2015 Predictions for Ryan Fitzpatrick

[Elias]

Let's get back on topic and discuss the subject rather than fighting with each other, please. I hate this shit and I honestly would appreciate it if it just stopped.

This board is far from perfect but it can be one step closer if we stopped attacks.

 

[Superman55]

@RichCimini if fitz performs adequately throughout the season, what does that mean for Geno? #jetsmail

@RichCimini: It means he'd better get used to carrying the clipboard. Make no mistake, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick's job to lose. If the Jets are, say, 3-1 at the bye week, why would Todd Bowles go back to Geno Smith? He'd have a mutiny in the locker room. The ball belongs to Fitzpatrick, and I say keep him in as long as he's a solid game manager. He doesn't have to throw for 300 yards a week; his job is to limit mistakes and keep the chains moving. The question is whether Fitzpatrick can stay healthy. He has played a full season only twice in his career, 2011 and 2012.

 

[johnnysd]

Fitz will not play the year either because of injury or Jets losses. His stats will look OK, but we will likely lose because he does not make plays in the air when it matters and cannot hurt the opposition with his feet to extend drives. He also is a noodle arm as he does not seem to have regained the zip on this throws after the leg injury. If we are 0-2, or 1-2 he will be sat for Geno. Bowles did not say he would not replace Fitz just that if the Jets were winning and he was playing well he would not lose the spot. That is super unlikely to happen.

 

[johnnysd]

Just so you know, Brady and Manning can't throw the deep ball any longer, and I think every nfl team would trade for them at 40.
I think everyone agrees that our management made some smart moves in their first off season, and mac daddy came to us from Houston! He knows Fitz.
Houston is devoted to sorting out younger QBs to take advantage of there down turn. We are doing the same with geno and petty. Fitz was traded for as a short term capable qb. No one thinks he's our franchise qb,so I don't get how people here are assuming others ate thinking he is. But he certainly can thrive in this offense and be a place holder, while managing us into a playoff run.

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Fine line there. When Manning's arm strength slipped just a little bit more towards the end of last year he was pretty ineffective. You still need to be able to make medium throws and Brady is capable of that and Manning was just able to do it until the end of last year.

 

[flgreen]

Let's keep this a Fitzpatrick thread and predictions on his stats. No more GS!

Losing battle....

Problem is, it's almost impossible to discuss Fitz's future with the jets with out bringing the unmentionable one into the conversation.

Every one knows who Fitz is. A solid, but unspectacular QB. Team can make the play offs if everything goes perfect with Fitz.

His future depends on if QB X can improve his game, and return as the Jets QB

 

[Elias]

Problem is, it's almost impossible to discuss Fitz's future with the jets with out bringing the unmentionable one into the conversation.

Every one knows who Fitz is. A solid, but unspectacular QB. Team can make the play offs if everything goes perfect with Fitz.

His future depends on if QB X can improve his game, and return as the Jets QB

Fair enough and understood.

 

[sg3]

Fitz will not play the year either because of injury or Jets losses. His stats will look OK, but we will likely lose because he does not make plays in the air when it matters and cannot hurt the opposition with his feet to extend drives. He also is a noodle arm as he does not seem to have regained the zip on this throws after the leg injury. If we are 0-2, or 1-2 he will be sat for Geno. Bowles did not say he would not replace Fitz just that if the Jets were winning and he was playing well he would not lose the spot. That is super unlikely to happen.

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[Savage69]

Ryan Fitzpatrick is a 32 yr old QB who has already played for and been effectively rejected by 5 teams. He' s thrown 101 INT's in 96 pro games. You do not win with talent of this type.

Another lost year coming up. Huge disappointment after this past off season

Eli has thrown 185 in 169 games but they won with that..

 

[Mainejet]

Eli has thrown 185 in 169 games but they won with that..

Eli is also a winner Savage. You cannot say the same about Fitz. The fact is, you can never say that. He's always been a loser despite playing for five different teams.

 

[Savage69]

Eli is also a winner Savage. You cannot say the same about Fitz. The fact is, you can never say that. He's always been a loser despite playing for five different teams.

That wasn't the point you cant just say because he has more picks in the games he played you can't win.. BTW Eli was a winner when they had a excellent defense they have missed the playoffs the last 3 years.. I'm not crazy about Fitz but it is what it is.. All the QB's I like are not on the Jets at this time..

 

[Jetsfanatic]

Ryan Fitzpatrick will give the best QB play we've had in years.

 

[OCCH]

Ryan Fitzpatrick will give the best QB play we've had in years.

Unfortunately that doesn't set a very high bar . . .

 

[Green Jets & Ham]

WARNING: Don't Blame Gailey for the ultra conservative offense

First, get ready to watch some of the most boring, conservative offense an NFL team has deployed in decades. This is going to set football back by fifty years, but don't blame the OC, he'll just be playing the hand he's been dealt, namely a QB who has a chicken wing for an arm.

