Sunday, September 30, 2007

Mike Shanahan/Bronco Fans/City Of Denver CORRECT!

Before we go into another 3700 word essay on how wrong Mike Shanahan has been in ALL his decision making, we give you this:

You were right all along, it really was Jake Plummer that held Denver back last year, not the team, not Shanahan, it was all Plummer. How did we come to this conclusion? Well it was quite easy actually, after watching today's game against the Colts.

We simply compared Jake's numbers last year against A BETTER Colts team to Pumpkin Pie's numbers this year, here's what they look like:



October 29th, 2006 vs Indy

Jake Plummer:
QB Rating: 104.1
Comp/Attempts= 13-21 for 174 yards and 1 TD and ZERO Interceptions
1 Fumble lost

Final score: Indy 34-Denver 31

September 30th, 2007 vs Indy

Jay Cutler:
QB Rating: 75.7
Comp/Attemtps= 13-21 for 131 yards and 1 TD and ONE INTERCEPTION
1 Fumble lost

Final score: Indy 38- Denver 20

There you have it. It simply had to be Jake. It could not be Mike Shanahan's TERRIBLE decision making, or a team that simply GAVE up last year when their head coach decided to throw away the season after 11 games, it was Jake that held Denver back, nothing else! I mean just look at how your Pumpkin Pie destroyed Jake's stats, granted Jake was facing a nearly unbeatable Indy team, but still led the Broncos to 31 points. But still, now we see, this Denver team is Superbowl bound and if it wasn't for Jake, they would be set to repeat!

I don't think this is true, it's probably just a rumour, but Champ Bailey was heard saying, "I'm just looking to collect my money and not get hurt, what else can you do when you play for a coach who gives up half way through the season."

*Once again, that is just a rumor and possibly not true.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

We Talk Too Much

We apologize for the lengthy post, but a couple of us get off on rants and like to practice for writing columns and reports. Upon further review we’d like to thank everyone who stopped by to check us out even if it was to insult us, and we’d also like to sum up yesterday’s blog to save time because frankly, we do talk too much.
In summation:

1. Shanahan is slowly exposing his reliance on good ex-assistants like Kubiak and Coyer and this season will be the beginning of the end...and pay attention to the improvements in Houston and Tampa if you don’t believe the difference those two guys made.

2. Cutler is a nice guy and a good quarterback who may actually end up being ruined by the way his young career’s being handled. We’re crossing our fingers that Denver will not turn on him once they realize he’s not going to be a savior all by his lonesome and run him out of town like the last two guys. Also, he makes far too much money and is far too intelligent to cut his own hair. Lose the Pumpkin Pie cut, Jay, please!

3. Jake the Snake got shafted and he’s not coming back. We understand. But we reserve the right to talk about the guy until death, especially since the Broncos do not look improved this year if you’ve been paying attention. This is not a better team than the one that beat the Patriots in Foxboro last year.

4. The Broncos roster and gameplan is full of holes that the Bills, Raiders, and especially Jaguars exposed; things need to be fixed. Unfortunately, with the Colts, Chargers, Steelers, and Packers as the next 4 opponents, it might get much worse before it gets better.

5. We love the Broncos and want the team to WIN!!! This means we will kick sentimentality to the curb. The team is in need of a change starting at the top. The shelf life of Bly, Henry, Walker and Bailey is about four years. Lynch is about done. If they’re truly playing for the future, they need to step it up and fast. If they’re playing for “now” they need to be realistic and look at overhauling the defensive line and coaching staff. At this rate, they won’t catch the Pats and Colts before 2015.

If we are truly proven wrong at the end of the season, we apologize and talk about something else. By “proven wrong” we mean “second round.”

Despite all of this, we do believe in positive thinking and wish the Broncos the best of luck this weekend. Anything can happen in the NFL. If they beat the Colts or Chargers or both, it’s a much-needed shot in the arm. But if they lose, this season will get fugly fast. Pull out all the stops, Pumpkin Pie, otherwise in 3 years you’ll have an ulcer and wonder why people are making up clever insults that rhyme with your name while talking about some college QB in the Broncos draft wheelhouse.

Anyway, go Broncos, but ya shoulda...

LET PLUMMER PLAY!

Monday, September 24, 2007

Jay Cutler Blames Loss On....HEAD SET?



If anything, Cutler was more frustated about the balky sideline-to-quarterback communications apparatii than the injury. The technical snafus forced the Broncos to burn a pair of timeouts in the third quarter, and while Cutler remained composed, his words steamed frustration with the in-helmet radio receiver. - Andrew Mason (Denver Broncos ah, Professional Blogger?)



“They’re not the finest contraptions they have out. I don’t know. It gets really loud in some stadiums. At some stadiums they cut in and out. In some stadiums you hear concession people. You never know what’s going to happen with those things. (I’m) serious.” - Jay Cutler




Apparently Pumpkin Pie hurt his ankle while being sacked late in the 4th quarter. However he said he was fine and if anything, he was more frustrated with the head set? WOW...Do you Denver fans honestly think Jake or Elway would have blamed a loss on their head sets? By the way Jay, we know here at LPP that you have a SideKick, don't deny it, we're in the know, and we know you have one...Well next Sunday against the Colts, try using your SideKick to Instant Message Shanahan for play calling. that way you can't hear concession stand people and cannot blame the loss on your head set. Come on Pumpkin, pull out that SideKick on the field. We'd love you for it!

