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Six Picks None The Richer: Ryan Fitzpatrick's Sunday in GIFs

Six interceptions in one game is a lot of interceptions. Like, a lot a lot.
TFW you are the lesser quarterback in this picture. Photo credit: John Rieger-USA TODAY Sports

Ryan Fitzpatrick came into Sunday's game after leading his Jets through a successful beatdown of Buffalo's defense. His next opponent was Kansas City's defense, which had been successfully tested by the Chargers and Texans in back-to-back weeks. It wasn't unreasonable to believe that both sides would continue their recent form. What happened instead was regression to the mean, in the meanest possible sense. Ryan Fitzpatrick showed off the form of 10 years of Ryan Fitzpatrick, and the Kansas City defense that was supposed to be one of the best in the NFL woke up. As a helpful way to illustrate this point, here are all six—six—of Fitzpatrick's interceptions.

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On pick one, you can see Marcus Peters playing off-coverage, baiting Fitzpatrick openly. Jets receiver Jalin Marshall runs a curl, and Peters simply beats Marshall to the football. Peters is on an insane statistical interception pace, only some of which is because of this game, but this was a poor decision.

The second is the most egregious of the interceptions. Fitzpatrick threw a slant to Eric Decker, but Derrick Johnson has moved into the flat, and the ball would have had to go through three different Chiefs defenders to actually reach Decker. A touchdown on this drive would have pulled the Jets within 10. Then, we get to the fourth quarter, where Fitzpatrick truly went HAM on the interceptions.

Knocking on the door of making it a one-score game again, Fitzpatrick steps up under pressure and actually makes a nice if blisteringly hard throw to Quincy Enunwa. Unfortunately for Fitzpatrick, Enunwa popped the ball up behind him, right into the arms of Marcus Peters. What can you say? The great ones find a way to pickcede under pressure.

After a couple of throws that were nearly picked off, Fitzpatrick got back on the ledger with this over-the-top pass that the safety picked off. This pass wasn't even close to the receiver, which makes me think it might have been a miscommunication. Or maybe, like most of these, it was just a really bad throw.

Every truly great interception performance needs at least one pick-six. This was just a case of Derrick Johnson recognizing the route, not letting Brandon Marshall block him out of the play, and having the ball find him as a result.

And for his sixth pick, Fitzpatrick threw to Brandon Marshall on the post in double coverage. It was after the two-minute warning in a 24-3 game. Fitzpatrick could have been selfish and checked down to keep the interception total manageable. But kudos to him, he stuck the landing.

Fitzpatrick became the first player to get picked off six times in a single game since the Chargers baffled Peyton Manning in 2007. Todd Bowles, your thoughts?