Jake Delhomme

The Bears need a quarterback. With injury-prone Jim Miller and Chris Chandler and ineffectual Henry Burris on the roster, it's safe to say the team will pursue a veteran QB this off-season. Whether he turns into just a quarterback or the quarterback,...

NFL defenses have become so complex this season that you can't possibly outguess them. So the St. Louis Rams say. So, they don't even try. They don't even think about it. "Our quarterback never calls an audible," Mike Martz, the club's offensive...

HOUSTON — This was one of those days when it paid to have last possession. And it was the New England Patriots who, until there were but four ticks left on the clock, had it. On the decisive last-minute drive into the wind here Sunday, New...

The Tennessee Titans, than whom few football teams are more conservative, have always preferred runs to passes. But their famous old runner, Eddie George, who is averaging a bleak 2.9 yards this season, can't move them now. Neither can any other Titan...

The Carolina Panthers signed Jake Delhomme on Wednesday, hoping the former New Orleans backup can be their quarterback of the future. Delhomme, who signed a two-year deal, spent the past five seasons with the Saints. He met with the Panthers on Tuesday...

ARIZONA CARDINALS 2002 RECORD: 5-11. WHEN: July 25. WHERE: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz. WHO'S NEW: Emmitt Smith, the Dallas icon who last year became the league's career rushing leader, was released in March and opted for pro football...

The San Francisco 49ers' new leader, Tim Rattay, in his second NFL start, continued as a big-play quarterback Monday night with possibly the 49ers' longest-ever series of well-placed long and short passes except for some of John Brodie's long ago. To...

As the pieces in the AFC playoff puzzle fell into place yesterday, the Ravens fell apart. In a game decided by their fumbles and dropped passes, the Ravens let a prime opportunity to make a move in the AFC postseason race slip through their fingers,...

With a quarterback named Jake Delhomme, the unbeaten Carolina Panthers (5-0) will entertain a preseason Super Bowl favorite next Sunday, the Tennessee Titans (4-2), whose passer, Steve McNair, proved again in NFL Week 6 that he's an all-pro candidate....

Panthers' offensive scheme Carolina's offense won't change conceptually whether running back Stephen Davis (quadriceps strain) or DeShaun Foster plays, although the Panthers will try to use Foster's speed on the outside more. They want to pound the...

The 7-0 Kansas City Chiefs went through the entire game at Oakland Monday night without taking any chances. And that's one good way for the better team to play it. By contrast, the underdog, 2-5 Raiders should have been looking for places to gamble, to...

As of the 2004 NFL season, fullbacks are passé. One-back football is here. And Clinton Portis will be the back on one of the NFL's new one-back teams, the Washington Redskins, in their attack on the New York Giants Sunday in Giants Stadium. Portis,...