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Originally Posted by transplant99
Why? He wont cost them a thing beyond some salary and un-needed cap space this year...he is familiar with Lovie and lots of the remaining players and without question he is a better QB than hanie or Brunell at this point in their respective careers...he wont hurt anything moving forward and Martz or not, the Bears will live and die with the ground game moving forward with the opportunity to go deep based off that...something he also can do better than the remaining options.
To me, its a no-brainer if the Bears can grab him moving forward as they still have a really good shot at making the post season.
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Sorry, Brunnell is a Jet, I forgot to mention the team he is taking reps with.
Otherwise, I disagree. I think it would take Orton way too long to learn even a frtaction of Martz's offense and while Forte is basically accounting for 50% of the offense, a lot of his threat comes receiving out of the backfield.
One thing the Bears have been doing is making the pocket a little more mobile and even then Cutler usually has to leave it to give himself time and make plays on the run, something Orton really doesn't have the ability to do, he has poor mobility and is even worse throwing on the run. At this point the only thing I think he has on Hanie is experience. Hanie has a decent arm and much better mobility and as an added bonus, is much more familiar with the playbook.
I think this is Hanie's spot to lose for the next 6 weeks, and the only thing I'd like to see Orton do is back up Hanie as an emergency stop-gap. Even then I think someone like Marc Bulger could be a better option given his histroy with Martz