Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Retired NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has a theory: He’s that ‘mother f---er’ Tom Brady referenced during HBO’s "The Shop" in 2021.
Brady was discussing his 2020 free agency on the show and how he would end up with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But during that explanation, Brady said that one interested team ended up going with someone else, to which he said, "You’re sticking with that mother f---er?" Fitzpatrick spoke on ESPN’s "The Dan Le Batard Show," claiming that he was that man while with the Miami Dolphins. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, right, talks with Ryan Fitzpatrick of the New York Jets at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Dec.
24, 2016. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) "I think I still am. I think I still am that guy," he said. "If you go back to that … before the 2019 season when the Dolphins are trying to assemble a roster that is going to help them get a better draft pick the next year, so it’s not like that was going to be an attractive situation for Tom anyway.
So, I’m not sure why he was so upset about it, but I still to this day believe that I am that mother f---er." VETERAN QUARTERBACK RYAN FITZPATRICK RETIRING FROM NFL AFTER 17 YEARS The Dolphins were a team involved in the Brady sweepstakes, so much so ex-head coach Brian Flores alleged that Miami tampered various times trying to get Brady to play for him.