Eric Berry lives his dream, helps Chiefs stay undefeated, with Michael Vick pick-six

Eric Berry takes it to the house. (MCT via Getty Images) The Kansas City Chiefs have already exceeded their 2012 win total and have a 3-0 record after their

Doug Farrar | Sep 20, 2013

Eric Berry lives his dream, helps Chiefs stay undefeated, with Michael Vick pick-six /

Eric Berry takes it to the house. (MCT via Getty Images)

The Kansas City Chiefs have already exceeded their 2012 win total and have a 3-0 record after their 26-16 Thursday night win over the Philadelphia Eagles. One of the main reasons for the Chiefs' hot start is the simple fact that they don't make mistakes -- they're the first NFL team since the 1998 New England Patriots to go through their first three games of the season without a turnover. However, they've been very opportunistic when it comes to taking the ball away from their opponents -- Kansas City has caused nine turnovers this season, including five on Thursday.

The most impressive of those turnovers was the pick-six that Chiefs safety Eric Berry took from Michael Vick with 11:12 left in the first quarter. Vick was trying to hit tight end Brent Celek with a quick stick route, but linebacker Derrick Johnson read the play perfectly and tipped the pass to Berry, who ran 38 yards for the score.

And as it turns out, Berry's pick of Vick was a dream come true. When asked earlier this week on the NFL Network which quarterback he'd most like to intercept, Berry knew exactly who.

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“Michael Vick," Berry said. "I think that would be a big statement, a big deal for me, because I grew up watching him in Atlanta. He was a lot of people’s idol back home, so I definitely feel like that would be something special.”

Published Sep 20, 2013

DOUG FARRAR

SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009, Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.