Pro. Jake Delhomme

[Zeebart21]

Never believed I'd see The Cardinals playing at home in the NFC Championship!!!!

I truly wish Mike and those guys the best.

Z

[RaginFan2]

_ Never believed I'd see The Cardinals playing at home in the NFC Championship!!!!

I truly wish Mike and those guys the best.

Z _

Ain't that the truth! (on both counts)

[Cajun Express]

_ I pull for Jake and whatever team he will play for. I would even pull for San Fran or Atlanta if he played for them and those are two teams I dislike. Once he is no longer a Panther, I won't pay attention to them unless a former Cajun is doing well there. _

Well Archie and I had lunch a couple of times in the 80's. Never met the boys, but for sure they ain't native New Orleans. Izadore Newman grads don't equate with the commoners.

[RCAJUN90]

_ Well Archie and I had lunch a couple of times in the 80's. Never met the boys, but for sure they ain't native New Orleans. Izadore Newman grads don't equate with the commoners. _

You were his waiter right? I talked to Eli at Peyton's Camp at SLU a few years ago. I would not begin to speculate or present as fact that Eli or Peyton would never return home to New Orleans. I think the fact that Peyton's camp is close to home might be an indication when all is over he will return to New Orleans. Newman isn't that elite my daughter is going to school with some of the Saints players at Dominican. Some of us poor common folks manage to send our kids to the best schools we can. As usual you lose sight of the facts. He was raised in New Orleans Louisiana. To the best of my knowledge Archie still lives in Audubon Place. The boys are local products.

[NewsCopy]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Jake Delhomme didn't walk out of Bank of America Stadium alone Sunday.

Steve Smith walked with him.

Smith, Carolina's Pro Bowl wide receiver, defended both his quarterback and the team's season amid widespread criticism of the Panthers' stunning 33-13 loss to Arizona in Saturday night's home playoff game.

"I feel about Jake the same way I felt about Jake after the 2003 season," Smith said, recalling the year Delhomme led the Panthers to the Super Bowl. "My opinion and my respect in my friend have not changed."

As for the Panthers, Smith said the loss doesn't deter from what they accomplished in the regular season -- a 12-4 record, NFC South championship and a first-round playoff bye.

"I personally think people are going to write this off and are going to say, 'Ah, it was a waste,'" Smith said. "It's not the case.

"The loss didn't take away from who we were and what we did. People can write and say it did. Fans can have their opinion. But I would not trade in or forfeit any of the experiences we had in that locker room, and the joy we had on the field together, for one more week.

"There's only going to be one team in the end who's going to be happy, and we weren't that team."

Other players and coach John Fox voiced strong support for Delhomme the morning after he threw a career-high five interceptions and fumbled once in arguably the worst performance of his NFL career.

"It doesn't


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shake my confidence in him," said fullback Brad Hoover.

Said Fox of Delhomme: "He had a bad game. He didn't have a bad season. He's not a bad quarterback. It happens."

Delhomme said he was startled by his performance.

"With the work I put in, I never anticipated in a million years that I'd go out and play like I did last night," he said. "You ask yourself, 'Was it worth all the film last week, all the studying?'

"You have those days, but you hope they're very few and far between."

Delhomme said he received an encouraging text-message from a Hall of Fame quarterback, whom he didn't identify.

"He's been through it," said Delhomme. "He said it's all part of it. The sun comes up and you have to move on."

But one-and-done wasn't what the Panthers had expected from their playoff experience.

"It's a harsh reality," said linebacker Jon Beason. "It's amazing how one second you're on top of the world, the next second you're packing your stuff.

"It's a learning experience. There are some things we can do differently next time. We're a young team and we'll be back."

The wrenching truth is that Carolina could have hosted the NFC championship game by beating the Cardinals. Instead, Arizona gets that distinction and will face the Philadelphia Eagles, who upset the New York Giants, 23-11, on Sunday.

Beason, an all-pro this year in his second pro season, said he would watch the remainder of the playoffs on television, but that he wouldn't join other players from around the league who'll go to Tampa for Super Bowl XLIII as spectators.

"I won't attend a Super Bowl, ever, until I play in it," said Beason. "And if I don't ever play in a Super Bowl, I will never attend one."

By Charles Chandler
The Charlotte Observer
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[CajunZ1]

What a pleasure it was to read this story. To have all those guys defend and have Jake's back in (without a doubt) his worst game ever. The panthers are a class act.

They'll be in the playoffs again soon enough.

[HoustonCajun]

_ I was worried the game was over when the Panthers scored on their first possession, and then proceeded to kick it out of bounds on the ensuing kickoff. _

They did that in the Super Bowl in Houston and that cost them the game.

[Turbine]

What makes this outing all the more shocking is that until Saturday Jake had the 3rd highest 'post season' QB rating in NFL history.

[UL_Cajuns]

Carolina fan reacts to his hero's game. Now this is taking it a little too far. It was just one game.

http://saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99489

[CajunT]

_ Carolina fan reacts to his hero's game. Now this is taking it a little too far. It was just one game.

http://saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99489 _

What's sad is a a lot of Saints fans were happy to see him throw 5 ints. And many of them live in Louisiana. It's really sad when people can't even wish a guy from your home state good luck and hope his team will still lose the game. But you can bet your backside many of these same clowns had no problem sniffing the jocks of several New England Patroit athletes from our state. Even if they hated the Patriots.

[RCAJUN90]

_ What's sad is a a lot of Saints fans were happy to see him throw 5 ints. And many of them live in Louisiana. It's really sad when people can't even wish a guy from your home state good luck and hope his team will still lose the game.

A lot were not. I have yet to meet a Saints fan that didn't think that Delhomme should have replaced Brooks. When he was in the Superbowl everyone but one LSU fan (I believe they had a player on New England) were pulling for the home state boy Jake.

I feel really bad for Jake. You know the difference between Jake and Aaron Brooks? Jake has more talent and character than that joker ever had. Once Aaron got his check he became the smiling interception machine. Jake looked like he was in great emotional and physical pain the other night. I'm convinced his playing days are not over. A guy with that kind of heart is not going to let that be his last game and a guy like that is not easy to find.

[CajunT]

_ A lot were not. I have yet to meet a Saints fan that didn't think that Delhomme should have replaced Brooks. When he was in the Superbowl everyone but one LSU fan (I believe they had a player on New England) were pulling for the home state boy Jake.

I feel really bad for Jake. You know the difference between Jake and Aaron Brooks? Jake has more talent and character than that joker ever had. Once Aaron got his check he became the smiling interception machine. Jake looked like he was in great emotional and physical pain the other night. I'm convinced his playing days are not over. A guy with that kind of heart is not going to let that be his last game and a guy like that is not easy to find. _

RCAJUN90, please go read the saints board and tell me this is not true? I know what I read last night and today on the Saints Report board. It's not debatable, and its sad. I know Carolina is a divisional rival and I don't pull for them unless they are playing Atlanta or Tampa Bay. I dislike those teams more then Carolina from the stand point of Saints history.
But I can still wish Jake well in his peformance when Carolina looses games. Even though I dislike Tampa Bay, I have never wished Michael Clayton to wash out or have a bad game.

I'm not a Chicago Bears fan, but I always pull for Peanut Tillman. I'm not a Steeler fan, but I always pull for Ike Taylor to play well. And I'm not a Patriot fan, but I have always wished Kevin, Green and Gay play well. It seems some people in Louisiana can't do the same for Jake Delhomme.