{"id":2128,"date":"2009-02-16T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2009-02-16T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:44:26","slug":"peppers-wants-to-avoid-franchise-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2009\/02\/16\/peppers-wants-to-avoid-franchise-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Peppers wants to avoid franchise tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mod-article-title\">\n<h2>Peppers hopes to avoid franchise tag<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end mod-article-title --><!-- begin story body --><!-- template inline -->CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/players\/profile?playerId=3530\">Julius  Peppers<\/a> was polite, insistent that he has no problems with his coaches and  stressed that North Carolina will always be his home.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Pro Bowl defensive end just doesn&#8217;t want to play for Carolina  anymore &#8212; and hopes the Panthers grant the impending free agent his wish by not  placing the franchise tag on him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin player card --><\/p>\n<p><!-- end player card -->&#8220;If they decide to use the tag on me, the first thing that I&#8217;ll be doing is  requesting a trade,&#8221; Peppers said Saturday. &#8220;Then anything after, basically I  don&#8217;t know what would be the course of action. We&#8217;ll deal with that when that  time comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> ESPN.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peppers hopes to avoid franchise tag CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; Julius Peppers was polite, insistent that he has no problems with his coaches and stressed that North Carolina will always be his home. The four-time Pro Bowl defensive end just doesn&#8217;t want to play for Carolina anymore &#8212; and hopes the Panthers grant the impending free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nfl-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-yk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}