Ryan Fitzpatrick

Philip Rivers won't play as well in his second game back

Seattle didn't come after him at all. ... I have to imagine they're gonna come after him a little bit more this week, put some pressure on him... that ball's gonna come out quick. He's not gonna take a whole lot of hits. ... I don't know that that's gonna bode well for Philip, unfortunately.

The Jaguars won't make noise in the playoffs despite Trevor Lawrence's form

Trevor Lawrence has certainly gotten better this year. I'm not too concerned about the Jacksonville Jaguars making noise in the playoffs, so— [Big Cat: 'Oh, okay. So yeah, we do overreact to everything.']

The Rams have the most underrated offensive line in football

The Rams, Andrew Whitworth keeps telling me he's in my ear like this is the most underrated offensive line in football. ... Just watch how many times their running back gets through the line without being touched.

The 49ers will be a very dangerous team in the playoffs

Brock Purdy, he's starting to really warm up. ... they're getting healthy at the right time on offense. ... I think they'd be a really dangerous team in the playoffs. ... a team rallying to the ball on defense and it pops out to you when you're watching.

My top five most trusted teams for the 2025 playoffs are the Rams, Bills, Texans, Patriots, and 49ers

The Rams, the Bills, Houston, New England and San Francisco. ... If you ask me next week if the Seahawks win this game versus the Rams, they'll move into being able to be trusted. But you know, just like Shane Steichen, I got trust issues.

Ben Johnson's 'no 50/50 balls' mentality actually hurts Caleb Williams' deep ball accuracy

When Ben Johnson said we don't throw 50/50 balls, I actually think that mentality hurts Caleb on his deep passes because there's a lot of deep passes that he throws that get overthrown because he's nervous. ... It's either gotta be the perfect ball or it's gotta be too far and incomplete.

Travis Kelce will likely retire after this season

If I'm Kansas City, first of all, we gotta figure out what's Travis Kelce gonna do and it, you know, I would guess that he's gonna retire, but I have zero inside information on that.

I would not be in the business of paying Kyle Pitts a big contract

He's a very specific guy. ... you look at a guy like Darren Waller who came out of retirement and the success that he's had in Miami. ... The biggest thing I see with Kyle Pitts... he's a little bit awkward catching the ball over his shoulders. ... Somebody's certainly gonna pay him. And I, I don't think I would be in that business though.

Josh Allen will have to hit deep go balls against the Chiefs' man coverage to win

Josh has played really efficient... That being said, and if you look at the last game with Kansas City, he's gonna have to hit some go balls down the sideline. They play a lot of man coverage. Amari Cooper was involved in that first game. He's gonna have to be involved again.

Travis Kelce remains elite because his mental game compensates for declining athleticism

Even as you've seen maybe his athleticism come back a few notches the last few years, he's still just as effective because of how smart he is. Zone coverage, he's gonna be able to find those holes. Patrick's gonna be able to look around the field and then find him.

Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa, and Brock Purdy are system-dependent quarterbacks

There's other guys that you could sprinkle around and put 'em in the right systems. And I think Tua is like that. I think Brock [Purdy] is like that. I think Jalen [Hurts] is probably like that, where if you get 'em in the right spot, then they can be as good as anybody. But you can't necessarily pick them up and drop them in any situation and have them be elite.

Washington must score 30-40 points to beat the Eagles in the NFC Championship

In order for Washington to win the game, they've gotta score 30 plus points and maybe 40 to win this game. They've gotta light up the scoreboard.

I have been predicting a Ravens vs. 49ers Super Bowl all season.

And I've had Ravens Niners all year.

The Falcons will claim the final playoff spot in the NFC.

I'm gonna say Atlanta [makes the playoffs]. I like Heineke. He plays a fun brand of football.

Jared Goff is a 'poor man's Matt Ryan'

He reminds me a lot of your former QB [Matt Ryan], maybe a poor man's Matt Ryan. It's not a slight on him. Matt's a great quarterback... Jared's great at the play action. He's great when you give him time. Get after him a little bit, speed up his clock. He's playing great right now. He's a guy that's resilient.

The top four teams in the NFC are the 49ers, Eagles, Lions, and Seahawks

San Fran obviously. Philadelphia. My boy Jared Goff and his Lions... the fourth best team in the NFC? I'm gonna say Seattle.

The top four quarterbacks in the NFL right now are Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Tua Tagovailoa, and Brock Purdy

Patrick Mahomes. Josh Allen. I've got two more I'm gonna go with—people are gonna be furious—Tua and Brock Purdy. [Leaving off Jalen Hurts] Brock knows his weaknesses, he knows his strengths... he's on a different level than most other quarterbacks in the league.

Brock Purdy's processing ability is on a different level than most NFL quarterbacks

The processing ability of [Brock Purdy] read one, read two, read three, every time he makes a decision to scramble outside the pocket, like the guy is almost perfect in the way that he thinks about the game and his mind just computes what's happening. So it's an amazing thing. This guy, he's throwing the ball down the field. It's not Checkdown Fest... Him up here [in the head], he's on a different level than most other quarterbacks in the league.

Sam Howell has already shown enough to be a franchise quarterback

Sam Howell has impressed me as being a tough motherfucker too. And he is making some good throws. There's no doubt and I think, I think he's already there [being a franchise QB].

The Ravens will be a dangerous team at the end of the year and very difficult to beat in the postseason

What I said all along about the Ravens is they're gonna be really difficult in the postseason. And the reason why is they're just going to continue to get better on offense... Todd Monken and Lamar [Jackson] are still figuring things out in his system... they're gonna be a really dangerous team at the end of the year.

