And grease his uniform...

And absolutely nobody wants to read shit posted by you. Go **** yourself.

The Chiefs likely aren't going to part ways with Houston anytime soon, so they could convert almost all of his like 16 million base into a SB. After this year they can do a lot of cost-cutting.

They'll get a deal done. He's the type of player the Chiefs have historically made long term commitments to.

Not without some posturing and not without CP on suicide watch, but I'm guessing a deal will get done before the season.

I'm surprised nobody in the media has brought it up. I know a lot of them read CP and I've been taking about it for weeks.

The smartest thing KC can do with Berry is transition tag him. See what he can get on the open market and decide to give him true market value or let him walk if it's too much...but that's fair to Berry and the team.

If KC franchise tags Berry, that 13m goes on the books -in full- the moment he's tagged. That would hurt a team that's so close to the cap, like KC.

It would severely limit what the team can do at other positions...especially if Berry sticks to his word and sits out.

If he's not going to play under the franchise tag, he's not going to play under the transition tag either.

You don't play under a transition tag. It just gives your team rights to first refusal if you get a contract offer.
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What do you mean?

The transition tag means Berry is basically an unrestricted free agent thats free to negotiate with all 32 teams.

Once he agrees to a contract with another team, KC has 7 days for the right to sign Eric to that exact contract or to let him walk and get no compensation.

It's basically a "right of first refusal".

But it's taking leverage away from him that he would have if he were a UFA, isn't it? I don't see any reason why he would negotiate with other teams at all. Why couldn't he just say he's holding out regardless unless he gets the deal he wants?

How many times has it been used in recent years, and the original team retained the player in the end?

Glad to have a fresh thread for new developments. I seldom check mega threads after a week or so.

The a Broncos used it on CJ Anderson last offseason and it helped them sign him long term.

Midget aids.

The transition Tag would be good for Berry. For the Chiefs I think not so much.

His demands must be insane. Last year it didn't happen and now it's not happening again. Greedy bastard can go **** himself and take all his bullshit love talk with him. We did right by him and now he's acting like an asshole.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash">#Chiefs</a> will likely tag Eric Berry and let Dontari Poe walk, per <a href="https://twitter.com/Edwerderespn">@Edwerderespn</a> <a href="https://t.co/St0K65nkyk">https://t.co/St0K65nkyk</a></p>&mdash; Arrowhead Addict (@ArrowheadAddict) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArrowheadAddict/status/836207824560615424">February 27, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>