Pro. Jake Delhomme

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"struggling NLF Teams "

Maybe that's why they're so bad, they playing in the National Lootball Feague!

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Carolina Panthers starting quarterback Jake Delhomme suffered a hairline fracture in the tip of his right thumb during Sunday's win at San Francisco.

Delhomme, who is not expected to miss any time because of the fracture, suffered the injury in the second half when he was hit on a roughing the passer call. The team will take a day-to-day approach to the injury.

"It's something that he will just have to play with," said head coach John Fox on Monday. "If he wasn't a quarterback, we wouldn't even be talking about it, because guys play with those."

Delhomme led a 17-point comeback victory over the 49ers on Sunday, throwing for 303 yards and three touchdowns in a 37-27 win.

For the season, Delhomme has thrown for 2,155 yards and 15 touchdowns with 11 interceptions for the 2-7 Panthers.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Fate brought Jake Delhomme and Bryan Cox together, horses helped them forge a friendship. They were teammates in New Orleans for one season, 2002; Delhomme's last with the Saints, Cox's last in the NFL. They like to discuss the sport of kings and spent many a Monday afternoon together at the Fair Grounds.

Recently, with the Carolina Panthers season coming apart and Delhomme clearly, at least from Cox's vantage point, trying to salvage it alone, the quarterback and the outspoken sports talk show co-host had a football conversation. Actually, it was more Cox talking and Delhomme listening.

"He was like, 'Hey, you keep fighting,' " Delhomme said Monday, a day after the Panthers earned their first victory this season at Bank of America Stadium, 35-10 over the Cardinals. "He said, 'It's hard, but this will make you better in the long run. I've been watching you play. You've just got to get it out your hand, set your damn feet. You can tell you're trying to do too much. I'm calling because I care about you and I love you.' "

Another ex-teammate with the Saints, former quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver, left an encouraging voice message offering similar counsel, telling Delhomme to simply progress through his reads. Delhomme also solicited wisdom from his understudy, Rodney Peete, who is nine years his elder, and Peete, likewise, told him not to try to take the offense upon himself, but to instead just take what the defense gives him.

Delhomme has taken his friends' advice and his game up a notch, tossing eight touchdowns and one interception this month for revitalized Carolina (3-7), whose consecutive victories and remaining schedule have the folks there talking about the possibility of the Panthers in the playoffs.

Don't dismiss it. The Panthers play New Orleans and Tampa Bay twice, St. Louis at home, and Atlanta on the road, and the way they've looked in the last game and a half, and the way the NFC looks this year, hey …

"Every game we've had a chance," Delhomme said. "We've killed ourselves. And I truly believe other teams realize it. They're saying, 'Look at the injuries, look what's happened, and these guys are with us?' "

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ESPN.com

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Led by QB Jake Delhomme, Carolina shakes off 1-7 start

After losing six straight games and falling to 1-7, the Carolina Panthers appeared to be a shell of the team that represented the NFC in Super Bowl XXXVIII in February.

Riddled by injuries to key offensive linemen, wide receivers and running backs, the Panthers were one of the NFL's most notable midseason disappointments.

But a three-game winning streak has them rejuvenated and vying for an NFC wild-card berth, thanks in part to former Saints quarterback Jake Delhomme. Delhomme's 40-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Keary Colbert with 20 seconds remaining last Sunday enabled the Panthers to defeat the visiting Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Delhomme, who has played the past two games with a fractured thumb on his throwing hand, completed all four passes for 69 yards on the decisive five-play, 73-yard drive.

Though encouraged by his team's recent performance, Delhomme said consecutive wins against the Buccaneers (4-7), Arizona Cardinals (4-7) and San Francisco 49ers (1-10) aren't cause for celebration.

There's more work at hand, beginning with Sunday's NFC South game against the Saints (4-7) at the Superdome.

"Y'all probably won't believe me, but (the Saints) are just another team that we're playing in our division," Delhomme said. "I've been so far removed from there. It feels like three or four years since I've been there.

"People say we're in the playoff picture, but let's be realistic here -- we're 4-7. To us, it's a one-game season every week. We've been in the playoffs for the last three weeks. It's one-and-done, if that's how you want to look at it. I can't get caught up in trying to outdo the Saints. We only have four wins. We're just scratching for a win."

In his first six games, Delhomme, who signed a six-year contract extension in June that could pay him as much as $38 million, threw seven touchdown passes and 10 interceptions. In the past five games, he has thrown 12 touchdown passes and three interceptions.

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By Brian Allee-Walsh
Staff writer

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Geaux Jake beat the ~~~~ out of the saints, we need a new coach!!!!!! haha

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NEW ORLEANS — Jake Delhomme knows a thing or two about overcoming long odds.

