I wholeheartedly agree with the sports news writer featured. Grossman’s strength was the long ball and his long ball targets are gone, Berrian and Muhammad. Orton’s strength is situational check downs like screen passes and bullets to receivers down 10-15 yds. The receivers on the team are more slant pass or bullet grabbers like Rashied Davis, Tight end tandem, Clark and Olson, and occassionally Devin Hester. He showed his situational check down capabilities in the Redskins game. Hester is quite obviously a long ball threat as well

Its not over until its over. I say we let rex fight through another season. If the likes of kyle boller and alex smith get 3+ full season then why not a superbowl Q.B like Rex. The media piles on rex and everyone is tired of defending him i understand. But take a good look at tavaris jackson, alex smith, j.p. losman and tell me why they dont get nowhere near the heat grossman recieved while guiding a team too the superbowl.

Rex is my Q.B…..He’s my teammate…..And if you blame it all on him its not fair…...He’s my Q.B. .....sob…...sob…....sob we lost as team…..sob….sob….sob lol

The Bears need to dump Rex and Orton. Sign Leftwich and Culpepper and let them compete with the other two QB’s they have signed for the starting job.

i was ecstatic when benson was arrested with his second dui. he forced the bears hand to let him go. thank god. he wasn’t worth the side-to-side yards he carried the ball.

not sure about rex. i think he finally gets it – don’t think so much. just go out and throw the ball. if he goes out and doesn’t think, he might be okay.

if i were an owner of an nfl team, i’d hire a team of psychiatrists to deal with the head games some of the kids bring to the game.

How many pro bowls has Olin Kreutz gone too? How many QBs has he had line up behind him? Why does it seem that Rex is the only one who has had a fumbling problem from Olin? His ints don’t bother me, but when he looks across the line and @@@ all over him self like a scared girl and drops the ball from a pro bowl center that angers many fans. Time to get a QB that can at least hand the ball to a back.

3) At 6’4" he has much better Quarterback size, which allows him to be more comfortable stepping UP in the pocket. This was a big problem for Rex, not because he was too dumb to know he has to step up, but because he was too short to see when he does

Orton QB style is stronger than Grossman’s. With Orton you get better ball security, better managed possession game, and a QB who reasserts his pocket presence. Orton’s height and athleticism tops Grossman and you don’t see fear in this guy when defenses come after him. At the finish of last season when he was brought in he didn’t have a good running game to open up play action passes, he had a lousy offensive line, and his receivers were below average. He was brought in to an offense that was lousier than in 05 when the offensive line and running game was at an all pro level. All odds were stacked against him, and HE STILL LOOKED BETTER THAN IN 05! With all this, he still hit Clark, Olson, Hester, Anderson, and Muhammad in the endzone, though Moose dropped the bullet pass from Kyle in the packers game. The TD passes to Hester and Anderson weren’t with the Bears in the red zone either. Grossman is no doubt a QB with a talented arm and his hot streak of games at the start of 07 absolutely set this team up for an NFC Championship title. He too had a lousier offense to play with and certainly he should not blamed for all the Bears woes. But, facts are the facts, Grossman never returned to the all pro from of QB play that he exhibited in the first 4 or 5 games of 07. He did bounce back when he came back off the bench in 08 but not enough to prove to the team or the fans that he is deserving of a multi year multi million contract extension. Even though he is a number one pick. Orton came back into the offense looking like a QB that maybe the Bears had underestimated and under valued. He was pleasantly surprising, especially in the Packers game where he outplayed Brett Favre. Favre had a much better running game, The Packers had a much better defense, and Favre had a historic rejuvenating season. Orton’s 106 passer rating to me in that game showed alot. He was clutch in the most difficult of playing conditions, sub zero blizzard, home playoff advantage hungry Packers, lousy Bears offensive line, and running backs who couldn’t average more than 3 yds. a carry. More than anything Orton showed that he can take advantage of the talented tight end tandem of Clark and Olson. In the following game he also showed he can find Hester in the end zone 50 yds. away. Come on Bears Fans, all signs are pointing to Orton, lets not f—this one up.