The New York Jets hired head coach Todd Bowles this offseason after the organization cleaned house on the Rex Ryan regime.
There was a bit of back and forth on who the franchise would tab as their next offensive coordinator, but they ultimately settled on the guy many assumed was the frontrunner in the first place - Chan Gailey.
Gailey, who has been out of the NFL for two seasons following a wholly unsuccessful stint as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills, brings a wealth of NFL knowledge and experience with him to New York, having spent 10 total seasons as a coordinator and head coach.
While the quarterback position is the one that will draw the most attention from the fanbase and is surely in dire need of an upgrade, running back is also very unsettled. Chris Johnson, per Rich Cimini of ESPN, is slated to make $5.25 million next year despite participating in only 37 percent of the team's offensive snaps.
He's due a $500,000 roster bonus by Feb. 16 which in turn triggers the remaining year on his contract. The team can save $3.5 million by cutting him.
One free-agent-to-be, who has a history with Gailey - Gailey drafted him in the first-round during his time as the head coach in Buffalo - and could slide right into Johnson's space in the running back rotation alongside the bruising Chris Ivory, is CJ Spiller.
Spiller, per Cimini, is "the ideal fit" for the Jets.
He's a dynamic player in space who can make people miss and hit a home run every time he gets the ball in his hands.
His problem to this point has been a propensity for injury and the odd manner in which the coaching staff in Buffalo used him - they seemed to feed the ball to the dependable but much less electric Fred Jackson on plays that would have more fully utilized Spiller's dangerousness out in the open.
Spiller enjoyed a career-year under Gailey in 2012, running for 1,244 yards - a level of success he has not yet been able to replicate.
Gailey has a reputation as a coach who knows how to utilize his guys and has no problem adapting his scheme to fit his personnel, so perhaps bringing in Spiller will help assuage some of the other offensive issues facing the Jets as they begin the long road to rebuilding their once-proud franchise.
