The Fitzmagic has come to an end in the NFL. After 17 seasons, Ryan Fitzpatrick is retiring from football. It was a long career for the former seventh-round pick by the Rams, playing for nine different teams, including the New York Jets. Fitzpatrick suited up for New York in 2015 and 2016, starting 27 games and going 13-14 in those starts. He led the Jets to an impressive 10-6 record in 2015, throwing a career-best 31 touchdown passes and 15 interceptions. After his stint with the Jets, he made stops with the Bucs, Dolphins and Washington to finish out the last five years of his career. And while he’s best known for his time in Buffalo, he had his most success with the Jets. In total, Fitzpatrick threw 223 touchdown passes, 169 interceptions and racked up 34,990 career passing yards. He ranks 32nd all-time in career passing yards and 29th in career pass attempts. For a former seventh-round pick out of Harvard in 2005, that’s pretty impressive, especially considering he never spent more than four years with a single team. Fitzpatrick may not be leaving the game completely, however. According to the New York Post, Fitzpatrick is deep in negotiations to be an analyst for Amazon on Thursday Night Football. The Post reports that he would join a studio team that includes Marshawn Lynch, Tony Gonzalez and Richard Sherman.
I absolutely wish him luck wherever he goes- I love that guy for his spirit and willingness to shine.
Love Fitz.. My second favorite QB since Marino, right behind Chad Pennington. Two guys that showed incredible leadership and overachieved for a short moment in time that gave me more joy than the entirety of the Henne and Tannehill era.
Yeah, winning with Fitz and that incredibly lousy team- there was something special about it. We should have been guaranteed an 0-16 record, but Fitz-Magic gave us five meaningless wins that somehow meant everything. Actually, it meant no Burrow...and that sucks...but it's hard to be a fan and not celebrate those victories.
Fitzpatrick did nothing but divide this team, produce silly dad jokes and have a funny beard. I understand why people can love that, but he was just a terribly mediocre quarterback his entire career.
I don’t know that he was the one who divided the team; I think it was more of how the qb situation was handled divided the team.
It’s truly amazing when you look at this fact… There are 32 teams in the NFL. Fitzpatrick played on 9 of those teams. Sure, he was cut or traded 8 times, but he surely was determined not to give up. There have been many journeyman quarterbacks in the NFL. Fitz I would categorize in the top of that list. If I could give him just ONE piece of advice in his post NFL career…trim up that god foresaken grizzly adams Sasquatch birds nest looking beard!