Jerry Angelo has always done well drafting in the later rounds, our first rounders have typically been shite (see Benson, Cedric). Plus the McCaskeys hate spending money. And you can't run one player into the ground and call it an offense, if there's no passing threat, you'll end up running against 8 or 9 men in the box and that's not going to get you very far. I've been a supporter of Orton since forever, and it's a shame his career at Chicago is coming to an end, but I'm sure he'll do well in Denver. And you can't honestly say that Cutler isn't an upgrade. I and many Bears fans are always lamenting the fact that the front office and coaching staff gloss over their issues and don't do enough to fix them, so I can't exactly go and complain when they go and do that, even if receiver's probably a bigger need rigt now.
Cutler is an upgrade, I'll agree. I think he has the potential to be a franchise QB. But a QB who was second in interceptions last year now being stuck on a team with no credible WR isn't going to improve his interception rate, especially now that he'll have to face secondaries like the Packers. The only improvement I see in this is possibly now having a QB who can stretch the field, but the negatives outweigh the positives.