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Published on 11/22/2011 at Tue Nov 22 14:12.
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Kyle Orton

Quarterback Kyle Orton #8 of the Denver Broncos drops back to pass against the Cincinnati Bengals at Invesco Field at Mile High on September 18, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

The Denver Broncos have waived QB Kyle Orton, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.

The decision is financially driven, per the report. The Broncos have no plans to use Orton the rest of the 2011 season with Tim Tebow now starting, and they owe Orton $2.5 million over the remainder of his contract. With injuries to Matt Cassel of the Chiefs, Matt Schaub of the Texans, and Jay Cutler of the Bears, the Broncos are hoping a team will place a waiver claim for Orton, letting them off the hook for the remainder of his contract.

Kansas City and Chicago both loom on the Broncos remaining schedule; if either claims Orton, the Broncos won’t be saying goodbye to their former starter for long.

  • Dante Pakistan

    He can take hits but for how long? Hopefully he can complete a pass before he does get hurt.

    The point is, it’s a gimmick offense, they arent sustainable, especially when there’s no threat of the pass. The ball Decker threw last week was better than 70% of Tebows passes.

  • clara martin

    I hope Orton lands somewhere that he can do a great job.  Players who get shuffled here and there should be sympathized with instead of booed. 

  • Anonymous

    The word you’re grasping for is milquetoast, Idiot.  

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t even look at their schedule, and that’s not really the point.  This could come back and bite us in our ass is my point.  

    Besides, I’ve seen a hell of a lot crazier crap than KC winning four straight.  

  • Tom9798

    What!?  That’s right, what.

    What has K.O. done for the Denver Bronco’s?

  • King

    Why?  Orton was booed because of his poor play and his attitude towards the fans and loosing. 

    He won’t do a “great job” anywhere.  That’s why he’s a stop-gap/journeyman QB.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah…Miami was the only team interested for a third rounder, which is what we were demanding for him.  

    Also, Orton didn’t have a  no-trade clause.  If we make the deal, he goes.  Period.  He didn’t have the right to hold up anything because he wanted an extension.  If someone had been willing to give up a fifth or a sixth and rent him for the rest of the year?  Tough titties, Kyle.  Pack your bags.

  • johnny

    All of em.
    How about those “Bronco” fans when Tebow is the starter and doesn’t get traded or released? hmmm? jeesh.

  • johnny

    “milquetoast”.  Really? 

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    How many QB’s have you ever seen taking snaps out of the wildcat?  Zero?  Is it zero?   

  • King

    It’s been reported that Orton and his agent were responsible for the trade falling through due to the $$/year.  Either way, no matter now.

  • King

    Orton outperformed Tebow in camp, and we went 1-4 with Orton. 

  • Anonymous

    Hey, way to totally miss the point.  

  • King

    I’ll give you and dante some credit:  You 2 are good at moving the goalposts! 

    Apples to oranges.  We don’t run the wildcat.  And that is what Dante was trying to compare our offense against.  2 totally different animals (pardon the pun).  lmao

    Mr. Pakistan would rather see us lose than win, judging by his posts.

  • King

    For real!  They only put up 3 points on NE last night! 

  • King

    They’re better in “practice”. 

  • King

    Just repeating what was reported by Vic Lombardi.  If he “missed the point”, well…

  • Anonymous

    Here’s what you typed, guy:

    “You can’t compare Miami’s wildcat play with our offense.  Apples and oranges when you have a QB like Tebow that can take hits”

    Usually in the wildcat, you’ve got RB’s and bigger wideouts taking the snap out of the shotgun.  Those guys know how to take hits. 

    It’s actually quite comparable…utilizing the standards YOU set. 

  • johnny

    again “milquetoast”.  Do you think it’s really really worth it?

  • Anonymous

    good god, man.

  • Anonymous

    Dude goes out of his way to insult me and then screws up the insult.  I’m supposed to let that slide?

  • rcsodak

    Reported by whom? You? Lol
    Shefter said it was Mia ownership that backed out of the done deal at the 11th hour. Put your orton hate asid.e(or naivete’).
    Mia had no intentions of having the same HC in ’12, so why plug any money into a qb when they could have cheaper.

  • Anonymous

    It gets even sadder, the Broncos front office let him go so he could play in Chicago…

    What the hell are they smoking?

  • Anonymous

    Classy move? No, it was a epically moronic move.

    They could have traded him this summer if they weren’t asking for such a high draft pick in exchange. Then they kept him, which pissed off a vast majority of the fan base, and he sucked.

    Now he could possibly go to Chicago, where he could possibly start, and could possibly beat Denver in an extremely embarassing defeat.

