Pro. Jake Delhomme

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Oh well it doesnt matter the guy is doing great at Carolina. Im just saying just because he is doing good right now doesnt mean he should have started at NO. for all we know jake could be garbage next year who knows. I think people are getting to excited. Like i said football has alot to do with talent and also alot to do with being in the right spot at the right time , and top that off with a little luck . But only time will tell if jake delhome is the truth.

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Originally posted by WebWatchDog
Does Deon Sanders have anything good to say about Jake? If I remember right he was one of the defensive players Jake completed a bunch of passes on in 1999

At least one deep one... and for that Deion presented Jake with the shoes he wore for that game, which at the time was some sort of thing he did for QBs that burned him.

I thought that was pretty classy...
Jake gave the shoes to his brother I think.

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Originally posted by WebWatchDog
Does Deon Sanders have anything good to say about Jake? If I remember right he was one of the defensive players Jake completed a bunch of passes on in 1999

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Panthers' Delhomme steps out of shadows

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Donovan McNabb, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Jake Delhomme. Pick the one who doesn't fit. Choose the NFL quarterback who is the least likely to be a game away from the Super Bowl. This is not a trick question. Or is it?

But as the NFL decides its two conference champions Sunday, the story of Carolina's Delhomme -- who will be matching his talents against the more ballyhooed McNabb and the Philadelphia Eagles -- will be frequently retold. In some ways it's a similar tale to the one Brady has authored with the Patriots, a low-round draft pick who persevered and emerged as a Super Bowl MVP.

Delhomme's teammates have compared him to Bobby Boucher, the character that Adam Sandler turned into a hero in "The Waterboy."

His exploits this year have been Hollywood-esque, as he has put together seven game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime (Delhomme is 22 of 29 during those marches) as the Panthers emerged from the darkness of a 1-15 season two years ago to the NFC Championship game.

"I'd be lying to you if I tried to give you a straight answer," said Delhomme when asked if he saw any of this coming. "I signed looking for an opportunity to play. Did I think, the day I signed, we'd be in a championship game? Probably not, I was just looking for an opportunity and to kind of take it and run with it."

Run with it? Delhomme has been in a sprint all season. He came out of the bayous of Louisiana and the low-profile life at Louisiana in 1997 as an undrafted QB who had ambitions, but seemed to have little else going for him.

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By Mark Blaudschun, Globe Staff, 1/15/2004

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Jake Delhomme’s incredible season not surprising to his family.
BREAUX BRIDGE — Jake Delhomme is an overnight success ... seven years after playing his final game for the University of Louisiana.

Delhomme left the New Orleans Saints in 2003 for the chance to start at quarterback in the NFL with the Carolina Panthers, and on Sunday he’ll lead the Panthers into the NFC Championship Game in Philadelphia against the Eagles.

If National Football League general managers and coaches had just listened to the Delhomme family, though, they could have saved themselves some time.

“I always thought he could play in the NFL,” said older brother Jeff, a stellar wide receiver whose own NFL dreams crashed with a knee injury while playing for McNeese State.

“Maybe my perception of an NFL quarterback is Jake. He might be what an NFL quarterback would be like. He resembles Joe Montana in size and stature, and he’s making me a believer the older he gets.”

“It wasn’t surprising,” Marcia Delhomme said of her youngest son leading Carolina to the NFC South division title. “I knew if given a chance he could do it.

“It has happened very fast for us. When he got to training camp and was trying to learn a new system, it was hard for him to adjust at first. Then it took off, and it’s just been amazing. He’s so good.

“He’s completely happy. It’s the best move he ever made.”

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Bruce Brown
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Jake was never drafted, get over it.

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It’s a family thing.

Make that an extended family.

Sunday’s AFC and NFC championship games feature three of the best football players ever to come out of local high schools.

New England running back Kevin Faulk remains the standard by which Carencro High stars are measured.

Indianapolis wide receiver Brandon Stokley was a Comeaux standout.

Carolina quarterback Jake Delhomme put Teurlings Catholic on the map.

Delhomme and Stokley also played together for two record-setting years at UL Lafayette.

Stokley and Faulk have already earned Super Bowl rings.

Is it Jake’s turn this year?

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BREAUX BRIDGE -- Jerry Delhomme was preparing dinner the other night in his modest two-story ranch home, just off two-lane Lafayette Highway. As he worked a paring knife, the talking heads on TV caught Delhomme's ear. Their topic of discussion: Jerry's son, Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme.

