FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Ryan Fitzpatrick was so down after last season's New York Jets disaster that it nearly drove him out of football.
On Wednesday, Fitzpatrick, 34, admitted he considered retirement after the 5-11 debacle in which he threw 17 interceptions. He called it "the toughest year of my career." And he has had some tough ones.
"It was hard to get over, and really that’s something that maybe you never get over in terms of what could have been and where we thought we were at that point as a football team," he said on a conference call with New York media.