When you have that kind of QB you are severely limited in the things you can do. There's a whole host of plays you simply cannot run for fear of turning wounded ducks into INT's. Unfortunately most of the stuff we can't do is the stuff that equals explosion plays, so you are basically looking at a boring, methodical offense that requires 12 play drives to score TD's and mostly settles for a lot of FG's. Three yards and a cloud of dust, screen passes, dump offs etc., the stuff that can put most mere mortals to sleep, and, sadly, the stuff that is real easy to defend once defenses discern your limitations.

Just think back to the Chad Pennington days, post arm surgery, and you'll have some idea of what to expect, only Fitzpatrick is not as good as Chad, but schematically it creates the exact same dilemma. The good news is, it can work verses poor defenses, occasionally we can dink and dunk those teams to death as we did with Pennington, but don't expect much success verses the better defensive teams, for those teams not having to cover the whole field is like taking candy from a baby, and don't expect to win high scoring games verses the better offensive teams.

Basically we still have enough to beat the dregs of the league like Cleveland in the home opener (God help us if we lose that game), and we still have enough to compete with the other mediocre teams, but this offense will excite no-one, to put it mildly, and we are not equipped to compete with teams who are in the upper tier offensively or defensively.

That might change if and when Petty is ready to takeover as the starter, or if Geno somehow bounces back from this debacle, the former being far more likely than the latter, but so long as Fitzpatrick is the starter, this is going to make Martyball seem like Air Coryell.

 

[TebowCan'tThrow]

WARNING: Don't Blame Gailey for the ultra conservative offense

First, get ready to watch some of the most boring, conservative offense an NFL team has deployed in decades. This is going to set football back by fifty years, but don't blame the OC, he'll just be playing the hand he's been dealt, namely a QB who has a chicken wing for an arm.

When you have that kind of QB you are severely limited in the things you can do. There's a whole host of plays you simply cannot run for fear of turning wounded ducks into INT's. Unfortunately most of the stuff we can't do is the stuff that equals explosion plays, so you are basically looking at a boring, methodical offense that requires 12 play drives to score TD's and mostly settles for a lot of FG's. Three yards and a cloud of dust, screen passes, dump offs etc., the stuff that can put most mere mortals to sleep, and, sadly, the stuff that is real easy to defend once defenses discern your limitations.

Just think back to the Chad Pennington days, post arm surgery, and you'll have some idea of what to expect, only Fitzpatrick is not as good as Chad, but schematically it creates the exact same dilemma. The good news is, it can work verses poor defenses, occasionally we can dink and dunk those teams to death as we did with Pennington, but don't expect much success verses the better defensive teams, for those teams not having to cover the whole field is like taking candy from a baby, and don't expect to win high scoring games verses the better offensive teams.

Basically we still have enough to beat the dregs of the league like Cleveland in the home opener (God help us if we lose that game), and we still have enough to compete with the other mediocre teams, but this offense will excite no-one, to put it mildly, and we are not equipped to compete with teams who are in the upper tier offensively or defensively.

That might change if and when Petty is ready to takeover as the starter, or if Geno somehow bounces back from this debacle, the former being far more likely than the latter, but so long as Fitzpatrick is the starter, this is going to make Martyball seem like Air Coryell.

Geno wasn't going to light the world on fire either.

 

[sg3]

Fitzpatrick >>>>>>the WVU punching bag and turnover machine

Chicken wing>>>>Chicken brain

 

[Jetsfanatic]

As I said previously, Ryan Fitzpatrick will give us the most competent QB play we've had in years.

This the first time since 2008 we have an experienced veteran operating the offense. Fitzpatrick is not an elite QB, but he will manage the game and make an occasional play. With the talent surrounding him, we should be much improved from the last few seasons.

 

[sg3]

As I said previously, Ryan Fitzpatrick will give us the most competent QB play we've had in years.

This the first time since 2008 we have an experienced veteran operating the offense. Fitzpatrick is not an elite QB, but he will manage the game and make an occasional play. With the talent surrounding him, we should be much improved from the last few seasons.

+1

 

[Green Jets & Ham]

Fitzpatrick >>>>>>the WVU punching bag and turnover machine

Chicken wing>>>>Chicken brain

:roflmao:

 

[Bronx]

I'm not sure Fitzpatrick can last a 16 game season. More often than not , he goes on the DL. So I predict he plays 7 games and gets hurt

 

[Mainejet]

It's really just a sh*t sandwich unfortunately. Despite all of the good that the Jets FO did to improve this team, there was really nothing they could do to improve the very most important position on the team - QB. They got probably a decent backup QB in Ryan Fitzpatrick. But everyone knew (or at least should have known) that BOTH QB's are terrible. BOTH QB's will inevitably lead to our demise if they were trusted entirely.

As Jets fans this is terrible. We have a perennial playoff contender roster that will never realize it's full capabilities because they have a HUGE gaping hole at QB.

Maybe our best approach would be to use the wishbone offense 100% of the time?:smiley-angry037: