Kansas City Chiefs: The ugly situation with Eric Berry

Where things start to weird are back in training camp of 2018.

Berry just randomly stopped practicing on August 11th and the Chiefs started calling him “day-to-day” from that moment on. Questions were asked at every weekly press conference to which head coach, Andy Reid would say things like “the communication is there” and “he’s day-to-day”.

Rather than designating Berry to the injured-reserve list, the Chiefs kept him on the roster hoping and waiting their All-Pro safety would be ready to play and help sturdy a shaky defense. On September 29th, reports began to leak the he had developed a Haglund’s deformity on his heel, a very painful bone spur that could only be healed through rest or surgery.

Fans kept waiting for Berry to ride in on his white horse, prepared to save this defense and help propel them to a Super Bowl championship!

That dream never came to fruition and instead, we had to watch CBS analyst, Tony Romo call exactly what Tom Brady was going to do on third and long. We had to watch “zombie-Gronk” run right by Eric Berry in man-to-man coverage and eventually the Patriots take home the Lamar Hunt trophy in Arrowhead stadium.

So much for being that hero.