Kyle Orton
Kyle Orton
Kyle Raymond Ortonis a former American football quarterback. He played college football for Purdue, where he started four straight bowl games. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. After an injury to Bears starter Rex Grossman, Orton was pressed into service as the starting quarterback during his rookie year, starting the first 14 games of the 2005 season, but was replaced by Grossman for the playoffs that year. Orton did not...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth14 November 1982
CityAltoona, IA
If I play well and win a lot of games, everybody will compare me and Ben. If I play poorly, I'll be a rookie quarterback playing poorly and there won't be any comparisons.
I haven't really had time to step back from the situation and kind of let myself be in awe or anything, ... But the fans are unbelievable. It's been a long time since they've had a winner here. You can just feel they want one so bad.
If you stay out of third-and-longs, they can't do a whole lot. So hopefully we can win first down and win second down and keep ourselves to manageable third downs.
I didn't play well. I didn't make good decisions. You can't play like that and turn the ball over five times and expect to win a game.
Win or lose, we're still going to have to get better and go from there, ... It's not a make-or-break game in our season, by any means, but obviously our goal is to start 1-0 and if we do, great. If we don't, then obviously we've got to get back to work.
I'm sure Joey wishes he had a better game. But playing against the best defense in the league, hey, that's tough.
It's something that happened and you can't take back. ... We got past the last game. It was an unfortunate situation. It happened off the field, but it's back to work. We've got a big game this week, and it's too big a game to be concentrating on off-the-field stuff that has no bearing on it.
I'm not going to put this on my being young or anything. I played like crap today, and that's basically what I'm going to put it on.
I lean on him quite a bit. I trust his judgment and his knowledge of what's going on at any given time. It can get kind of chaotic out there, and he helps settle everything down.
They blitzed us quite a bit, ... I saw a lot of pressure.
They confused me. They're a solid defense. I'm not going to put this on me being young or anything. I played like crap today.
They confused me. They had a great package in and they're a solid defense. They made the plays and I got confused on a couple of plays.
To get that play and come into the halftime at 7-3 instead of 3-0 was huge emotionally.
I've been in some high-pressure situations already in my career, ... I think I kind of thrive on that. I like that situation. The more that you're in them, the better you get.