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Ryan Fitzpatrick’s mentor had this advice after crushing loss

When we last left the Jets in a game of significance, Ryan Fitzpatrick had thrown three soul-crushing, fourth-quarter interceptions in a 22-17 season-finale loss to the Bills that kept the Jets out of the playoffs despite a 10-6 record.

The New York sports radio airwaves barely had the chance to heat up the anger after that Jan. 3 defeat in Orchard Park before Fitzpatrick was on the phone with one of his mentors from years past to hash it all out.

Gus Frerotte, who quarterbacked seven different teams in his 15-year NFL career, was on the other end of the line trying to impart to the Jets quarterback the importance of moving on.