Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Tom Brady anger goes well beyond ‘motherf–ker’ theory

Tom Brady has been “pissing off” Ryan Fitzpatrick since the former quarterback played for the Bills over a decade ago.

During an appearance on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast, Fitzpatrick said Brady showed him “zero respect” during their matchups through the years. The ex-QB — who is now an analyst for Amazon’s “Thursday Night Football” coverage on Prime Video — recalled facing Brady and the Patriots on a number of occasions during his stints with the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins.

“I’ve told this story before, but he just pisses me off. Because you’re in Buffalo, you’re playing New England, they’re kicking our ass every single year they’re beating us,” Fitzpatrick said. “We finally in 2011 knocked them off. It was right at the beginning of the season. We had this great start and he threw five interceptions in the game, which was just wonderful to see every single one of them. Just wonderful to see.

“And (Brady would) run straight off. Like, no handshake, no quarterback middle of the field, no, ‘Where are the cameras? OK, hey, stay healthy buddy.’ Just ran straight off. So it bothered me so much because there was no respect there. Every time I played him after that, I was like ‘All right, let’s make this dude respect me.’”

Fitzpatrick also doubled down on his comments that he was “the mother-f–ker” that Brady spoke about on “The Shop” in 2021, when he discussed a team that wasn’t interested in his services during free agency before he ultimately joined the Buccaneers in 2020.

“It had to be me,” Fitzpatrick said, referring to Brady’s comments. “Zero respect. He’d never shake my hand.”

Fitzpatrick went on to share that he finally got his handshake moment with Brady when the Dolphins beat the Patriots in Brady’s last regular-season game with New England in 2019.

“Ended up in New York with the Jets and with Miami beating him. The last one was especially sweet because it was the Tank For Tua year. … They beat us by 40-something points at the beginning of the season,” Fitzpatrick recalled.

“They needed to beat us to get home-field advantage and it was his last regular-season game as a Patriot, and we go and we score at the end of the game and beat them.”

However, Fitzpatrick said he “probably initiated” the handshake with Brady at the time, after the Dolphins beat the Patriots, 27-24.

Fitzpatrick announced his retirement in June after 17 years in the league. Meanwhile, Brady is in his 23rd NFL season after un-retiring in March to tend to “unfinished business” on the field.

The seven-time Super Bowl winner has not yet addressed Fitzpatrick’s comments publicly.