What I like best are the honest responses with NO excuses. As Jake said, both teams had to play in it.Mike
When you signed Jake Delhomme, you instantly became a football team that took responsibility for it's mistakes. There are a thousand guys out there who can throw a pass, but very few have the leadership qualities you'll find in him.
I'm not a troll. I'm an honest-to-goodness Panther fan and PSL holder (since day one).
Jake Delhomme introduced himself in Carolina by coming in at halftime, throwing two interceptions, and three touchdowns. He assembled a rating of 77.08 in that game. The Panthers won on a last-second touchdown pass, and it wasn't long before "Got Jake?" shirts started popping up in the Carolinas.
Everyone loved him, and everyone thought he was an awesome quarterback. No one cared about picks, yards per attempt, fumbles, sacks, stupid mistakes, or the goofy haircut. He won games. That's what happens to a fan base that's a year removed from 1-15.
Jake will start for you and throw interceptions. Then he'll calmly march you down the field and hand off the ball for a TD that should belong to him but instead goes to a back. He will never have good stats. And he may be done. Or maybe not.
I love the guy, but since we hired Jeff Davidson as our OC, we've never seemed to have good QB play. Jake did it almost by himself in 2008, but last year when he was struggling we inexplicably called more downfield passing plays, and then we had a game where we didn't call hardly any passes at all. There must have been some sort of new-age "Get your QB's confidence back" groove that we were riding, but it wasn't effective, and made things worse.
I'm not saying Davidson sucks. After all, he was the assistant Tight Ends coach at New England, so he must have some special kind of genius I don't know about. And I'm sure his decision to bring in his buddy from Cleveland to help his experienced, winning QB get better was the right call. But it didn't work. Maybe he did it because of stuff he saw in practice. Maybe he was just mad at Jake because he took the blame for the play-calling in the playoff game (we stopped running after the first drive--go figure that out). Maybe Delhomme has no arm left at all.
Obviously, Davidson + Delhomme = bad QB play. It really could be Delhomme. Or Holmgren is smarter than Davidson, and Delhomme is a fit for you.
One thing is for sure, Jake's in the right kind of offense to get his mojo back. There isn't anything quite like short controlled passes to give a QB confidence, and if Jake is in his groove in the fourth quarter he honestly does become one of the best in the game. Go look at his situational stats for 2003-2008 in the fourth quarter if you don't believe me. He can be a terror to opposing defenses when the game's on the line.
At least he used to be. If he still has it, you've got three years of high level play and the best mentor you could hope for before McCoy shows you what he's got. If not, well have you really lost anything for trying?
Best of luck, and take care of Jake for us. 
