At 39, Jason Peters confident he still has it

Bears left tackle Jason Peters (71) has made the Pro Bowl nine times and the All-Pro team twice in his 16-year career.Football is an addiction that is almost impossible to give up on voluntarily — even after 16 seasons in the NFL.

So it figured that 39-year-old Jason Peters, a nine-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle without a home, was anxiously sitting by the phone as NFL training camps opened last month, waiting for another opportunity — and probably monitoring situations like the Bears as their left tackle issue became more and more precarious.

Right, Jason Peters?

“I wasn’t monitoring nothing,” Peters said. “I was fishing when Juan [Castillo] called me. I was just on a creek [at his home in…