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Michael Vick was Smith's backup last year,Wholesale NBA Jerseys China, but started just three games as the Jets tried to give the young quarterback every opportunity to improve. Vick is a free agent and is not expected back,Cheap Jerseys Store, so Gailey and new head coach Todd Bowles needed another quarterback with NFL experience. The Jets could also look at bringing in another quarterback — perhaps Florida State's Jameis Winston, Oregon's Marcus Mariota or UCLA's Brett Hundley, perhaps — in the NFL draft.
The Jets acquired the veteran quarterback from the Houston Texans on Wednesday for a conditional late-round draft pick,China NFL Jerseys.
Fitzpatrick started 12 games last season for the Texans,Cheap Soccer Jerseys, throwing for 2,483 yards and 17 touchdowns along with eight interceptions. He became expendable when the Texans signed free agent Brian Hoyer and re-signed Ryan Mallett.
He signed with Tennessee as a free agent in 2013 and had 14 touchdown passes while starting 11 games in place of the injured Jake Locker.
A year after signing with Buffalo in 2009, Fitzpatrick took over for Trent Edwards as the Bills' starting quarterback in Week 3 of that season and threw for 23 touchdowns. He had a career-best 3,832 yards the following season, along with 24 TDs and 23 INTs. Fitzpatrick followed that up by throwing for 3,400 yards, 24 TDs and 16 INTs in 2012.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Fitzpatrick is reuniting with Chan Gailey and giving the New York Jets some competition for Geno Smith.
Fitzpatrick was a seventh-round draft pick by St. Louis out of Harvard in 2005. He has also spent time with Cincinnati and Tennessee, but his best seasons came when Gailey was coach of the Bills — throwing for at least 3,Wholesale China Jerseys,000 yards and 23 TDs in each of those three years.
Fitzpatrick is familiar with the offense run by Gailey,Jerseys NFL Cheap, the Jets' new offensive coordinator, from their three seasons together with the Buffalo Bills. The 32-year-old quarterback is expected to compete with Smith, entering his third season, to be New York's starting quarterback. |
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