Quiet Peppers spices up Carolina defense

Julius Peppers cannot fly. He cannot save the polar ice caps from melting or end conflict in the Middle East. But when he's on a football field, he certainly seems capable of the impossible. Ask those who see him daily about his amazing exploits, and their voices acquire the tone of a child describing a first roller-coaster ride. They rave about his size (6-7, 283 pounds) and his speed — he has run down Atlanta's Warrick Dunn. They gush so much about his greatness — and his agility, his flexibility, his work ethic, his energy — that the effusive praise almost seems cloying. (USA Today)