His NFL career is proof of that.

It could be a tall order for the Carolina Panthers to come all the way back from a 1-7 start one season after reaching the Super Bowl as NFC champions, but Delhomme is a good choice to lead that longshot rally.

The former Teurlings Catholic and Louisiana Ragin’ Cajun star threw for 294 yards and a touchdown to lead the Panthers to a 32-21 victory over the New Orleans Saints (4-8) on Sunday in the Superdome as Carolina improved to a suddenly-respectable 5-7.

The Panthers are back in the playoff hunt in the mediocre NFC of 2004.

“We’re starting to find ourselves,” Delhomme said. “We dug ourselves a pretty nice hole, there’s no doubt about that.

“People talk about our schedule and our injuries, but the toughest thing is that we didn’t have an identity. We came close to making plays (in the early losses). We just kept on working.

“This team has a lot of character. Guys don’t quit. They study. They prepare.”

Delhomme’s first season with the Panthers resulted in a surge to the Super Bowl,including a pair of emotional wins over his former Saints teammates, but he is getting further removed from that emotional tie.

“This is my second year away from the team now,” Delhomme said. “It’s nice to have a lot of family be able to come to the game, but it’s different now. Next year, I’ll really be able to enjoy it.”

Sunday was an enjoyable day for the Panthers, who jumped on top 23-0 before the Saints could score and profited from a team-record six field goals by John Kasay and a Panthers-record 36 carries for 122 yards and a touchdown by Nick Goings.

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Bruce Brown
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12-24-1999

Jake Delhomme, playing in his first National Football League game, threw 278 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score to lead the New Orleans Saints to a 31-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.

Jake and The Saints defeated a Dallas team that desperately needed a win to get into the playoffs. Only squeaking through on the last week of the season when Green Bay defeated Arizona 49-24

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Why shold they he finds them when they are laying on the ground

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24 Passes
19 Completions
4 Touchdowns
0 Interceptions

143.4 Quarterback rating ranks in the top 98 percentile of games ever played.

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In my mind, this video LINK is why Jakes receivers never quit.

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Delhomme's QB rating rockets to his career best

TAMPA, Fla. - Carolina quarterback Jake Delhomme bounced back from a tough loss at Atlanta a week ago with one of the best games of his career in Sunday's 37-20 blowout of Tampa Bay at Raymond James Stadium.

Delhomme's numbers were stunningly good: 19 completions in 24 attempts, four of them for touchdowns, no interceptions, and a passer rating of 143.4, his career high. It continued a trend; he has played dramatically better over his team's past nine games than in its first six.

Those first half-dozen ended with his passer rating at 67.1. In the eight before Sunday, his rating was 97.8.

"He just continues to progress with each and every game," said Carolina coach John Fox.

Fullback Brad Hoover added, "He's been doing it consistently, and today he came out and played well again."

Delhomme's superb Sunday matinee performance came against one of the league's best defenses.

"I felt good out there today," he said. "But when you're having great protection and your guys are really catching the ball, your confidence is really going. I felt good in our plan. ... It did feel good out there today."

`Moose' adds to record collection

Receiver Muhsin Muhammad's two first-quarter touchdown receptions gained him another place in the Carolina record book. He has 14 scoring catches this season, a team record.

Muhammad entered the game tied for first with Patrick Jeffers and Wesley Walls, each of whom had 12 in 1999.

There's more; he had 115 receiving yards Sunday to push his season total to 1,310, also a team record. Muhammad has the three highest totals in team history, since he had 1,253 yards in 1999 and 1,183 in 2000.

"I had no idea how close I was to those records," Muhammad said. "After you finish the season and look back, you realize that you accomplished a lot of things."

Touchdown from seat of his pants

Panthers tight end Mike Seidman's fourth-quarter touchdown reception came with him sitting on the ground in the back of the end zone."Really, it was sit down, or stop, not actually sit down," said a grinning Delhomme. "It was a fake, and he came and the back overran it and he stopped. I had perfect vision; I saw him fall, and there was no one there. I just tried to throw it to him, and he did a good job of concentrating and catching it."

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Includes AFC & NFC dos not include QB's who have thrown less than 100 passes.

14th: Yards per attempt 7.41
(15 QB's have YPA in the 7 yard range)

12th: QB Rating 88
(around 98 for the second half of the year)

8th:
Passing Yards 3579 (Arron Brooks 7th 15 yards apart)

8th: Completions
(Only 2 ranked above have thrown fewer passes)

7th: Pass Attemtps

5th: Touchdowns 27
(Tied for 5th)