Does Brady Quinn Still Deserve A Shot at QB with the Denver Broncos?

I have come to believe Orton will be traded and I don’t believe Quinn can step up to start against the competition of Tebow. I need to add that this belief is merely the results of ongoing conversations here and I have a wait and see attitude towards our roster in general.
Who can really say what will happen until the NFL can start the next season. :/

Nice article on Quinn. I have been wanting to see more info and opinion on Brady for some time now and hope to see even more.

Making the reach that Quinn is the de facto starter is frankly wrong and fanciful, bordering on stupid.
These are Elways lastest comments:
http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/NFP-Sunday-Blitz-7671.html

They were ND QB"s that succeeded in a watered down Pro-Style offense under Charlie Weis that hid their deficiencies: accuracy, and play against the blitz….. and they both still struggle with it mightily.
I am OK with Quinn as a back up, but as a starter it will give me fits!

And he’ll have one this season as well, but issue will be if he and Tebow are on the same level of play, Tebow will get the nod over him. So to get the job, he needs to just blow Tebow out in the competition. So yea, if he’s head and shoulders above the other QB’s, then he deserves it, but I don’t see that happening.

Does this author even know one thing about the Broncos or NFL?

“Unlike Cleveland, Denver has talent to surround and help Quinn in Knowshon Moreno and Correll Buckwalter at running back and much better talent at wide receiver in Eddie Royal, Jabar Gaffney and DeMaryius Thomas.”

How about Brandon Lloyd? When you write an article like you did above, try doing some research and thinking.

on the NFL main page there is a post about the Denver running game that gave me a good laugh. The team he is talking about is in another bizzarro world somewhere.

I took this from the article Boydy put in his fanshot

Elway confirms that Quinn is very much in the mix. "I’ve seen him in Cleveland," he said. "For young quarterbacks to be successful, they have to have that supporting cast around them. The supporting cast in Cleveland wasn’t what it will be here. I don’t know that Brady has ever had that. I don’t know that was given the opportunity to compete for the job when he came in last year. He’s going to be given a chance to see what he can do."

it would have fit in well with the rest of your post.

but that shot is significantly unlikely. I expect this to be a 2 horse race unless Orton’s traded, making it just Tebow

… send us Peyton Hillis back for Brady Quinn?

LOL

He has 12 NFL starts in 4 years. He looked lost and indecisive in the preseason for the Broncos in 2010 – but McD ran a very complicated offense and BQ might have been overthinking.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/Q/QuinBr00/gamelog//
In his 12 starts he has 3 very good games – vs DEN in 08, at DET and vs SDG in 09. The other 9 games are very ugly statistically.
While at ND his main strength was his ability to go quickly through his progression and get the ball to the open man even if it was his 3rd or 4th option. That type of comfort within an offense is not going to be develop quickly in a complicated system.

He deserves a chance, but with more experience he has shown less NFL ability to play QB than TT – and of course neither TT nor BQ has produced results in the NFL comparable to KO.

I really hate when people make a fanpost, and then just leave it and never come back to comment back on what people say. It’s so irritating, and it wastes everyone’s time.

Your writing is pretty well done, but the argument itself is full of holes and is based on a very flimsy premise, IMO. I’ll just leave my two main criticisms…

• The overall thesis of this article seems to be that we should take seriously the idea of Brady Quinn starting in 2011. I don’t think it’s possible for that seed to take hold – it’s too outlandish.

• You linked Bleacher Report as your source on two separate claims that essentially pin the Broncos down to trading Orton and being low enough on Tebow to have Quinn as the “de facto starter”. Your article/argument/thesis essentially sinks or swims on those two major claims, in that if we don’t buy into each of them, we’ll never buy into Quinn as being even a semi-likely starter.
  Bleacher Report is a fan site, not a media site. So you were essentially saying, “a football fan said the Broncos might not be sold on Tebow, and another fan said they’re going to trade Orton. So therefore, believe me when I tell you, Brady Quinn is the de facto starter.” I think that’s immediate failure and probably a non-starter big enough for many readers to check out.

The guy can’t complete a pass farther than five yards, I doubt he survives training camp, I would guess he is shipped out for a used football and some fertalizer.

is horrible, sorry. I thought it was meant in sarcasm until the very end.

And why not include the two tight ends that were drafted?

6’5 and runs a 4.5 40. Can stretch the Defense, has great size. He was the real deal. Quinn had an elite weapon in ND no doubt about it. Biggest thing was he was clutch, always made big plays at the right time.