Cutler Vs. Orton, Pre Season Week #2

Here we are in Week #2 of the preseason where all of Chicago continues to have high expectations for Cutler, although the Ricketts family did steal some headlines in Chicago this weekend. Meanwhile, after a 3-interception debut last week, many of the fans in Denver were left wondering whether 'Bad Rex' (Grossman) somehow replaced Kyle Orton on his trip between Chicago and Denver. So, here are the stats for Preseason Week #2...

Jay Cutler

Jay's stats: 8 of 13 for 121 yards with 1 touchdown and no interceptions. He also ran 1 time for 12 years. The Bears beat the Giants 17-3.

Not great, but solid. It seems that maybe Ron Turner still has the ability to make a gunslinger keep a gun in their holster, as the Bears ran 34 running plays and only 31 passing plays... but this blog isn't about whether Ron Turner is actually Chicago's 'quarterback curse', it's about Jay vs. Kyle, so back to the stats.

Jay did show that he can definitely zip the ball into small spaces on a couple of plays and looks like he's starting to feel good in the offense.

Kyle Orton

Kyle's Stats: 18 of 26 for 182 yards with 1 touchdown and 1 interception. He also ran (does Kyle actually 'run'?) twice for 3 yards. The Broncos lost 27-13 to the Seattle Seahawks.

Not bad at all... You might even look at that and say, with those yards and that many throws, we won't be too bad on him for the INT... but then you'd have to see the interception to actually analyze it. So, in my best 'play-by-play-blog-type', here it goes...

Seahawks in the red zone... Orton takes the snap... steps back... looking... looking... rolls left... coverage tight... Orton switches hands... lobs it with his left... INTERCEPTED IN THE ENDZONE... Did he really throw that with his left hand?

Yep, you got that right... he switched hands and threw it with his LEFT HAND! It didn't even look like a throw, it looked like, well, you know what it looks like when a righty with no left-handed skills tries and throw with his left hand. IT WAS THAT BAD! I think I wet myself laughing after watching that replay and just had to try and make you laugh as well.

The Verdict:

It's up to you, but based on Kyles lack of ambidextrousness (yep, it's a word, we checked) we're going with Jay this week.

It's still the pre-season and with Chris Simms getting his ankle rolled onto, it looks like we may get to do this at least one more week... We hope Kyle keeps the starting job, because this is getting fun and it may be closer than you think as the year goes on.

What do you think?

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