Not gonna happen
Not likely but is a possibility
More likely than not
Certainty
Not to upset the herd, but what are the chances Peppers gets traded? I'm not certain but isn't his cap hit over $16 million? And it only increases each of the next two years. What kind of draft picks might he be worth? I would imagine a late second and early fourth? Given his age that may be asking too much.
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Bahaha TouchéOriginally Posted by lklrlolnlilklsox
Between Peps' age and big contract numbers (which the acquiring team would have to pay) it is more likely that Pep will be cut before he will be traded.
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I'd say at the end of the 2013 season.
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no team will trade for him knowing he will get cut after next season and they can give him the contract they want.
I'd try to trade him for sure and I'd try to trade him now, this offseason.
Cap prohibitive to do (both from our standpoint and the other teams).
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He is going to end up being a CAP casualty on or just after June 1st 2014. Why do I say June 1st because if we cut him before that we have pay him all the dead CAP money next year after that we can do it over the next two years.
Last edited by JJ-30; 03-21-2013 at 10:49 AM.
I have to agree with you here JJ. The "Angler" created this cap hell and Emery is doing his level best to assure that it doesn't happen again even if it means letting certain players go.
The answer is none. We'd be eating $9.55 mil in dead cap space and nobody is gonna give up any high draft picks for a player who's gonna cost them $13 mil this year and $14 mil next. Not even Julius Peppers. Besides how would you get a late second and an early fourth from the same team? A team that drafts late in two is also gonna draft late in four unless it has some other teams picks.
This is fantasy land stuff. Sooner or later Pep is gonna be asked to take a major pay cut to reduce his cap costs and my guess is that sooner will come long before later. Either we don't care to restructure his deal or he's not willing to so by next year he'll either take a greatly reduced salary or he'll be released.
It now seems that Emery isn't content with just doing an offensive upgrade. He's beginning to rid himself of "Lovies Bunch" one or two players at a time. Yesterday it was Izzy and Urlacher so Pep, Peanut, Briggs and the rest are all on borrowed time now too. The rebuilding of the defense has begun and it won't bet the Bears defense of old much longer.
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