Former Jets and current Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is sick and tired of all the criticism he’s received in his career.
Fitzpatrick has been on seven teams throughout his 14-year career and has started on every single one of them. He’s had success here and there, most notably with the Jets when he led them to a 10-6 record in 2015, but he’s never been a consistent starting quarterback. Despite all that, Fitzpatrick believes that he hasn’t been appreciated enough during his NFL tenure.
“There’s been a lot of shade and disrespect thrown my way for a lot of years,” Fitzpatrick told WQAM’s Joe Rose.
You have to give Fitzpatrick credit for hanging around the NFL for as many years as he has. He was a seventh-round pick out of Harvard in 2005. Not too many seventh-round picks ever even make an NFL roster, nonetheless spend 14 years in the league.
However, his play on the field has warranted at least a little shade thrown his way. Fitzpatrick has never led a team to the playoffs and has always been a turnover machine. He always finds a way on a team, manages to start some games and play well only to then get paid and stink the following year. It’s a never ending cycle with him.
At the end of the day, Fitzpatrick will be remembered as a serviceable, journeyman, turnover-prone quarterback who won some games, but never the big ones. He can complain about people disrespecting him all he wants, but his play speaks for itself.
