WEBVTT - Ryan Fitzpatrick Conference Call (12.28.2015) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.320 Ryan, you touched on this briefly yesterday, But what what 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.160 would this means? You're going back to Buffalo for this 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:13.440 game of it would be the first time that I've 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.239 I've been back there and uh, in a different jersey, 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.040 you know, playing in front of those fans. So um, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.400 I mean it's got some extra meeting to me just 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.000 because I was there for four years and the fans 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.120 were so great to me and my family. So um, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.760 there's a little bit of extra meeting there. But I 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.720 don't think they're there needs to be with just a 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:37.080 significance and importance of this game, you know, in terms 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:43.120 of what's at stake for us. Right when you look 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.479 back at those four years, what was the highlight with it? 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.120 Was the biggest game you played in? Their most memorable 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:55.680 game you played in with the Bills? Um, I mean 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.560 the most I think the most fun was the the 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.240 start of the twenty eleventh season, and you know, just 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.360 how we got off to a fast start. We we 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.600 were kind of wrote when we had some comeback wins 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:14.479 early and UM, unfortunately we didn't we didn't win enough 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.160 games while we were there, and especially you know in December, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.800 UM didn't really play well enough to have meaningful games, 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.959 and so it was probably the beginning of the year 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:41.399 and in can you have you had a chance to 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.399 dive into something those tape yet and if so, you 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.600 know what thoughts and you know how they look different 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:52.680 maybe than what you saw in November. I mean some 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.760 of the personnel is a little bit different, just with 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.520 injuries and different guys having to step in and play. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:04.120 But um, you know, it's it's just obviously Rex Ryan defense. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.440 They're going to be aggressive. Um, there's a lot of 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.359 different things we'll have to prepare for and um, so 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.840 it'll be a big challenge for us offensively. You know, 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.200 it always is going up against his type of defenses 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.519 and the way that they're coached up and the way 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.160 that they play. So, um, you know, we'll just kind 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.040 of continue to try to get better with what we 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.240 do and how we're doing it, and you know, hopefully 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.639 we can come out with the wind. If it's what's 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:38.680 your best explanation for your elevated play during the chapel 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:45.960 on their stuff? Uh, I mean, I just think we've 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.720 been coming together as an offense, uh and really as 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.040 a as a whole team. Um. I think just confidence 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.160 and not just not just confidence for me personally, but 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.880 I think, uh, you know, as a team, our confidence 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.959 level is higher. And um, you know, I'm just the guy. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.320 The guys around me had been playing great, you know, 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.639 Brandon and Deck and you know even you know, kimbrell 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.239 and and Quincy and you now, our three running backs. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.320 The guys have really just been stepping up. And um, 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.399 so we've we've just made more plays. And I think 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:28.359 that stems from being more confident as a team. So 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.120 much does that first Buffalo game kind of sticking your 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.440 fraud just given you know, you had that opportunity with 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.760 the ball in the Reginald towards the end and couldn't 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:42.160 get it done. It's tough, you know, I watched the 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.080 game earlier today, just you know, it's tough watching that 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.120 film because some of the I didn't play well in 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.680 that game, and um, you know, some of the missed 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.880 opportunities and things that that we had. Uh, but you 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.720 can't dwell on it, you know, you try to move 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.520 on from it and get better and learned from it. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.160 I think we have. But um, you know, obviously they 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.560 got us in the first one, and and we've got 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.520 to play a better, better game. You know, I've got 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:16.480 to play a much better game this time around. Ryan. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.240 After the Dallas game, Brandon talked about kind of how 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.200 his perceptions were the Jets organization from the outside and 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.239 how different that was since he got here. Just curious. