Spiritguy
08-08-2010, 02:16 PM
For those of you that are pro and con Kyle Orton I found these few paragraphs written by Doc over at MHR very revealing. Here's to Kyle being healthy and having a great year!
Perhaps the real story of camp hasn't gotten hardly a word of press, which makes me happy to be able to get into it. Orton is in the best shape in years - I don't know if you caught it, but Kyle Orton finally admitted that his right ankle, the one that was injured in Chicago, mid-season, had never really healed. He was playing on it anyway, but it was bothering him the whole time, often badly. This led, in part, to his left ankle being hurt (This pattern is as common as heck, clinically. I wrote an article on why - find it here (http://www.milehighreport.com/2009/1/21/729963/broncos-injuries-and-recov)).
This is the first time in those two years that he's felt good, the injuries are healed and Tuten worked him like a rented mule in the offseason, so he should be in great shape. He's also had a chance to throw with his receivers in the offseason.
Everyone at the practices comments on him: He's got the self-confidence, his performance is head and shoulders above Tebow or Quinn, his passing is very accurate and, as you might expect from the circumstances, he's a lot more mobile. There goes another complaint about the guy - dang him. Just when people were getting up a good head of steam to rag about him......lol. So, three injuries in two years, missed a total of three games. That's not a bad record - you'd like to see him put together 16 games, and that should be his goal this year. Starting out without damage and injury already tends to help - I hope that it helps him this year. It wouldn't surprise me if his accuracy improves somewhat this year - having two legs that actually work can really change the way that you throw the football.
I'll also admit something - I have to wonder a bit about the folks who have made declarative after declarative statements about Orton and what he can and can't do, what could and could not improve from him, and yet now, in realizing that he was playing injured both years and was never close to his own physical best (which kind of helps, really, when you're trying to throw a football under pressure), and I have to wonder if any of them ever sit back for a moment and consider the difference between surety and accuracy.
Probably not, but I do wonder. I also often appreciate how easily writing reminds you of your own fallibility. There's an old proverb that when the Divine wants to make one humble, He gives them the urge to write. It's been true for me, certainly.
whole article here (http://www.milehighreport.com/2010/8/7/1611478/broncos-thoughts-and-musings-first)
Perhaps the real story of camp hasn't gotten hardly a word of press, which makes me happy to be able to get into it. Orton is in the best shape in years - I don't know if you caught it, but Kyle Orton finally admitted that his right ankle, the one that was injured in Chicago, mid-season, had never really healed. He was playing on it anyway, but it was bothering him the whole time, often badly. This led, in part, to his left ankle being hurt (This pattern is as common as heck, clinically. I wrote an article on why - find it here (http://www.milehighreport.com/2009/1/21/729963/broncos-injuries-and-recov)).
This is the first time in those two years that he's felt good, the injuries are healed and Tuten worked him like a rented mule in the offseason, so he should be in great shape. He's also had a chance to throw with his receivers in the offseason.
Everyone at the practices comments on him: He's got the self-confidence, his performance is head and shoulders above Tebow or Quinn, his passing is very accurate and, as you might expect from the circumstances, he's a lot more mobile. There goes another complaint about the guy - dang him. Just when people were getting up a good head of steam to rag about him......lol. So, three injuries in two years, missed a total of three games. That's not a bad record - you'd like to see him put together 16 games, and that should be his goal this year. Starting out without damage and injury already tends to help - I hope that it helps him this year. It wouldn't surprise me if his accuracy improves somewhat this year - having two legs that actually work can really change the way that you throw the football.
I'll also admit something - I have to wonder a bit about the folks who have made declarative after declarative statements about Orton and what he can and can't do, what could and could not improve from him, and yet now, in realizing that he was playing injured both years and was never close to his own physical best (which kind of helps, really, when you're trying to throw a football under pressure), and I have to wonder if any of them ever sit back for a moment and consider the difference between surety and accuracy.
Probably not, but I do wonder. I also often appreciate how easily writing reminds you of your own fallibility. There's an old proverb that when the Divine wants to make one humble, He gives them the urge to write. It's been true for me, certainly.
whole article here (http://www.milehighreport.com/2010/8/7/1611478/broncos-thoughts-and-musings-first)