His attitude sucked, his accuracy is worse than Cutler's and he stalls like a Ford in the red zone.
I was not comparing his accuracy with Cutler's. I was saying that in the general sense, and especially in comparison with the guy he's replacing, his throws are on time and on target. He's certainly no Drew Brees.
Cutler is also a turnover machine, a quitter, a choke artist, and an arrogant punk whose team mates haven't been shy to go after in the media. He's won a grand total of one playoff games in his career. His decision making, demeanor, and suspect durability have repeatedly cost the Bears, and he also repeatedly failed at clinching a playoff berth in Denver despite having ample opportunity.
Kyle Orton showed up to work every day and said the right things. He took responsibility for the team's performance even when the front office and coaching staff was a gong show, he took the high road on the Cutler situation, he handled the Tebow situation with class, he was active in the community, and he played intelligently and carefully.
I'm not at all saying that Orton was a better player than Cutler, but Orton and two first round picks+a third round pick was better for our team than Cutler and a fifth would have been (regardless of how the actual picks turned out for both teams) in that particular situation. Plus, we'd never have landed Manning if we hadn't made that trade. We'd be stuck in the Jay Cutler/Tony Romo purgatory of never being good enough to contend, but never bad enough to spur a shake-up of the status quo.
