Broncos coach Josh McDaniels didn’t waste too much time naming a starting quarterback for the upcoming NFL season. On Saturday the first year head coach announced Kyle Orton has won the starting job over Chris Simms.

“There’s a lot of difficult aspects about what we ask our quarterback to do in our offense and Kyle has really grasped some of them more quickly than Chris did,” McDaniels explained. “I just think it puts them in a little bit of a pressure situation where now one of them has it and has to keep it and the other one has to get it. They’re still going to compete with each other and I expect the competition to be the same that it’s been. They both have great attitudes and know that nothing’s determined in June.”

Orton is a highly underrated quarterback and I believe he’s actually better than Jay Cutler. His arm certainly isn’t stronger, but he’s more accurate with his throws and he’s a great leader who earns the respect of his teammates.