Fisher officially in at RT for Monday
 

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl...e36702456.html

Eric Fisher to start at right tackle for Chiefs on Monday vs. Packers
BY TEREZ A. PAYLOR
tpaylor@kcstar.com

Eric Fisher will return to the starting lineup Monday night at Green Bay, Chiefs coach Andy Reid announced Saturday.

Fisher, 24, has missed the Chiefs’ last five games as he recovers from a high ankle sprain. He will start at right tackle for Jah Reid, who has started the Chiefs’ first two regular-season games.

Fisher was expected to be ready to start at right tackle in the Chiefs’ season opener, but sources told The Star he opted out of the lineup because of concern over his high ankle sprain. Chiefs coach Andy Reid, however, maintained afterward he made the decision to sit Fisher because of the ankle injury.

Despite the injury, Fisher has logged three offensive snaps as a reserve at left tackle and 10 special-teams snaps as a blocker on the field-goal unit in the Chiefs’ first two games.

He has not played right tackle since his rookie year in 2013, but Reid said Fisher has “done well” in practice this week.

“I mean, he had played over there for the year, his first year,” Reid said. “He’s a pretty good athlete. Easy adjustment.”

Fisher is listed as probable on the injury report, along with fellow offensive lineman Jeff Allen, who has also missed the Chiefs’ last five games, including preseason, because of a MCL sprain in his knee.

“He had a better week this week, so he’s pretty close to 100 percent,” Reid said of Allen.

Allen, a full-time starter at left guard in 2013 who missed almost all of 2014 because of injury, opened training camp as the starter at right guard but was inserted as the starting right tackle in the Chiefs’ preseason opener against Arizona, where he injured his knee.

Expecting line to move from Chiefs +7 to -10.5

Good. I'm not as down on Fisher as most folks are. I think he'll play well. Certainly better than Jah Reid.

I have been down on him, but I hope he kicks ass.

No. You must piss and moan incessantly about him.

This is ChiefsPlanet. Where you aren't truly happy unless you're miserable.

I'm excited. This will be my first time seeing Eric Fisher play in person.

That says a mouthful.

Fisher is a big pussy, so why not.

I think most are being impatient with him.

He was a project to begin with.

Nice. He should be be a real difference maker.

We lose by 10 instead of 15

Morale is at an all-time high going into Monday night. LMAO

So he must have Douched the sand out of his vagina...

This.

He looked great in his one preseason appearance. Let's hope he keeps it up.

AIDS Soup

Negligible.

He's only played 3 snaps on offense and got his ass kicked for a sack on one of them.

It sucks that he has been so injury prone since, literally, his first practice when I was 20 feet away and Austen Lane was destroying him.

He has shown flashes of being a good player, but at this point in his career...the bad outweighs the good.

He needs to stay healthy and show marked improvement this year of he wants any chance of the team picking up that silly dollar amount for his fifth year option that needs picked up after this year. Otherwise, next year will be his last one in KC and after the huge investment in him, we REALLY need him to pan out on the right and for Dorsey to lock up Stephenson long term.

If Fisher and LDT can solidify that right side, this line has a chance to be flat out nasty once it gels.

AGREED.Fisher haters can SUCK IT !!!!!

He didn't get his ass beat for a sack in those three plays.

Fisher didn't cause that sack. He pushed the first wave back. Alex held onto the ball too long.

The hell he didn't. Did it get called back or something because I remember him getting whipped.

Not bad news. Go Chuefs

This is an amusing post.

I have him at #3 as worst #1 draft pick evar. You find some one else to slide in there? Is that why youre high on him?

I'll allow it.

What? Um, okay. Disappointing but this is an unbelievable overstatement.

Amusing but true

Fisher pushed the guy 10 feet around Smith and then started looking for another guy to block. He didn't realize that Smith was going to hold onto to it for 10 minutes.

Next time i imagine Fisher will push him clear to the sideline until they both can get a drink of water even though he shouldn't have to

Shouldn't you be watching for Asteroids !

You would be pissed too if you lost your starting job, not because the other guy was better than you, but because the other guy was so shitty at his own.

LT - Fisher barely better than Stephenson
RT - Fisher significantly better than Stephenson

They move Fisher because Stephenson was so much better at Fisher's position than his own. I still think Stephenson was sandbagging at RT because he wants to go into FA as a LT this year.

Stephenson is 10 times as better as Fisher was at either position!

Stephenson flashed being okay at rt but has been miserably bad the past year and a half. Fisher played rt much better than people give him credit for in 2013. Way too soon to say who will be better but what we know is that Stephenson has not played well at rt recently.

As better?

I'm still holding out hope. Haven't seen him yet this year so let's see how he does and go from there.

I hope he can pull his head out and get someone blocked.

He did play pretty well in the first preseason game.

Much as some want to say he lost his job at LT, he didn't.

Yeah, I didn't get to watch the first pre-season game, just heard he looked pretty good. If he can play well at RT it'll be a huge improvement for us.

You must drink heavily while watching the games. In no way was he "whipped" on any of the three plays he was in there.

Fish, if you're EVER going amount to shit... its time to start showing it.

I mean, really.

Year 3. This is it.

Put up or shut up.

bullshit

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nah, too late ... He's gone


He was gone the moment Reid decided to switch his position for the 2nd time

Stephenson is a free agent
Fisher will likely be cut unless he's take a salary reduction


So yes, we are probably going to be looking for 2 new OT's next year.


