The NFC North: Where QBs Go to Die
NFL August 19th. 2008, 5:00pm
The Bears yesterday named Kyle Orton their Week 1 starter. He got the nod over Rex Grossman. In may be the only time someone from Purdue has trumped someone from Florida in an athletic endeavor. Actual email from a reader:
As a Purdue fan, this excites me. He tore it up at Purdue and can do the same in the NFL if they would open up the playbook for him.
Right. An open playbook is useless without players to pass to! Here are your NFL North QBs with what may be their career highlight:
Jon Kitna, Detroit - MVP of NFL Europe in 1997 when he led Barcelona to a title.
Tarvaris Jackson, Minnesota – Lost starting QB job at Arkansas to Matt Jones. Yup, that Matt Jones.
Kyle Orton, Chicago – The dude can booze.
Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay – If Cris Collingsworth doesn’t believe in him, why should you?
It’s not quite Scott Mitchell, Daunte Culpepper, Jim McMahon and Favre, is it?
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August 19th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
/what the email really said
August 19th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
damn…beat me to it.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Kitna is actually pretty damn good. Especially with those weapons. The Bears are going to suck farts though.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Collinsworth, TBL. Collinsworth.
Kita will get Calvin 75/1250/10 this year. Book it!
August 19th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Kitna, Mike NYC, Kitna.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Haha, very nice Sparty. My bad.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
It’s amazing to think the Bears actually had two receivers go over a 1,000 yards in one season (Jeff Graham & Curtis Conway in ‘95)
August 19th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
@Mike, I hope you are right. I got him as my #2 WR in my fantasy league. I made the mistake of taking Kitna last year as my QB, that didn’t work out so well.
And TBL, T-Jack was only the starter for 1 game when Jones was a freshman and our nitwit coach didn’t want to start him. And yes, he sucked ass then too.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
As a Purdue Alum, I hope Kyle Orton does great even if all of you lib’s (clown) are bashing him. Right now its really easy: He’s from Iowa, He has a neckbeard, and he seems like he can’t throw the ball. The Purdue fan AND TBL is right their offense blows but they also have no WR’s. The worst thing that happened to the bears was reaching the Superbowl with no QB by LUCK. Now they think they can do it again. I suppose Mr. clown economy wants Obama for QB because instead of throwing Touchdowns to WR’s he’ll sit down with the other team and talk about filling all of their tires with air and getting their car serviced. No thank you, Kyle good luck this year, and have fun leaving a carbon footprint with your Ford F-150.
/came out of the woodwork
August 19th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
indeed…your incoherency is quite welcome as well.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
flight 852 is purduematt?
August 19th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
clown just got served.
/not really.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
did PurdueMatt change his name or did his equally dumb brother just start commenting?
/possible personal attack
August 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
+1 Spence. The Bears are going to blow no matter who’s behind center. Their offensive line provides as much protection as a lego shield would in Baghdad.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
funniest part of the comment.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
“Carbon footprint with a Ford F150″ – I am a complete asshole yet I still believe this to be the comment of the century.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I don’t think it’s purduematt or he would have told us how great the economy is.
/eating ramens for dinner tonight.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
“if they would open up the playbook for him.”
They had to retard proof the playbook when he started last time because he spent more time boozing then studying.
Doesn’t matter when your # 1 receiver is an arena football alumnus and the other is Brandon Lloyd the Bears will be lucky to get 10 years pass wherever Hester returns it.
Go Bears.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
if there is one thing you take from this post, Purdue Alum’s are proud and stupid.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
unless you’re an Astronaut
August 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Kitna is actually pretty damn good
Kitna sucks. Always has, despite playing with studly WRs…
August 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
That really has to be Purduematt under another screen name. I mean really all purdue alums cant be that bad.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Did Liberty University change it’s name to Purdue on the sly or something?
August 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Sean Jean,
Kitna and to think I use to respect you.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
HaHa. I was just having some fun with all you regulars. Someone has to talk between Irish, Spence, and Clown. The bears with get beat 38-13 in the first regular season game against the colts and Orton will get shook up and not start Week 2.
/not purdue matt
August 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
if they would open up the playbook for him.
A QB that can’t even open his own playbook is useless!
August 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Someone is having identity issues.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
“The Bears will get beat…
August 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Clown would be an Orton fan if he made the league minimum.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Purdue summed up, in one Web Page:
http://purduesports.cstv.com/trads/national-championships.html
August 19th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Please dont even bring the jokes…My mom went to Purdue, got a BA and a Masters.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Flight852, thats a funny joke you just played.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Please explain to me how a team goes 13-3 in the regular season and wins 2 playoff games purely by luck. That’s the most asinine thing I’ve seen said here at TBL (and that’s saying a lot).
Or maybe it was because he was rookie who got thrown to the wolves prematurely with virtually no preparation due to injury (Grossman) and incompetence (Hutchinson)? Nah, that couldn’t possibly be it. It never ceases to amaze me how everybody just assumes that Kyle Orton sucks because of how he played as a rookie. If we judged all QB’s purely on their rookie season, there would very, very few good QB’s in NFL history. Is Orton going to be great? Who knows? Doesn’t it seem reasonable to at least see what he can do now that he’s got a little experience & preparation under his belt before writing him off though?
August 19th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Well he beat out Grossman and Grossman played in the Super Bowl, so there’s that.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I love delusional Bears fans.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I love delusional Bears fans.
How dare you.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
@Clown,
GDP grew at 1.9% last quarter.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Ah, the standard idiot TBL response. So which part am I delusional about? The part about how only a complete moron would say a team made the superbowl because they were lucky or the part about how only a complete moron would judge a QB solely by his rookie season? Both statements are absolutely true. But I’m sure it all seems totally logical to the dipshits that frequent this place. Do any of you people actually watch football or just form all your opinions from ESPN?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
How about the fact that he couldn’t even beat out Rex Grossman for the starting job last year – is that not relevant?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Considering he entered camp last year as the #3 QB, got little to no snaps, and was never given the opportunity to even compete with Griese for the #2 spot much less Grossman for the starting spot, no it isn’t relevant at all. The Bears were coming off a superbowl appearance and despite what the media would have you believe, Rex played good far more often then he played bad that year. Why on earth would they open up a QB competition in training camp under those circumstances?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
brh must be Kyle Orton.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Because Grossman completed 54% of his passes in 2006 and they reached the Super Bowl absolutely in spite of their offense?
The Ravens won it all with Trent Dilfer at QB in 2000. The next year they didn’t even bother to bring him back.
The coaches will play the best players. This year the Bears have practically flipped a coin to choose Orton – if that gives you confidence in him, maybe you are delusional.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I’d guess that out of Mike and brh, Mike is in fact the one who has watched football.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Answer me this: is Kyle Orton part Asian? I’m half Chinese myself. And through my slitty little eyes, I spy that K-Oh might be hapa.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:57 am
The Bears had the 15th ranked offense in 2006. The defense was obviously the main force, the offense most certainly did contribute. It wasn’t a 200 Ravens situation at all. Even if what you say was true (which it isn’t even close), how would that be luck?
And how did that work out for them? They’re still trying to find a competent guy to replace him.
No, they actually gave Grossman one last chance to show that he’s improved his poor decision making under pressure. He hasn’t shown that so they’re going with the QB they’ve been developing for 3 years in case Grossman never figured it out.
So you also think that’s it perfectly reasonable to judge a QB solely by his rookie performance and that teams go the superbowl because they’re lucky? Wow. This place never ceases to amuse the hell out of me.