Posted Sat Jun 13th by Josh Temple
Head coach Josh McDaniels officially named Kyle Orton the 2009 starting quarterback for the Broncos Saturday as they prepared for the final day of mandatory off-season workouts coming up tomorrow. Orton had been battling with former Bucs QB Chris Simms. McDaniels felt that naming Orton the starter in June will help him develop throughout training camp being “the guy” rather than battling for starting spot.
“There’s a lot of difficult aspects about what we ask our quarterback to do in our offense and Kyle has really grasped some of them more quickly than Chris did”
McDaniels did go on to say that he told Kyle that this is in no way set in stone and that there are no roster locks at this point in the year and he will have to continue to play well throughout camp:
“I just think it puts them in a little bit of a pressure situation where now one of them has it and has to keep it and the other one has to get it,”
“They’re still going to compete with each other and I expect the competition to be the same that it’s been. They both have great attitudes and know that nothing’s determined in June.”
This call by the new coach definitely makes sense. Naming Orton the starter going in before camp start will allow Kyle become more familiar with the offense and get a better feel for the guys he’ll be throwing to on Sunday. Sounds like McDaniels did not want any sort of QB controversy through camp, putting that drama to rest right away.
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