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Marcus Maye is in the NFL record books for one of the best plays of his football career 鈥?and easily the most embarrassing.The Jets safety has been a staple of the highlight (and blooper) reels this week for his 104-yard interception return on the final play of New York's 34-16 victory over Denver last Sunday . Maye picked off Case Keenum's pass in the end zone and took off Youth Customized Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , making a few cuts and then chugging his way to the other end of the field.But something funny happened on his way to a game-ending touchdown: He was caught and tackled. At the 1-yard line.It's the longest interception return without a player scoring in NFL history ."I've seen it a bunch," a smiling Maye said Thursday, "and I laugh every time I see it."He has taken plenty of ribbing about it, too, from his teammates and coaches."It looked like it was in slow motion," coach Todd Bowles quipped."Usually in practice, we pitch the ball to each other to go score if we get tired," safety Jamal Adams said, "and Marcus Maye did not pitch the ball!"Maye was playing in his second game of the season after missing the bulk of training camp and the preseason while dealing with ankle and foot injuries. The second-year safety had offseason ankle surgery and is still rounding into shape. He has been limited this week at practice.So, it's no wonder he started running out of gas by the time he reached midfield."I feel like once I got across the 50 and back to our sideline, all train of thought went out the window," he said. "I was so tired."On the play, Keenum's pass to Courtland Sutton was deflected by Morris Claiborne and fell into the hands of Maye, who turned around, scooted out of the end zone and took off down the right sideline. He avoided a diving Keenum and then made a cut to avoid two would-be tacklers and headed across the field to the left sideline with a pack of teammates blocking for him.Broncos right guard Connor McGovern then tried to get Maye, who easily shook the tackle attempt and then headed to the middle of the field as he set his sights on the end zone. But Sutton caught up to Maye and made a diving stop, leaving the Jets safety 1 yard shy of a touchdown."I didn't even see 14 (Sutton) back there," Maye said. "All I saw was the O-lineman. Once I hit the ground, I was like, 'Oh, well.'"Maye laid face-down in the end zone as teammate Parry Nickerson patted him on the back."I've got to get into the end zone some way," Maye said.According to NFL Next Gen Stats, Maye ran a total of 140.7 yards on the return 鈥?the league's third-longest play this season behind only Kansas City's Tyreek Hill (140.9 on a 91-yard punt return for a touchdown) and Detroit's Jamal Agnew (142.1 on a 73-yard punt return for a TD that was nullified by a penalty and credited as a 4-yard return)."Yeah, I've been running," Maye said when asked if he has gotten into better shape the last few days. "I've been running sprints in between periods and getting on the bike and stuff like that."All kidding aside, it was a good all-around game for Maye, who had eight tackles 鈥?six solo 鈥?a sack, a pass defensed, a forced fumble and the interception."He sees the game very well, he knows the game," Bowles said. "He's pretty bright for a young guy."Maye made his season debut two weeks ago at Jacksonville, when he made six total tackles. The safety can see improvement from that game to his performance last week 鈥?even with that www.chiefsauthorizedshops.com , well, sluggish ending."I felt a lot better," Maye said. "Each day, each week, you just try to stack the days. Jacksonville, the first game back and first outing, you see things and try to react to them. But for the most part, coming into Denver week, I felt better and felt like I was moving around more and knew what was going on, so it was a better outing."NOTES: DE Leonard Williams didn't practice with what Bowles said was a sore back. It's too early to tell if it might limit him or keep him out against Indianapolis on Sunday. ... RB Isaiah Crowell sat out for the second straight day with an ankle ailment. He was injured during his franchise-record 219-yard rushing performance last Sunday. ... CB Trumaine Johnson (quadriceps), CB Buster Skrine (concussion), WR Charone Peake (hamstring), LB Kevin Pierre-Louis (foot) and WR Terrelle Pryor (excused absence) also didn't practice. ... WR-KR Andre Roberts (elbow/foot), C Spencer Long (knee/finger), S Doug Middleton (hamstring) and TE Neal Sterling (concussion) were all limited. Von Miller concurs with his coaches that he needs to make more plays, not that he needs to play more.The Broncos (2-2) haven't had a takeaway since the season opener, and the fulcrum of Denver's defense said the solution is simple: "I've got to get some sacks."Miller said if he can get to the quarterback like he did in the opener, when he dumped Russell Wilson three times, he can either force a fumble or a bad throw."I've got to play better. I've got to do better," Miller said. "... We've got some big-time games coming up and I've got to be big in those."Miller, who leads the Broncos into the Meadowlands to face the Jets (1-3) on Sunday, has seen his playing time dip by about 10 percent this season.He's missed more than a quarter of Denver's defensive snaps as his coaches aim to rotate Miller and rookie Bradley Chubb, the fifth overall pick in the 2018 draft, with Shaq Barrett and former first-round pick Shane Ray."If you want me to, I can play the whole game," cracked Miller, who has only done that twice in his eight-year career, against Cincinnati last season and at New Orleans the year before."I mean, it's just different this year . It's not me and DeMarcus (Ware) and the no-game guys behind us anymore," Miller said. "It's not like that. We've got big-time players between me, Chubb, Shaq and Shane."It's just tough. You have to find ways to get Shaq and Shane in there. I have to find ways to get on the field during crunch time and in the clutch Kansas City Chiefs Womens T-Shirt , which I am in there, usually."Miller said this formula will keep all four pass rushers fresh and fit for the long haul."We just have a special situation here. We've got four great pass rushers and it would be a total injustice to have Shaq and Shane on the bench," Miller said.Miller has played 74.2 percent of the snaps this season. That's a significant drop from the 84.2 percent clip he's played over his previous six seasons (not counting the games he missed in 2013), and at that rate, would work out to the lowest percentage of his career.It wouldn't be too far from the 76.2 percent of snaps Miller played in 2015 when he led the Broncos to a Super Bowl win, however. That year, he was at his best in the playoffs, pulverizing Tom Brady in the AFC championship and Cam Newton in the Super Bowl.Miller's highest percentage of plays came in 2013 after he returned from a six-game suspension to start the season and logged 92.6 percent of the snaps before a knee injury sidelined him and forced him to miss that year's Super Bowl.Miller's heavy workload and weight gain that year may have contributed to his injury, and both his physique and playing time have slimmed down since.He's averaged 880 snaps a year since his knee injury in 2013 after logging a career-high 962 snaps the year before he got hurt. He's on pace for 808 snaps this season.Statistically speaking, Miller has been quiet since racking up four sacks in the first two weeks of the season."It's a tough league and the sacks, they definitely come in bunches," Miller said. "I mean, I started the season off with three sacks and I'm like, 'Man, I'm going to get 45 sacks this season. It's going to be easy. And next game, I get two sacks and get one taken away and I'm like, 'Man, that would have been five sacks in two games."He's been held without a sack the last two weeks, both losses, including a 27-23 heartbreaker against Kansas City on Monday night in which Miller had just one tackle and couldn't bring down Patrick Mahomes, who switched the football to his left hand , then shot-putted it to Tyreek Hill with Miller dragging him down for a key first down on the Chiefs' game-winning drive .This week, Broncos coach Vance Joseph called out his coaching staff and his star players 鈥?although not by name 鈥?to do better after Denver cratered in crunch time against Kansas City."There weren't enough sacks on the quarterback," Joseph said. "We made maybe two plays on the ball the entire night. We need more. We need more from our main guys on both sides of the ball."When those comments were relayed to him, Miller showed he's not overly stressed about his sack slowdown."I mean, in my heart I feel like, you know, my mom always told me since I was a little boy that I was her star," Miller said. "And I just try to go out there and be the best player I possibly can be."