Julius Peppers signed a three year contract with the Packers on March 15th 2014 and quite a few were thinking the then 34 year old 6'7" player was over the hill. That contract is detailed below.

3/15/2014: Signed a three-year, $26 million contract. The deal included a $7.5 million signing bonus. Another $4 million is available through escalators and bonuses.

2014: $1 million ( + $2,500,000 signing bonus)
2015: $8.5 million (+ $500,000 roster bonus)
2016: $7 million (+ $500,000 roster bonus)
2017: Free Agent

All Peppers did was record seven sacks, two interceptions (returned both for touchdowns), forced four fumbles recovering three of them and knocked down 11 passes while playing 825 snaps.


How do you feel about the signing of Peppers now? Any different now than this time last year?

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Slam dunk deal. Wish he was a year or two longer, but I was and am happy with the deal.

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I'm happy with Peppers signing but they better than Perry and Neal to give him a breather.

The deal looks good now...we'll have to judge it after this season.

If he completely tanks at 9 mil this year, it's hard to consider it a good deal. Had it been a one year deal for what he got last year, it was a tremendous steal. If you accelerate his entire signing bonus into just last year had it been a one year deal it would've been an okay deal. He'll have to do better this season to make it a great deal for us.

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He made the Packers a better football team last season and I think that's still the case this year. That's a good signing, imo. The Packers are still doing fine salary cap wise.

this may sound off, but to me, it seemed like he had really clutch plays when we needed one, but that he would disappear for long stretches.

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I expected someone to mention Peppers telling Morgan Burnett to kneel/slide in the NFC Championship game in some capacity. It was Burnett, right?

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That was weird. It seemed to me (conspiratorially) that they were supposed to win, but not cover the spread.

No more of that kind of bullshit this year.

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He did "disappear" at times, like most Packers defenders do. I think a lot of that can be attributed to too many snaps. Peppers has to be used very wisely at his age in order to maximize his effectiveness. If they overuse him he won't be that good. He needs to basically be a pass rush specialist, imo.

Damnit zero you beat me to it. No mercy and no caution this year. Balls out til the whistle blows.