    I really hope you don’t know any Bears fans.

  • Maurice Dingelberg

    A chef?  Is he changing occupations?

  • King

    Direct your hate toward the name stated in my last post.  lmao.

  • King

    You never know.  He might actually make a good one! 

  • King

    You still don’t understand.  I once again wasted my time with you.  Your understanding of football is rudimentary.

  • Tom9798

    This from “Mr. Google,” who replied to a post
    with the word, “mouthfarts.”

  • Anonymous

    Herc is a Bronco fan, he just has a different way of showing it!

  • Anonymous

    bwahahahahahahaa

    ok, guy.  Keep f’ing that chicken.  

  • Anonymous

    At least my comments are coherent.  Unless you’re an ESL guy, your stuff is an embarrassment.  

  • King

    Unfortunately, really.  lmao

  • King

    Your ‘opinion’ is that it was a moronic move.

    I was no fan of Orton, but what we wanted for Orton in August was fair.  Why should we have given him away for a low pick? 

    Think about it.

  • King

    I’m sure many of them will still be Denver fans.  Even if a lot leave if Tebow is traded, you gotta remember, many of them probably live in areas where there is no team to support.  (Like Jacksonville lmao). 

    There’s no downside to having more fans.  I hope they hang around and buy merchandise/tickets/etc. 

  • King

    “He didn’t have the right to hold up anything because he wanted an extension.”

    Not applicable with that deal.  Go read the mile high report on the Orton trade deal back in August.  He refused to take less money.  He was under contract, so he did not have to take the deal.

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  • Anonymous

    No. It was a moronic move. 

    They did this to save some money. If they really wanted to save some money they should have traded him before he collected the majority of his $8.9 million paycheck. The Broncos have already paid him over $6 million dollars.

    Now the Broncos will gain nothing but four losses from Orton. If they would have kept Orton and let him go in free agency they would have at least received a compensatory pick. Now, the team that claims Orton will get that compensatory pick.

    What part of that makes sense?

  • Anonymous

    Please pay attention, ok?
     
    It was MIAMI who had to have the extension.  It was MIAMI who wouldn’t send a conditional third w/out the extension.  Denver was willing to let Orton negotiate with Miami in order to get that third.  It didn’t work out.  Whose fault was it?  Who f’ing cares?  It’s completely irrelevant to the point I made. 
     
    My point is that Denver didn’t HAVE to let Orton negotiate jack.  That was MIAMI’s term.  If Denver would have been willing to take a fifth and someone had been willing to rent Orton for a year, Orton had no say.   But no, Denver HAD to have a third.  If they back off that, maybe someone’s willing to rent him, maybe not.  
     
    East’s original point is that Denver wanted too much in return for someone they wound up letting walk for nothing. 

  • King

    “If they back off that, maybe someone’s willing to rent him, maybe not.”

    Right.  And the answer was, “not”.   And that’s because he sucks.

  • King

    What makes sense is cutting his salary before the end of the season knowing that he won’t be a Bronco next year under any situation since Orton is stuck on getting paid 8-9 mil/year.  Keeping Orton on for a few games was smart in case Tebow went down with injury or if we lost. 

    All this goes back to Orton not being worth anything of value anymore.  That’s why we couldn’t get rid of him in August.  This is obvious.

  • Anonymous

    Cut him sooner, someone claims him sooner.  If someone claims him sooner, that’s less money that we have to pay him to hold a clipboard. 
     
    This is a simple concept.  One even you should be able to grasp. 

  • Anonymous

    Wait a sec.  So you bash Tebow for the first half of the season and say what an awful QB he is and how he shouldn’t even be in the league.  Now you’re ragging on the FO for not trading Orton for a 5th round pick before the season started when they had similar concerns about Tebow?    Seems a bit hypocritical.  

  • Anonymous

    Really, that one got wiped?  You’ve got guys a couple of threads down calling each other gay slurs and dropping fully spelled out f-bombs left and right and that one somehow violated the terms? 
     

  • Anonymous

    It is extremely presumptuous to think that Herc was ever a fan of Orton.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he actually meant milk-toast? 

  • Anonymous

    They should have moved Orton early or dumped him when it became obvious that they were going to sink or swim w/ Tebow.  None of that is inconsistent with my opinions on Tebow or inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said about the situation.     

  • Anonymous

    He has a point as keyboardfarts would have been technically correct.

  • Anonymous

    http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-silver_rankings_john_elway_orton_tebow_112311

    This is worth reading.  Especially in regards to Tebow’s future and why Orton was not released sooner.