Peppers takes verbal swipes at Panthers

Breaking Kurt Warner, Blocked FG against New Orleans.

Also he was pretty fucking essential in the playoff victory over the giants in 05.

 

"Sometimes, you're on the field, you get tired," he said. "If I'm not playing as hard on play 66 as I was on play No. 1, then ... come on."

 

Peppers is something of a "gentle giant" (no killer instinct), and I think it's always been said basketball was his first love, not football. While part of me is stupidly feeling "rejected", I think there must have been issues we'll never know about. I don't see him as ever being comfortable in a leadership role, and I think he had some issues with the way he was "used as a player" here, but I truly thought with the change in defensive coordinators, he was again happy here. He acted more enthusiastic this past season the at least the prior year, and was even quoted as implying things were different now then when he "just wanted out" and he would like to work a long term contract out. Something happened I think fairly recently because what he's saying/doing now is more in line with Trgo is still here attitude then post Trgo.

So as of now, I'm over it, wish him well and let's get back to what matters, the Panthers.

 

Hard to say we would have lost the playoff game to the Giants without him considering we beat them 20-0 and ran all over them with Foster.

 

23-0

 

Possibly got 5 or 6 wins outta him, but in the same argument how may of those losses can be credited to him for the games he didn't go 100%

 

Peppers: I was willing to stay

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/03/06/1295305/peppers-i-was-willing-to-stay.html

"Providing specifics for the first time regarding his contract negotiations with Carolina last summer, he said the two sides were split by a $6 million difference for a four-year deal - or $1.5 million per year."

"Peppers said he was hopeful a deal would get done, but that the Panthers' best offer of $13.5 million per year (four years, $54 million) fell short of his asking price of $15 million annually (four years, $60 million)."

"Because the Panthers had offered to make Peppers the NFL's highest paid player in 2007 with an offer of just over $12 million a year, he and Carey still wanted that distinction. However, due to subsequent contracts elsewhere in the league in the nearly two years since the previous negotiations, the cost of making Peppers the highest paid defender went up. So even though the Panthers raised their offer by nearly $1.5 million a year, he turned it down for reasons that he said went far beyond finances."

"Things could've ended on a better note than they did if everybody would've just been straight up and kept it professional," he said.

 

Fuckin Nnamdi Asomugha

 

He thinks you're stupid and don't remember how he only wanted to play for a list of four teams last year and effectively killed any trade value that he had.

I really don't want to hear his revisionist bullshit now.

 

fixed.

they way 'they' dealt with this was some of the most unprofessional bullshit i have ever witnessed.