Should the Chiefs sign Eric Berry for 5/70m with 38m guaranteed?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

Some of the greatest single-season sack performances have came at age 29 or later.

Strahan (22.5) 29 y/o (also had 18.5 at 31 y/o)
Jared Allen (22) 29 y/o
Robert Mathis (19.5) 32 y/o
DeMarcus Ware (20) 29 y/o

Those are just the 'elite' seasons, there is a multitude of top notch pass rushers who have hit the 14-18 sack range in their 30s, some multiple times.

Maybe I'm just overly optimistic, but I think there's a lot of good football left in Houston.

I didn't say impossible, I said the odds were long and they are. Realistically you have 3 years (28-30) to create 4.5 years worth of production. On a guy with a rebuilt knee that doesn't seem to be responding as well as most would like.

He could be very good - he COULD play to the level of an individual season remaining on his deal. He could also easily be Mario Williams and hit a wall at age 30. He could do both of those things.

But one thing he won't do is make up for the season and a half he's missed or the 2 playoff runs where he's been completely ineffective, absent the kind of impact Von Miller made against Carolina.

And again - those odds are pretty long.