hit another snag which is not good news.

[TerriblePizza]

I'm excited this will be a more interesting off-season last year.

[jasonluckydog]

The Panthers just buttered up Gross's agent so im sure he will sign a long term deal.

[jasonluckydog]

I'm excited this will be a more interesting off-season last year.

Love the sig hopefully we get Capt and not Smelly...:)

[TerriblePizza]

Love the sig hopefully we get Capt and not Smelly...:)

Smelley is transfering to play baseball. Thank god he ended his football career.

[Panthro]

Cant we be over the cap as long as we are under by a certain date. Then we could sign Gross and franchise Pepps....trade him then be under the cap. dunno

[ClawOn]

Yea, Peppers is gone and good riddance. We're not going to tag someone who doesn't want to be on the team. He already takes plays off; you can't have starters who takes games off because they're pissed or "hurt."

[unicar15]

Honestly they just need to give Gross what he wants. He knows that we can't afford to lose him..I fully expect him to be the highest paid OL in the league.

[MadHatter]

Yea, Peppers is gone and good riddance. We're not going to tag someone who doesn't want to be on the team. He already takes plays off; you can't have starters who takes games off because they're pissed or "hurt."

There is no way the Panthers let him walk for nothing. That would be a horrible decision.

Even if you did not get a 1st rounder for him (which I think we would), you would get something in return. If you do not franchise him, he walks with zero compensation to the Panthers.

This would be bad business to the nth degree.