Jake Delhomme
Jake Delhomme
Jake Christopher Delhommeis a former American football quarterback who played professionally in the National Football League. Delhomme played college football at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette before being signed by the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent after the 1997 NFL Draft. Delhomme began his professional career as a practice squad player with the Saints in 1997 and 1998 and played in the NFL Europe for two years in between NFL seasons. Returning to the Saints, Delhomme...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth10 January 1975
CityBreaux Bridge, LA
I gave Steve a little signal. I kind of knew I wanted to go that way. I tried to hold the safety in the middle of the field and (Smith) just runs right by him.
I had choice words for myself. I was more apologetic to (the line).
Certainly they are good; there's no doubt. We put ourselves in a hole early. I had a couple picks early on, we went down 10-0. We just never got anything going.
He's special. There's really no other way to put it.
We run the ball pretty effectively. When we've had opportunities to throw it, we're getting one-on-one opportunities and we have a guy that we think is pretty special with the ball in his hands.
We owed the Saints twofold. They kept us out of the playoffs in last year's final game, so the payback was doubly sweet. If a certain two of our cheerleaders can double their pleasure, why can't we?
We came in Monday and watched the film, and now we have to move on. The positive thing is that we don't have to scoreboard watch if we take care of our business.
We did some good things, ... I'm disappointed that we settled for three field goals, but it was great to end the half the way we did. To score seven points was huge after the Browns touchdown.
When you spot a team like that 10 points out of the chute, it's going to be a tough hole to dig out of. A couple bad plays early on and they really got after us. We had to throw the ball a lot in the second half and they teed off on us. Offensively, it wasn't one of our best performances. We need to try to learn from that film and learn from what they have done since.
If what we're doing can make them happy, we better do all we can. We're playing a game. They're fighting for their lives.
We answered. That's the biggest thing we did today, was answer every time we really needed to.
We answered. That's the biggest thing we did. Every time they got close, we answered. That was huge.
We're 10-5, and nothing has been clinched yet, but we still control our own destiny. If we had to say, 'We hope this team loses and we win,' that would be hard. But we don't have to worry about that. If we can win on Sunday, then we can worry about who we play and where in the playoffs.
I saw 27 was covering him. I hadn't seen that all game long. So I gave him a little signal.