Browns Called The Chiefs About Trading For Berry But Never Got A Call Back

we had to pick Berry, or he would have picked us!

and instead make the conclusion that compensation wasn’t appropriate for the trade.

To move back 2 spots a 3rd round pick would be about right. But when the top player on your draft board in a position of need is there when you are picking you don’t trade down.

But not for just one.

i would have been ok with it. I’m good with where we are are at though.

I love that other teams wanted Eric Berry so badly and I love the fact that the Chiefs had NO desire to return any calls about it because they wanted him in a Chiefs uniform.

Amazing.

if they had taken it, mcclain at 7, and then say everson griffen, navarro bowman, brandon ghee, or even bruce campbell….

It’s good that we got who we wanted.

I have a feeling if this would have happened, we’d be talking about Bulaga being a Chief, whoopty-shit.

This offer is good enough to warrant a call back. Perhaps it comes down to an extra 5-7th round in this or next year’s draft. If true, this is the second year Pioli has botched a chance to move down when the player taken provided little positional value. He seems to put blinders on when it comes to the players he covets. Meanwhile his counterparts from his days in NE are working these drafts masterfully.

geeeez whooooa wooowwww huh?

oh well, +14.

have a problem with this. Eric Berry was the surest thing in this draft. McClain offers less of a positional value in my opinion playing ILB than Berry does at S. I would have done it if McClain ran a 4.5 in the mold of Patrick Willis, but he doesn’t have that kind of playmaking ability. Berry is going to make plays for us and can be a potential game changer.

Just a side note, I got my Eric Berry jersey over the weekend. Retiring the Holmes jersey now. Now I have an Eric Berry Tennessee & KC jersey!!!!!

quality over quantity

..and one that uses the media as a mouthpiece to make excuses for itself like Cleveland. This was clearly a statement they wanted to send to their fans. "Yeah, we know you wanted Berry. We wanted him too. We tried, but the mean old Chiefs wouldn’t call us back when we low balled them. I think the whole story is lame to say the least.

They said after the draft that they felt good that 2-3 guys they had targeted would be available at 5. Chance that none of them being available at 7 is obviously more likely. We don’t know for sure who these 2-3 guys were, but if it was say Suh and Okung as the other two players then that would hold true. Browns didn’t pony up enough to warrant the risk, especially since they knew they would take Berry with the pick.

You don’t trade up or down for the sake of trading up or down, you make the trades for a specific player. Berry was our specific player and the Browns wanted him – making that trade would contradict everything Pioli has told us about his drafting philosophy (and would have caused a riot on AP, which was obviously the deciding factor).