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
You know, we practice with it (noise). We practiced it out there today (Wednesday). I scream at the top of my lungs so that they can hear the snap count in practice. We work at it, but I think the biggest thing is just concentration.
We needed to come in and get a win and we did that. We answered the bell.
We had opportunities. It is frustrating. We only put up 20 points and that wasn't good enough today.
I think this team was confident going into week one. We're a team that is confident, but not a cocky football team. We work hard and we believe that we'll go out and play well on Sundays. It's starting to carry over now, so hopefully we'll keep it up.
I was just praying for our defense to get a stop, ... He was awesome tonight. I'm just honored to be on the same field with him.
Last week, we were 9-4, but you could have swore we were 4-9. That's the mindset our players took and our coaches, too. We didn't play well last week and we wanted to come back and answer.
I saw No. 27 on him. I hadn't seen it all day because there's not many times you get one-on-one.
I saw (Thompson) was covering him -- when I saw that I gave him a signal that I wanted to go there. Steve put on the burners and took off.
To come across the country on a short week to win and fight back the way we did, ... it was pretty nice.
We couldn't get much going and some turnovers early killed us.
That was a great play. I had Nick Goings for a touchdown. When I threw it I thought touchdown all the way.
I asked him if it was his college number and he said that was No. 17. I told him he should have asked me. I would have given it to him,
I don't watch our defense play a whole lot. I really don't. But (this time), you kind of wanted to get up and watch him out there.
A loss is a loss. We got beat, ... We lost the biggest game of our life.