Ryan Fitzpatrick is one of the streakiest quarterbacks in NFL history and if every team had Jim Schwartz as their defensive coordinator, it would be “Fitzmagic” and not Tom Brady as the GOAT.
Fitzpatrick has had an up and down NFL career, but anytime he faces the Eagles and mainly defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, he takes his game to another level.
Fitzpatrick has been in and out of the Dolphins lineup this season, but on Sunday, he gouged the Eagles secondary for a season-high 365 yards and three touchdowns, two of them to DeVante Parker, who looked like an All-Pro against Eagles cornerbacks Ronald Darby and Jalen Mills.
After the Dolphins 37-31 upset of the Eagles in Miami, Fitzpatrick is now 4-0 against Schwartz, with a 106.1 passer rating. Over his last eight quarters played against Schwartz led defenses, Fitzpatrick has accounted for over 750 yards of total offense.
In those meetings, Fitzpatrick has nine touchdowns against four interceptions (106.1 passer rating) in those games.
Last year with Tampa Bay, Fitzpatrick went 27 0f 33 passing for 402 yards and four touchdowns in a 27-21 win over the Eagles.
In breaking down Fitzpatrick’s dominance of Schwartz, it appears that the Eagles defensive coordinator tends to get overconfident and complacent in battle. Against any other opponent, Schwartz tends to blitz about 23.2 percent of the time this season.
That 23.2 percent of blitzing is the highest of Schwartz time with the Eagles. When he faces Fitzpatrick though, he tends to dial up the pressure even more.
Last season during the loss to Tampa Bay, Schwartz dialed it down, blitzing on seven of his 35 pass plays.
On those blitzes, Fitzpatrick went 6-for-7 for 152 yards and a touchdown. Fitzpatrick gets rid of the ball quickly and as you saw all day Sunday, he gives his wide receivers an opportunity to make a play on the football.
Fitzpatrick doesn’t know any better and loves to take deep strikes down the field. That, unfortunately for the Eagles, is Philadelphia’s biggest weakness over the past two seasons.