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Just getting caught up on today’s Berry news. One thing I think people need to do is separate the 2. Berry his health and contract and a potential Thomas trade are two separate things. Meaning no they wouldn’t need to get Berry to agree to a settlement or contract restructuring before a potential trade. Healthy or not Berry’s contract is too new to renegotiate. They aren’t through the guaranteed years portion of it. Where they say xx amount guaranteed through the first 3 years etc. That contract isn’t getting touched. Even if he was ready to retire right now which is a stretch to say his agent wouldn’t just go along with him and say redo it. Much much worse would be the NFLPA the union would throw a fit. Go look at Shazeer (spell?) and Pittsburgh. He hasn’t yet renegotiated his deal has he? Lots of money involved. Players in that situation would leave too much money on the table. It’s not as simple as a contract restructuring to make cap space available for Thomas. Not with Berry. His contract isn’t optional for that and him being injured just complicates things. IF he is ready to hang it up and retire they will have to go through arbitration to satisfy precedent, his agent and how that makes him look to potential clients, Berry, NFLPA and last priority is fairness to KC in terms of how that affects future cap years. That’s not happening during the season a month before the trade deadline. That’s an off-season of arbitration that would take months rather than days.

Houston and him being excused from practice the other day and the educated guess that it could be to renegotiate to make room for Thomas cap # that’s actually a legit possibility imo. Very strong chance if they are actually exploring making it work. Big thing to watch is does Thomas play tomorrow or do they in activate him? That’s big too. Why play him when a ankle sprain or whatever could ruin a potential trade if it’s close?