NFL.com Peppers/Patriots *possible* update

[doubletrouble3428]

hopefully pep listens to bill SOON an signs the damn tender!

[carpanfan96]

So it says that the second is all that the pats would be willing to give up in the trade for peppers.

[Peppa Jack Supreme]

thats the part that kills me. I still cant see the Panthers letting him go for #34 pick. Like Ive said before thats going to be the steal of the millienium.

[Fox007]

If Pepper's or his agent don't get the hint, I'd say they are pretty stupid.

If Belichick thinks we would really only take a 2nd, hes also pretty stupid.

Or if we do send Pep to NE for only a 2nd, Hurney is stupid.

[Kevin Greene]

U gotta consider the 17 million dollars moving Peppers brings us as well. If Pep would sign his contract like Cassel did and we moved him we could have signed TJ Houshmandzadeh, Bryan Dawkins, and still have 6 million dollars of extra cap space and the 2nd pick in the 2nd round as well. The world doesn't end if we don't get two #1s for Peppers.

Peppers really fugged us by coming out saying he didn't want to pay here blah, blah, blah. If he'd kept his trap shut, signed his Franchise tag contract, we could be shopping Peppers to whatever teams he speciifed with a stronger bargaining position.

[Kevin Greene]

pep's agent may be seeing the light.

Carey, who said after the season that Peppers would not play for the Panthers ever again, seemed to soften that stance.

“While Julius is interested in the Patriots and a few other teams in the league, he is comfortable with the position he’s in right now,” Carey told the Boston Herald. “In the event we are unable to reach an agreement (with another team), Julius will be among the highest paid defensive players next season, and we will be comfortable with that. We’re not in a position where we have to act hastily.”

That is certainly in contrast to what Carey told Carolina Growl on Jan. 17 when he said, "Julius has given a huge portion of his career to the Carolina Panthers and he feels that he has done all that he can do there and this is more about him trying it another way. For him that means trying it outside of the Carolina Panthers organization."

And when asked in a follow-up question if Peppers does not, under any circumstance, want to come back to Carolina, Carey said, "Right. He's ready to move on."

[Its The Milk]

Did he just waffle around for a full paragraph?

[MadHatter]

So he does not "want to play" for Carolina......but he is willing to rape us for $17M. That about sums it up.

He will not sign a long-term deal with Carolina....but will take the whopping $17M this season if he doesnot get his wish.

[Galvatron]

Is the reason he hasn't signed his tender is he's hoping for a release? That's too Silly.

[MadHatter]

Is the reason he hasn't signed his tender is he's hoping for a release? That's too Silly.

No, if he signs the tender then we can negotiate a trade.

Even though he would really have to agree to a long-term contract with any prospective trade partner (no team would offer anything of value for a $17M 1 yr contract), it would give the Panthers more control.

Nothing to be gained by him signing at this point.

[Galvatron]

I love learning new things...I knew there was a good reason

[rayzor]

“I don’t think that’s a good way to do business,” Belichick said to WEEI about an agent-brokered transaction. “I personally would not do it that way. I think if a player wants to be traded or wants to be in a position where he could be traded, then the best thing for that player to do is do what Matt Cassel did — sign the tender, be under contract, and then go to the team and say, ’Okay, I don’t want to be here, trade me, this is where I want to go.’”

i can't stand the guy but he makes great sense here.

still think carucci needs to find better sources. panthers aren't going to let him go for just a 2nd round pick. dude is just trying to save face. he said that the two teams have been in talks and both teams refuted that, pats saying that they haven't even talked with peppers and pep's agent saying that he hasn't spoken with the pats.

carucci....quickly becoming a joke.