Why do players think teams will just let them walk?

[Highlandfire]

You are commodity. You have value. This team put years and millions into you and you expect them to just let you walk without getting compensation?

Sorry peppers, your arse is getting franchised and yes you will be traded. You don't want to be here and I can't see the Richardson's keeping a player here that wants out this badly, but the nerve of him thinking the Panthers should just let him walk is pathetic. :rant:

[Kevin Greene]

Peppers is working under the guidelines set forth by the CBA. The Panthers allowing two of their best players to come up UFA at the same time puts them in this position to potentially have to make a choice. Players aren't slaves. If Gross was already signed a 17 million dollar gamble so we could trade Pep would be an easy decision.

Gross>Peppers in my book if it comes to it.

[AKPantherFan]

I work full time for the Alaska Air National Guard. They have spent Hundreds of thousands if not more on my tech School, training, OJT and pay. If you count my theater training which must include F-22 and F-15 flying to complete, they spend millions a year to keep me proficient.

My contract just ended. I could have walked away and owed them nothing, left them in the hole to find a replacement in my job and qualifications. This is about a year and a half transition to get folks up to speed.

Either way, my contract was up. Our CONTRACT WAS DONE.

Just because they invested so much in me while I was there does not mean I owe them a thing. They got what they paid for.

So did the Panthers.

(BUT I signed another 6 year deal

[Fiz]

You are commodity. You have value. This team put years and millions into you and you expect them to just let you walk without getting compensation?

lol i know right who does this uppity ***** think he is, thinking he can just walk out after stealing our money since 2002

[Fireball77]

I don't think players EXPECT teams to let them walk...it's more what they WANT.

[raleigh-panther]

I don't think its the 'uppity *****' thing at all that has people riled up.

Peppers, just like A-Rod, gets way to much money for playing a child's game.

You know all you need to know about Julius with the statement '...put yourself in my shoes and don't get all emotional about it'.

Give me a break.

No one on this board could ever put themselves in the shoes of people who play a child's game and makes millions, and in the case of a certain baseball pitcher, a quarter of a billion $$s for playing it. There are a lot of hard working people in unemployment lines and these bozos get paid this much money.

It is not fathomable to me, that someone would be offered to be made the highest paid player, so the rumor goes, he's like, 'later dude, I need to go and grow.'.

Sorry Julius, people bought your jerseys and cheered for your because football IS emotional.

You never got that, that football is emotional, apparently as from what I could observe only a damned few handful of times did you ever show any.

As the guy on Sirius NFL said today, 'I'm tired of Julius Pepppers. Almost every NFL player would die to be made the highest paid at his position, be valued so much by a franchise, and be able to play at home, and finish his career with one team.

Have fun JP, you will find that, particularly up there in NY or Pittsburg, or NE, the media is not going to give you a free pass for taking plays off.

Too whom much is given, much is expected.

Personally, I hope your ass gets traded to Oakland.

[Fiz]

no one is saying we can't be pissed because he wants to leave.

saying he doesn't have the right to because we paid him to do a duty he did is ludicrous and reeks of some 19th century pro-imperialism argument from the economist.

[AKPantherFan]

This marriage is OVER-

All Peppers is doing is burning his bridge on the way out.

I hope the door smacks the poo out of him on his way out.

[guyinchesapeake]

I just hope we get something decent in the way of value for Pep, like a high draft pick or an established player who can address a critical need for this team. But good riddance if it comes to that, he's unhappy, and appears to be burning all bridges to the Panthers.

[raleigh-panther]

Front Office better get something for him, in trade or with draft picks, there is no other way.

Otherwise our DL will most likely be subpar at best. We never really accounted for Jenkins or Rucker, now this.

Come Thursday, Gross signed and Peppers Tagged.

...and frankly, I don't care if his ass has to stay here another year and delay his 'wanderlust'. Panthers are within their CBA rights to do so, and if he doesn't show up, don't pay him.

[southcakalac]

This thread sucks. Its just another way for all you Pepp haters to reverberate you idiomatic and hackneyed statements again and again. Cry me a river.

[PuntJake]

no one is saying we can't be pissed because he wants to leave.

saying he doesn't have the right to because we paid him to do a duty he did is ludicrous and reeks of some 19th century pro-imperialism argument from the economist.

AND... no one is saying he can't leave, but at least from a business standpoint, make it worth our while. the tag is in place for a reason, any team that didn't take advantage of it is just a poor organization.

sign gross, pay him what he wants. tag pep and trade him for a #1.

heck, maybe they saw this coming and thats why we traded our #1 last year knowing pep didn't want to be here and we could tag and trade him this year to regain a #1.

now that is planning ahead!

[AKPantherFan]

Front Office better get something for him, in trade or with draft picks, there is no other way.

Otherwise our DL will most likely be subpar at best. We never really accounted for Jenkins or Rucker, now this.

Come Thursday, Gross signed and Peppers Tagged.

...and frankly, I don't care if his ass has to stay here another year and delay his 'wanderlust'. Panthers are within their CBA rights to do so, and if he doesn't show up, don't pay him.

We got 6 years for Pep. He fufilled his contract. If we get anything out of him its a bonus.

Frankley I am glad this damn circus is about over.

I would rather have a guy like Beason who is a natural born leader and a force in the locker room than some want to be superstar who takes plays off and thinks everyone is holding him back.

[Highlandfire]

Well this is business...franchise the commodity's arse and trade him to whomever pays the most for him. That is how the CBA works. We get a franchise tag and I say use it NOW and let him stew for a week or so.