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Originally Posted by RunKC
He blasted Amendola in the St. Louis game, he stuck Latavious Murray on a nice slam to the ground this year, he hit DeSean Jackson on a screen play and made him leave the game and he put a nice hit right on Demaryius Thomas' ribs week 2 last year. Thomas had to take a play off
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Thanks for that, I do actually appreciate it.
I will say this though... 2 hits in 16 regular season games this year. 1 in pre-season. 1 some other year we played the Skins or Eagles. I'm not sure that equates to amazing.
I just don't see Berry as the "superstar" that others do. I think he's very good. I think he has some very good value. I don't think he's worth 10 million per. If they were talking 7 million per, I'd think the Chiefs were getting their money's worth.
It's an odd league that routinely overpays. I just hope that the Chiefs don't continue to get caught up in that mix. I think they've overpaid on a few contracts lately. Eventually the cap is going to stop growing at its current pace, and I venture to say that will be in the not-so-distant future. Teams that overspend versus production are going to get caught with their asses hanging out.
This same theory is a reason I'm not too high on the Chiefs trying to re-sign Sean Smith for 10+ per, maybe 8 per. I'm certainly not high on the Chiefs spending more than 5 per on Howard and certainly nowhere near the 9 and 10 per some 3-4 DEs have received of late.
I think you consider that you could probably sign DE Cedric Thornton of PHI for 4-5 per and not see any noticeable dropoff from Howard. You could sign Nolan Carroll for around 5 per and not see some huge dropoff from Smith. You could re-sign Branch at 3 per and Abdul-Quddus around 2 per and get as good of safety play as we've seen the past few years. That's looking at around 15-16 per for 4 players instead of 1.5 and I don't think you'd see a big dropoff, if any at all.
I like Eric Berry, a whole bunch. I just think he's made out to be much better than he really is and is going to command much more money than he's really worth. And I don't think the other 3 guys at the top of the safety board right now command their contracts either. Agents have been driving prices way up with the new CBAs mandatory spending requirements and owner's are spending foolishly as a result.