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Originally Posted by aturnis
WOW! You too! I really hate seeing posters I respect in this light... You argued for a guy you know nothing of?
The team got better when Romeo Crennel took over, not when Orton took over, get it right.
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The passing game got better when Orton took over. Or did Crennel and his defensive genius somehow get credited for that too in support of your argument? With how our rushing game was in shambles due to Charles injury, Jones age, Mccluster being forced to play more touches than he was built for we needed our passing game to step up. It sure didn't with Cassel.
Yes Orton had his mistakes but the guy was playing with an all new team and coming off an injury at the tail end of a season that featured 2 playoff teams and 1 8-8 team. The fact is he was able to make proper changes at the line ( Something I had to laugh at because even Palko was better at reading plays at the line than Cassel, not much of anything else but he was better than Cassel at that ), and was able to get our offense to actually sustain more drives per game than we had with Cassel all year. I guarantee if you gave Orton a full season with this offense it would come out looking better than Cassel any day of the week. Would it be good enough? Probably not but I would bet my bottom dollar that this team had a chance to go farther with Orton than it did with Cassel.
I get it that Orton is gone and I am over it but the facts remain the same. Chad Henne, Jason Campbell, and Matt Flynn would have better promise than the loser.