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Jets scrambling for dollars to sign Ryan Fitzpatrick

We all want things we can’t afford, even the New York Jets, who have a league-low $565,000 in salary cap space and no viable quarterback options on the current roster.

In a last-ditch effort to alleviate both of those problems, the Jets have approached left tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson and asked him to take a pay cut in order to re-sign Ryan Fitzpatrick, the New York Daily News reported.

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Not only does Ferguson have one of the coolest first names in all of sports, he has a monster contract and is set to count $14.