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Broncos’ offensive coordinator, Gary Kubiak, sent a message to quarterback Jake Plummer this week. "I said, 'You have to raise your level of play this last month for our football team to get anywhere,"' Kubiak told the Denver Post. "I said, 'You have to play better."' Plummer agreed. "Yeah, we've got to make some more plays in the passing game," Plummer said Wednesday. "Obviously, Clinton (Portis) is running the ball well. We need him down the stretch, but we also need me and the line and the receivers to start making some plays to complement that. If we can do that we will be a complete package. But right now we've been heavy on the run. We just have to find ways to make plays in the passing game." Heading into Sunday's showdown vs. the Chiefs, Denver's pass offense is tied with the San Diego Chargers for 27th in the NFL - the lowest any Broncos passing attack has ranked in franchise history.

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Plummer threw for only 105 yards against Oakland and 176 against the Bears the previous week. Of course, it doesn’t help when No. 2 wide receiver, Ashley Lelie, has only caught one pass in the last two games. The Snake needs to get his receivers more involved or defenses are going to start keying on stopping Portis again. And that won't make fantasy players very happy.

phillycard

Wow, Jakes actually being held accountable. I wonder how that feels for him?

CardinalChris

No no no..... He's a future Hall of famer, worth all 49 million!!!

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Russ Smith

To be fair, Lelie has to catch the ball he's dropped more than he's caught the last 2 weeks.

Shanahan made similar comments on Monday or Tuesday, said the real problem the last 2 weeks is total absence of big pass plays, longest is something like 20 yards. Said the team needs to be able to make plays from the pocket they've been too reliant on pass plays on rollouts or broken plays and teams have schemed those away the last 2 weeks. Said they've had one TD pass from the pocket in the 3 games since Jake came back.

I posted it on the Denver board they have a dilemma, clearly Jake plays better the way Shanahan is using him, but he's also getting beat up doing it. They're trying to change that, and he's been far less effective. They have to find a happy medium, interesting test of Shanahan.

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HIX

Yeah like seven drops in the last 2 games...and this is the guy they cut Kasper for.

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Broncos26

yea and i'm thankful we did cut kasper for Lelie. Ashley has much better potential and can break away with his speed. his heighth helps alot too. Lelie might have been slow at getting the ball for a few weeks, but the past 2 weeks he's really been shining.

HIX

Lelie did good on sunday. I am glad he proved me wrong...let's hope he does the same in the playoffs!

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