Dorsey's never ending Oline merry-go-round continues

Grubb's base salary jumps from 900k to 5.8 million so who knows if he will be staying either.

Dorsey treats the Oline like middle relief in baseball, just piece whatever junk you can scrounge up and slap on some duck tape.

Duck tape?

Just start posting normally again.

Stop being a little bitch.

I hope he MTFU for the season.

It's penbrook man. Pretty sure he's like 13.

I'm predicting the Chokes offensive line will soon be:

LT Stephenson
LG Grubbs
C Morse
RG Allen
RT Fisher

*It'll be better but we'll just find a way to you know......? Because? We are the Chiefs. It's that simple:D

Alex plays like horse shit. So, should 't the line play like a kathead?

I think the issue is that he was suppose to be this ferocious guy that never quit but didnt have great technique. Well... his technique still sucks 2 years later and he's a big pussy. So.........

Weak links still will be RG and RT but not as weak as now. Allen has sucked the longest out of everyone no matter where he plays. He's also injury - prone, so I would not count highly on his contributions. Just my take.

Dont let Fish see it or he'll take himself out of the lineup.

Might work with Rogers at QB, but not with Smith. The thing that gets me is when both Dorsey and Reid were with their old teams and GB and Philly took a dive record-wise, both had OL problems. They know the importance of having a good OL..Its even more critical for KC who has a QB who can not hide team weaknesses and needs things around him to be good in order to be successful. Maybe IF this OL gets good, they keep most in tact. Would be great to have some continuity for a change. :shrug:

Ldt has already beaten out Fulton and Allen. Allen is healthy and isn't starting. That tells you about who the chiefs think is better. I don't see Ldt losing his job anytime soon.

Jeff Allen is actually probably better at this point than LDT.

LDT is starting right now, not because he is the best player today, but because he will likely be the best player by season's end.

Mandarich? Courtney Brown, Jamarcus Russell, Tim Couch? Which of those were better than Fisher? I'd have him right after those.

I don't think Mandarich was a #1 overall pick.

I couldn't remember off the top of my head. Thanks. He went two?

Ki-Jana Carter, Dan Wilkenson, and David Carr would be high on my list.

Those are good. Although I tend to go easy on Carr for the same reason I went easy on Alex and Tim couch. The talent around them and dysfunction of the franchises hurt them.

And this only applies to Carr and Couch. It's hard to know if they were that bad because of it.

Tyson Jackson is a much larger bust than Fisher simply based on salary.

ChiefsPlanet loves to speak in exaggeration.

Jamarcus, Courtney Brown, Carter. Fisher is easily not bottom 3. If Fisher ends up being even a quality backup, he'll beat out Couch, Carr, and Emtman. Would even throw in Jeff George.

We're also comparing Fisher to a bunch of hyped consensus #1 picks. You can't compare him to Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck because there was no consensus #1 in the class. It was the best of the worst. So we can't compare Fisher to other #1's. We have to compare him to the top 10 of his class. And if he is even just an average starter at RT, he'll already be better than most of the top 10 in that class.

I still hate the Fisher pick. But JFC, can we please cut it out with the exaggeration?

He isn't a huge bust. Just a giant puss.

Much more accurate statement

I didn't watch Couch much, but David Carr was terrible, and he made his O-Lines look far worse than they were.

The season that the Texans signed Shaub, the same O-Line, with one "upgrade", Jordan Black, commonly referred to a "I-70" in Kansas City, gave up half as many sacks as they did the previous season with Carr at QB.

Alex Smith is slow on his progressions, but I am not sure that Carr even ever heard of the concept.

That guy was the William Bartee of QBs.

Splatbass said the the same thing. How much did fisher play in that game?

A qtr and a half?

He was injured in practice the following Monday.

Makes sense, pretty sure these are the same guys hanging on to Alex smiths playoff game against the saints...

**** Jeff Allen, he can't stay healthy and hasn't proven anything anyway.


Just leave LDT at RG and let him develop

If they stay healthy Stephenson,Grubb,Morse,LDT,Fisher should be our Oline for the rest of the year. Allen and Reid can be our swing backups.

I agree. The bonus with Allen is that he can play all five offensive line positions. That's invaluable in terms of a back up offensive line player. Add Fulton into the mix and it's a pretty solid looking interior as it moves along and gains continuity.

(And, for what it's worth, the coaching staff was really on Allen's jock in the summer, saying he was the best O-lineman out there. Guy has just had some shit luck in terms of injury and might just best serve the team as the main backup at this point.)

I think that they could potentially upgrade Reid in the next draft, but he's a young player and could potentially develop into that decent swing tackle type of guy. If Fisher can stay healthy from here on out and they can build some continuity, I think it's a pretty good and deep (but young) offensive line. One that you can really build up going forward from this point on.

Link? Never once heard this out of training camp, OTA's, etc

I do remember you slobbing on his nuts since forever. For no good reason might I add.

My only hope is that Fisher kicks as tomorrow night.

If not, the position may be a swinging door all season.

All based on the Alex release time divided by how long he holds it.

"He's a pretty good athlete."

(#1 overall draft pick)

Peyton Manning wasn't the consensus #1 since there was a debate about whether Manning or Ryan Leaf should go first. A lot of people thought Leaf should go at #1. Of course we know now that they were wrong, but at the time there were plenty that thought Leaf should go first.

Reid sucked less at RT than I thought he would...

And on what; one week of reps?

Not even that his first game...

Didn't he play very well against the Colts in the playoff game in 2013?