A bad situation - Your 34 year old franchise QB is coming off his 2nd back surgery in two years. Putting in doubt how well he can play and for how long in 2014.
A bad situation made worse - Having Brandon Weeden as your only veteran option should the starter go down.
It's really outstanding GM work.
What veteran QB did you want?
They went into the offseason believing they'd get Orton to comeback which was clearly what they wanted.
Instead Orton cried, retired, got cut and un-retired.
Now I suppose they could have went all out for the gem that is Mark Sanchez to be the back up. I mean that worked out so great for Philly yesterday.
This isn't really all that hard. Unless your defense is outstanding then the majority of the time if you're going to your back up then you're screwed.