Eric Fisher signs 4 year, $63M extension

[Quesadilla Joe]

Eric Fisher's 4-year extension is worth $48 million, including $40 million gtd. The six years he now has left on deal total $63 million.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 30, 2016

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by O.city

I don't know about that. Maybe a good LT vs a great safety. But an average LT still gets you in trouble more than you'd like.

Unless the safety starts taking the ball away from the offense more, hard to say great.

Well, everyone knows my stance on Berry.

If I'm shelling out $12 million, it's not going to a safety.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

**** him

It's a business in the end. Still hate to see the stuff like this happen.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

So he's getting slightly more than Lane Johnson, who's a right tackle.



Sounds like a fair deal to me.



The Chiefs offensive line looks to be locked up for the next 3 years at minimum.

Seems a good deal on the surface. It had to get done and my stomach isn't turning.

At this point in time I'll say "job well done" by Dorsey.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Nitpicking but give me Ed Reed over Eric Fisher all day every day

Really? You'd take a Hall of Famer over Fisher?

That's really going out on a limb.

Are you sure?

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Good grief.

You'd rather pay a non-premium player $12 million a year over a premium position, a guy that has to go against the best pass rushers in any division?

Berry may be a great safety but a great safety will never have as much impact as an even average left tackle.

Yep. Left tackle is infinitely more important to ANY football team than a safety is, unless you build a Ronnie Lott/Troy Polamalu/Ed Reed hybrid.

Fisher showed me a lot last year, and now that he is paired with Mitchell for the foreseeable future, we have as good a pair of bookend tackles as anyone in our division, if not the AFC.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Well, everyone knows my stance on Berry.

If I'm shelling out $12 million, it's not going to a safety.

I'd rather overpay a great player than overpay an average player, position be damned.

They're betting that Fisher becomes much more than an average player though so thats nice.

[Hoover]

I fear what Fish's price tag would be after next year assuming he continues to develop.

Its not like we were going to get a 25 year old assending LT on the cheap.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Really? You'd take a Hall of Famer over Fisher?



That's really going out on a limb.



Are you sure?

LOL so you disagree with your original assessment?

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Ed Reed is a future HOF Safety, not sure that comparison is fair.

I mean, I think most people would take Ronnie Lott over John Alt, if given the option.


(EB is most certainly not Ronnie Lott)

[RINGLEADER]

Fisher has gotten better the past two seasons. It may be a bit more than some wanted but the fact is it is a premium position, he is trending up not down, and the salary cap is getting so high that $12/mil for a competent LT is going to look like a steal in four years. If he regresses then it's a bad move, but you can say that about any player at any position at any time.

[Quesadilla Joe]

#KCChiefs OL Eric Fisher gets $28.5M fully guaranteed by March. KC thinks he’s about to break out with injuries gone. Deal works for both

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 30, 2016

[O.city]

If he continues to progress, this ends up being a good deal for the CHiefs.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Nitpicking but give me Ed Reed over Eric Fisher all day every day

Reed will be a Hall of Famer, but even Reed isn't going to single handedly win games on defense if his offense sucks due to a Jordan Black sized hole at left tackle. That is exactly what the Chiefs would have if they would have signed Berry to this money and not Fisher.

[RealSNR]

I think Eric Fisher showed towards the end of last year that he's not just average, but he's a pretty good LT.

I'll definitely take it at the deal #s that Terez Paylor quoted

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Hoover

I fear what Fish's price tag would be after next year assuming he continues to develop.

Its not like we were going to get a 25 year old assending LT on the cheap.

Excellent point