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Listen, instead, to Fitzpatrick explaining the drive to make the dream of an undefeated season of his own a reality, and how his favorite moment of the season was not the 35-3 win over Yale, or the 31-10 clincher over Penn, or even the moment that 21-point deficit against the Bears was erased...
Listen to him describe the deep collective inhalation at halftime against the Bears, when Fitzpatrick looked around at his teammates and decided that it was too early in the season to give up on that dream of perfection...
...talk to his own coach, Tim Murphy, the man who plucked Fitzpatrick out of Gilbert, Ariz., and watched the kid with only one I-AA scholarship offer blossom over the next four years into a Harvard opponent’s worst nightmare. Murphy will tell you about Fitzpatrick’s “intangibles”: his mental and physical toughness, the way he thrives on pressure and competition, and the unquantifiable effect Fitzpatrick has on those around...
...will talk, you have to talk, about the perfect seasons. Fitzpatrick has had two, starting with the 2001 edition when he was just a wide-eyed freshman filling in for ailing Neil Rose ’02-’03, but it’s the legendary 2004 season that was really his. The 10-0 Crimson had the best Harvard football season since the 1901 squad went 12-0, finishing as Ivy champions and the only undefeated team in Division...
...talk, looking back, about the perfect season, you can finally get past the bewildering haze of statistics and honors to see that those things don’t quite reveal what makes Ryan Fitzpatrick a great player, or a special player, or a valuable player. They help to explain it, sure. But you can get a better sense of it when you stop talking and just listen to the man himself...