The QB of an 0-6 team, Dolphins’ Ryan Fitzpatrick is 0-6 lifetime vs. Steelers

For the seventh time over the past 12 seasons of Ryan Fitzpatrick’s career, he will start at quarterback against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday.

The Miami Dolphins are the eighth team Fitzpatrick has played for; should the 0-6 Dolphins lose Monday, it will be the fifth team Fitzpatrick has lost to the Steelers as the starting quarterback for.

“Since 2007 when I was a Bengal and started playing them, they play a certain brand of football,” Fitzpatrick told reporters in Florida this week, “and this year is no different.”

In actuality, Fitzpatrick’s first appearance against the Steelers came in 2008, his fourth season in the NFL out of Harvard and his second season with the Bengals. Subbing for an injured Carson Palmer that year, Fitzpatrick was sacked eight times and produced just 20 combined points over two losses to the Steelers.

He would lose to the Steelers again as a member of the Buffalo Bills (19-16 in overtime in 2010), Houston Texans (30-23 on a Monday night in 2014), New York Jets (31-13 in 2016) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (30-27 on a Monday night last season).

By Monday, that’ll make six teams, seven games and four primetime matchups against the Steelers.

But no wins.

Fitzpatrick is 50-78-1 as a starter overall; he has at least one victory against every other team he’s faced more than once. Fitzpatrick even has two wins as a starter against the New England Patriots (in 12 games) — he has played for all three of New England’s AFC East rivals.

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Fitzpatrick, 36, signed a two-year, $11 million contract with Miami in the spring to effectively serve as a stopgap during the Dolphins’ rebuild.

He started the first two games of the season, but coach Brian Flores turned to Josh Rosen after the Dolphins were outscored, 102-10, in those games. But when Miami lost the next three under Rosen, he went back to Fitzpatrick during a one-point loss in Week 6 to the Washington Redskins.

The Dolphins have been better since Fitzpatrick re-took the proverbial reins, even holding a lead at Buffalo through much of last week’s game.

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“I would say he’s been — ‘stabilizing’ is a good word,” Flores told reporters in Florida on Friday. “I’d say he’s definitely been that. … Really, across the board. Receivers, backs, offensive line — he has a presence about himself and a poise that brings the group together and it’s something we need right now. I think he’s brought that to the group.

“Again, he’s a veteran. He’s got kind of natural leadership and rapport with players, and those are some of the intangibles that go a long way at that position. We need that, and he’s done a good job from that perspective.”

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