'Good Juju': QB Fitzpatrick Adds To Reasons He Signed With Washington
A starting job? Check.
A chance to go to the NFL Playoffs for the first time in his 17-year career? Check.
A $10 million payday? Check.
"Good juju''?!
"This team,'' QB Ryan Fitzpatrick said of his new employer, the Washington Football Team, "there’s a lot of optimism. And there's some good juju in the building.''
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During an appearance on 106.7 The Fan's Sports Junkies. Fitzpatrick, 38, listed some of the reasons he signed on with the WFT.
Fitzpatrick said “there are more things that I like” about the WFT offense as opposed to the one the Dolphins ran with him last year. But more than that, while Fitzpatrick "checked off a lot of boxes'' for the team, in the parlance of the day, the team "checked off a lot of boxes'' for him.
“The No. 1 thing I was looking for in free agency was just a chance to play, a place that was gonna allow me to compete to be the guy,” Fitzpatrick said. “When I started to narrow it down, just I think coach (Ron) Rivera, the culture that’s being created, the youthful energy in the building, the playoffs last year — it was 7-9 but it was playoffs and I think that there’s a lot of optimism. And there's some good juju in the building. So I think a lot of those things factored into it.”
Fitzpatrick - famous for his leadership and his penchant for "Fitzmagic'' - has a lot of "juju'' to his game, too. So it's "juju'' meets "juju'' for a team hoping to repeat as NFC East champs and for a QB looking for his first taste of playoff glory.
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