{"id":9670,"date":"2014-03-20T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2014-03-20T20:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:32:46","slug":"texans-add-ryan-fitzpatrick-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/20\/texans-add-ryan-fitzpatrick-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans add Ryan Fitzpatrick on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ryanfitzpatrick.jpg\" alt=\"ryanfitzpatrick\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6722\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ryanfitzpatrick.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ryanfitzpatrick-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/ryanfitzpatrick-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Houston Texans have added veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to their roster agreeing to a two-year deal with the former Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans signal caller.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick,\u00a031, appeared in 11 games for the Titans last season completing 62-percent of his passes for 2,454 yards and 14 touchdowns to go along with 12 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>The deal for Fitzpatrick is for $7.5 million with $4 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>While Fitzpatrick lacks the tools and consistency to be one of the NFL&#8217;s better options at quarterback, he will give the Texans a good bridge quarterback who is capable of winning games if forced onto the field.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Fitzpatrick gets 2 years, 7.5 mil, 4 mil guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McClain (@McClain_on_NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McClain_on_NFL\/statuses\/446794795659177984\">March 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Texans hold the No. 1 overall pick and have long been linked to drafting a quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Fitzpatrick it should be only a matter of days before the Texans cut Matt Schaub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans have added veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to their roster agreeing to a two-year deal with the former Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans signal caller. Fitzpatrick,\u00a031, appeared in 11 games for the Titans last season completing 62-percent of his passes for 2,454 yards and 14 touchdowns to go along with 12 interceptions. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,60,216,130],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-houston-texans","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-ryan-fitzpatrick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9675,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions\/9675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}