Fuller taking #29 (Berry) jersey number
 

I thought this was interesting...considering Berry hasn't signed with anyone. Shortly after Fuller talked about it...NFL.com announces 3 teams are interested in Berry.

Obviously, what happened last season didn't sit well with KC brass...otherwise they would usually hold off on issuing his number a few months after he was released.

It was a "Um, yeah...you're not coming back. Have a nice life." move..."enjoy the money you stole from us."

At least someone will get use out of it.

Sorry, but I don't want him back at any price anyway. If his heel was sore enough to keep him out all season, then it's probably not going to be any better this year. He's done. Let someone else pay his spirit to stand on the sidelines looking like he's homeless.

This.

i dont think anyone gives a flying **** about numbers outside players themselves and fans who make posts like this...

Retired numbers are stupid too.

jersey has already played more snaps this year

Haglund certainly did an amazing job of shitting all over his legacy. At this point, if he signed with Denver tomorrow it really wouldn't lower my opinion of him.

Had he just had the surgery, I mean wtf was he thinking?

I will say that from the Chiefs' specific praise of Honey Badger ("he's always there for his team, can always be counted on the perform at his highest level") and by the way they cut him instantly and had zero issues giving his number to Fuller (a big deal to some players) that the Chiefs were very eager to professionally move on from EB.

There's been a lot of speculation about how/if his body can bounce back from surgery at this point. EB's has been through an harrowing amount of intense treatment for cancer and it's incredible he was able to still bounce back and perform like he did in 2016.

At a certain level, a human body just can't cope anymore. I empathize with this quite a lot, as I found out I have arthritis in two joints in my back and even the most expensive surgery I could get would likely only get me to the same mobility/pain that I'm already at. Basically I have to give up rowing, squats, deadlifts, can't swing a bat (even in beer league) anymore, take jumps while snowboarding, will never learn to play golf and I have to stretch each morning despite how much I may want to be as active as I once was.

I'll always love looking back at EB's performance and comeback through 2016 - but it was clear after last season we had to part ways. I wouldn't be surprised if whichever team he lands on has him as more of a role player moving forward.

Whoa. Whoa. WHOA. DON'T BE GOING OFF HURTING HIS FEELINGS

Dude is D-O-N-E. He needs to coach if he wants to stay in the NFL.

i love him as a player, after last year i have questions about him as a team mate.

Who cares?

Berry isn't on the team anymore. We gave someone Dee Ford's number as well. So ****ing what?

Berry was a great player when healthy, but he's not a sacred cow. There are a limited amount of numbers and KC has ALREADY retired too many. This isn't some direct insult to Eric Berry.

Real thread-worthy.

Especially at 4:23AM.

Did you wake up in a cold sweat thinking KC somehow was getting Berry back in the fold?

Take some NyQuil.

I don't have a huge problem with retiring the numbers of absolute legends.

KC already has 10 retired numbers, and Joe Delany's 37 isn't OFFICIALLY retired but it's clearly off limits as well. The list includes a lot of great players, but it's excessive.

There are other ways to honor legends.

Fuller already had a number...

Now he has the same number that he had in Washington. It probably meant something to him.

I find the thread interesting only because the chances Berry comes back on the cheap went from five percent to zero.

No shit, and now he has a new one. The number he would have requested if not held by an all pro player. Yanno who's not holding that number anymore?

But yeah, I'm sure it was KC who went to him and were like "Hey Kendall, we want to throw passive aggressive shade at Eric Berry, so we're changing your number to insult him."

I mean I'm sure it wasn't just Fuller wanting to use the number he's had for most of his career or anything. That requires zero assumptions and simply awareness of the obvious. It was all about KC being mean to Eric Berry, which only assumes that the franchise is petty , resentful. and passive aggressive in their desire to throw shade at former players and kick them while they're down. A totally reasonable thing to just accept credulously.

Are you familiar with Occam's razor?

KC signed a FA safety, drafted one high, and are still high on Watts.

There was always a 0 percent chance. Just like there was no chance of trying bring Houston back.

Well this is awkward

ROFL Blackop thinks a player changing his number is a conspiracy against Berry.

Did you think Ben Neimann wearing #56 was a slight to DJ also?

He is taking Albert Lewis 29 did Berry play for us?

Technically it's been available for years.

When does Berry go into the Chiefs ring?

Clay should be there first.

never

Berry was my favorite college player and was electric and was my favorite Chief for a time. But yeah, no ring. No way.

I'll always remember the 5th dimension. His college highlight real is one of the best I've seen. Trucking fools.

Meaningless number. Not one shade of a fart given.

F that, I'm thrilled it's on a player who will actually play. So yeah, I give a fart. Nothing worse for a team than a player who won't play.

Perfect....Berry didn't use it for 2 years

That seems nice.

Where’s those berry ball washers at?

Anyone under God's sun who took the number would play and be more productive with it. I don't associate that number with greatness.

He wasn't great. Perhaps I should say "on balance" he wasn't great, and that's because the asshole ****ed the team because of greed; I'm sure he knew he was never coming back. Right or wrong, he ****ed the team out of greed.

Right. Which is why I say give that number to Johnny Appleseed for all I care, maybe he can do better with it.

Why do you think he knew that?

If he had just retired, it would have been fine. Had he got the surgery and tried to come back but failed, that would have been fine too. But even after the organization basically went spread eagle for him with that fat contract after the cancer scare, he still ****ed them (and us) over just to squeeze out a little more.

