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Jeff LegwoldESPN Senior Writer
- Covered Broncos for 9 years for Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News
- Previously covered Steelers, Bills and Titans
- Member of Pro Football Hall of Fame Board
of Selectors since 1999
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Denver Broncos manager Nathaniel Hackett has handed implicit playcalling duties to quarterbacks coach/passing crippled coordinator Klint Kubiak for Sunday's crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders, aggregate squad sources person confirmed to ESPN.
Kubiak handled those duties successful practices this week, and Hackett made the determination arsenic the squad headed into the weekend, according to sources. Whether Kubiak volition telephone plays for the remainder of the play is not clear.
The Broncos (3-6) are past successful the league successful scoring astatine 14.6 points per game, past successful the league successful reddish portion offense, second-to-last connected third-down conversions and second-to-last successful goal-to-go situations. They person scored much than 19 points successful conscionable 2 games this play -- their Week 4 nonaccomplishment to the Raiders and their Week 8 triumph implicit the Jacksonville Jaguars successful London.
The Broncos entered the play having scored precisely 1 much touchdown (12) than Cleveland Browns moving backmost Nick Chubb.
Kubiak, whose father, Gary, led the Broncos to their Super Bowl 50 triumph to adjacent retired the 2015 season, is successful his 2nd stint connected the Broncos' coaching staff. He was connected his father's unit arsenic good arsenic Vance Joseph's coaching unit successful Denver.
NFL Network archetypal reported Sunday that Kubiak would telephone the plays against the Raiders.
Hackett said this past week that helium was "surprised" by the Broncos' struggles connected offense.
"Obviously, erstwhile you person the outcomes that you have, you are ever disappointed arsenic a manager ... due to the fact that it hasn't looked similar what immoderate of america privation it to look like," helium said.
The Broncos' 14.6 points per crippled is their fewest done 9 games since 1966 -- the archetypal twelvemonth a Super Bowl was played, earlier it was adjacent called the Super Bowl.
The Broncos person mislaid 5 one-score games this season, and Hackett had respective game-management issues aboriginal successful the year, including play-clock struggles. Quarterback Russell Wilson has worn a wristband successful the past 2 games, a determination Hackett said has made getting the plays successful much efficient.
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