PAY THE MAN. DO IT NOW. Heres how I'd play it 2 year, 8 million dollar extension. 1 million dollar signing bonus 4 million guaranteed in total with a 3 million dollar base salary in 2016 fully guaranteed if he's on roster come the new league year. 1 mil in incentives in both seasons based on either reaching 1k yards on the ground or attaining 1.5k yards of total offense including receiving yards. Should he meet criteria twice, he earns a total of 10 million between now and 2017. 2016- 3 million dollar base salary, 3.3m cap hit, 333k in dead money if cut. 2017- 4 million dollar base salary, 4.3 m cap hit, 4m saved if cut. reasonably lucrative for a running back with an injury history, manageable cap hit each year, gives the jets an early out if he got hurt the rest of this year while giving Ivory a chance to hit the open market with cash in his pocket in that same event, plenty of flexibility in the future.
Chris Ivory is 3rd in the NFL in rushing yards. He is THIRD in the NFL. He missed a game to injury. We already had a bye week unlike nearly every other team. We could have the first Jets rushing champion since HOF 28. edit: He is 1st in the NFL in rushing yards per game. All Praise our 2nd savior Christopher Ivory,
Right now. This morning. He is the best RB in the NFL, statistically, and if he didn't miss a game (which we lost btw) it wouldn;t be close. I report. http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/rushing/sort/rushingYards You Decide. P.S. he's just slightly under a 2000 yard pace. (one game, ironically)
460 yards in 4 games, 5.5 avg, pretty impressive when you think teams try to load the box to stop him first
Shit....many bitched and moaned that he wasn't any good period....and that was right into this past training camp let alone last year's camp....unbelievable...
Yeah, I remember I think after the OTA's and going into camp people were wondering if Ivory would even make the team. He'd have to hold off Stacy, Richardson for a backup job. He didn't fit Chan's system. Ridley was going to be our feature back. So laughable.
I'm surprised at how good Giovanni Bernard's numbers are. If he had more carries, he'd be right up there with Ivory. All I hear offseason was how good Jeremy Hill was. Sorry, I know that's slightly off topic, but it jumped out. Ivory is the man.
He'd have to go over 2k for that to happen. Not sure I want to see him touch the ball enough times to get there.
He won't need to. The more of a known threat he becomes the easier it will be for Fitz to attack opponents horizontally.
I hope the cat stays healthy. He has made himself one damn good RB, all around too... and I hope he gets a good payday for his work.
Way better than Jamal Charles who averages 5.5 ypc for his entire CAREER. Let's see if Ivory can do it for the full season. He's his own worst enemy when he's seeking malicious contact vs. linebackers up 2 scores with 5 minutes in 4th quarters. It's awesome but he's going to get himself killed or lack the stamina to take that beating by week 14 at this pace. I hope he keeps it up. Something tells me if we continue to give him 25 touches a game plus keep him in on 3rd down for pass protection he's going to run out of steam. This season is a marathon, not a sprint.
What does career average have to do with anything? Is Thomas Jones with his 4.0 average as good as Curtis? Is Jamaal Charles 3 times the player Curtis was? Right now Ivory is among the top 5 backs in the league, easily. That's it, that's all we're talking about. Not who can block better, who can catch better, who did this 3 years ago better, that and so on. And nobody even said that factually Ivory is he best back in the league. I said I'd take him over any other back right now and I stand by it. You can stick with Charles, who cares. You can claim that Ivory is not even a top 10 back, that's up to you. Just stop telling people they have to share your opinion.
Ivory , Marshall and Revis - I honestly think that they are the critical pieces to this team over the course of this year. I personally think to win consistently we need all 3 because Ivory opens up the entire O, Marshall makes Fitzpatrick look better than he is and Revis is cog for Bowles to build his schemes around. It's imperative that we improve the depth behind Ivory because Powell and stacy aren't cutting it and we can't run him into the ground. The question for this weekend though is - is an 70-80 percent Ridley better than Zac Stacy? My gut says yes.
