are, at best, a longshot. Keeping a reeling Delhomme in the game isn’t going to solve anything. It’s not like he’s improving. He has the most interceptions in the league. Unfortunately, losing doesn’t get us a high draft pick (because we traded that away), but a high second round pick is still nice. If we’re gonna lose, we might as well do it with a young guy who could get better with playing time. Delhomme is past he point in his career where getting a couple starts makes him better than he was before. He’s reached his peak, and he’s well beyond that now.

I hope the coaches take tomorrow off to think about the state of their team. They have barely won two games against teams that aren’t going to come anywhere close to the playoffs this year, and suddenly turned to the passing game in the 4th quarter when that is exactly the time the running game works out the best.

Jake Delhomme’s time is over. It’s been over for a while now. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. We will never be able to beat elite teams like the Giants, the Cardinals, and the Patriots with a guy playing like Delhomme at the QB position. Today we found out that we cannot even beat the Bills because of the presents he’ll give to the other team.

Both of his first interceptions were above the head of the WR’s, clearly uncatchable. Smith caught some heat for tipping the ball into the air on the 2nd INT, but watching film for the second time Byrd was in position to make the INT anyway. The Moore fumble was bad, but Jake Delhomme set us up for his mistake to mean so much anyway.

If John Fox cares about his job at all, he will give Moore the ball. Let’s see what the rookie has learned the last few years. He has the stronger arm, so let’s see if he can control it! Worst case scenario he goes out and throws 3 INT’s, but that’s not any worse than we get right now from Delhomme so no harm, no foul.

The bigger problem out of all of this is coaching. The players aren’t playing like they are truly motivated to win. If you recorded the game with DVR, watch the offensive linemen during the 2 minute drill. Poor Jake is screaming for the guys to get to the line of scrimmage, and they’re just trotting around like they’re goofing off in practice. They’ve also completely forgotten that they can spike the ball to stop the clock, which blew me away right there.

I don’t know what else to say to be honest. Another horrible game. Is anything else new?

I started the Bills defense…..zing.

3 of my favorite players take the hit for this game – Jake, Kasey & Moore. Reluctantly, it’s time to push the “reset” button. Goodbye Jake, Fox & staff. It’s time.

I’d rather see Moore because he has more potential to be a long term answer here, but I have a “feeley” that Fox would start Feeley over Moore.

Any thoughts about picking up Garcia?

Though Gantt makes a good point with the next two games on the road, Delhomme might still start. But you can bet that unless he sparkles they better trot out a different QB at the next home game.

  I’ve always backed the idea of the Panthers sticking with Jake Delhomme because my thought process is he’s always given them the best chance to win, which is to say he’s better than the alternatives. After watching Sunday’s loss to the Buffalo Bills, I no longer believe that be true. Anything, right now, is better than tossing Delhomme out there against Arizona, even if it gives him a chance to exorcise his demons following that playoff loss this past January.

   Delhomme is clearly lacking confidence and I’ve never seen him so discouraged after a press conference. (We’ll have the video up a little later.)

   I can’t see how coach John Fox can look at his players this week and NOT make a change.

   The Panthers need a spark and that has to come from someone other than Delhomme. I still don’t think Matt Moore or A.J. Feeley are better quarterbacks, but right now they’re different. And the Panthers need to find a way to change the karma of this football team.

   It’s time to roll the dice and give Moore a shot.

   We’ll find out more on Monday.

   Let’s hope Fox says something and doesn’t leave fans twisting in the wind.

And I must say it was pretty ugly when getting out. During the postgame show on the radio, the host said he saw a lot fans saying Delhomme should be benched, gone, let go, etc.

Here’s my problem, it’s still kind of difficult to say Jake was the main reason the Panthers lost Sunday. I saw the game from the stadium and while he did throw three picks (two of course turned into 14), the OC did draw up a horrible gameplan going in. Like the guys on the radio show said, Jake was told to throw the ball 40+ times. God knows why when you’re tied going into yesterday’s game with lead in interceptions thrown. Delhomme just isn’t one of those qbs where the team’s chances of winning improve when he has the ball in his hand that much (atleast not anymore it seems.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the special teams was again atrocious from start to finish. I was listening to the radio show concerning that and they said that Carolina averaged near the 20 yard line on each drive they had the ball. I’m sorry, but when you have such a one-dimensional offense like Carolina’s, that does not help anyone on offense including Jake. Also keep in mind that Buffalo’s average starting point was I think between the 30 and 35 yard line.

While watching the game in person, I did thought the defense was not as aggressive as in week’s past. Yes I saw Fitzpatrick get flushed out of the pocket here and there, but the corners again seemed to have went to their old tricks, giving the opposing receiver 10 yards of space (basically afraid to get burned). Then I see Gamble getting toasted on a simple out route where Evans probably would of scored had the ball not been underthrown.

One last thing, I was not too impressed with Jordan Gross again. He, like Gamble is getting paid to play like one of the premier players that play their respective positions yet have not lived up to the billing yet. Yes, Schobel is a very underrated defense end but I was seeing others beside him constantly putting pressure on Jake.

Bottomline, that game was probably one of the toughest games I have ever watched the Panthers play. Biased or not, the Bills were and are not the better of the two, it was really just Carolina beating themselves.