The Arizona Cardinals made it to the NFC championship game by beating the Carolina Panthers 33-13 on Jan. 10, 2009 in Charlotte. And it was since then the Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme has been on a downward spiral. As the two teams will meet again this Sunday, will history repeat?
Not sure but obviously the upstart Cardinals are more confident than the Panthers in winning the game. The Cardinals was riding a three-game winning streak and coming off one of its biggest regular-season wins, 24-17 last Sunday night at the New York Giants. While the Panthers, still with Delhomme as the starting quarterback, is coming off a painful home loss to the Buffalo Bills.
Delhomme, throwing five interceptions in that playoff loss to the Cardinals as the starting quarterback wearing Panthers jersey and having an NFL-worst 13 this season, has said that memories of the playoff debacle have been flushed away. I hope forgetting the debacle will work for winning the game but I have not seen evidence showing that Delhomme will lead his team to win an Arizona defense that brings blitzes from all directions, a defense that bewildered Seattle’s Matt Hasselbeck and New York’s Eli Manning.
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