Not exactly a 'contract year' (1 Viewer)

[GRIDIRON ASSASSIN]

Talk about a guy that just 'fell off the ledge':

Buh bye huge money

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Talk about a guy that just 'fell off the ledge':

Buh bye huge money

He'll still get huge money, regardless of this years stats.

 

[dudaman]

Talk about a guy that just 'fell off the ledge':

Buh bye huge money

This is why God created good agents. He will get his, for sure.

 

[mad sweeney]

Everybody has down years. If Steve Smith was a UFA this off season do you think he'd get a bum deal because of this season? He may have hurt his value a little but I doubt in any significant way unless a physical shows some kind of chronic injury.

 

[GRIDIRON ASSASSIN]

Everybody has down years. If Steve Smith was a UFA this off season do you think he'd get a bum deal because of this season? He may have hurt his value a little but I doubt in any significant way unless a physical shows some kind of chronic injury.

I guess you guy's are right, as Freeney sucked last year and he got his large coin.

 

[Tornacl]

There's too much of a demand, and Peppers' name is still one of the ones that others are compared to. The Panthers might as well pony up the money now, because if they try to put the max tender on him, many teams would try to sign him to a big deal (even if they had to give up a 1st and 3rd), then the Panthers would end up matching the offer. If they just sign him, they don't have to worry about teams signing him to an unrealistic offer just to raise the market price.

 

[TitusIII]

Did he go off the juice this year? Or has he been playing injured?

 

[FUBAR]

There's too much of a demand, and Peppers' name is still one of the ones that others are compared to. The Panthers might as well pony up the money now, because if they try to put the max tender on him, many teams would try to sign him to a big deal (even if they had to give up a 1st and 3rd), then the Panthers would end up matching the offer. If they just sign him, they don't have to worry about teams signing him to an unrealistic offer just to raise the market price.

Carolina will not allow Tampa Bay, Atlanta, or any other team to get a chance to sign him, or make them overpay. So they'll do so willingly. Peppers is still the best DE in the game.

 

[Avery]

There's too much of a demand, and Peppers' name is still one of the ones that others are compared to. The Panthers might as well pony up the money now, because if they try to put the max tender on him, many teams would try to sign him to a big deal (even if they had to give up a 1st and 3rd), then the Panthers would end up matching the offer. If they just sign him, they don't have to worry about teams signing him to an unrealistic offer just to raise the market price.

Carolina will not allow Tampa Bay, Atlanta, or any other team to get a chance to sign him, or make them overpay. So they'll do so willingly. Peppers is still the best DE in the game.

 

[SSOG]

There's too much of a demand, and Peppers' name is still one of the ones that others are compared to. The Panthers might as well pony up the money now, because if they try to put the max tender on him, many teams would try to sign him to a big deal (even if they had to give up a 1st and 3rd), then the Panthers would end up matching the offer. If they just sign him, they don't have to worry about teams signing him to an unrealistic offer just to raise the market price.

Carolina will not allow Tampa Bay, Atlanta, or any other team to get a chance to sign him, or make them overpay. So they'll do so willingly. Peppers is still the best DE in the game.

Maybe not this year, but year-in, year-out, he is. If we had one of those hypothetical "let's draft a team from a pool of every player in the league" drafts, then you'd have to go Brady/Manning with the first two picks, but after that Julius Peppers is one of only a couple players I'd consider for the #3 (along with Champ Bailey, Tony Romo, Carson Palmer, and Ben Roethlisberger).Besides, sacks don't tell the whole story. Last year was a supposedly "down year" for Freeney because his sacks were down... but he still led the league in QB hurries by a significant margin. He was still getting the job done.