Game ball Berry, but....

[Gravedigger]

Even with Alex being great today, we wouldn't have won without the 9 points Berry gifted us. They played better than we did, as is to be expected as the away team with crowd noise. Berry earned his paycheck today, and if he keeps it up, I say pay the man to be your leader after DJ and Tamba hang it up, regardless if you don't "Pay a safety that much". You also should never draft a Safety in the top picks of the draft and that worked out pretty well for us.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

Even with Alex being great today, we wouldn't have won without the 9 points Berry gifted us. They played better than we did, as is to be expected as the away team with crowd noise. Berry earned his paycheck today, and if he keeps it up, I say pay the man to be your leader after DJ and Tamba hang it up, regardless if you don't "Pay a safety that much". You also should never draft a Safety in the top picks of the draft and that worked out pretty well for us.

How do you know that? If we weren't gifted the game-winning 2-pointer, we could have marched down the field with plenty of time to set up a field goal. If Berry doesn't get an INT, we could have made a stop and used that possession to set up a score. If the Chiefs weren't up by 11 in the 3Q, maybe Andy Reid doesn't pump the brakes with the playcalling, which became significantly more conservative once we were preserving a lead.

I haven't had much confidence in Alex's ability to close games until this year. With his performance at San Diego and Denver, he certainly deserves a benefit of the doubt. Alex didn't have a perfect performance. It doesn't happen unless Alex played a much more aggressive version of himself... but he did.