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Do you?

Do all you corny Pumpkin Pie lovers see it coming? Denver sneaks by the Bills, needs OT to beat the Raiders and now can't even beat the Jacksonville Jaguars? You must see it coming. Check our archives, you'll see that when Mike Shanahan decided to start Jay over Jake we proclaimed:

HEY DENVER-WELCOME TO MEDIOCRICTY!

If you don't see it, wake up, this team stands no chance against Indy, New England nor San Diego. It's so frustrating to watch. You Pumpkin Pie fans are lucky you're not 0-3 after today. I have one question for the Pumpkin Pie lovers...When do you start calling for Patrick Ramsey to start? We're calling for him already!!!! Come on, bench Pumpkin Pie and start Ramsey NOW!

WAIT....UPDATE....Pumpkin Pie just completed about a 9 yard pass to Brandon Stokely on 3rd down. It was about 1 yard short of the first down and guess what all them corny Denver fans did, THEY BOOOOOOOOOOOOED Cutler! HAHA.. can you believe that, their hero, their one tur love, booooooooooed for not getting them the first down. This is exactly what we were so concerned with last year. Denver fans are simply THE WORST. Love him when he does well, but when he does average, BOOO the Pumpkin, it's sad. Hey Jay, after Denver fans run you out of town next year, we may actually cheer for you in your new city. It's just Denver, the city and it's hopeless fans that we really can't stand nowadays!

Last note before we give FULL WRITE UP of the day's events: Who sucks more? Mike Shanahan or Art Shell? Four minutes left, yeah, great choice on going for it Mike.

Oh and by the way, Jay Cutler now proudly holds a record of 4 wins and 4 losses. Seems ole Pumpkin Pie wants to keep his PRO record as close to his college record, which was a losing record, as possible.

From the AFC Championship to this, and just wait till Manning gets a hold of this defense next weekend!

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Friday, September 21, 2007

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Raiders Slice Up Pumpkin Pie


RAIDERS SLICE UP PUMPKIN PIE; BRONCOS GET LUCKY IN OT

The Broncos are apparently the greatest team in
football. Well, that must be the case right? After
all, great teams win ugly, and these two wins have
been some of the ugliest wins in Broncos history
. As
happy as we are to escape with a win today, let's not
start making room for the Lombardi Trophy just yet.
The fact that the Broncos had to ESCAPE with a win IN
MILE HIGH against JOSH MCCLOWN AND THE RAIDERS coupled
with last week's near-disaster against the Bills
should start the sirens blaring. Is this team really
ready for Indianapolis and San Diego in its current
state? Is Jason Elam, the Broncos' most consistent
asset for the past thirteen years, starting to lose
it? Is "Pumpkin Pie" Jay Cutler going to show the
weapons he flashed late in 2007 or is he regressing?

These questions aren't answered yet, luckily. Let's
start with the opponents. Buffalo and Oakland are
supposed to be slightly improved from last year, but
let's face it, they are still two "bottom-five" NFL
teams
--perhaps only the Chiefs and Falcons are worse,
although the Saints and Giants seem to have suddenly
degraded to the bottom of the pack as well. Yet the
Raiders not only put up a fight, they had the Broncos
on the ropes and almost got the kill. If Janokowski's
kick is eight inches to the left, the Broncos lose.
Thankfully, Janokowski has become one of the most
inconsistent kickers in the league and did what he
does best after Shanahan's time-out froze him up. But
the Raiders came REAL close at mile high, and let's
not be blinded by Cutler's magical non-touchdown drive
and Elam's kick at the gun The Bills would have won
last week if they hadn't poorly managed the clock.
The Broncos aren't very far removed from an 0-2 start.

But they won both of those games because of Jason
Elam. Or perhaps despite Elam? He missed two big
ones last week and another today in primo kicking
conditions. If he gets over these jitters, then it's
all good, but God forbid the Broncos have to start
worrying about yet another position. We'll give Elam
credit for not shanking the two game-winners, but
then, if he'd made the ones he missed, the games would
never have been on the line to begin with.

So how does Pumpkin Pie figure into all this? Well,
if you can see the name of the website, you know where
we're going here. Once again, the Broncos were forced
to ride the defense to victory. Although 'Dre Bly got
fooled badly by Jerry Porter for a score, the Broncos
held the Raider offense for the most part. Meanwhile,
between a safety and two picks--one turning into the
TD that gave the Raiders a late lead--Pumkpin Pie
single-handedly spotted Oakland nine points and did
little in overtime except let Big Baby Daddy run the
ball down the tired Raiders' throats.

