Todd Bowles ended the speculation today, after the recent injury to Bryce Petty, Ryan Fitzpatrick will start again on Sunday. Christian Hackenberg will be active for the first time, but it doesn’t sound like Hackenberg will play unless the game is lopsided either way. Bowles doesn’t normally offer very detailed explanations for his decisions and that was the case this time. Here is the reasoning behind starting Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n
Because he was the backup and now he\u2019s the starter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He did give additional thoughts on why it isn’t important for Hackenberg to play this week.<\/p>\n
Bryce (Petty) had four games to get ready for. We\u2019re not going to gain or lose nothing by looking at Christian or not in this game.<\/p>\n
Anybody that hasn\u2019t played. They won\u2019t be ready until they play, but you don\u2019t leap frog people to start playing. If Fitz gets hurt and he gets to play, you\u2019ll see him play, but if not it doesn\u2019t mean anything plus or minus that we\u2019re not playing him this year. We had a plan for him going in when we drafted him. He\u2019s taken a lot of reps in practice. If Fitz gets hurt, he\u2019ll go in there and play. If Fitz doesn\u2019t, he won\u2019t play, but he\u2019s ready to play. He\u2019ll be ready to play. Obviously with experience comes better play and you\u2019ll see a bunch of things, but putting him in right now isn\u2019t going to hurt or help him.<\/p>\n
All of them had mechanical problems coming out (of the NFL Draft). We didn\u2019t need him to play right away because going off of last year, Fitz had a great year and Geno (Smith) was coming back. The idea was to put him on the shelf regardless and let him get better going in. He wasn\u2019t going to come in and then beat out the two guys that were ahead of him, or three guys that were ahead of him. He can use some mechanical work and he got better as the year went on. That will only show in the game, but (putting) him out there in the last game and say his mechanics aren\u2019t great or his mechanics aren\u2019t bad doesn\u2019t make any sense either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The game won’t mean much for either team, except for draft position. The Bills fired Rex Ryan, along with his brother Rob on Tuesday. So the revenge matchup angle isn’t there any longer.<\/p>\n
It would have been nice to get more game film on the young QBs, especially since Ryan Fitzpatrick won’t be on the team next season. Bowles said the team will talk about Petty’s future in the offseason. He did say he hasn’t had surgery yet and there is no timetable yet for his return to the field.<\/p>\n
Here is the assessment of Petty from his head coach.<\/p>\n
On how Petty played this season\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n
We won one, so that was a good game. We lost the other two, so not so great by anybody.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>On what Petty needs to work on\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n
Mostly his reads. Getting his reads down. Controlling the game, a little bit more.<\/p>\n
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