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:27.760 You know, you went against the Jets for a lot 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.719 of years in Buffalo. What were you what was your 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.400 thoughts on the team, you know, before you got here, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:41.360 and what's been different than than what you expected? Um, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.599 I mean it was always you know, when we were 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.560 in Buffalo, we didn't have a very good record against him, 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.040 and so the Jets were always, you know, a team 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.279 we knew when we faced them, they'd have, you know, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.960 a great defense. They were tough, they were physical, and 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.360 I think that's kind of the perception around the league. Um, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.520 you know, And I was to see things change. Um 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.200 when you when you make changes in the front office 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.279 and changes with the coaching staff and then you know, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.880 shuffled around players. But um, you know, I've been I've 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.520 been real happy just in being here. The organization is 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.359 top notch. You know. I don't know that I had 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.360 an opinion one way or the other before I got here, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.240 but the way that the trade players are treated. Uh, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.679 you know, just as Brandon said in his little quote, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.760 everybody in the building just worked so hard and and 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.520 does a great job and so, uh, it's definitely a 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:46.120 first class organization. Can you take us back to the touchdowns? 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.720 Was he your primary option? Did you notice the single 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:57.560 coverage coming out of the huddle? Um? Yeah, I mean 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.440 it was it was just man covers a deal over 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.560 on brandonside doubling him, um, you know, which left deck 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.960 one on one, and he just you know, it's a 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.240 great job being patient and running his route and uh, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.440 you know, I think credit to just to the the 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.159 coaching staff. That was a play that we had run 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.640 in practice a couple of times versus at exact look, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.560 and so I had a lot of confidence in and 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.359 where he was headed and the way I needed to 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.680 throw the ball and uh, and so it was nice 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.320 to to get that look in the game and to 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.680 get that completion. Ryan, how much do you regard those 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.640 four years in Buffalo as the time when you kind 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.600 of showed people and I don't know, maybe showed yourself too, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.520 that you could start to exceed consistently as a starter 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:50.320 in the NFL. Huh yeah, I mean with with Buffalo. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.920 That was the first time, you know, I had been 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:58.719 a a day one starter. I guess, um chance first 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.400 year I didn't start first two games, and then uh 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.479 from then on, you know, for that year, in the 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.320 next two I was the starter of that franchise. And 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.120 so um, that was a big step for me, you know, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.440 to be able to be in that role and and 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.800 to have some success. And uh, you know a lot 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.800 of that just them from Jan and his confidence in me, 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.320 and you know, the way that we worked together. But 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.080 I look, I look back on those four years, um 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.520 as a great I mean it's a great learning experience 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.040 for me. You know, there's a lot of things that 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.160 I think I've learned since then. But um, you know, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.600 I loved I love living there, love the city, of 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.679 the fans, the organization, the players, I mean every everything 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.120 there was top notch. And um, so I looked back 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:53.120 on those four years very very fondly. You feel Ryan, 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:59.800 why did you feel he worked so well with Dan Gailey? Uh, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.280 I just think he We've just got a great feel 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.160 for each other. I mean, he knows me so well. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.320 I think our philosophies line up just in terms of 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:16.000 the way to attack a defense and um, I think, 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.480 you know, he plays to my strength as a player, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.400 and um, you know, oftentimes now I can kind of 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.240 anticipate what's coming in or what's going to be called, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.360 and um, you know he'll he'll last my opinion and 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.120 see if I like a player, don't like a play, 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.280 And so I just think, um, you know, we work 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.800 well together because we think alike and we've been in 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:41.240 these situations a lot together and so um, we've got 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.599 a really good feel for each other. Ryan how I 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.920 is by how how it can simplify things after the 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.120 text MOS game. You know, he's kind of alluded to 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:54.840 that act. But I guess you know, it's just mostly 0:08:54.880 --> 0:09:02.400 just wrapped combinations. What's the most of things you do? Uh, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.880 I mean it's it's been a lot of different things, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:10.280 but uh, you know, I think just getting bad. It's 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.240 not necessarily that we're that we were trying to run 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.400 different route combinations, but I think we were just trying 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.079 to we're trying to reinvent the wheel. We're putting people 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.760 in a bunch of different positions and in situations, and 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.960 I think that was hurting me more than helping me, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:34.320 just in terms of my decision making. And so I think, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.840 you know, we're still moving guys around and doing things, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.200 but more to what I'm comfortable with and so simplifying 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:43.880 some of that stuff, even though a lot of the 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.520 route combinations are the same and a lot of the 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.160 the plays are the same. Um, you know, just just 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.120 with me in the way that I think about the game. