After starting 5-2 this season, the Bills still endured their seventh straight losing year. "I guess we weren't ready for it yet," Ryan Fitzpatrick said. "We weren't ready to be able to accept the fact that we were playing well and playing as the team that was on the top (of the AFC East)." Fitzpatrick started the season well. He passed for 1,739 yards and 14 touchdowns while giving up just seven interceptions and compiling a passer rating of 97.8 during those first seven games. The Bills and Fitzpatrick both took a nosedive shortly after a new contract was reached. During the ensuing seven-game losing streak, Fitzpatrick compiled a passer rating of 66.2 and was picked off 12 times while throwing for just eight scores.