Bob Glauber
Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.
For almost an entire season, Ryan Fitzpatrick was the best feel-good story going in the NFL, a man who picked his career up and carried an unlikely Jets team to the precipice of a playoff season after a 4-12 meltdown last year.
He took advantage of that stunning knockout blow to starter Geno Smith, whose world changed the morning of Aug. 11 when linebacker IK Enemkpali slugged him in the jaw over an unpaid $600 airline ticket.