{"id":2543,"date":"2017-01-16T04:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2017-01-16T04:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T09:26:12","slug":"eric-berry-interception-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2017\/01\/16\/eric-berry-interception-steelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Berry&#8217;s interception against the Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eric Berry<\/strong>\u00a0makes plays. That&#8217;s what Eric Berry does. [discussion:\u00a0<a id=\"thread_title_270815\" href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/270815-eric-berry-hit-pit.html\">Eric Berry hit against PIT<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In last night&#8217;s playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Berry recorded seven tackles and a second-quarter interception in the end zone off of Steeler&#8217;s quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, which kept the\u00a0Chiefs within striking distance.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t enough, however, as the Steelers squeaked out an 18-16 victory on a controversial holding call which negated a game-tying two-point conversion.<\/p>\n<p>After the loss, Berry\u00a0gave his teammates a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiefsdigest.com\/playoff-notebook-emotions-flare-game-chiefs-steelers\/\">words of wisdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEverybody just be honest with their self,\u201d Berry said when asked what he told his teammates after the game. \u201cLook in the mirror and ask themselves if we did everything we could to win this game. That\u2019s it. Just be honest with yourself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At only 28 years old, it&#8217;s time for Berry to get paid. He&#8217;s one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story\/0ap3000000773220\/article\/leveon-bell-eric-berry-head-top-25-free-agents-of-2017\">top unrestricted free agents<\/a> in 2017 and is set for the biggest payday of his career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forum discussion:\u00a0<a id=\"thread_title_270815\" href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/270815-eric-berry-hit-pit.html\">Eric Berry hit against PIT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Eric Berry playoff highlights<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/xmasape\/status\/820815903784894464<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eric Berry doing what he does best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PICKED. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChiefsKingdom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChiefsKingdom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PITvsKC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PITvsKC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFLPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFLPlayoffs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KRnFBEoJu0\">https:\/\/t.co\/KRnFBEoJu0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL Network (@nflnetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nflnetwork\/status\/820818282651361280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#chiefs<\/a> Eric Berry <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Steelers<\/a> interception in the end zone. Two hands under the ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KCStar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KCStar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chiefs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gy02s2E6TZ\">pic.twitter.com\/Gy02s2E6TZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Sleezer (@jsleezer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsleezer\/status\/820820587345891329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eric Berry was the last player to leave the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chiefs Reporter (@ChiefsReporter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChiefsReporter\/status\/820861759246450688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MzDawnNicole\/status\/820796018568491008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Berry\u00a0makes plays. That&#8217;s what Eric Berry does. [discussion:\u00a0Eric Berry hit against PIT] In last night&#8217;s playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Berry recorded seven tackles and a second-quarter interception in the end zone off of Steeler&#8217;s quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, which kept the\u00a0Chiefs within striking distance. It wasn&#8217;t enough, however, as the Steelers squeaked out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-former-football-vols","tag-eric-berry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/files\/2017\/01\/USATSI_9813060.jpg?fit=3188%2C2125&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}