Berry hopeful for a long-term deal, unwilling to play on tag
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash">#Chiefs</a> S Eric Berry says his agent has continued to speak with the Chiefs. Clark Hunt also made it clear both sides &quot;want to get it done&quot;</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/status/835992619520036865">February 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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He might be a little disgruntled, but he will play on the tag if push comes to shove.

But it won't.

He'll be signed shortly.

Berry wants paid. KC has little cap space. Tough choices have to be made.

Denver sucks ass.

And dicks, bags of them.

Do what Denver does and offer him a consultant position after he retires, paid in advance without telling anyone.

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So long, Mr. Poe.

I think everyone is very gruntled.

I'm glad there's not already a thread on this that's been on the front page for the last 6 months.

LMAO

**** mega threads. There should be an automatic maximum post limit for threads.

Recent news gets buried in megathreads. A new quote from Berry on his contract situation is thread worthy, IMO.

That thread is not for actual news, that thread is for poo flinging.

This is barely news though.

Takes less cap space to sign him to a longterm deal than tag him.

And deny Tiger a chance to derail? Surely you jest!

It's the offseason. It's all we've got.

That you couldn't have just posted in the thread you created.

He asked DaFace for permission before creating the thread.

I don't see a problem with a new thread. Other one is a shit show.

Not everyone wants to sift through a 1,000+ post thread, especially one that has veered so far off course recently.

That's true. Something HAS to happen by Wednesday or this will turn into a real shit show.

The other thread needed to die anyway.

Dorsey should do the unpopular thing here and franchise tag him if he's going to play hard ball. For the games he holds out in, it gives us an opportunity to develop Eric murray.

Then as the season progresses he'll have no choice but to play or risk having his stock drop further.

So this is the EB news thread and the other is the troll spam thread?

The transition tag is the way to go.

This is AN EB news thread. There can be others. It's an amazing concept.

K

Then how the hell are we ever gonna count to a million in the romper room??

Add thread totals together... :shrug:

Water is wet, your mother is a whore. Hello Captain Obvious.

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>

So what happens to our cap space if we cut Smith? Trust me, I know this won't happen...just wondering...one can fantasize.

If Poe were completely healthy it would be a harder choice, but with the back problems, you can't choose him over Berry.

I am sure the contract will get done with Berry and I wish Poe well.

[QUOTE=Cochise;12758671]If Poe were completely healthy it would be a harder choice, but with the back problems, you can't choose him over Berry.

I am sure the contract will get done with Berry and I wish Poe well.[/QUOTE]

Unless he becomes a Faider

This is exactly what I was hoping for. Eric Murray better be ready! Put the heat on Berry to come out and perform. Berry loses a ton of cash and future value if he doesn't play a significant part of the season

This will get resolved but it will take until the deadline in July. There was no way this was getting done so early.

No surprise here.

This is just hardball.

Chiefs basically telling Berry's people lets get this done, we will use the tag if we have to. Also a good trial balloon on letting Poe walk. These are just tactics. Still think Berry is signed by Wednesday, but Poe is gone.

The Chiefs have known for nearly a year what Berry's number is, and he's shown that he's not going to budge from it. Playing the tag game with him again isn't going to get him to lower his asking price. They should just get a deal done or tag and trade him.

The cap went up which means the % of his deal went up. It's a new year.

Here's why I would be hesitant to sign Berry to a long term contract;

http://www.everydayhealth.com/lympho...omes-back.aspx

The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be approximately 8,830 new cases of Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed this year. Of those, says Anas Younes, MD, director of clinical and translational research in the department of lymphoma and myeloma at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, “about 20 percent will relapse or become refractory [resistant to primary treatment], often within two years of when the individual finishes treatment.”

4 Berry threads on front page. ****ing morons.

Yet there's more on-topic conversation in those threads by far. Wonder why...

He's the heart of this team like no one has been since DT...

There are plenty of us who don't usually look at a thread after 4 or 5 pages, since it's usually devolved into nothing useful.

A significant development getting its own thread is great.

My thoughts are pretty simple on this - pay the man...

We won't make a Superbowl in the next five years without Berry. Peters and Kelce will be unleashed and the inmates will run the asylum. It took a long time to find leadership. I believe that he won't play under the tag. If Dorsey doesn't get him locked up, it will be his biggest failure. You don't let Hall of Famers walk and he is the only HOFer on the team.

QFT...

http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2017/2...-safety-in-nfl
Report says Eric Berry, Chiefs working on deal to make him highest paid safety in NFL

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Eric Berry takes anything less than $12.96M this year and a 20-percent bump for next year fully guaranteed, Chiefs are getting a deal.</p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/836370509470257155">February 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Don't use Twitter so not sure how to embed a tweet but...

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/sta...61185968721920

Amen

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