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Julius Peppers: I’d still be in Chicago if I sacked Aaron Rodgers last year

Green Bay Packers v Chicago Bears

Green Bay Packers v Chicago Bears

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The last time the Packers faced the Bears, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers hit Randall Cobb for a 48-yard touchdown on a fourth down play that gave Green Bay a win and a playoff spot.

Julius Peppers was a member of the Bears for that game and he came close to sacking Rodgers on the play, but a well-timed chip block by fullback John Kuhn gave the quarterback enough room to escape and hit Cobb. Peppers was released as the offseason began and he landed with the Packers, although he thinks he’d still be on the other side if he’d wrapped up Rodgers on the play.

“For sure. For sure,” Peppers said, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If I would’ve made the play, I probably wouldn’t be here now. It’s kind of like one of those things, at the time it was the worst thing that could’ve happened. But now it’s like the best thing that could’ve happened.”

A sack on that play would have meant a division title for the Bears and Peppers seems to think that the emotional payoff from that would have outweighed his large cap number when the Bears started planning for this season. Peppers may be right and it’s interesting to think about what a different result would have meant on both sides, but the point is pretty well moot now that he’ll have Jay Cutler in his crosshairs on Sunday.