Chiefs LT Eric Fisher had the best reaction to his touchdown grab vs. Ravens
Kansas City Chiefs LT Eric Fisher caught his first career touchdown pass in Week 3 against the Baltimore Ravens. He revealed it was the first time he’d been in the endzone since back in high school.
“Last time I was in endzone, so we ran the veer in high school,” Fisher told reporters on Wednesday. “I was an outside linebacker for my sophomore, junior year, but we had a tight end package on the goal line, just kind of like throw it up to me in the corner of the endzone. So junior year was probably the last before that freshman year when I played quarterback, got a couple of touchdowns. But yeah, I haven’t been in the endzone so much.”
It was a memorable moment for the Chiefs’ offensive lineman, but he might not actually be able to remember too much of it, at least per his reaction on the sideline. The NFL’s latest episode of Mic’d up caught Fisher’s reaction after he caught the touchdown that would ice the game in Baltimore. It was a pretty classic moment from Fisher.
“My life just flashed before my eyes,” Fisher said, catching his breath, sitting on the bench after the play. “Dude, I blacked out, totally blacked out. Jesus took the wheel on that one.”
Thankfully, someone took the wheel and the Chiefs were able to score. Fisher elaborated a bit on the moment during the Chiefs’ postgame show.
“I blacked out a little bit and I just did what I did and the rest is history,” Fisher told Mitch Holthus. “But for Big Red [Andy Reid] to dial my number in that situation and trust me to kind of seal the game, it’s a memory I’ll have forever. There’s a lot of ups and downs in this game and that was pretty sure one on the ups.”
On Wednesday, Fisher had a chance to speak to the media about the much-practiced play. He didn’t expect his number to get called in this situation, but everything went about as smoothly as you could ask for once the play was called.
“Oh yeah, we had to go heavy personnel on that,” Fisher said. “And once (Andrew) Wylie was down I didn’t think there’s a chance we were calling it so kind of surprised me which might have been a good thing that way I wasn’t thinking about the whole game. But when I came in, I went and reported eligible and luckily kind of tricked the defense on the field there, wide open over there in the endzone and Pat made me work for that one a little bit, but it’s alright. We practice those kind of things, and it was a memory I’ll have for life.”
