Orton Hears a Bus...

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Wow. Of course if by some bizarre series of events Orton stayed in Denver and started at QB for us this year you'd be certain he was a pile of dog shit.

How do you know what I'd be certain of? Orton has been pretty good for you guys the last couple of years, much better than I expected. I love this move. Only time will tell much worse/better Tebow and Quinn are.

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Originally Posted by Backwards Masking

How do you know what I'd be certain of? Orton has been pretty good for you guys the last couple of years, much better than I expected. I love this move. Only time will tell much worse/better Tebow and Quinn are.

Yeah, I think Orton has been pretty decent. The problems with the Broncos can't be laid entirely at his feet at all. We haven't run blocked well and we haven't had a lot of continuity on Offense. Our Defense has been incredibly weak as well.

Trading Orton is a calculated move of ability vs. potential. If we were an all around good team then I would say keep him and keep building up the team. But we are in a rebuild, so the hope is that Tebow hits his potential as we build a team around him. I think Tebow is going to be a very good Quarterback with substantial playmaking ability.

Quinn just plain sucks. We snagged a UDFA QB and I am hoping that we trade Orton, cut Quinn, then sign Jake Delhomme.

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Yeah, I think Orton has been pretty decent. The problems with the Broncos can't be laid entirely at his feet at all. We haven't run blocked well and we haven't had a lot of continuity on Offense. Our Defense has been incredibly weak as well.

Trading Orton is a calculated move of ability vs. potential. If we were an all around good team then I would say keep him and keep building up the team. But we are in a rebuild, so the hope is that Tebow hits his potential as we build a team around him. I think Tebow is going to be a very good Quarterback with substantial playmaking ability.

Quinn just plain sucks. We snagged a UDFA QB and I am hoping that we trade Orton, cut Quinn, then sign Jake Delhomme.

I totally understand starting Tebow and building for the future while in rebuild mode. What I don't understand is wanting Quinn as a backup over Orton. Must be that Orton is commanding a far greater salary, cause you're right, Quinn from what I've seen just plain sucks.

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Originally Posted by Backwards Masking

I totally understand starting Tebow and building for the future while in rebuild mode. What I don't understand is wanting Quinn as a backup over Orton. Must be that Orton is commanding a far greater salary, cause you're right, Quinn from what I've seen just plain sucks.

Agreed. All I would add is that the rosters are far from set at this point. I know it isn't fashionable to say here but Denver has a front office guy who knows a little about the QB position.

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Originally Posted by Backwards Masking

I totally understand starting Tebow and building for the future while in rebuild mode. What I don't understand is wanting Quinn as a backup over Orton. Must be that Orton is commanding a far greater salary, cause you're right, Quinn from what I've seen just plain sucks.

I honestly don't know what anybody sees in Quinn, but I think the idea is to get what they can out of an Orton trade because he only has one year left on his contract and we'll lose him next year for nothing.