Here is my response to Paige’s latest intellectual turdage:

Ridiculous. I suppose we should have a QB controversy at the halfway point of the season with a 6 and 2 record.

I suppose we’ll forget all about the first 6 wins. You know those games where Orton got it done and we actually could run the ball?

John Elway couldn’t have won that Monday night game.

Show me a team that wins games with 27 friggen net yards rushing.

The team can’t run the damn ball, that’s the biggest problem.

Orton gets no respect is right, I suppose they should have benched Jay Huckdort Cutler when he threw 3 picks in a game. They’re losing games up there too, time to bench him I suppose.

The inability to run enables these defenses to keep their safeties deep, life is easy when they don’t have to honor the run. The lineman simply crash in all day blitzing the pass, blitzing the run, which is why our o-line has looked astonishingly poor all of a sudden.

Baltimore figured us out, the Steelers did what they did… it’s time to adjust our gameplan and actually run the damn ball more than 27 yards.

If we come out of next game with three horrific picks and a loss, then maybe, just maybe Paige and his following cronies begin to have a point.

“And if he’s terrible, McDaniels can return to Orton at halftime.”

Sounds like you’re not so sure of your own tact eh Paige? Not surprising, it’s an absolutely silly experiment. You don’t switch until it’s egregious, until one is stinking the place up big time. One bad game for Kyle after a 6 and 2 start and the sky is falling and he’s surely the only reason why.

Kyle Orton is the man for this offense: that is, if we run the ball.

Otherwise our offense will become something else. Our wideouts don’t really have the speed for the massive “deep threat” everyone loves to talk about. If we change the offense style, which will take time and off season acquisitions, then Kyle Orton becomes expendable.  As it stands he’s the man, but you have to be able to run. Lastly, show me a game last year where Cutler played well when we didn’t run the ball well… oh yeah, there weren’t any.

Jay Cutler couldn’t win down the stretch last year without a reliable running attack that stressed the defense, and neither will Orton. Cutler threw more than 600 passes last year, went down the field as much as people seem to always want from the Broncos and put up plenty of gaudy numbers — and the Broncos didn’t go to the playoffs.

So it isn’t how far the passes are thrown. It’s when they are thrown and what else the defense thinks you can do once you break the huddle.

The Broncos simply aren’t winning the line of scrimmage. The backs, especially rookie Knowshon Moreno, are hesitant to the hole at times. Their their receivers are not consistently breaking tackles or making the first defender miss. And the Broncos don’t protect long enough often enough to run longer routes down the field.

The issue with the Broncos offense is not that it can’t throw — plenty of teams are making a living on short-to-intermediate throws in this catch-and-run era — it’s that the Broncos can’t run well enough, leading to defenses loading up and going after Orton because they don’t fear anything bad happening if they take chances in the rush. -Jeff Legwold

At least there is some intelligence on display at the Post to counter that Paige’s nonsense.