Jets QB Ryan Fitzpatrick limited at practice with elbow, back injuries

New York Jets will come up against former boss Rex Ryan and the Buffalo Bills in a make-or-break week 17 game, live on Sky Sports.

“It’s just close. It doesn’t count”, Bowles said, adding that his team will need to learn from the Ravens’ upset win over the Steelers – a victory that pushed the Jets ahead of Pittsburgh in the AFC playoff race for the final wild-card spot.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J.- Brandon Marshall remembers the situation ever-so vividly.

Almost three years to the day since Fitzpatrick played and Gailey coached in their final games for the Bills, they have an opportunity to make their first trip back to Buffalo a memorable one in New York’s season finale Sunday.

“Oh, no”, Marshall said Wednesday, shaking his head.

“I don’t care”, said Tomlin. “I think we won nine or 10 games that year but we lost to East Carolina in a driving rain storm”.

His quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick, is in his 11th season and also hasn’t made it to the playoffs. I think maybe there’s guys that can handle that (being coach and personnel guru). But at the same time you know I don’t think you need to go in and say here is the message for the team only and things like that.

There was no way Pegula was going to fire Ryan one year into a five-year, $27.5-million contract, even when it became clear the Bills weren’t going to make the playoffs.

Whether an act or not, it was a subdued Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan who met with the media Wednesday, and the reason was likely twofold.

The very popular twitter hashtag that Jet fans have trending after Sunday’s overtime victory over the Patriots. And so I want our players to be themselves as much… It’s not about the money.

He also has a personal-best 13 touchdown catches.

It was a stunning result given the Bills (8-8) had nothing to play for after having already been eliminated from playoff contention for a 16th straight season – the NFL’s longest active drought. It will be a tight game, but the Jets will pull out a win and clinch the playoffs and are a team that can do some damage. The most obvious way to win the game will be to continue to rely on their power running game, which is No. 1 in the NFL, and try to control matters that way, but that won’t be easy against the league’s No. 1 rushing defense. “Myself and my teammates I’m pretty sure are just focusing on the game”.

“When I’m like hey, ‘We’re gonna be in the playoffs, ‘” Ryan said. After all, Fitzpatrick was acquired from Houston in March to provide an experienced backup to Geno Smith. Not after some up-and-down performances. But if you strip the 16 seasons away and the logo off the helmet, you have a team with the possibility – and I stress possibility – of the quarterback in the future; you have a No. 1-rated rushing offense; you have a lot of talent on offense, and offensively you went from 28th to 13th, so you have to give great credit to the offensive coordinator Greg Roman. “It’s the criticism that our teams takes that bothers me because…and the reason I say that is these guys play hard, man, and they prepare”.

Together, Fitzpatrick and Gailey have rediscovered much of the chemistry they had in Buffalo, where the quarterback led a no-name group and established his nickname “FitzMagic”.

“We won’t sit down by a cozy fire and roast marshmallows and talk about it”, Fitzpatrick said.