Ryan Fitzpatrick said his final year with the Jets in 2016 was one of the hardest of his career and he considered retirement because of it.
Fitzpatrick, now with the Buccaneers, will face his former team on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.
“Yeah, I thought about it,” the 34-year old Fitzpatrick said on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. “It was an interesting two years there, 2015 being a year where I had so much fun playing and then 2016 being the toughest year of my career just in terms of my performance and not meeting expectations personally and as a team.