Well, everyone knows my stance on Berry.

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

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

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.

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

That's really going out on a limb.

Are you sure?

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.

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.

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.

LOL so you disagree with your original assessment?

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)

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.

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

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.

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

Excellent point