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KC S Eric Berry out for season with ruptured Achilles


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14 minutes ago, steadypimpin said:

Tough loss, he was awesome last night. Who is the backup? Is he any good?

The starting safeties now are Ron Parker & Daniel Sorenson.

Both are pretty good, Parker can do it all, Dirty Dan is more of run defender. We've also got Eric Murray who has looked solid, and we may activate Leon McQuay from the practice squad.

We may target a free agent, possibly Calvin Pryor. We just cut Steven Terrell, who played for ET when he got hurt, and might bring him back. 

 

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15 minutes ago, Chiefer said:

The starting safeties now are Ron Parker & Daniel Sorenson.

Both are pretty good, Parker can do it all, Dirty Dan is more of run defender. We've also got Eric Murray who has looked solid, and we may activate Leon McQuay from the practice squad.

We may target a free agent, possibly Calvin Pryor. We just cut Steven Terrell, who played for ET when he got hurt, and might bring him back. 

 

They'll be in good hands!

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32 minutes ago, steadypimpin said:

Tough loss, he was awesome last night. Who is the backup? Is he any good?

It's a somewhat complicated question. Officially Parker and Berry start. But Daniel Sorensen sees substantial snaps. He played 48 of 81 snaps last night. So while he's technically the main backup, he practically starts in a hybrid kind of role. So we'll probably see substantially fewer 3 safety looks, first of all. Right now we run 3 safeties maybe 60% of the time, with all 3 rotating between FS, SS, and an in the box LB/S role. Instead, we'll probably see Sorensen and Parker at FS and SS the vast majority of the time, and see Ramik Wilson get far more snaps as a 2nd ILB, which is fine. He improved substantially last year and has become solid. And then against pass heavier teams or spread out offensive sets, we'll probably put Eric Murray at FS, Parker at SS, then have Sorensen play the hybrid role.

So, tl;dr, officially Sorensen is the backup, then Murray, but really Berry's snaps will probably go like 33% to Sorensen, 33% to Ramik Wilson at LB, and 33% to Murray in 3 safety sets.

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Not only did this team lose an all pro safety who was doing a great job against the best TE in the NFL, they lost a leader on the field and basically the heart of this defense. One of the better players of our generation losing a lot of time to injuries. Wish him a great recovery and another comeback player of the year in 2018. 

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On 9/8/2017 at 4:31 PM, steadypimpin said:

Tough loss, he was awesome last night. Who is the backup? Is he any good?

It's one of those situations where awesome is an understatement. He took out one of the most dynamic weapons on offense and - in hindsight - had the biggest play of the game on that early stop on 4th down, just busted up that run with ruthless aggression.

It's horrible, downright horrible - but KC is built to succeed without individual parts. The Texans lost JJ Watt last season and still posted the #1 defense in terms of yards - and KC probably has a better defense in terms of personnel.

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38 minutes ago, EliteTexan80 said:

It's one of those situations where awesome is an understatement. He took out one of the most dynamic weapons on offense and - in hindsight - had the biggest play of the game on that early stop on 4th down, just busted up that run with ruthless aggression.

It's horrible, downright horrible - but KC is built to succeed without individual parts. The Texans lost JJ Watt last season and still posted the #1 defense in terms of yards - and KC probably has a better defense in terms of personnel.

Berry is a rare talent - an in-the-box strong safety run-D wise with elite free safety cover skills.  You literally can count the # guys who can do this on 1 hand.   You have great free safeties who are just OK in run support, and you have great strong safeties who are just OK in coverage - Berry was elite at both.  It's why he was worth being paid as the highest S in the game. It's his play that neutralized Gronk on his own, and his elite run support and wide cover radius that makes up for KC's only real weakness on their D - a meh LB corps.  That weakness was why the Chiefs gave up a 2019 4th rounder to address late in PS with their trade with BUF for Reggie Ragland (not just a fill-in but long-term goal as well).   Berry was a big reason it isn't more apparent, but we'll see now how KC adjusts.

It's a huge loss, no way around it.  KC has a great front 4 and as we've seen in the past, that can mask a lot of secondary deficiencies, especially with a guy like Jason Peters as your top CB.  They won't fall to pieces D-wise with his departure, but this is a guy you just can't replace, the effect on their D is so multi-faceted.  It's their run D and TE coverage I'd worry about now.  Berry literally took the TE's out on his own.
 

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