Tampering chargers,Florio rips Peppers!!!

PEPPERS PICKS A PECK OF POSSIBLE SUITORS
Posted by Mike Florio on February 18, 2009, 2:42 p.m. EST
Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers wants out of Carolina — he has made that clear.

But he now has narrowed the field of potential suitors to four, presuming that the Panthers use the franchise tag on Peppers and then try to trade him.

According to Darin Gantt of the Rock Hill Herald, the teams are the Cowboys, two NFC South opponents, and an unnamed AFC team.

As to the NFC South foes, we’re not aware of any that run a 3-4 defense, Peppers’ supposed defense of choice. (If we’re wrong, we figure that one or two . . . or 67 . . . of you will point it out.)

The Cowboys use the 3-4, but with DeMarcus Ware and with no first-round pick in 2009, a trade is unlikely.

OK, now that the “news” portion of the blurb is out of the way, we can offer a few opinions.

First, if we were the Panthers, we’d file tampering charges right now against each of the four teams on Peppers’ list. There’s no way in hell that Peppers’ agent, Carl Carey, hasn’t already received an indication from those teams that: (1) they’re interested in Peppers; and (2) they’ll pay him a salary in the appropriate ballpark. And there’s simply no way that Peppers would reduce his trade options that dramatically without a damn good idea that the teams on the list will be serious players.

So, yeah, it looks to us like someone has been tampering. (Then again, the calendar reads “February,” so it’s kind of a given.)

Second, who in the hell does Peppers think he is? Reggie White?

Peppers has complained that the team’s defensive system has kept him from reaching his potential, without acknowledging the possibility that he might bear some responsibility for his failure to be all that he can be.

Though he registered a career-high 14.5 sacks last year in his contract season, he had only 2.5 the prior season. Reggie White could get that many sacks while using the bathroom.

Besides, we’d take Jared Allen any day of the week over Peppers, especially since Peppers is now showing that he’s more trouble than he’s worth.

 

TAMPERING! TAMPERING! HOLY FUCK NO!

 

I figured that was coming. Hell, I've already made that statement. There's just no way to enforce it.

 

Please read and let us what your decision is.

 

Shut up Paul. Need we remind you that you were the one who was sporting that gay ass avatar of Russell Crowe back in the day

 

Wordsworth reminds me periodically asking for it back

 

Why would you file tampering charges against a team you would hope to trade with?

 

speculating--"we'll file tampering charges against you, unless you give us what we want in return for Pepp."
of course, such antics would never be made public...

 

also I don't see how Peppers having a supposed list of teams he'd like to go to gives any indication of tampering.

That Florio guy is full of it. People eat it up so I guess it's working for him.

 

4 teams gives the indication that there have been preliminary talks while Peppers was still under contract with Carolina. It's minutia, but still considered (to the letter) as tampering.

To you and me, not a big deal. If it helps the Panthers get what they want for him, I'm all for it.