Berry having surgery in the offseason
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">From <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLGameDay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NFLGameDay</a>: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> get star S Eric Berry (heel) back for today&#39;s game, but he may have surgery in the offseason to fix the issue... while the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Saints?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Saints</a> aren&#39;t expected to have TE Ben Watson, who is dealing with appendicitis. <a href="https://t.co/Y2qR4BEWpx">pic.twitter.com/Y2qR4BEWpx</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1086994601565659136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Which means he’s here another year for certain...

Just please show up and make some plays Berry. Make this all worth it.

May have surgery?

Watch the video. Says the plan is to have him have surgery.

Should have had the surgery last off season. But, the Chiefs cant force players to have a surgery.

Better get that surgery, still one more payday to be had!

well, I think it's pretty clear that we can't do this again next year. If he has the surgery and can go close to a full season next year, then cool. It's not like he's not a great player when he can go.

The plan was to get the surgery this offseason all year.

Plans for surgery are SB to SB Said Reid

So we have him another year. Support him and if he comes back looking good and making a difference, great. If not, we cut bait.

What is the recovery time?

I don't know for sure but I thought Achilles were in that 6-8 month range or so. Maybe since they are going in and operating directly and not dealing with a tear, it would be less.

Would have missed this season if he had the surgery when the issue popped at camp.

John wall is having surgery on his haglunds deformity too and his recovery time was also 6-8 months.

When does the injury guarantee kick in?

Hopefully the season opener.....

If it’s 8 month recovery and the Chiefs win today, you are looking at October 2019. So he might miss the first 5 games. Beats the hell out of the situation we saw this season.

Was a known issue over a year ago, don't kid yourself.

Likely got worse. He always just played on it before and probably thought he could this season too.

So we get him for a little more than half of his 6 year contract. Wonderful!

How about we find out what the time table is before we start bitching, mmkay? You have plenty of time to bitch. Save it for another day.

He's always has heel problems that he played through. It decame basically unplayable a little bit before or during training camp last year

My guess is that either the chiefs or Berry were reluctant to have the surgery, and the injury was much more nagging throughout the season than they expected

Or they were nervous about being out essentially two consecutive seasons, which pretty much happened anyway

Oh you haven't met OKchiefs?

My guess is that they thought it would heal. That he could play on it this season with some R&R like in years past. And that never happened.

It's all good.

As you mentioned above Wall played on his for 4-5 seasons until he said he couldn't take the pain anymore or that he didn't want to be traded so he had the surgery.

Less than it would be if the ACL snaps. They cut the ACL and reattach it surgically after breaking out the Dremel and sanding down the Haglund.

My spirit approves.

It has nothing to do with an acl

Saw that too!

I thought the Hagland surgery was a 4-month recovery? It’s not a full Achilles surgery

He needs to have his surgeon picked out ASAP. Get that shit done immediately after the season is over.

he has played us like a damned fiddle

Your and idiot.

What does this even mean? Played us? We'd be paying him whether he got surgery or not. You think he didn't want to play this year?

It's an unknown to anyone but Berry, the Chiefs and his doctor. If they have to cut the Achilles to get to the issue, it's the longer recovery time. If they can shave the bone without removing the Achilles, it's a shorter recovery. My GUESS is that due to the way they've handled it, I suspect it's the kind where they have to get the Achilles out of the way before dealing with the issue - thus, the long recovery.

CaN wE lIvE iN tHe MoMeNt - detoxing

i thought the fact hes having surgery makes him uncutabble now, whereas if he didn't, he wouldn't be?

He's a 14.95mm cap hit if we cut him after this season. We'd save 1.55mm.

This.

James Andrews needs to be on line 1

Andrews is who f’d up the Houston injury. Just because you know his name it doesn’t mean he is the right choice.

Which is interesting because like Berry, John Wall also tried to play through his Haglunds and could have had surgery last year and did not.

Wall's contract is fully guaranteed too. He's going to make 40 million a year in like 2020

it depends on severity and if it can be shaved down without detaching the achilles

Nope, he'll use the surgery to force the Chiefs to pay him another full year.

Justin Houston did almost the exact same thing in 2015. He got hurt and missed the last 5 games of the regular season. He played in 2 playoff games before waiting for a little over a month after our last game before having knee surgery. He started the next season on IR locking his full salary in for the season.

If Berry waits he will force full salary payment or an injury settlement. After the way his last contract negotiations went, Berry isn't letting the Chiefs off the hook for a single penny. The Chiefs might as well just keep him for another season and hope he can play some.

Foot injuries are so difficult for football players. :(

If Berry had surgery during the summer he wasn't going to play this year. If he gets the surgery in February, there's a chance he can play next year.

Would you rather have the possibility of Berry for a stretch run this year and all of next year, or no Berry at all this year?

This isn't like Shaq saying, "I got hurt on company time so I'll recover on company time."

You guys with your conspiracy theories. Ridiculous.

Clark doesn't care about winning, Berry doesn't want to play, Houston got paid so he's just dogging it, Reid doesn't care about the defense...am I missing anything?

Stay away from the grassy knoll, man!

If he plays today and in the Super Bowl all is forgiven. You can only have so many cortisone shots you can get a year. Usually it's limited to 3-4 times a year.

Let's go Berry - go get 'em. But I'd like to see you on the field at the end of the game.

This situation has been handled so poorly it's hard to believe.

I don't think any of us have enough information to know that. If surgery would have put him out for the entire year if it was done at the start of the year - this is probably the best play, actually.

A year.

if they completely detach his achilles, maybe 6 months. if they can shave it off, more like 8-12 weeks