"But we got the win, right?" say the Pumpkin Pie Fans.
Hey, isn't the the kind of game that got the Snake
treated like Osama Bin Plummer?
Poor stats and a win
thanks to the D and some pixie dust? Are the
hypocrites going to point to this as some sort of huge
improvement over last season?
The Broncos are still
relying too heavily on the secondary to cover up the
front line's mistakes and Cutler has had one average
game and one bad game. Somehow they still won, but as
Jake Plummer can tell you, wins apparently aren't
enough in Denver.
Travis Henry, he of the
$20,000-a-month child support payment (no joke) is the
one shining beacon this year, the kind of workhorse
the Broncos have been missing since Mike Anderson's
best season. Henry, Bly, Lynch, and Bailey had better
continue feeding the Broncos as much as they can,
because this team apparently cannot survive on Pumpkin
Pie alone.

We here at LPP do understand that you can't ask one
man or pastry to carry a team entirely on his own. It
takes a TEAM to win games. However, we can at least
assume fans in Denver will be as fair and impartial as
they've always been, and as long as the team looks
like a playoff contender, they can lay off Pumpkin Pie
and support him. We'd hate to see Pumpkin Pie
struggle through a few more games and then get rattled
as an entire city starts calling for Shanahan to start
Patrick Ramsey over Pumpkin Pie even if the Broncos
have a winning record and a playoff berth
(LetRamseyPlay.com IS an available web domain, isn't
it?) But we understand. It's only fair that this
happens. So suck it up, Pumpkin Pie, and start
contributing heavily to wins! We care about you here
at Let Pumpkin...er, Plummer Play! Don't let the city
of Denver down! They're vicious career killers and
they'd be happy to feast on your sweet tasty innards
if you gave them half a reason.

Oh, who are we kidding. Denver loves Pumpkin Pie.
They aren't going to turn on him...for now. Still, if
wins were all that mattered, you'd have a whole city
screaming at Shanahan to:

LET PLUMMER PLAY!!!

Friday, September 14, 2007

Week 2

Not only do we give you a Week 1 wrap up, but for all you Jake fans, here's a new video as well!


Before we begin this week’s dissertation, we’d like to apologize for not updating last week. Our sadness at not seeing “PLUMMER 16” on the field kind of sucked the motivation right out of us. We would also like to make an announcement: LetPlummerPlay.com has decreed that Jay Cutler’s nickname shall now and forever be “Pumpkin Pie” for reasons we shall explain some other day. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense.

Well, the Broncos pulled out a squeaker last week and are going into an almost assured Week 2 victory against the slightly improved but still completely not scary Raiders. Pumpkin Pie was impressive for at least part of the game, putting together a drive that he obviously picked up by watching some of Jake Plummer’s many comebacks. Of course, giving Pumpkin credit for the whole victory wouldn’t be proper, as Travis “Big Baby Daddy” (also considered: “Eight ISN’T Enough”) Henry piled on the rushing yards and the greatest defensive backfield in the league began their 16-game, 9-city “Quarterbacks’ Nightmare” tour. Of course, if Jason Elam hadn’t uncharacteristically shanked a pair, the comeback might not have been necessary, but since this was a rare uneven day for mighty Elam (and since John Elway was never a kicker in Denver,) his job is probably safe and the fans won’t be calling for his head on a platter garnished with Rocky Mountain Oysters and garlic sauce. Not that the loyal Denver fans would ever do that...

Pumpkin Pie should have a nice season as long as Big Baby Daddy and Javon Walker stay healthy, and if the defense can hold up for an entire season instead of turning into Polk High after week 10. While we still think Jake could have got it done this year since it appears Shanahan’s ready to at least start trying again, we do wish Jay the best of luck. After all, if Pumpkin doesn’t go to a Super Bowl in the next 3 years, we know what’s coming for the poor seasonal dessert--angry mobs, torches and pitchforks. As the Snake and Brian Griese can tell you, it ain’t pretty. We’ll know for sure when the Broncos play the big boys.

As we’ve said previously, the Broncos have no excuse—NONE—for missing the playoffs. How good they really are beyond round one will be determined by their tough October stretch (well, starting 9/30) of Colts-Chargers-bye-Steelers, and how they do at Chicago in November. However, outside of one more Chargers game, the Broncos schedule has more pushovers than a dominos tournament. They get two punches at Larry Johnson and the Team Formerly Known as the Chiefs; two vs. the Raiders, coached by Lil’ Lane Kiffin--who might be drawing up strategies based on his favorite Tecmo Bowl plays; Bills (check,) Jags, Packers, Lions, Titans, Texans, Vikings. Not one contender in the bunch; Confucious say: “Creampuff seldom beat Pumpkin Pie.”

Denver already came close to blowing what should have been a patsy game...no excuses please; the Bills are mediocre until they prove otherwise, in Buffalo or not. They should lay serious smack down on the Raiders Sunday, since the Raiders could barely keep up with the one-dimensional Lions in their own stadium. If all goes as it should they’ll pummel the Raiders at Mile High and we might even put up “GREAT PUMPKIN” as a headline or something.

So go Broncos--no excuses, boys! Now pardon us while we fire up the ol’ Playstation so we can...

LET PLUMMER PLAY!!!