Both Ryan Fitzpatrick and Tua Tagovailoa will be on your screen on "Thursday Night Football." That won't be the first time it has happened.Fitzpatrick and Tagovailoa were on the Dolphins' roster during the great Miami quarterback conundrum of 2020. Fitzpatrick was entering his second year in South Beach and Tagovailoa was making his NFL debut.Fitzpatrick would be dethroned by Tagovailoa, the No. 5 overall selection in the 2020 NFL Draft, as the team made the move to bench the veteran in favor of the neophyte. While he would appear in a few more games that season, the move to Tagaovailoa would signal the beginning of the end of Fitzpatrick's career in Miami and his NFL career as well.MORE: Here's how the two coexisted during a seemingly contentious transition in 2020: Fitzpatrick's second year in Miami turned out to be his last year in Miami, and a big part of that was the drafting and emergence (kind of) of Tagovailoa.While rookie pa sers are generally drafted to play,the circumstances surrounding Tagovailoa's debut were disappointing for Fitzpatrick. The veteran Yogi Ferrell Jersey feared it was the end of his career, and while he would play in a number of games following the change in Week 8, it was the beginning of the end.The day after Fitzpatrick's benching was announced, the quarterback had an emotional pre s conference where he let it be known that he was struggling with his football mortality:"I was shocked by it, it definitely caught me off guard," Fitzpatrick said. "It was a hard thing for me to hear yesterday, just kind of digesting the news. My heart just hurt, all day. It was heartbreaking for me."Ryan Fitzpatrick's thoughts after Dolphins named Tua Tagovailoa as the starter:Is this it? Was that my last game as a NFL starter going out there playing? Safid Deen (@Safid_Deen) Ryan Fitzpatrick: "I basically got fired yesterday and my day today consisted of zoom meetings with the guy who fired me and sitting in a room with the guy who replaced me for four hours." Armando Salguero (@ArmandoSalguero) The Dolphins, who were 3-3 entering their bye week in 2020, decided Chris Webber Jersey to make a change to fifth overall selection in that year's draft. It was a surprise to many, including Fitzpatrick, who had played well enough through the team's first six games and was coming off two very good offensive performances vs. the 49ers and the Jets.POWER RANKINGS: But, as it goes in the modern NFL, rookies seldom sit on the bench for the duration of their first Hassan Whiteside Jersey year. Tagovailoa was coming off a devastating hip injury suffered in college, and he was going to start when he was up to speed with the offense and the timing was right. That timing happened to be following the bye.A downcast Fitzpatrick pledged to put his feelings aside and help out the rookie,"There's two separate situations here. One, is with Tua, and I want him to do well and I think he's a great kid, and he has a really bright future," Fitzpatrick said in that pre s conference. "The other one is, my feelings and what I'm going through, and that has to be separate when I walk into this building and help him out. I've got to separate those feelings from being a profe sional and trying to help him out as best I can."The Dolphins went back to Fitzpatrick at times during the remainder of the 2020 season, as a spot starter and something of a "closer." Then-Miami coach Brian Flores would bench Tagovailoa in favor of the veteran in certain games.After starting off hot, the Dolphins went 2-8 the remainder of the season with Tagovailoa under center. In 2021, Fitzpatrick opened up a bit more on Flores' decision to start Tagovailoa. He told The Athletic he was pretty "floored" by the decision."I have a ton of respect for (coach Brian Flores), and we have a very good relationship. But I thought it was a joke at first. Were putting Tua in? I was floored. That was my team. I fought through the s with those guys. I get the way that the NFL works. I get it. But to have it happen the way it didUltimately, Fitzpatrick would buy into what Miami was trying to do with the rookie, understanding that Tagovailoa was the future of the team and needed an opportunity to work ( ):I was fully into helping Tua. And at the same time, I wanted this young guy, who Richaun Holmes Jersey otherwise would get zero reps throughout the year, to have an opportunity because I was in his shoes once. I sat there as a third- and fourth-string guy and just watched and watched and watched and never had any opportunity to get better.In 2022, Fitzpatrick is saying he always had a good working relationship with Tagovailoa. He recently said that he's happy to seeI really do thinka lot of this early succe s, is theway he's being coached and the relationship that he has with the head coach. Because I think that was a huge sticking point and something that just was difficult for him in the first few years.And I don't want to speak for him. But I'm sure it's evident to everybody the way that Mike McDaniel has come in and embraced Tua and made sure that he knows that he's the Dewayne Dedmon Jersey guy and that he's loved,and that they're on the same teamand trying to have succe s together. I think that's been really helpful for his mentality.Fitzpatrick suffered a season-ending injury in Week 1 of the 2021 season with Washington and announced his retirement in the summer of 2022. Tagovailoa, meanwhile, continues his ascent. Fitzpatrick is once again watching intently, only this time from the desk on Amazon's "Thursday Night Football" broadcast.