Update from John Clayton .... Gross will be signed in a coup of hours

[Murph]

I predict that there will be at least 4 more updates today giving us the "almost signed" status of his contract.

[Kettle]

link

[ashehudson]

I say tag his whiny ass and let him sit till the draft then move him if you are going to.

Not sure how this works but if we tag him then trade him, and he doesn't sign with the team we trade him to, must they have a Franchise Tag available to throw on him or does our tag carry over?

[Murph]

If we don't trade him I'll vomit.

Lance Briggs burned his bridges harder than Peppers has.

Talk is cheap.

[CatfanMO]

Im lovin it!!! Pep will either accept a trade, play for us and be a stud to help his FA status, or hold-out like a little beotch and hurt his FA status. I see the last one happening imho if a trade cant be made.

[E CaT PanTHer]

link

that link was from Tuesday. This was just reported on ESPN about 10 min ago.

[BlueHose]

Not sure. I don't know what John Clayton knows that we don't, but he sounded pretty convincing when he said the Panthers will likely not trade Peppers. I wonder who he's been in contact with in the Panthers organization.

Could be a FO ploy to get Peppers and his agent to expand their list of 4 teams. Let the posturing begin!

[Kettle]

that link was from Tuesday. This was just reported on ESPN about 10 min ago.

i can't find a video link of sportscenter

[BlueHose]

Not sure how this works but if we tag him then trade him, and he doesn't sign with the team we trade him to, must they have a Franchise Tag available to throw on him or does our tag carry over?

If he doesn't accept their offer, the trade is off and he goes back to us with the franchise tag still on him. So basically he has the right to nix any deal we try to make with him.

[Proudiddy]

Cowboys, Eagles, and Skins... I really don't understand why we don't plan to trade Pep after tagging him. It's just gonna be a distraction for us, and it's gonna tie up 17 million that we could spend on talented players that actually want to be here.

I love Pep, but after the commotion he's caused in wanting to leave, and how adamant he was about leaving, I had came to grips with the fact that he was leaving, and I had actually started to look forward to what we were going to get back, especially the first round pick.

Now, we still won't have a 1st rounder and we won't have any money to get quality free agents because of Pep. I don't get it.

[Chan Fan]

I'm sorry, but if a team outside of this division is offering us a great package we need to pull the trigger. I don't really believe Peppers would only play for four other teams though, it's just posturing by his agent in my opinion.

[chollar8]

Lance Briggs burned his bridges harder than Peppers has.

Talk is cheap.

I may be mistaken but wasn't Lance Briggs big issue just about money?

[tarheelpride]

can we pry both 1sts from the eagles? if so, i say ship him there...BUT would they be willing to commit so much money b/w 3 ppl (samuel, mcnabb, and peppers?)

[dpanthersman]

once the tag is placed on peppers that list will prob more than double..peppers made it clear saturday he doesnt want to be tagged. so all this was just a ploy to try to get us not to tag him. i highly doubt if he became a fa he would only talk to four teams