On the screen popped a photo of Jake, the same mop-topped runt who spent his youth in the room down the hall, the same son who spends his offseasons in the remodeled home just across the back lawn from the Delhommes' kitchen.

Dad stopped dicing onions and started pinching himself. For Jerry and Marcia Delhomme, reality has officially exceeded their dreams.

"It's unbelievable," Jerry Delhomme said. "It seems like just yesterday when the little fart was running around my legs. Now he's all over TV. It's a dream. It's beyond our dreams."

On Sunday, Jake Delhomme will quarterback the underdog Panthers against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game at Lincoln Financial Field. It's the biggest game of his life.

An entire community will hang on his every pass and incompletion.

Delhomme's ascension from local kingfish to national star is the biggest thing to hit Breaux Bridge since native daughter Ali Landry won the 1996 Miss USA pageant.

From Café des Amis to Mulate's, The Original Cajun Restaurant, this humble town of 7,218 nestled along the banks of Bayou Teche is abuzz about Delhomme, which in French fittingly means "The Man".

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Jeff Duncan can be reached at jduncan@timespicayune.com or (504) 826-3405.

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PHILADELPHIA - No quarterback with aspirations of starting in the NFL really wants to be shipped off to Europe to play professional football. But after a year of serving on the practice squad of the New Orleans Saints in 1997, Jake Delhomme was ready.

It would be far from his home in Louisiana. It would be before fans who were just starting to figure out that the extra point really wasn't that big a deal.

But it was a chance to play, get some experience and, he hoped, impress someone in the NFL. So when Delhomme was sent to the Amsterdam Admirals by the Saints for seasoning, he was determined to make the most of it.

There was just one problem. The Admirals had this other developmental quarterback who thought he was going to play, too.

The coaches had a decision to make: Jake Delhomme or Kurt Warner. They picked Warner, although the selection was not made without a lot of debate among the coaches.

Delhomme was crushed. Hey, if he couldn't start for the Admirals in NFL Europe, how the heck was he ever going to be more than practice fodder in the NFL?

"You talk about a blow to your ego,'' said Delhomme, an undrafted player from the University of Louisiana. "That was the toughest point.''

But Delhomme didn't give up.

It's that attitude, that ability to rally, that has made him a respected leader on the Carolina Panthers and a beloved figure among their fans.

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QB finds dream job in Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — To suggest that Jake Delhomme has come from nowhere is to encourage Delhomme to begin a history lesson about nowhere.

He comes from Breaux Bridge, La., which is the crawfish capital of the world. How can that be nowhere?

"It's a capital of the world," Delhomme said. "C'mon."

He played quarterback in college at Louisiana Lafayette when it was known as Southwestern Louisiana. The Ragin' Cajuns won two Big West Conference titles under Delhomme and that's something and you can't have happening nowhere.

Delhomme might not have been drafted to the NFL and that makes a man with pro football aspirations thinking he's headed nowhere, and he might have signed with the New Orleans Saints, which many NFL players have found to be awfully close to nowhere.

The Saints sent Delhomme to NFL Europe to play for Amsterdam and Delhomme was the second-string quarterback.

Nowheresville cubed, right?

"Well, I was backup to Kurt Warner," Delhomme said. "So it turns out it wasn't so bad."

He came back, was given the chance to compete with Danny Wuerffel for the starting job and lost out. To Wuerffel. Nowhere would be a step up.

But five years with the Saints, a year as a backup in Europe, all this was all leading somewhere.

To Charlotte. To the Carolina Panthers.

To the opening day of the 2003 season when the Panthers were losing to Jacksonville, 17-0, and Delhomme was brought off the bench to replace Rodney Peete, a move made of desperation. Delhomme had been given every chance to beat out Peete in training camp and had not been able to and seemed permanently to have found a home nowhere.

And inevitably, Delhomme thinks anyway, he has found his way to the role of Warner, of Tom Brady, of those quarterbacks unheard of until they accomplished something special at playoff time.

Delhomme will lead the Panthers into the NFC Championship Game Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia against the Eagles.

A free agent last summer, Delhomme was evaluated by Dallas and Carolina. He knew he had to leave New Orleans even if he didn't want to.

"It was my home state team, close to my family and my friends," Delhomme said. "The fans are great but finally I began to understand the Saints had found their guy in Aaron Brooks, you know? I needed to move on."

His hope?

"That I'd be starting by opening day," Delhomme said. "It kind of happened."

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By Diane Pucin, Los Angeles Times