This is a baffling pick. You get rid of Cutler for Orton, and after one year of that, add Quinn (??) then draft Tebow...I mean, if it were the Butch Davis Browns, I'd completely understand. We'd be talking about a team that traded UP to get Winslow, so anything would be believable.
However, since I can't imagine a front office being an even bigger disaster than the past decade in Cleveland, I have to wonder if Denver has something else in mind, like playing Tebow at H-back. Being a shotgun QB, he probably has decent hands and plays a physical game...is it that crazy? First round, though, and you deal away three picks to get him -- not quite buying that. Still, it makes more sense than going through all of that to get a third string QB. Even if they're crazy enough to think he's a second string QB, then why bother dealing for Quinn if you plan to draft a QB? Plus, why trade up to get a guy who would be there EASILY for your second round pick? Even if he's not there (ha!) and you really want a QB, Le Pickle is probably going to be around, and McCoy could even possibly still be around.
I'm baffled. It frustrates me to no end thinking that there's a guy out there being paid millions to, in part, evaluate and draft players for an NFL team, and that sitting here at my desk doing nothing nearly so f-ing interesting, I feel like I have a better handle on what's going on. I'd like to be wrong, just so that there's order in the universe, and I don't care one bit about the Broncos. Maybe there is some genius plan to turn him into some H-back for short yardage and goal line offense, or use him in some "Wild Bronco" formation that helps them win five games or something...because even if he eventually turns into an NFL QB, there's nothing right now that justifies a pick this high. Sure, a fifth round pick like Mr. T. Smith (who had more arm strength, accuracy, better mechanics AND defense reading skills) wouldn't really be questioned -- fifth rounders sometimes don't even make it out of camp, so no one is going to complain about missing on a fifth -- but this whole deal is just mysterious. Even if you say, "hey, they want a character guy", then great, take him with your second (or third) round pick and don't trade away all your picks. Unless they had reason to think another team was going to take him in round 1, I just don't get this.
Maybe the best explanation is that Ozzie Newsome is a genius, and knows how to take advantage of the weaknesses of others.