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
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.
In Chicago last week, it was the same thing. It's the whole atmosphere about it, you know there's nobody else but the coaches and the players and that's it, and you've just got to focus in and get it done.
I know these areas you see on TV well, it hits you right in the heart,
I know the first year Smitty caught all of these balls and Moose wasn't catching a thing. Then all of sudden, midway through the season, it shifted and Moose caught on fire. That's just part of it.
The biggest thing was just (get) our defense to stop them,
I'm in a position to be able to give back. ... You can put a smile on kids' faces just by being here.
I'm not going to lie, there's pain there. But there's going to be pain there for the rest of the season. That's just the way it is. It's gotten better. I anticipate it getting better the rest of the season.
I'm a fan of it. I enjoy watching, and you don't get an opportunity that often. Usually you're playing on Sunday.
I'm telling you, this guy we have playing for us this week is going to do a great job. He knows what to do. He knows how to do it. Hopefully, the players around him, including myself, can help him have a good game.
It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago, ... This was just a big win for us.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about that game. And not a day goes by that I don't want to get back there again.
It was a bad throw by me, absolutely awful. Stephen was the check down. I saw him there and took my eyes off him and then went back. It was absolutely on me.
It was a bad throw by me. Absolutely awful.
That's a place that I do hold close to my heart because when you grow up in Louisiana, your dream is to play in the Superdome, to play in the high school state championships, ... And if even if you don't play in it or make it, a lot of people go to those games. (But) for me, that's just part of it.