Peppers signs with the Bears (updated - again)

off topic but my boy randy is coming back and we will get another year or two out of him. how he fits into shanny scheme is to be seen but i look forward to a healthy randy thomas.

do we know how healthy he is though? i remember hearing buges last year stating how he was concerned about thomas' health early in the season.

off topic but my boy randy is coming back and we will get another year or two out of him. how he fits into shanny scheme is to be seen but i look forward to a healthy randy thomas.

Great person, and good player in his prime...but I do not want to see him back, tooooooo many injuries. Its time to move on.

Peppers has been slightly better then people give him credit for. I mean he had a down year in 2007 but that was the year the Panthers got rid of their own double team magnet in Kris Jenkins. I mean the man got 14.5 sacks in 2008 and 10.5 last year being practically double teamed all the time. However given the fact that Peppers likely isn't coming here then I guess most of this discussion is a moot point.

If by chance he did come here, the talk of moving him to an outside linebacker position is insane IMO . First I can't imagine him playing in space, or being on the plus side of thirty embracing a new and totally diferent position.

There's talk of moving other players to unfamaliar positions with the idea in mind of utilizing the 3-4 as the base defense, some of these concepts have me scratching my head.

So at 283 lbs. would Peppers be a good 3-4? Although in 4-3 formations, imagine a line with Peppers, Daniels (or another DT), AH, and Orakpo?

I don't get the whole Peppers deal. He isn't that much more talented than Carter. He certainly won't be million$ more talented.

I'm hoping that SmootSmack is right and there's really not much to this rumor.

I'm hoping that SmootSmack is right and there's really not much to this rumor.

I didn't think much of it either until I remembered DS was our owner;)

Why all the Peppers haters ? It just seems whatever move the Skins make someone is all bent out of shape. I no in the past things have back fired on us but GOT DAMN!!! This is not Vinny calling the shots anymore so lets give Allen the benefit of the doubt.
If everyone else is so smart buy the team and run it yourselves.

So at 283 lbs. would Peppers be a good 3-4? Although in 4-3 formations, imagine a line with Peppers, Daniels (or another DT), AH, and Orakpo?

For obvious reasons I cannot get a wraparound on AH playing the NT position. Suggesting he play there at all cost is only going to stir the same emotion in him that he displayed last year. Some say shut-up and play where the coaches tell you to play, I'm afraid that mentality is outdated and just won't work with today's player. I will continue to have reservations about it happening until I see if it's going to work and how effective it's going to be over the long haul.

I don't get the whole Peppers deal. He isn't that much more talented than Carter. He certainly won't be million$ more talented.Yeah, agreed. If we end up going to the 3-4 though, Carter becomes a one-and-a-half down guy. He might "start" at defensive end, but he won't really play the interior position.