Fitzpatrick leads Bills past Redskins at Rogers Centre
Posted Oct 31, 2011 05:12:19 AM.
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TORONTO – Ryan Fitzpatrick showed Sunday why the Buffalo Bills felt he was worth $59-million.
Fitzpatrick threw two TD strikes to Scott Chandler as Buffalo beat the Washington Redskins 23-0 for its first regular-season win of the Bills Toronto Series.
The resurgent Bills (5-2) improved to 3-3 in Toronto but are just 1-3 in regular-season contests.
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Buffalo hasn’t made the NFL playoffs since 1999 but last week signed Fitzpatrick to a $59-million, six-year contract extension. The deal includes $24-million guaranteed and makes Fitzpatrick the highest-paid player in club history.
Not bad for a Harvard grad and ’05 seventh-round pick who spent his first four NFL seasons with St. Louis and Cincinnati before landing in Buffalo in 2009.
Fitzpatrick, 28, has flourished with the Bills, going 9-5 in his last 14 games.
Sunday’s contest was the sixth of eight Buffalo will play here through next season as part of the series.
The attendance was 51,579 at the Rogers Centre, which seats 54,000 for football.
