ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Ryan Fitzpatrick is the $12 million win-now quarterback, obligated to pilot his win-now team through the turbulence and stick the landing.
He was, with apologies to Tom Hanks, Sully on Thursday night.
If the Jets, 37-31 winners over the Bills, harbor any hope of ending the Patriots’ seven-year stranglehold on the AFC East, these are the teams they have to beat and these are the games they have to win.
This was payback for Fitzpatrick. Payback to his team, and teammates, for throwing away a playoff berth with those three interceptions in the fourth quarter of the 2015 regular-season finale here.