I’m sitting here trying to find a silver lining in the Broncos immediate future and not finding one. They blew another game yesterday in Tennessee in the same redundant fashion they have over the last 5 years.
The D did a great job of keeping the game close and holding
Chris Johnson in check. That’s an amazing accomplishment because for the last 2
years the Broncos have been dead last or near the bottom of the league in rush
defense. Still near the end of the game when they needed stops in the 4 Q they
didn’t materialize. As always it has to be said football is a team game, the OL
didn’t play well in the running game and McGahee who was effective some last
week couldn’t break out. The mouthy Lloyd was invisible and couldn’t get any
separation and he’s supposed to be our best WR (Decker will soon take over that
role) on the team.
The big moment in the game was when the Broncos had the ball
inside the 5 yard line of the Titans and ran 4 unimaginative plays resulting in
zero points and that was the turning point in the game. It was horrible play
calling to be sure and in hindsight the FG would have been the right decision
but I understand why Fox wanted to score 6. With first and ten and 4 chances to
score a TD inside the 5 an average offense can usually find a way to get it
into the end zone but not this team and not with this QB as the starter.
This hard headed and brutal fact says it all. Orton sucks in
the red zone. You have to score TD's to win games. Maybe some of the haters on
Tebow hate him because they believe he's not ready to be a starter because he
isn't experienced enough but believe he can help score 6 points near the goal
line.
So I 'm totally confused. How then, is Orton’s experience a
bigger plus than Tebow’s when he can’t help the team put points on the board?
So then the next question would be why should Orton be allowed to continue to
start if can’t help the team scores TD’s? In 2 ½ seasons of football he’s been
mostly ineffective, if Tebow can score why shouldn’t he be put in during those
situations or better yet give him the starting job altogether?
It can’t be explained away; Orton can complete a short pass
when he has 5 minutes of protection and can stand like a frozen statue in the
pocket to complete maybe one or two short dump off throws between the 20’s. And
most of the time he doesn’t move the ball between the 20’s, more often than not
it’s a 3 and out or a 6 and out and never comes close to the opponents 20. On
the far too rare occasions he does get the ball inside the 20 he rarely leads
the O to a score. Since Orton is so one dimensional and predictable in the red
zone and the passing game of the Broncos or the threat of a rushing TD is
greatly diminished why in the hell would he continue to keep his job?
Here’s the bigger question, is a lot of bad experience
better than a young player with no experience? If Tebow comes into a game and
throws 3 INT’s and scores 2 TD’s on a rush or a TD pass and the Broncos win the
game isn’t that the goal? Tebow may be ugly in there at times during a game and
win ugly but that’s far better than playing ugly and losing ugly which is what
Orton has been and will continue to do for the Broncos.
Next week it’s the Packers my friends and the Broncos will
find themselves at 1-3. I’m not sure I’m even going to watch this game live
because this one is going to be a slaughter of mind bending proportions. I’ll
probably do what I did this week and flip between the better games playing on
the Sunday ticket such as the Loins and Vikings or the Bills or Pats and that
Texans/Saints game which was a hell of a ball game too and watch the Broncos on
the DVR later.
It’s cool to see teams like the Bills and Loins get things
turned around, I love it when underdogs win but in all honesty even though the
Broncos are underdogs they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of beating a
team of the Packers caliber. As I said last week, we’re in for a long, painful
and very boring season of discontent especially if Fox lets Orton keep his job.
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