Eric Berry on track for December return
 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/e...efensive-help/

In other words....

He's still day-to-day.

He should be full go by the time we play the Chargers it sounds like.

The team has felt positive he’d play all year

He’ll play when he wants to I guess

Berry wears his war wound like a crown
He calls his problem Haglund - 'cause he likes the name
And he wears the finest shoe in town
Berry, Berry likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spends his days counting
On a sidelline near the Interstate

I ain't from Missouri but, show me.

This is what I've been expecting. The heel is going to hurt to play on and the more he plays, the more it will hurt until he can't play. Bring him back late in the season, use him through the playoffs and he can heal in the off-season.

Lmao. He was called day to day in preseason, and now they are saying week 13 or 14, and that is supposed to be good news?

Thats exactly what the KC Star reporters podcast said 3 weeks ago.

It seems to me that he needs to play this year as much as he can, and then have surgery to fix the heel deformity this off-season immediately. I know that it likely entails another Achilles recovery, but at this point, who cares. This heel thing will never be good again unless they have the surgery and shave that bone down.

Lol now it’s December uh huh I remember a similar article where it was November.

Eh I hope it’s true but we’ll see.

Change date, copy and paste article.

has la canfora reported anything before though?

If it does I’m fact need surgery, that shit should have been done mo this ago so he’d be ready to go next year

Didn’t Jeffrey Chadiha report ‘many in the Chiefs camp expect’ Berry to play in the Jags game. That was two months ago.

I enjoyed this. The best Elton song imo.

I should have said "get it fixed" instead of "heal".

Yup.

He's still a ****ing idiot for not getting the damn surgery

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We'll see whether we get a fresh Berry or a rotten Berry.

Heal in the offseason? How the hell is he going to heal in the offseason? He had all last offseason to take care of this issue, and either he or the Chiefs dropped the ball on not getting it fixed. The Haglund Deformity obviously didn't just pop up in August. He's clearly had it for a while, yet they inexplicably didn't do shit to fix it when they had a chance. What exactly is going to be different next year? Unless we get rid of Berry we're going to go through the exact same charade next year, only at an even higher cap hit.

This. Either him or the Chiefs. I find absolutely no conceivable way this wasn't a known issue, seeing as he's had issues with the foot for several years now. Berry or the Chiefs severely dropped the ball by not fixing this a long time ago.

I prefer boisen

Probably end up with a Blackberry....

That's all I'm asking for. Because right now, he's an elderberry.

ROFL yea, ok.

Dingleberry.

Hard to do when you have a shot to win it this year

This sounds like they're finally giving a specific timeline from actual sources. Other reports gave vague medical speculation. I'm optimistic this is finally good news.

And he hasn’t played a snap yet. Now if he plays and gets hurt seriously he’s probably missing next year too.

Someone has absolutely botched this completely

2 weeks ago Sam Mellinger reported that the chiefs were hoping to have Berry back by the end of November

Chiefs hope to get Berry back before the end of November. https://www.google.com/amp/s/247spor...124301877/Amp/

Eric Berry injury update: Chiefs hope for safety’s return in next 2 weeks. This is September 16th https://www.google.com/amp/s/arrowhe...t-2-weeks/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansa...217857025.html Chiefs safety Eric Berry remains ‘day to day’ for Sunday’s opener at Chargers

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arrowhe...-analysis/amp/ Eric Berry "literally day-to-day" per Andy Reid

Save him until the final play in the Super Bowl when we are thrashing the Saints 45-17, and then pay him for all the ”inspiration” that he has provided over the past two years.

Are we sure about that? Have we even be clued in as to which part of the foot the deformity is located?

I'm no expert but I had read that if the deformity is on the back of the heel, in order to operate, they need to cut the Achilles, shave the bone down, and then reattach it. Apparently the recovery timeline on that is shorter than if you rupture your Achilles but still takes several months. If Berry had only learned of the deformity deep into training camp or at the start of the season, he may have thought he'd be able to cope with the pain and play at some point this season instead of being shutdown for another year.

True. As some of you know, I have a sports med guy in the family and he says that if it's gone on this long and hasn't responded to other therapies, it's not going to fix itself.

Heal that heel.

Then him or the Chiefs are ****ing idiots who dropped the ball. This foot has bothered him for a while now, including in 2017 when he very likely overcompensated with the other foot and tore his Achilles. How did nobody think to go in and do a through evaluation of the foot? Like I said, someone dropped the ball. This should have been a known issue long before this season.

He needs to restructure his contract. At this rate we may only get four to five games out of him. If he doesn’t have surgery to fix the flare ups this off-season then we are most likely back in this same scenario next season And even if he goes with the off season surgery he still may miss sept,oct of next season if the procedure involves the Achilles????

