Again, it's just a depth move. Many teams shift around their bottom of the roster players throughout the season. Next year Spiller will be off the books, so it won't really matter. Right now the Jets are trying to save their season, and J Marshall has been less than desirable in the return game. I guess if you think the season is over, you could justify complaining about it, but to the Jets, they are still in the race, so the move makes sense and should improve the team a little bit. They can always cut him if they lose another game or 2, and then bring in some young scrub that couldn't make an NFL roster to develop, or simply bring in more young talent in the off season. It's not like there's a shortage of young talent out there to roll the dice on.
Spiller once had 1700 combined yards playing for Gailey but that was in another lifetime..our FO probably thinks nothing has changed.
I don't think so. Fitz is a shotgun QB, and Ivory runs poorly out of shotgun. In fact, he looks lost there. He needs to be moving when he gets the ball. I think Forte is clearly better, and he catches better also. When Ivory came out on 3rd down it was like a neon sign to the defense.
Yeah he's killing it with 129 yards on 40 carries (3.2 ypc) in 5 games. Man we sure could use that production.
I mean yeah he was pretty bad but take it easy. No reason to have an aneurysm over a shitty fullback.
He's played five games. He runs out of gas incredibly quickly because of his running style. He wasn't the same player after the Washington game. The next three games he had 55 carries for 84 yards (1.6 ypc). I don't like what we did with our running backs, but Ivory at $6.4 million/year (7th highest paid in the league) was certainly not the answer.
he's nothing but depth in case forte or powell gets hurt. I don't expect spiller to see more then 2-3 snaps a game. At this point powell is much better then spiller, but if powell went down i'd much rather see spiller to spell forte then pope
He missed 2 games for us in 3 seasons.He ran for 1,070 yards last season had 7 TDs and 50 first downs and two runs of 40 yards+.Yea he was always injured....
I liked the way Ivory's hair whipped around after every collision....made things look 10 times more brutal! But you just knew those awesome hits would catch up to him. That said, I wish we had kept him. Him and Snacks.
He might not have missed a lot of games, but he was consistently banged up and ineffective after receiving a ton of touches early on in the season. He's the type of back you want to get 10-12 runs a game, specifically in the closing drives when your team has a lead, to finish off a tired defense. He definitely is not a feature back and he's proving that this year, and even proved that last year for us. He'd be the perfect compliment to a Shady McCoy, Jamaal Charles or even Devonta Freemen. Even though these guys have proven they can take the workload, Ivory at around $2-3 million would destroy defenses after facing a shifty running style early in the games or perhaps vice-versa in starting a game and letting the speed guys run right by a tired defense. Either way, he's not someone who can handle 20-25 touches a game all season long with the collisions he causes. That and in the modern day NFL, running backs who can't catch the ball leave offenses at a one dimensional disadvantage at times.
