According to NFL.com the Pats are finalizing plans that would bring Panthers defensive end Julius Peppers to New England. The deal would reportedly cost the Pats the #34 pick in the 2009 draft, acquired from Kansas City in the Cassel/Vrabel deal. The 28-year old Peppers is a 7-year NFL veteran. He has played his entire career in Carolina, which made him the #2 overall pick of the 2002 NFL Draft. The 4-time Pro Bowler and 2-time All Pro has 70.5 career sacks, including 14.5 in 2008. He was franchised this offseason and is due $16.88 million this season. The teams reportedly would like to finalize the deal before the draft on April 25. Stay tuned!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Does this mean they'd be switching to a 4-3 as we discussed when this got brought up a few weeks back?
Front 7 of .....
Peppers-Seymour-Wilfork-Warren
Thomas-Mayo-???
Obviously when we talked about this before Vrabel was still on board, but could still be nasty.
Also....Peppers has forced 25 fumbles in his career...something that was sorely missing from the Pats attack last year.
Trying not to get too excited yet, but....
WOW!!!!!
This is huge. He is a monster.
Michael Smith on ESPN just said that he thinks this has little to no chance of happening as he wants Haynesworth money and the Pats just don't do that.
Adam Schecter from NFL Network said this morning this did has 99.99% chance of NOT happening.
What a letdown!
It sounds like Peppers wants to play outside linebacker (ala LT) in a 3-4. This would work nicely in New England....
Seymour-Wilfork-Warren
Peppers-Bruschi-Mayo-Thomas
Hobbs-Sanders-Merriweather-Springs
Not a bad defense.
With that said I'm not longer very confident of him ending up in New England, but who knows. I'm also not sold on Bruschi being a great starting ILB, but Gary Guyton is the next best option on the current roster. There is the possibility of moving Thomas inside and starting Crable outside, but I prefer AD on the outside.
Either way drafting a LB in the 1st Round may not be a bad move for the Pats.
I would rather not have Peppers. He is too much of a baby and I think he would have one good year and then he would quit. I would rather draft someone in the second round that will be less money, have more life in him, and will be brought through the Pats system. I have never been a fan of signing big name free agents (except for AD) and I think in order to build a championship you need to look to the draft.
i dont think it can happen but im not sure why you wouldnt want it to sean. they pats dont need to build a team. they already built it. who knows how many title runs this team has in them. to think a 2nd round pick for less money is better than peppers is nuts to me
like i said i dont think it will happen but i sure would love for it to happen
Sean- btw, what's with the Mike Wright shot?
Either way I am confident about the Pats this year. I think we can get it done with the handful of Draft picks, or with Peppers. I wouldn't see any reason not to grab Peppers for a Second round pick, for the record, and it would make the Vrabel/Cassel trade make much more sense. It would be like getting a Draft pick that already turned out well. Even if it was for just a year.
That said it already is like we are getting a sick Draft pick in getting Brady back, plus whatever we get done in actual Draft.
As usual, my main concern with the Pats is ability to maintain heath. Their ceiling is otherwise non-existent.
I do agree that it is unknown how many more years we have to make a legit title run with this nucleus (or what's left of it).
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