Fuck Peppers. If you're getting paid $16 mil for the year (and want to be paid as the highest defensive player in the game), you damn sure should be able to do better than 2 fucking tackles, help or no help. Peppers gained weight over the offseason and looks like a slow fatass doing nothing but bullrushing himself right out of the damn play or standing around when the play isn't to his side. I'll be glad to see his ass go. His whole career has been feast or famine, but you can't devote 20% of your cap to a guy like that. I'd much rather value consistent production, even if it means we don't get to see his amazing INTs or sack-strips (which he hasn't been doing much in the last few seasons anyway). I say if he has another shit game we bench him and put in Charles Johnson. He's actually played really well this year and clearly wants to be here.
On that note, since we have no fucking DTs, why don't we just push a bigger DE in at DT? Instead of having Nick Hayden and whatever other trash is there at DT, I think putting a better overall player on the line is a smarter strategy. Why haven't we seen a Brayton/Lewis/Johnson/Peppers line out there yet? Clearly our secondary has trouble adjusting to this Tampa Two scheme, so we need to be creative and generate a pass rush to help them out.
This past offseason was one of the worst I've seen in all my times as a Panthers fan and it's going to set us back at least two years. Handing that extension to Delhomme, franchising Peppers, and trading our first rounder while adding nothing besides a revelation at corner (a 7th round pick, at that) has put us in this deep hole.