He went from being one of my favorite all time players to just a notch above Bronco Neil on my Eat Shit And Die list. **** him, **** his heel, and double **** his broke dick spirit. 4321

I can't recall a circumstance in which a beloved player fell from grace so disastrously. It's practically OJ-level ...

Beware the love of money above all else. It will almost always result in divorce and less than half the money you loved so dearly.

That's why I collect beanie babies.

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Mayock had Earl Thomas ahead of Urc Burry during the draft

Common sense.

because that's what the Easter Bunny told us, and that's what we're sticking with.
Good night!

Tons of us in that boat. I hope in 20 years he's happy knowing his name will have been forgotten in the NFL. It's usually about that age when "legacy" matters, and while he'll be rich, and richer because he ****ed Chiefs nation, I hope that him being forgotten bothers him.

Oh so you have no valid reason to think that at all. Cool.

The surgery would have put him out for the year anyway so how would that have been any better? He tried to go without survey and hopefully play through the pain late in the season. That plan obviously failed, but why would him getting surgery and not even trying to play have been better?


And I think a lot of people forget that he's dealt with heel issues for years and played on it for years.

Well, shit, if it bothered him so much, and for so long, maybe he could have gotten it taken care of when he was already out for the entire ****ing season after first game played in September of 2017? Then maybe he could have contributed right away instead of standing on the sideline looking like a bum stealing Clark's money and then being utterly ****ing useless when he did finally come back.

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He was supposed to have BOTH Achilles repaired and the deformity shaved off in the same offseason, a couple years after fighting off cancer?

You think his body would have healed that quicker than just doing what he did?

I doubt it would have been advisable to have Achilles and Haglunds deformity surgery on different legs at the same time is advisable. Doubt that would make recovery any faster especially when at that time he and the medical team had managed the deformity pretty well up to that point.

He had a shitty ending to his time here but I very much doubt he chose to end it like that and didn't want to be on the field more and play better when he did get on the field. 1 injury isn't going to change my perception of him since he was in college.

Well, maybe he shouldn't have had it all done ON THE SAME DAY, but yeah, over the course of the entire ****ing season he missed, he could have found the time.

It's not like he was getting paid millions of dollars to a job or anything. :shake:

Then retire. Or accept the hate being greedy bought him. Plus, an almost guaranteed loss of a Chiefs legacy.

Do you understand how rehabbing an injury works?

From what I've seen it involves a lot of standing around looking disheveled.

He'll be hawking Dr. Scholl's Magic Inserts on the teevee at some point.

Either that, or he'll invest in some pristine real estate and spend his afternoons day-trading and lounging by the pool with his feet up.

Whatever it is, I can pretty much guarantee that he won't be giving two sh*ts about what Chiefs fans think of him.

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He never did give a shit, that's pretty clear now.

In cases like this, you have to look on the bright side and think positively, Mr. BossChief.

For example, if he simply requested that his feet be amputated and replaced with titanium spring things, he would have increased his vertical and avoided even the remotest possibility of toe cancer.

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Anyway, I'm pretty sure we've all participated in this Berry circle jerk before. Our opinions are set in stone at this point - really no point in further rehashing them.

If you like him, too bad, he's gone. :(

If you don't him, yay, he's gone. PBJ

Either way, he's gone.

And doing absolutely nothing helped greatly by?...

One of the best things about getting Mahomes is that the "face" no longer belonged to some Safety, OLB, or RB anymore. Overnight, they all became rightfully expendable and could no longer use their status to hold us hostage.

Thank God for that kid.

What's weird about Berry's career with KC....I can remember more "impact" plays from Sorenson.

The Atlanta TD....and umm.

Hell...Sorenson had TWO in the AFCCG...INT and a 3rd down stuff.

Berry's season ...the initial one coming back from cancer...was the only one that lived up to his hype/salary. He was supposed to be the next Ed Reed/Ronnie Lott...he wasn't.

So you've fallen for the KC media's ploy to make you think white sorensen made more impact plays than black Berry? Thought you were better than this black op.

This has been known for ages.

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I'm one of the biggest Berry haters out there but this is thoroughly ridiculous. Did you even watch the Chiefs other than the past 2 years?

Seconded. This is an outrage.

I think Mr. BlackOp was speaking metaphorically.

If you replace "Sorensen" with "Cosmic Background Radiation" and "Berry" with "Astral Projection", it makes more sense.

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I honestly believe we underestimate Sorenson. He’s decent when healthy.

Berry has the potential to be a great ex-Chief. We could use the PR

I like him a lot as a bench/role player. I do NOT like him as our every down safety.

ROFL You're funny.

Berry had a lot of great plays in his career, and "Gimme dat ball Eli" was one of my personal favorites. the wheels just fell off and I think his heart followed. Just be glad he's gone now.

Wanna give an example? He's a moron who's known for ****ing a city, how does that help us?

Oh, you mean the folks in Boston would say he's a swell guy... Got it...

He could read to kids.

"OK kids, this is how you milk a contract for maximum dollars with minimum work."

He can read? Who knew!

He’s not welcomed back to Chiefs Kingdom.

Say what you want about him, but the man isn't dumb

I would like to know all sides of the story.

I suggested he might not be able to read, but the man ass-raped and NFL teams bank account, so yeah he's pretty savvy at that.

Fuller actually has balls. Played with a broken hand I believe