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Originally Posted by O.city
I would rather berry have sucked than what's happened. I feel like alot of it was out of his hands with the ACL injury, then the foot injury\cancer season last year after coming off an all pro 2013 where he seemed to be ascending into a perennial all pro. Coupled wth the fact that they were going to use him as more of a ballhawk.
Sucks. Hope for his sake he comes back strong. He's a super strong dude.
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Yeah - it's hard to say that
any of this is Berry's fault. The guy's done nothing but bust his ass, be a leader and play his position well.
But playing SS well isn't worth the #5 overall and $60 million, that's all. Especially not when you've missed better than 1/3 of your career to date due to various maladies. Dane cited Mike Iupati as a guy he'd rather have - well to me that's equally disappointing. Even had we gotten 5 years of premium performance from Iupati, spending the #5 overall and $60 million on a G would have been disappointing. And it may STILL have been a better return than we got on the Berry pick.
Berry didn't choose to play SS. Berry didn't jake it out there. He didn't choose to blow out his knee, mess up his foot or get cancer. Nothing about 'Berry's tenure in KC has been disappointing' is an indictment on Berry.
It just is what it is. He's not been the difference making, impact player that I hoped we were getting there and the ROI on him hasn't been good at all.