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carolinarolls

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carolinarolls

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please be brutal as always, (not yet edited)

A Fan Base Divided?

Sometimes just being a fan can be quite stressful. But I am not talking about the roller coaster of success and failure. No, I am talking about the business side of sports and how often the lines are skewed for passionate fans in their love for what really amounts to a significant business enterprise. The fans of any particular team do have their respective love for that team in common but usually little else. Especially in professional sports it is a given that fans from both ends of the spectrum on both business sense and personal values will root their team to victory or curse them in defeat alongside one another. That is until a rift in the organization squares them against each other in vehement opposition. Where should a fan place the blame when decisions are being made about key personnel? Do we blame the spoiled athlete of whom we may have an expensive jersey hanging in the closet for game day? Do we blame the entrusted front office personnel who quietly operate under the team flag and are charged with balancing the budget and success level of a franchise simultaneously? Or do we go a step further and lay blame at the feet of the big dog, the league office for empowering franchise owners with sometimes controversial tools that in some opinions cause many of the issues faced? In most instances fault is easily bestowed due to the situation being cut and dry, but sometimes a situation presents itself that has so many unknowns and involves such extremes that the average fan becomes confused with the combination of his emotion and what he feels to be “right”. No such event has plagued the Carolinas in recent memory as has the struggle for power between Julius Peppers and the front office of the Carolina Panthers.

To closely look at the facts in the situation in Charlotte is a scary thing involving some of the strangest opposing views ever witnessed in the NFL. To others the root of the issue is glaring. I look at the situation as an unsalvageable and extremely unfortunate standoff. Julius Peppers is arguably the face of the franchise and has been since he was drafted a decade ago by Carolina. He is one of the top 5% of NFL players when it comes to the respect he commands and the relative compensation he enjoys. Julius has also been a model citizen throughout his career. We have not heard so much as a whimper of bad press concerning him for actions on or off the field. Julius has been a money-making, fan-generating asset to the franchise from the moment he was selected second overall behind David Carr some ten years ago. Now he says he wants out. His potential needs to be met. His position and scheme needs to change. He wants an outright release. Marty Hurney says no. By placing the franchise tag on Peppers he has the right to match any offers that come the way of Pep and his agent. In turn a “tender offer” is made and has to be signed prior to the executives in Carolina working on a trade. Peppers has not signed this tender. A deal has not even been offered in the form of a trade. The draft has come and gone without any “big announcement” that many fans hoped for. Marty cannot even shop him around the league and there seems no end in sight. All the while Peppers is guaranteed one million dollars a game this season with a swipe of his agent’s MONTBLANC and without his required attendance at camp and OTA’s, one of which he has already missed.

So where do you stand? As a Panther fan can you legitimately blame Peppers for anything? He is not cooperating per say but he has to look out for number one. Right? What are your feelings about the decision to tag him now? To tag him we had to sign an aging Jordan Gross to a long term deal and extend Jake Delhomme to free up the space to plug in some undrafted free agents. What do you feel about the franchise tag in itself? Good tool or root of all things evil in the NFL?

Hopefully there is already something resolved between the two camps and the unyielding tight-lips of the Carolina Panthers front office are allowing us this suffering as some type of really cruel joke. But what if they aren’t? Where do you place blame?

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This is just an extended version of every one of your posts for the last several months... what's the point?

In the end, the only one that has the potential of losing out is Pep. He has the right to want to leave, the Panthers have the right to franchise him. Both sides are being stubborn, but if he doesn't play, we'll make due with the DEs we have... he, on the other hand, will lose out on money.

Why does there need to be someone to blame...? They're just handling their business the way that they think is best. Whether we think that's how it's happening or not, is completely irrelevant.

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I'm putting the Over/Under at...

# of new threads carolinarolls makes about the same topic: 10

# of new posts he makes about this same topic: 200

I'm taking over on both...

:D Sorry, C-Rolls. He's got a point.:rofl:

But, in your defense...there is really nothing more interesting to talk about...except Jake Delhomme.:drool5:

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Brandon Newbie

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haha and yet not a single reply pertaining to the actual thread. genius!

We've learned there's only so much you can say to him. He takes a dissenting stance as often as possible and holds onto it as long as he can before giving it up and moving on to something else.

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