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.720 I guess pre snap um, getting guys in certain positions 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.360 that I'm comfortable with maybe the best way to put it. Ryan, 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.200 A lot of teams talk about muck twins or the 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.760 playoffs starting early, but not every team responds well to 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.439 those situations. Why do you think the Jets have responded 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.160 well week after week after week here down the stretch 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.480 when you guys have they made no bones about the 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.520 fact that you felt like you had to win out 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:26.240 and you've called these playoffs games. Um, I just think 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.720 we've got a lot of veteran guys on our team. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.000 We've got a lot of experience. We've got plenty of 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:39.000 guys that have you know, been to sorry about that. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.320 We've got plenty of guys that have you know, been 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.600 in big time games in the playoffs. We've got some 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.920 guys that have been to and won the super Bowl, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.280 and then we've got old Cremunctional, the guys that haven't 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.320 been to the playoffs at all. So it's just a 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.000 mixture of of guys that have a ton of experience, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.880 and everybody still has that dribe and passion to get there. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.720 And so I think we've um you know, coming at 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.559 it from all different angles, guys that have been there 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.160 and guys that haven't, the guys that have experienced in 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.720 this league, and you know, know that it just doesn't 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.840 happen every year, and we think we've got a special 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.480 team and and so I just think we've been able 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.960 to kind of push through some adversity and and just 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.840 continue to keep our focus one game at a time. Well, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.600 and I know athletes always talk about, you know that 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.400 you guys, you always believe in yourself, But when is 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.280 the moment for you this year that you felt like, 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.600 because you guys have had such you know, at this point, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.240 had such a sort of magical ride, when the point 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.599 when when you felt like it really was real that 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.200 you guys could get yourself into the spot that they're 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:46.560 in now. I honestly, I think it's been like that 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.520 all year, even you know, even when we lost we 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.120 went through that stretch in the middle of the season 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.160 where we lost some games, uh, you know, lost some 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.680 close games, and whatever it was, there was still a 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.640 ton of belief. I just think, you know, and being 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.520 in the league, um, and having the experience that a 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.360 lot of us do have, you can recognize when you 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.920 have a good team. And and so I think the 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.520 belief has always been there, just because we see the 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.400 way that everybody works, you know, week in and week out, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.840 and we see the talent level on this team. And 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.120 so I think that the belief has been there from 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:25.160 day one and hasn't wavered. Brian, how how in particular 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.920 are you a different or better quarterbacks than the guy 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:36.240 who who left Buffalo after that twin twelve season. I 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.280 think I think I'm a much smarter player, uh, just 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.640 again from experience and being on the field, being in 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.760 a couple of different systems, uh, you know, gaining a 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:52.120 new perspective on things offensively and defensively. I think, I 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.640 you know, I think I understand my game a little 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:00.319 bit better. I think I'm a much more patient quarterback. Um. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:04.280 So there's just been a tremendous amount of growth for me. Um, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.840 you know, And and It hasn't all been peaches and roses. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.400 I mean, there's there's been there's been a lot of 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.920 ups and downs, even since if I left Buffalo. But 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.640 through all those experiences, I've tried to try to learn 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.440 from them, and I just I think they've all helped 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:26.200 me along the way. We'll take one more question for Ryan. Ryan, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.160 you guys have talked about the one game and a 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.320 time mentality, you know, all season, but now just one 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.840 game have a lot of meats. Will you think about, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.360 you know, what the implications of the game are. Will 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.840 you try to get that out of your head and 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.840 just read it like it's a week three or week five. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.960 I mean that it really is what it's been the 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.959 last five weeks. You know, just when we were sitting 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.200 there at five and five, we knew that we had 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.400 no margin for error. And so that's what it's been 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.439 the last five weeks. And we just got to continue 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.160 to take that mindset and that mentality and roll at 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.920 into this week. And um, that's that's been working for us, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.520 you know, the one week at a time mentality, It 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.280 really has and um, you know, so hopefully we'll get 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.079 a great game plan in great practice week and we'll 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.199 go out there and we'll show up on Sunday.