Now, Ryan Fitzpatrick has to be $12 million good. He has to be truly worth $12 million — and four months of playing chicken and milking every milliliter of leverage they had — to the Jets.
Fitzpatrick had better be the answer.
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There had better be at least one playoff game. Better, a playoff bye. How they manage that, who knows. The Jets still play in the same division as the Patriots. They also play in the same division as the Bills, who intercepted Fitzpatrick five times in two Jets losses last season: losses that can easily be described as the ones that kept 10-6 New York out of the playoffs.