From the land of the free and the home of the chiefs, this is the

locked on chiefs podcast. Welcome back to another episode of lockdown chiefs. I am

Chris Clark and today's topic is Eric Fisher and his injury he is headed to a doctor in

Philadelphia to have surgery on his core with us today we have Seth Kaiser

from the athletic. Welcome Seth.

Hey, thanks for having me, man.

Always good to chat.

Hey, not a problem.

Eric Fisher's injury, got any thoughts on it?

You know, it's obviously not great. the chiefs ask a lot of their tackles they tend to leave both

Fisher and Mitch Schwartz on an island they run a lot of empty sets that's a big part of

what they do that's part of running a spread offense like they do. So it's a little bit complicated. Fisher didn't play much in this last game against the Raiders and Cam Irvine stepped in and was actually

surprisingly competent in past protection but it's always tough with him he's been a

streaky player throughout his career it's tough to know whether or not that is a forever thing or if he just had one good game

Right and so when you look at this ravens team who they're facing on Sunday you have to wonder

if that's going to be an issue with Cam Roving

although I will say he did a fantastic job in Pass Pro couldn't do much in run

protection so that's kind of going to be a problem but the chiefs haven't

been running the ball very much anyway and they haven't been

running it very well when they have been running it. Absolutely the the run game has

been I guess you could call it a disappointment so much of the run game has been

not used for much that I don't think that's going to matter that much and I think the

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