Francesa: Jets Have 'To Start To Think' About Getting Fitzpatrick Deal Done After Draft
The Ryan Fitzpatrick saga is still hanging over the New York Jets as the NFL Draft takes place in two days.
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The Ryan Fitzpatrick saga is still hanging over the New York Jets as the NFL Draft takes place in two days.
As Jets fans form a conga line around the five boroughs, dancing down the halls over Tom Brady's suspension, the rest of pro football and its fans should be just as jubilant.
If Ryan Fitzpatrick was really worth eight figures, he'd be on the Denver Broncos right now.
Whether Fitzpatrick is back with the Jets or not next season, the way he's been manhandled in these contract talks could prove to be a potential powder keg for the organization.
A waterfront football field has been renamed in honor of New York Jets coach Todd Bowles, who also received a key to the city where he was raised.
The Jets have a couple of quarterbacks on their roster, but neither is worthy of a starting job. The Giants have what was a premier pass rusher, but he's only got nine fingers and a cloudy future.
Mike Maccagnan and the New York Jets head into the NFL draft without answers to a few major questions. And that's before they even go on the clock Thursday with the 20th overall pick.
Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan said Friday that he inquired about trading up into the top slot in next week's draft.
Every NFL team has its own stories about the players it passed on in the draft who went on to greatness while the ones they selected flopped -- or at the very least did not meet their lofty expectations.
Marquardt was signed by San Francisco as an undrafted free agent out of Azusa Pacific in 2013, but has never appeared in an NFL regular-season game.
Free agent quarterback Brian Hoyer reportedly left the Jets' facility Wednesday without a contract and will next visit the Denver Broncos.
Is this another ploy to get Ryan Fitzpatrick to lower his asking price, or are the Jets seriously considering going in another direction? Only they know.
The New York Jets have begun voluntary offseason workouts without quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson.
The NFL does everything with pomp and circumstance, and that includes the releasing of its schedule.
Retirement might be fine for D'Brickashaw Ferguson. Not so much for Willie Colon. Not yet, anyway.
