The journey of Chris Ivory: Dismissed, discarded and, finally, celebrated

DaveinCoalinga said

The best back we had. This team has had 4 very good RBs that I remember. Rogers, Hilliard, Duece and Thomas. Notice, no Ivory. Ivory is a great runner who gets banged up quite a bit, can't pass block, doesn't catch and plays for a run first offense. How would that fit what Payton does?

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See, this is what I want to know. Has Ivory learned how to pass protect and work out of the shotgun? Maybe he has. I don't watch the Jets games. I don't know.

But I can understand Payton's and Loomis' thought processes. Our wagon is hitched to Brees, not to the running game. If Ivory limits how "multiple" we can be, and he's an injury risk, the trade makes sense.

Ingram probably isn't as good as Ivory, but I give Ingram a lot of credit for expanding his game. You now see Ingram flanking Brees in the shotgun on third down. That was unimaginable three years ago.

With that said, Man is it fun to watch Ivory run over Falcons players.