Russell Wilson is playing himself out of Hall of Fame consideration with his performance in Denver

If that was a Hall of Fame career, those first 10 years and winning the Super Bowl and all those wins, it does feel like he's playing himself outta consideration the last few years. You look at his relationship with Sean Payton and how already you're getting the eye rolls.

The only way to stop the Eagles' 'tush push' is to legally or illegally blow up the center and quarterback to make them uncomfortable

How do you stop the tush push? Why are you not taking your biggest defender and having them try to time out the snap count and just blow up the center and the quarterback? Worst case scenario, that's a five yard penalty... next time they're like, 'oh my God, this is gonna happen again.' Jason Kelce's gonna be like, 'look, we gotta stop calling this play.' Make Jason Kelce uncomfortable.

The Super Bowl will be 49ers vs. Dolphins

I think, you know, this is not a hot take that, I think San Francisco's the best team in the NFC. So let's go San Francisco. Miami.

I won't sign as a backup for the Buffalo Bills because every starter I back up gets hurt

Let's think about, and you know, the history, some of the history of my career everywhere, I've been where I've been a backup, the starter goes down everywhere. It doesn't matter where I go. It doesn't matter who it is. It doesn't matter. The circumstance. We've got a broken jaw. We've got dislocated hips. We've got Liz Frank injuries. I would not want to do that to my boy, Josh [Allen].

I purposely stopped practicing while benched in Miami to prove I could come out of the stands and play at any moment.

When I got benched in Miami and Flores started doing the, Hey, let's put him in at the end of the game thing, I did not practice. I was there. I watched, I helped, I was active in meetings. I did not practice and throw a ball in practice from the time I got benched until the time you saw me play those games... cuz I wanted to prove to myself that I could come out of the stands at any point and play. And I did and I proved it to myself.

The Saints should stop scaling back Jameis Winston and just let him throw picks and be free

It's almost difficult for me to watch him play now because he's, he's not really playing his brand of football. Like it's so tame and almost like they've scaled it back so much for him... try to make him, you know, Drew Brees like that, it's not really who he is. We gotta let James free. We gotta let him spread his wings. We don't need 30 picks in a year. But like Jameis, like 15 picks is okay, because he's going to throw the ball down the field and make plays.

Joe Burrow is a top-three quarterback in the NFL

Joe burrow like makes it look very, very easy, but that dude throws it down the field. Like he's not one of, a lot of these new age quarterbacks is like efficiency and we're throwing the five yard passes... Joe burrow to me is a guy wanted to hate, but absolutely love watching play. I'd say he is in my top three. Ooh.

Josh Allen is the best quarterback in the NFL

For me, and the reason that some of these guys really bug me and the reason that I love a guy like Josh Allen... this is the reason that I think Josh Allen is the best quarterback in the NFL... we've got the talent. He's also the dude that sits in the locker room and he's just a dude. He can just be the Carson Palmer for me when I was young... if the leader of your football team can do that and is that human being, then it just resonates with everybody and sets a tone in the building.

Justin Herbert is a leader by talent, but he is not a vocal leader and won't be giving pregame speeches.

Justin Herbert is the leader of that team because of his talent. But he is not a vocal leader. He, he can have people follow him by the way that he plays. But he's not the leader in that locker room in terms of the way that he presents himself or talks or, you know, he's not gonna get up and give a speech before a game. And even if he did, like, that's not him.

I used to dislike Derek Carr for a long time, but he is slowly moving into the category of quarterbacks I like.

Car's actually a guy that is slowly moving in the right direction for me that I dislike for a long time really to like, yeah.

Tom Brady has zero respect for me and has refused to shake my hand after games

I've told this story before, but he just pisses me off because you're in Buffalo... and we finally in 2011 knocked him off... and he threw five interceptions in the game... run straight off. Like no handshake, no, you know, quarterback middle of the field... just ran straight off. So it just, it bothered me so much because there was no respect there. And so I was like, every time I played him, after that, I was like, all right, like I at least got like, let's make this dude respect me.

Quarterback 'grit' is taking a big hit and immediately moving to the next play

for a quarterback, I feel like grit is being able to take the big hit and going onto the next play. It's the men looking at you and seeing some qualities that they like. You're kind of getting away from the pretty boy aspect of being a quarterback. Maybe not sliding feet first, but diving head first into the end zone.

FitzMagic is a very real psychological 'zone' characterized by crazy eyes and weird fidgeting

There is a very real like zone that I get into at times. And you start seeing the crazy eyes and the weird fidgeting body and it just, something takes over me. And I don't know what it is, but I guess we could call it [FitzMagic].

Jameis Winston's legendary work ethic is so intense that it actually becomes a detriment to his performance

he really is like, my biggest advice to Jameis [Winston] was go home, like stop spending so much time in the building because he works harder than probably anybody I've ever been around almost to the point where it's a detriment and he needs to go home and get his mind off it.

Buffalo has the most fanatical and unparalleled fan base in the NFL

I've loved a lot of the places that I've played. I really have, but nothing compares to the city of Buffalo. Nothing not even close. I love it.

I will not pursue a coaching career after I retire because I owe it to my family to be home

I don't [plan to coach]. I do love football. I think I love playing football. I do love the X's and O's of football, but I also feel like after I'm done playing... I owe it to my family to at least be dad and be home all the time.