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11-02-2018, 03:44 PM | #121 |
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I would say "Because Chiefs" but we have Patrick Mahomes now and nobody else does. We also drafted an alcoholic who ended up turning himself into the best TE in football, a woman-beater who outwardly has turned into a model citizen and most dangerous WR in the game and a lazy DL who suddenly developed a motor (usually).
I mean...I think we kinda need to put the 'Because Chiefs' thing to bed for awhile. Things have gone really really well for this franchise for awhile now. So long as we have 15, I'm gonna have a hard time playing the 'woe is us' card...
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11-02-2018, 03:49 PM | #122 | |
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11-02-2018, 04:19 PM | #124 |
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11-02-2018, 04:45 PM | #126 |
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he's been alright, I don't have much complaints on Fisher. But it was a pretty bad year to have that #1 pick IMO.
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11-02-2018, 04:46 PM | #127 |
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I can fap to this.
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Though I'd say Eli Manning has a fair amount to do with that. Man that guy is garbage... Yeah, when you see what average LTs are getting in FA and how poorly that has tended to work out for the signing team, you really appreciate getting steady, slightly above average play from Fisher. There's no dealing with the 1.1 status; that is what it is. But Fisher's been a good player at a reasonable price for several years here and that's alright.
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11-02-2018, 04:52 PM | #129 | |
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That’s a good way to look at it.
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When you're drafting at 1.1 you should probably have the best draft in football right? We didn't, but we gave 2.1 to get Smith, so that impacted it. When you really sit down and look at that draft team by team, there are 2 teams that had demonstrably better drafts than we did, IMO - Detroit (who KILLED it) and GB. Houston, Arizona, Dallas and a few others had drafts on par with ours. But we pulled Kelce and Fisher from that draft and the bottom line is that there just wasn't a shitload better to have reasonably done there. The draft sucked. We took 2 guys from that draft who would have gone in the top 10 if the draft was re-done today - that's pretty alright. And for a draft that had NO consensus top pick, that's pretty outstanding really.
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Eric Reid or Tyler Eifert? Reid could have helped but I'm glad we have Kelce over Eifert and we chose Kelce 2 rounds after Eifert. D'Andre Hopkins? We had no QB to really bring out his potential and now we have Tyreek, who is definitely faster. Fisher isn't flashy but he's solid and in the top tier of LTs in the league. Considering what was available, I don't begrudge the Fisher pick. He now does a pretty good job of protecting Mahomes. If you want a good article about how good Fisher is, here's an article from The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/628781/2018/...osive-offense/ I don't post the article itself because unlike a lot of sources, you have to pay for The Athletic material. And articles like this are a reason you should subscribe. TL;DR version: Fisher's settled into being an excellent LT for KC. |
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Mahomes has made Fisher look a lot better.
He's took a long time to develop, but it looks like he's made some strides from last yr.
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This article ranked Fischer/Schwartz 8th best pair of bookends using ESPN's Pass Blocking Win Rate metric, which analyzes how often a tackle holds up 2.5 seconds after the snap.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/stor...cking-nfl-2018 8. Kansas City Chiefs Left Tackle: Eric Fisher (79 percent) Right Tackle: Mitchell Schwartz (89 percent) One weakness of PBWR is that it doesn't adjust for opponents. That's OK over the course of a season, but it can have a big effect in a single game. That didn't matter for Schwartz against the Broncos earlier this season, when he posted a 96 percent PBWR in a game in which he mostly squared off against Von Miller. |
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