Chiefs Chiefs GM: Eric Berry's battle with cancer going well - Page 4

thabear04 · 03-25-2015, 09:40 AM

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...cer-going-well

Eric Berry's battle with Hodgkin lymphoma is going well, according to Kansas City Chiefs general manager John Dorsey.

"Well, anybody who knows Eric Berry knows that if there's a challenge presented to him, he will attack it with a vengeance," Dorsey told Sirius XM NFL Radio on Tuesday. "And he will do that. Everything that I have gotten back has been very positive. I have not spoken with him on the phone for probably six weeks, but I have texts. We communicated through texts. He's in good spirits, he's fine, he's driving, and he's going to conquer it."

Dorsey added that Berry is able to drive again, per host Alex Marvez.

The 26-year-old was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in December and while it's a treatable disease, his promising NFL career has been put on the back burner.

The general manager didn't give any football update on the safety, but that isn't a surprise. Berry's battle lies off the field and he has the clear support of the Chiefs franchise, which did not cut him this offseason just to save a couple of dollars.

**SAUTO** · 03-25-2015, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Translation,

RIP Eric.....

You ****ing jackass.

**BigMeatballDave** · 03-25-2015, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiefsNow

I think the NFL should step in and take Berries pay off the books.

Berries? LOL

Berries is plural for more than one Berry.

I believe you meant Berry's.

Discuss Thrower · 03-25-2015, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Buehler445

That's not happening.

Colts? Yes.
Donko Bitch****s? Probably.
Seachickens? Yes.
Cheatriots? Yes.
Giants? Yes.
Steelers? Yes.

Chiefs? Get ****ing lost you banner-flying dumb****s.

What happened with Sean Taylor's contract situation..?

booger · 03-25-2015, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

You ****ing jackass.

No shit. What a one who sucks the penis smfh

**BossChief** · 03-25-2015, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiefsNow

I think the NFL should step in and take Berries pay off the books.

That's what the NFI list is for.

**Buehler445** · 03-25-2015, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

What happened with Sean Taylor's contract situation..?

I don't know. Care to fill me in? He was shot in a home invasion, right?

splatbass · 03-26-2015, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yeah - they should totally donate another $5 million to a guy they've given $50 million by the time he's 25. That's all it is - a straight up charity payment to a multimillionaire.

He's not ****ing poor. Oh, and he's insured.

Jesus, take the $5 million you save on Berry's salary and give it to the Children's Miracle Network to actually spend on kids that could use it for all I care. It fixes our cap and isn't a completely unnecessary handout.

The chickenshit PR move is to keep paying him. Every single bit of logic and reason says you cut him to veterans minimum and stick him on the NFI list.

This is how you would treat someone that has done so much for the team? Remind me never to work for you. Not that there would be a chance in hell anyway.

O.city · 03-26-2015, 09:03 AM

It's a business.

DJ's left nut · 03-26-2015, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by splatbass

This is how you would treat someone that has done so much for the team? Remind me never to work for you. Not that there would be a chance in hell anyway.

Why do you think Aflac exists?

If you're a truck driver and you get cataracts that blind you, making you completely incapable of driving a truck, just how many employers do you think are going to just pay you to sit at home? If you're a line worker and you end up getting paralyzed as a result of meningitis; how many companies are going to just keep sending you your paychecks more than a year later?

Pretty much none.

This isn't just an illness thing as it would be for you and I. This is an illness that makes you completely incapable of doing your job in any capacity. You can't compare this to you or I getting cancer - rather you have to have analogs similar to the ones above. If you're working in an environment with scarce resources (here it's cap, in the above analogs consider a break even profit margin), these are the decisions a business has to make.

There's an entire industry dedicated to paying people who come down with illness/injury that makes them incapable of doing their job on a long-term basis and you think I'm the one that's unreasonable?

You're welcome to let raw emotion cloud your judgment. You're right - you wouldn't be working for me.

splatbass · 03-26-2015, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Why do you think Aflac exists?

If you're a truck driver and you get cataracts that blind you, making you completely incapable of driving a truck, just how many employers do you think are going to just pay you to sit at home? If you're a line worker and you end up getting paralyzed as a result of meningitis; how many companies are going to just keep sending you your paychecks more than a year later?

Pretty much none.

There's an entire industry dedicated to paying people who come down with illness/injury that makes them incapable of doing their job on a long-term basis and you think I'm the one that's unreasonable?

You're welcome to let raw emotion cloud your judgment. You're right - you wouldn't be working for me.

It isn't raw emotion. It is the realization that a human LIFE is more important than a ****ing game to anyone that isn't a sociopath.

**loochy** · 03-26-2015, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Why do you think Aflac exists?

If you're a truck driver and you get cataracts that blind you, making you completely incapable of driving a truck, just how many employers do you think are going to just pay you to sit at home? If you're a line worker and you end up getting paralyzed as a result of meningitis; how many companies are going to just keep sending you your paychecks more than a year later?

Pretty much none.

This isn't just an illness thing as it would be for you and I. This is an illness that makes you completely incapable of doing your job in any capacity. You can't compare this to you or I getting cancer - rather you have to have analogs similar to the ones above. If you're working in an environment with scarce resources (here it's cap, in the above analogs consider a break even profit margin), these are the decisions a business has to make.

There's an entire industry dedicated to paying people who come down with illness/injury that makes them incapable of doing their job on a long-term basis and you think I'm the one that's unreasonable?

You're welcome to let raw emotion cloud your judgment. You're right - you wouldn't be working for me.

but cancer

DJ's left nut · 03-26-2015, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by splatbass

It isn't raw emotion. It is the realization that a human LIFE is more important than a ****ing game to anyone that isn't a sociopath.

Sure, sport. Not emotion.

Please, use more rhetoric. If you could nail yourself to a cross here then I'd really see where you're coming from.

Jesus, it's like I'm reading someone's 'Oscar moment' here.

Yes - it's raw emotion.

splatbass · 03-26-2015, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by O.city

It's a business.

A lot of bad things happen every day using the excuse "it's a business". It's a BILLION DOLLAR business that can afford to pay a guy that has given the team so much.

splatbass · 03-26-2015, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Sure, sport. Not emotion.

Please, use more rhetoric. If you could nail yourself to a cross here then I'd really see where you're coming from.

Jesus, it's like I'm reading someone's 'Oscar moment' here.

Yes - it's raw emotion.

Dude, you have no compassion, no empathy for anyone judging by your posts over the years. A little emotion would do you good. And a better attitude.

DJ's left nut · 03-26-2015, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by loochy

but cancer

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