I heel that!

Sounds like he's still month to month

He was born a safety to a black fam
On a random day
When the New York Times said bush the first sucked
Pat mahomes sr fathered the savior todaaaaaaay

And he shall be berry
And he shall be a great safetyman

Year to year.

It is what I have been saying all season, saving him until crunch time, the playoffs.

Han Solo his ass until we REALLY need him!

hope to see berry move from day to day and make the switch over to sideline to sideline

Whether he plays or not, he should not be getting paid $16.5 million next season.

Needs to be the best the 1st thing on Beach’s agenda once the season is over.

If he comes back, Berry had better make 1-2 big plays a game with no huge blown coverages. If not he should have no problem cutting his remaining salary in half.

Can he restructure without driving more money we'll never recover into the future? We have enough potentially dead money on the books with him now.

Until it happens, it never happened

Said by the end of November. Game after the bye is Dec 2nd. :shrug:

Hope he has 9 good games left in him.

Or what, you going to continue crying on the internet about it?

And you'll continue crying about people crying. The vicious cycle continues.

Restructure is the wrong word. If he is not incredibly selfish and is a team player, he will renegotiate a lower salary for the betterment of the team. He's making about as much as Tom Brady, let that sink in.

Man. We’ve got some real baby-back bitches on this board.

I’m pumped to have Berry back and don’t give a shit about the money. We are 9-1. I’d be fine if he didn’t play until the playoffs.

Yeah, a guy who has played 3 quarters in the past 2 years can sit out until the playoffs and still be ready to not be a liability. I've got some beachfront property in Kansas to sell you.

Yeah, I’m sure he won’t have fully practiced for weeks and the coaches won’t consider his quality of play before starting him in the hypothetical scenario I suggested.

Jesus.

I was always curious as to what Levon's last name is and now I know, thanks man!!:D

Been huffing your laughing gas again?ROFL

all of this has happened before
and will happen again

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Hope you're right, Clay

I'm still holding onto a glimmer of hope, we'll see...

FYP

Berry coming back? Yeah, right. Next you're going to tell me that Condoleeza Rice...

I would have felt more comfortable, if in the title,OP would have put December "2018"in title,,,:(

After the stink Berry caused to get this contract...you really think he's going to give money back when he doesnst have to...not happening.

I guess you forgot he had an All Pro season playing under the franchise tag.

He beat cancer had an all pro season, was franchised and played in all 16 games and had an all pro year, then got paid.

He didn't make a stink to get the money he ****ing earned it.

Even I thought he was overpaid in the contract but you all would still be bitching if he was making $2MM a year less so its moot.

Its pretty simple, if they didn't think he was coming back he would be on IR. The team is betting on him being there.

You're probably right, but he is gonna have to play some RS games to start developing some chemistry with all of the new faces... cant just throw him out there for the playoffs

Oh I expect he is back after the bye and thats been the plan for a while. I never bought into the whole save him for the playoffs.

The whole pain management thing is grossly misunderstood IMO. You cant just shoot a guy up for 16 games and think you wont see diminishing returns on it.

I think they didn't expect the issue to be this bad (obviously) and as they kept working on it its been slow to respond. So they were stuck with keep treating it as long as possible and find a good spot to roll him out there and see what happens. :shrug:

JMO

Its either that or he is actually dead and they are paying a homeless dude that looks like him to roam the sidelines so they dont ruin a historic season by telling everyone he actually died from a sore heal. :D

Saving himself for crunch time.


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I think it should be down/up graded to month-to-month

Makes me think of Houston a few years ago.

When he came back late in the season and looked like he was running with concrete shoes on?

Yeah, I remember that too.

Eric berry is like bob sanders you don't hear much from him till it matters.

I remember the last “could be practicing soon” article. Good times.

How good do you think this guy is going to be after being out for almost 2 seasons?

He's not going to suit up in two weeks and just pick up form where he left off when he was killing it. I know you are skeptical of Berry to say the least, so this is not directed at you personally when I say:


This is ****ing reeruned. Stop being reeruned fans, please.

Believe it when I see it.

It would be HUGE if he could play the last few games of the season to get warmed up for the playoffs. But he's been out so long it's not a guarantee that he could play at the level he was, but he came back from cancer and played extremely well after that so there's definitely a chance.

Great! Will believe it when I see it. But we can use all the help we can get. :thumb:

The only way to be 100% safe from this is to just not play. Would anybody be surprised to see Berry suffer a season-ending injury in his first game back at this point?

If he's playing through pain, he's bound to continue doing strange things that could lead to... oh, you know... a torn achilles, perhaps?

And at that point, he's 100% done. And I would hope the team would see the same thing and finally treat Berry as a business decision.