Ryan Fitzpatrick retires

He is one of a kind. Its been a unique career thats for sure. I enjoyed watching him play

 

He's made 82 million over his career. Not too shabby.

 

There is no player in sports who more epitomizes the phrase "journeyman player" than Ryan Fitzpatrick - 35,000 career passing yards, zero playoff appearances.

 

In all of sports eh?

Ron Swoboda . . . . . . . . . . Art Shamsky

 

They don't even compare as journeymen - neither played 10 years in the majors, and one played for 3 teams, the other four. Fitzpatrick lasted 17 years, and played for 9 teams.

 

Oh I agree as it pertains to Swoboda/Shamsky. I just took the "ZERO playoff appearance" comment as a bit of a swipe...and while Fitz was no great shakes big picture-wise, for someone/anyone to hang in the NFL for 17 years and at a high stress position no less speaks for itself. What's more he's a Hahvaard man who graduated with a degree in economics. No bad for an eventual journeyman...

 

2 best years of Jets Qbs since Namath.... both my mercenaries... Vinny 98, Fitz 2015

 

He may have an even longer career on television. Here he is describing the 40 seconds between plays when he was QBing our New York Jets

 

That was great!

 

I have no doubt that he will be far better at that job than Brady can even dream of being.

 

That postgame presser when he showed up dressed like Conor MacGregor, that was the moment I figured he was going to be some kind of cult broadcast type. He has too much going for him, and he was actually pretty good at football.

After the current crop of HOF players fail out of the broadcast game and the dust settles, this dude is going to land himself a fat whale of a primetime contract.

Hopefully by then, the world will have moved on from its fascination for Tony Romo predicting plays with a simultaneously scratchy and squeaky voice and lack of personality.

 

Eff Tom Brady.

 

I’ve had enough of Tony Romo.

 

Ve Ri Tas

Hail the Crimson

 

You have to be a pretty damn good athlete to be as mediocre a QB as Fitz was for 17 years and still get starting nods every season or two from a different team than the last.

The other thing of course is that Fitzpatrick was one of the smartest NFL QB's ever and he really understood both human nature and what it takes to lead a cast of downtrodden heroes.

Josh Rosen should hire him as a tutor for the next year and see if some of that menschacity robs off on him.

 

17 years, good for him.

This? vvv



Eat shit Fitz



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I don't blame him for hating that year. But that aside he still turned in one of the best QB performances for the Jets the year before.

 

Robby Anderson said something similar about hating football while playing for the Jets.

 

Fair point. But even at his worst I couldn't imagine Fitz telling a cop he was going to nut the cop's wife in the eye.